Alan Resnick

Not to be confused with Adam 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

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 Street 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, which slowly descends into chaos.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Best Mad Scientist Alan Resnick", "The Baltimore City Paper", Baltimore 15 September 2014, Retrieved on 1 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Case, Wesley."More focused Wham City Comedy Tour gets seriously funny", "The Baltimore Sun", Baltimore 19 April 2013, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Woods, Baynard."Wham City makes an infomercial", "The Baltimore City Paper", Baltimore 1 January 2014, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Deacon, Dan. "From The Desk of Dan Deacon", Philadelphia, Retrieved on 22 July 2014
  5. ↑ Elphick, Jody. "Like and Subscribe: a Q&A with alantutorial" London, 3 June 2013, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
  6. ↑ Feinberg, Ashley. "11 of the Weirdest Videos on YouTube", New York, 30 May 2014, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
  7. ↑ Livingston, Jack. "Scene Seen: BASE PERIOD – Alan Resnick & Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez @ Springsteen Gallery", Baltimore, 19 July 2014, Retrieved on 22 July 2014.
  8. ↑ Woods, Baynard. "This Modern World: Two artists turn cultural detritus into high art", Baltimore, 4 August 2014, Retrieved on 1 October 2014.
  9. ↑ http://www.theonion.com/contact/
  10. ↑ Adult Swim Creeps Again With New ‘Infomercial’, “UNEDITED FOOTAGE OF A BEAR”
  11. ↑ Adult Swim’s Descent Into Madness

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