Monday, May 05, 2008
Friday, May 02, 2008
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Amazing Fully Mechanical Pocket Calculator
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Seriously, the Curta is a handheld fully mechanical calculator invented during the 1940s by Curt Herzstark, a prisoner at the Buchenwald concentration camp. It can perform the four basic mathematical operations along with square roots with a little more difficulty.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Alan Moore Reads Rorschach's Journal
A clip of Alan Moore reading from his seminal comic Watchmen. Now you know what Rorschach sounded like.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
I Met the Walrus
In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan managed to snag a brief interview with John Lennon in his hotel room in Toronto. Using his reel-to-reel tape recorder, Levitan asked Lennon a series of questions about peace, popularity, and messages in music. The answers give us a portrait of Lennon at the end of his involvement with The Beatles.
In 2007, Levitan collaborated with director Josh Raskin, illustrator James Braithwaite, and animator Alex Kurina to produce I Met the Walrus, a short animated film featuring a condensed version of the Lennon-Levitan interview set to sprawling stream-of-consciousness animation. The resulting film has won an AFI Award and was nominated for an Academy Award.
It’s a strange little piece — five minutes of psychedelic rambling that, in the end, carries a message of hope. The advice Lennon gives Levitan here is simple: peace.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Psycho complains to city about "rogue helicopter pilot"
Local lunatic David Thompson complains to Charlotte, NC city council during a community access forum, which is conveniently captured on tape and broadcast live on the local community access channel. There aren't enough tags to cover his rant against ice in the arena, rogue helicopter pilots, and "terrorist pussies".
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Coffee Commercial
See more funny videos at CollegeHumor
This aggressively feminist ad convinced women to choose for themselves what coffee they'd serve to their husbands.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
John Prine on Sam Stone
From the AV Club:
There's an old cliché about having a lifetime to write your debut record, and only a few months to write your second. It explains why many artists suffer from the dreaded sophomore slump, but it doesn't quite account for the startling greatness John Prine displayed on his first record. Songs as deep and wise as "Sam Stone" and "Hello In There" don't seem like the reflections of an ordinary 24-year-old, and they weren't. Prine was a fully formed, extraordinary songwriter right off the bat, and while he kept on writing great songs for nearly 40 years, the foundation of his career will always be John Prine.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
The things we do for love
via videosift.com
The Things We Do for Love (21 min) is a documentary on dating and relationships, featuring interviews with people ranging in age from 17 to 87. As well as dating nightmares and tales of misunderstandings, interviewees also relate the state of dating for people of all ages today. (Description pulled from Vimeo)
Friday, April 11, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Mortified: 500 Miles to Hollywood
Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings), James Denton (Desperate Housewives), Busy Phillips (Freaks & Geeks), Kevin McDonald (Kids in the Hall) and Curtis Armstrong (Revenge of the Nerds) help Jason Smith fulfill his dream and bring a 2-decade-old screenplay to life. Shot at Mortified in 2006. (WWW.GETMORTIFIED.COM)
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Balance - Oscar winning Short Film
This clip by german brothers Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein won an Oscar in 1989 for best animated shortfilm.
Johnny Carson confronts Don Rickles on his broken cig box
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From yt: A classic clip - here is Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, confronting Don Rickles (while shooting LIVE on the set of "CPO Sharkey") about the cigarette box that Don broke while guest-hosting the night before! This originally aired in Nov 1976.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Cows Are Evil
An animated short about Cow 1011's gory attempt to destroy her arch nemesis, Barry the Dairy owner. "break in case of cow uprising"
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Drunk History w/ Michael Cera
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Learn about Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton with a drunk guy and Michael Cera.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Voice Over, Over: Jon Friedman Fired From Commercial
Rejection Show host Jon Friedman shares the footage and story from being removed as the voice over artist for a series of national promo commercials.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School
from http://www.ted.com
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open their own volunteer-driven, wildly creative writing labs. But you don't need to go that far, he reminds us -- it's as simple as asking a teacher "How can I help?" He asks that we share our own volunteering stories at his new website, Once Upon a School.
Karen Armstrong: 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion
from http://www.ted.com:
As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism, Christianity -- have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. But Armstrong has seen a yearning to change this fact. People want to be religious, she says; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Finding the most beautiful woman in Italy.
How can one find the most beautiful woman in Italy? A Japanese expert determined the following 4 steps:
1) Find a random woman on the street.
2) Ask that woman to introduce the film crew to a more beautiful friend.
3) Have that more beautiful friend introduce the film crew to an even more beautiful friend.
4) Repeat until one meets the 12th woman - she will be the most beautiful woman in Italy.
A Japanese TV show traveled to Italy and attempted this method, and the results are in the video.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Wireless neckband allows first voiceless phone call
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A neckband that intercepts nerve signals allows you to talk on the phone without emitting a sound
Holiday (1957) - extract
From Youtube:
Few films have captured the kiss-me-quick pleasures of Blackpool more colourfully, energetically and convincingly than 'Holiday'. Made by British Transport Films, it chronicles a day in the life of this most British of seaside resorts as it's invaded by people hell-bent on getting the most fun possible from their precious holidays.
It is certainly no chaste and po-faced trip. Among the candy floss and donkey rides the camera spies canoodling lovers; it lingers over near-naked flesh; captures some very suggestive shellfish-eating and offers images that must be among the most homoerotic in British cinema of the 1950s.
Cinematographer David Watkin (who sadly died on 19 February 2008) achieved this level of intimacy by hiding his camera away from prying eyes under a cardboard box on the top of his van, presumably not worrying too much whether or not his subjects ever got round to signing release forms. (Robin Baker)
'Holiday' is available to buy on the British Transport Films compilation DVD 'See Britain by Train' - http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk
Elevator - Most Viewed Video
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Sharon's affair with comedian Daniel Tosh may be at an end.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Curious property of Prince Rupert's Drop glass
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If you drop molten glass into a bucket of water, it will solidify into what's called a "Prince Rupert's Drop." According to this Corning video, the surface of the drop is in a state of great compression, while the interior is in a state of great tension. You can squeeze the bulbous part of the drop with pliers or bang on it with a hammer to no avail. However, if you snap off the hair-thin tail at the end of the drop, it'll shatter into dust. ((Via forgetomori)via BoingBoing)
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The Leningrad Cowboys perform Sweet Home Alabama
The Leningrad Cowboys (from Finland) and the Red Army Choir perform Sweet Home Alabama.
Food Court Musical
Sixteen Improv Everywhere agents stage a musical in a Los Angeles shopping mall food court.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah
The entire "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" song from one of our favorite shows, 30 Rock. If you're not watching it, you should be.
Christopher Hitchens - Why Women aren't funny
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Christopher Hitchens responds to a piece in Vanity Fair that was a response to his famous article "Why Women Aren't Funny".
Original article by Christopher Hitchens
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/01/hitchens200701
Response by Alessandra Stanley
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/04/funnygirls200804
Rebuttal by Christopher Hitchens
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/04/hitchens200804
Friday, March 07, 2008
MST3K: Spider-Man
From Y/T: "http://www.rifftrax.com/cart.php?m=pr...
When Peter Parker is bitten by one of Columbia University's many genetically engineered "super spiders" (now we know what they do with their 6 billion dollar endowment) instead of doing the sensible thing and dying, he transmogrifies into an arachnid, extruding fluids from his spinnerets, leaping about, swinging and twirling just like a spider. But being a spider naturally puts him on the bad side of Norman Osborn, the charismatic head of OsCorp Industries who manages to find enough time in his day to moonlight as an evil goblin (played by real life evil goblin Willem Dafoe.) He also finds it difficult to manage his relationship with the beautiful Mary Jane, because, well, he's a freakish wer-spider. His exoskeleton alone makes it literally impossible for him to come out of his shell until it's time to molt -- and at that point he's too vulnerable for a relationship. It all makes for the most thrilling arthropod-on-human love and adventure tale ever told in the year 2002!
Joining Mike are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett and several harvestmen that live in the corners of the studio. (Yes, we know that harvestmen are not spiders. And, no, theirs is not the most poisonous venom in the world -- that's just a myth.)"
Thank You Mr. Gygax
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Gary Gygax, cocreator of the pen-and-paper game D&D has died at the age of 69. This clip is from "The Dungeons & Dragons Experience", a documentary about the world's first role playing game.
Slow Jerkin'
The Whitest Kids U Know explore the fine line between office fun and sexual harassment.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Fly me off the Handel
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain cannot agree on what song to perform. But it doesn’t really matter, as long as the songs all have the the same basic structure. -via Metafilter
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
From TED:
Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of "three stories and an argument." The Net's most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the "ASCAP cartel" to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code. Then, in an homage to cutting-edge artistry, he throws in some of the most hilarious remixes you've ever seen.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Ricky Gervais on The Hour
From The Office and Extras, Ricky Gervais, famous English comedian and writer is on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Time Travel Mart
from Neatorama:
The Echo Park Time Travel Mart is a brainchild of Mac Bernett of 826LA, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting kids explore creative writing and helping teachers inspire their students to write. 826LA is looking for someone to help run the Echo Park Time Travel Mart If you knew this already through your time traveling, then you’d be the right person!
Monday, February 25, 2008
Where Is Gary Busey's Oscar?
From the AV Club:
Remember the Seinfeld episode where George is at a kid's birthday party, someone screams "Fire!" and he knocks over a woman in a walker and several children in order to escape? Well, a reasonable facsimile of that scenario happened last night during E!'s interminable Oscars red carpet coverage. In the following video, the Oscars' red carpet is the overblown kid's birthday party, Gary Busey is the raging fire, and Jennifer Garner is the lady in the walker that Ryan Seacrest (aka George) carelessly flings in the fire's path in order to get away.
It constantly amazes me how terrible Ryan Seacrest is at his job. Yes, he sounds like the world's classiest morning radio zoo crew straight man, and, true, he does a very good impression of a living human being, but he can't interview people on a red carpet to save his life, which is basically all that is required of an E! correspondent, besides overuse of Mystic Tan. All he did last night was show celebrities dolls, repeat the fact that his tux was Dolce & Gabbana, and throw to the "Tom cam" (which was a camera on top of a guy named Tom's hat--ZING!).
Then, when a great moment like Gary Busey being insane, live, lands right in front of him, what does he do? He gets really flustered, throws Jennifer Garner into the fire, and then says to her, "Supermom." What? Interview the fire, Seacrest! It's burning a path down the red carpet, and you let it get away.
Adidas Adicolor - Pink
From Videosift:
This was one of the installments of Adidas' Adicolor campaign, a concept introduced in 1983 and reintroduced in 2005. It featured an all-white training shoe that could be painted for an individual look and feel.
Charlie White, the director of this short, has also directed a music video for Interpol's 2004 single "Evil", from their Antics album. He is primarily an artist, and is a member of the Graduate Core faculty at the Roski School of Fine Arts at USC.
White’s work has been exhibited internationally in museums such as The Center of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany; Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, China; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Oberösterreichisches Landesumuseum, Linz, Austria; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
How Hollywood Gets It Wrong On Torture
From Youtube: Primetime Torture is a 14-minute film produced by Human Rights First that explores the way torture and interrogation are portrayed on TV. The film features scenes from some of TV's most popular shows and interviews with seasoned interrogators, military educators and Hollywood screenwriters.
The Corporation - Documentary on Corporate Influence
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Via videosift:
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film and book critical of the modern-day corporation and its behavior towards society. The topics addressed include the Business Plot in 1933 when General Smedley Butler confessed his role in planning a coup against then U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the enclosure of the commons, economic externalities, the suppression of an investigative news story about bovine growth hormone on a Fox affiliate television station, and the Cochabamba protests of 2000 brought on by the privatization of Bolivia's municipal water supply by the Bechtel corporation. Other topics include corporate social responsibility and corporate personhood. The film focuses mostly on the concept of the corporation in North America, especially in the United States. Please support the film and the film makers.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
TED Talks Evelyn Glennie: How to listen to music with your whole body
In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie leads the audience through an exploration of music not as notes on a page, but as an expression of the human experience. Playing with sensitivity and nuance informed by a soul-deep understanding of and connection to music, she talks about a music that is more than sound waves perceived by the human ear. She illustrates a richer picture that begins with listening to yourself, and includes emotion and intent as well as the complex role of physical spaces -- instrument, concert hall and even the bones and body cavities of musician and listener alike.
TED Talks Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of three stories and an argument. The Net's most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the "ASCAP cartel" to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code. Then, in an homage to cutting-edge artistry, he throws in some of the most hilarious remixes you've ever seen.
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