Alan Resnick
| Alan Resnick | |
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| Birth name | Alan Resnick |
| Alma mater | SUNY Purchase |
Alan Resnick is an American comedian, visual artist, and filmmaker based in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] He is a member of the Wham City arts collective and founding member of Wham City Comedy.[2]
Work
Resnick is the co-creator, along with Ben O'Brien, of the satirical infomercial, Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick which aired on Adult Swim in December 2013. In the piece, Resnick plays a "hot young tech wizard" promising immortality via a recreation of the patron's personality and face inside a computer program.[3] Principal photography for the infomercial was conducted in the Copycat Building during the summer of 2013.
Resnick is the author of, "$8.95", a book of online customer service chats between Resnick and Bank of America in which Resnick pleads to recover his eponymous bank fee.[4] Resnick directed the music video for Dan Deacon's "Guilford Avenue Bridge" and co-created the music videos for Dan Deacon's "Woof Woof" and Beach House's "Norway".
Resnick is the creator of the popular youtube series, "alantutorial".[5] Gizmodo called Resnick's video "ARM tutorial" one of the "weirdest videos on the internet".[6] In 2014, Resnick premiered a set of new media art pieces in collaboration with artist Lesser Gonzalez, at the Springsteen Gallery in Baltimore, MD.[7][8]
Since the site launched in 2014, Resnick has been a contributing writer for The Onion's sister publication, ClickHole.[9]
In 2014, Resnick filmed with Ben O'Brien, the short film Unedited Footage of a Bear,[10] which was released on December 17, 2014 over Adult Swim. The short is a parody of allergy advertisements, and a veiled cautionary tale about antidepressant abuse, which slowly descends into chaos.[11]
In 2016, Adult Swim aired Resnick's latest short-film This House Has People In It.[12] The short film aired at 4:00 A.M. between March 14–19.[13] The short is reminiscent of surveillance camera footage, with the video directing the viewer to a fake security company website containing numerous companion videos, audio files, images, and text documents.[14]
References
- ↑ "Best Mad Scientist Alan Resnick", "The Baltimore City Paper", Baltimore 15 September 2014, Retrieved on 1 October 2014.
- ↑ Case, Wesley."More focused Wham City Comedy Tour gets seriously funny", "The Baltimore Sun", Baltimore 19 April 2013, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
- ↑ Woods, Baynard."Wham City makes an infomercial", "The Baltimore City Paper", Baltimore 1 January 2014, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
- ↑ Deacon, Dan. "From The Desk of Dan Deacon", Philadelphia, Retrieved on 22 July 2014
- ↑ Elphick, Jody. "Like and Subscribe: a Q&A with alantutorial" London, 3 June 2013, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
- ↑ Feinberg, Ashley. "11 of the Weirdest Videos on YouTube", New York, 30 May 2014, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
- ↑ Livingston, Jack. "Scene Seen: BASE PERIOD – Alan Resnick & Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez @ Springsteen Gallery", Baltimore, 19 July 2014, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
- ↑ Woods, Baynard. "This Modern World: Two artists turn cultural detritus into high art", Baltimore, 4 August 2014, Retrieved on 1 October 2014.
- ↑ http://www.clickhole.com/contact/
- ↑ Adult Swim Creeps Again With New ‘Infomercial’, “UNEDITED FOOTAGE OF A BEAR”
- ↑ Adult Swim’s Descent Into Madness
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-pj8OtyO2I&list=PLQl8zBB7bPvK37fLqvpCcqWeFjiplnDwB
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/adultswim/comments/4a9rq8/this_house_has_people_in_it_airs_on_march_1419/
- ↑ http://absurveillancesolutions.com/