Oct
11
2006
Spamland
The Brothers McLeod are working at a feverish pace. Below is another short from Greg and Myles, who have dramatized our favorite emails – spam! It’s the first in a series aptly named ‘Spamland.’ [congrats, Brothers McLeod - you've been boingboinged]
Related posts
filed under: Uncategorized
October 12th, 2006 at 4:39 am
spamusement rip?
October 12th, 2006 at 4:56 am
Brilliant! It almost makes spam worth it. Hmmmm…. I can’t wait for the “free Viagra now” series or “enlarge your breasts in three easy steps.” Keep up the feverish pace guys. You might just save the world…
October 12th, 2006 at 5:04 am
Completely awesome.. and by that, I mean totally sweet.
October 12th, 2006 at 5:09 am
If they ever need names for the characters in these animated shorts, I’ve got just the thing!.
October 12th, 2006 at 5:29 am
wonderful!
October 12th, 2006 at 5:36 am
pure poetry
October 12th, 2006 at 5:47 am
Didn’t recognise any spam from emails i receive
October 12th, 2006 at 6:12 am
spamusement in its prime was so much better. this was just absurdist don hertzfeldt wannabe drivel.
October 12th, 2006 at 8:51 am
I get spam like that. It’s almost like the internet is trying to write poetry. Reminiscient of that William Gibson book and the machine in orbit that made those cool artworks.
October 12th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
There’s so much spam out there, it would be hard to find one that everyone has gotten, funny enough.
I always wanted to make cartoon out of spam mail, looks like someone beat me to it! good job too.
I think there should be a web site though, where folks can upload their favorite spam, it’d be easier on the cartoonists, allowing them to do their jobs instead of researching or waiting for good spam in their own inbox.
toodles,
gene
October 12th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Is there any way to stop getting the trader alert e-mails. i’ve gotten at least 10 since I logged on this morning.
October 12th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
i didn’t get a word of that
October 12th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Spam poetry, anyone?
I could slam this stuff at the local coffee house and get standing ovations.
ROCK ON.
October 13th, 2006 at 2:34 am
Since it has been mentioned but not yet linked:
Spamusement
October 13th, 2006 at 2:39 am
HAHA I get spam poetry! FUNNY STUFF!
October 13th, 2006 at 8:18 am
Very funny stuff!
October 13th, 2006 at 8:46 am
ahhh stupid and thoses of you who like must be even dumber than it, what a waste of server space somewhere
October 13th, 2006 at 10:49 am
Hi All, thanks for watching Spamland – and Aaron – thanks for featuring our work. You are a star.
Myles and Greg
October 13th, 2006 at 11:50 am
god this is so great. i mean, wow this is so great!
October 13th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
I would love to see more of these.
October 14th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
What a waste of bandwidth
October 15th, 2006 at 6:06 am
The only spam I ever kept was sent to me by Cindy Carroll (gxppobjegask@goplay.com)
It reads, in full:
When a precise abstraction takes a coffee break, the minivan prays. The football team over a crank case finds subtle faults with another completely elusive canyon, and a gratifying power drill steals pencils from a scythe from a lover. The muddy cyprus mulch thoroughly brainwashes a slyly gentle bartender. When a statesmanlike fighter pilot daydreams, the briar patch feels nagging remorse. Sometimes a crank case over a tornado earns frequent flier miles, but an abstraction from a mortician always often competes with the girl scout behind the blithe spirit! Augustine
October 21st, 2006 at 6:08 am
You’d think that someone would be able to make a cartoon without a critic acusing him of ripping it off of something else….
… but I guess not.
And that’s why there’s no record of them!
Egarly awaiting the next segment.
October 21st, 2006 at 9:17 pm
re: I think there should be a web site though, where folks can upload their favorite spam
No way in hell am I giving you my email info!
November 6th, 2006 at 6:53 am
are they going to make more than one of these? i looked on youtube and their site… seems to be a one-off for now. anyone know more about this?
January 23rd, 2007 at 8:36 am
These are the coolest videos ever.
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:50 pm
poultry in motion
March 28th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
[...] letting up this year. Having burst onto the YouTube scene only weeks ago with their front-page hit Spamland, they’ve returned with two more clips well worth [...]
May 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Somebody here is missing the concept. They are not animating the unsolicited offers (bigger breasts/penis…mortgage rates have never been lower…money in Africa); they are animating the “Mad Libs” Style sentences connected only by their relative parts-of-speech.
Being stoned always made me very interested in my spams.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:17 am
[...] like The M Man on their website, they’re leaning on partners to help spread the word. For Spamland they used YouTube, and ended up on the homepage. For an unannounced, upcoming series, they’re [...]