Alan Resnick
| Alan Resnick | |
|---|---|
| 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
Before working on Adult Swim, Resnick was famous for creating the popular YouTube web series, AlanTutorial.[3] Gizmodo called Resnick's video "ARM tutorial" one of the "weirdest videos on the internet".[4] In 2014, Resnick premiered a set of new media art pieces in collaboration with artist Lesser Gonzalez, at the Springsteen Gallery in Baltimore, MD.[5][6]
Resnick is the co-creator and Director of Adult Swim's This House Has People in it, and co-director of Unedited Footage of a Bear and Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick. 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.[7] 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.[8] Resnick directed the music video for Dan Deacon's "Guilford Avenue Bridge" and Lower Dens.
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]
All his work on Adult Swim has been made in collaboration with Baltimore based production company AB Video Solutions, LLC, an off-shoot of the Wham City arts collective. AB Video Solutions LLC is made up of Resnick, Ben O'Brien, Robby Rackleff, Cricket Arrison, and Dina Kelberman.
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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Contact ClickHole". 12 June 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ↑ "Adult Swim Creeps Again With New 'Infomercial', "UNEDITED FOOTAGE OF A BEAR"". Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ↑ "Adult Swim's Descent Into Madness - Bloody Disgusting!". 18 December 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ↑ Adult Swim (15 March 2016). "This House Has People in It". Retrieved 31 July 2016 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "This House Has People In It airs on March 14-19 [Discussion] • /r/adultswim". Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ↑ "AB Surveillance Solutions". Retrieved 31 July 2016.