Freaky Old Man Won't Ever Stop Jumping Into Water With His Clothes On
Even on an internet that lives in a constant state of excretion, spewing weird shit from every orifice without pause, the primordial human oddness glimpsed in Gernot Lausen's "Wet, messy and gunge videomix" is rare.
The 12-minute video, uploaded in 2012 and currently going mildly viral thanks to a BoingBoing post, is meant to serve as a preview for Lausen's larger oeuvre, which mainly involves jumping into water with his clothes on, falling into water with his clothes on, sliding laterally into water with his clothes on, and battling against a computer-generated goblin character who only wants to see him in the water with his clothes on.
But thanks in large part to a truly sublime soundtrack,"Wet, messy and gunge videomix" transcends the humble YouTube sampler form. Watch the film above, then ask yourself: at what point did you begin to understand that you were witnessing something special?
Was it when he tried to sit on a ball? Or when he tried to pole vault? Or when he went down the waterslide? Or when the music stopped as he emerged like an infant from a towering womb of soap bubbles? The first time he put the bucket on his head? The bathtub full of mysterious orange stuff? The second time he put the bucket on his head? The bathtub full of mysterious green stuff? The sound effects? The homebrew CGI? When he kicked the ball and the ball bounced back at him and knocked him into the water? The romantic bottle of white zinfandel at 7:31?
Lausen, thank God, is still actively making YouTube videos. See his full library of works here.
