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Topic: Visual Coffee Table Book

Hey gang,

Hosting a party soon and I wanted some advice.
I was hoping someone might point me in the direction of some media I could throw on the tv to play during the party. It's going to be a casual, multi-room, indoor/outdoor affair and music will be playing so people will be coming and going through the room all night. I don't want to put on a full movie, just something with interesting visuals that awkward people can take a peak at in lulls of conversation.

I have seen great trailer/clip compilations on youtube, but they are generally only a few minutes long and I was hoping I could just play something that will run throughout the night. My fallback options will be Baraka, Samsara or a nature documentary.

This is along the lines of what I'm looking for:

Cheers!

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Re: Visual Coffee Table Book

I know you said you didn't want a movie, but for my daughter's birthday a couple of years back we had Yellow Submarine playing in the background in the way that you're talking about.  Sounds like it could fit the bill, in terms of being visually interesting at any given moment yet still easy to dip in and out of.

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Re: Visual Coffee Table Book

Well as the guys said. Sucker punch is made to be a movie runnibg in the corner of a party.

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Re: Visual Coffee Table Book

Yellow Submarine and others like it - a "movie" made as accompaniment to an album or something - sounds like a good idea. My personal preference in that vein would be Daft Punk's Interstella 5555.

It's not so much visuals but I tend to have Pandora on a TV when I'm hosting parties. Awkward people could just kind of sit and jam to whatever's on.

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Re: Visual Coffee Table Book

Everything is Terrible.

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Re: Visual Coffee Table Book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZ10Dljkrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmYrWXhFf4c

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv5dzk … shortfilms

https://vimeo.com/99113746


Rip them all and make a supercuts playlist.

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  • From: Oklahoma City, OKC
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Re: Visual Coffee Table Book

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I completely forgot about Everything is Terrible, I'm sure I can make a supercut of all these things that will be sufficiently long and interesting.

Cheers.

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Re: Visual Coffee Table Book

I'd recommend the Everything is Terrible movies if you can find them, they're wonderful.

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