Chaos Theory: How Camp Chaos Makes the Funnies

Alright, you’ve gotta go check out Camp Chaos. (You might not want to do it at work — if you don’t find something to offend you on the site, you’re not looking hard enough.)

So why should you check it out? Because the absurdist animators at Camp Chaos are cranking out cartoons that are actually funny. For all the super-serious thought about how blogs are influencing the mainstream media, the sites that we love the most on the web are the things that couldn’t exist anywhere else.

Chaos series like “The Superficial Friends” and “Behind the Music That Sucks” riff on pop culture with a pleasantly sophomoric vulgarity, but have great production value in their animation and voices. The tiny team, led by Bob Cesca, has been building buzz-worthy videos on the web since Napster Bad half a decade ago.

Camp Chaos also shows off that building a successful media business online using blogging tools like Movable Type doesn’t have to be about blogging, really. If you’re a creative company making stuff that people want to see on the web, Movable Type isn’t a “Blogging Solution.” It’s just the tool to get things up onto the web quickly and easily, and since it doesn’t screw up your embedded videos, automatically generates RSS feeds, and lets visitors leave comments, you can focus on making great animations or funny videos or whatever else you’re great at.

If you’re not publishing your content on the web yet, Movable Type can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you and then get out of the way while you work your magic. If you’re already using Movable Type, you should just check out the latest episode of The Superficial Friends and marvel at the animated Lindsay Lohan’s horrendous and hysterical raspy voice.