But sound designer Mario Wienerroither strips videos of their music tracks and then goes one step further - he adds in funny effects based on the on-screen action.
For one recent wedding at the Waldorf-Astoria, he said, "We created a 236-foot-by-12-foot strip of video, around all four walls of the grand ballroom, that was alive the entire night".
Penny Arcade, a Seattle-area comic strip about video and online gaming, began as a modest side effort by its creators, only to spawn the largest gamers' convention in America, with tens of thousands of attendees at West and East coast events.In the days when newspapers were the only way to reach readers, and syndicates were the gatekeepers, only a few hundred regular strips appeared.
Would you prefer an audio podcast or should we strip the video for audio consumption?
He began studying how viewers consumed TV while working part-time in a strip-mall video store in the early 1980s.
His fantasies are realised in a visual style based on comic strips and video games and his encounters take the form of outlandish kung-fu fights.
Among other items, he contributed a regular comic strip about video-game culture, "Cybertwats," and a back-page column, "Sick Notes," in which he would solicit hate mail from subscribers and respond in kind.
The comScore numbers show healthy growth in core search activity as well (stripping out video search, map search, etc), especially for Google.
Before the internet, strip clubs, videos and DVDs were the catalyst to this addiction.
It seems that when everything's stripped away, video games take on a profound new meaning.
