Life Imitating Art

Or art imi­tat­ing life? Or some com­bi­na­tion of the two? You decide!

First there’s a story about the real Indi­ana Jones.

Then, Queens of the Stone Age releas­ing a music video in the style of Rock Band, com­plete with a neon “Rock Band” sign behind the band in the video. The song playable in Rock Band, too.

And finally there’s Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey, Jr. mak­ing a spoof “viral video” to pro­mote their new movie, Tropic Thun­der.

To add even more to this story, though… Via­com, which owns both MTV, where the clip orig­i­nally aired, and the stu­dio mak­ing the movie, forced YouTube and other inter­net video sites to take down the clip. Via­com hates inter­net video so much, appar­ently, that it doesn’t even care about pro­mot­ing its own products.

Tags: Internet, Music