Thursday, January 31, 2008
lewis black - red, white and screwed
Part 1 of 2
I'm not a big Lewis Black fan, but his story about working for the Press Correspondents' Dinner transcends his normal comedy.
Part 2 of 2
I'm not a big Lewis Black fan, but his story about working for the Press Correspondents' Dinner transcends his normal comedy.
Part 2 of 2
Cat Vision!
Meet Fritz, the cat photographer. Every day, Ramona Markstein lets her cat Fritz wonder the neighborhood while wearing a camera that takes photos every fifteen seconds. You can see better quality images of her on his site: http://www.katz23.de/fritzcam-galerie.htm
Awesome Bicycle Accident
What this video lacks in audio it makes up for in AWESOME BICYCLE ACCIDENT!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Obstacle Course
Oh my Jackie Chan, how is it every Japanese game show clip you see instantly becomes the best one you've ever seen?
American Gladiator: Malibu
Wolf may be an animal, but Malibu was the gnarliest Gladiator since that guy from that movie Gladiator.
Acherodes the "Thief Spider"
This cunning little spider earns it's meal by undermining the web of a larger cousin. It will cut away the strands holding a captured insect, whilst suring up the weight with it's own web lines, thereby preventing the former owner from noticing the vibrations of the theft.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Ira Glass on Letterman - Ira meets the chicken lady!
Ira Glass tells David Letterman (04/20/07) how a visit to the United Poultry Concerns chicken sanctuary on the Eastern Shore caused him to stop eating chickens and become a vegetarian.
Ira Glass on Storytelling #1
Here is Ira Glass of "This American Life" talking about the building blocks of a great story.
Ira Glass on Storytelling #2
Here is Ira Glass of "This American Life" talking about the building blocks of a great story.
Winner of the Mythbusters Competition - The Phone Book Myth
via videosift.com
In the Netherlands there was a competition wherein people could submit their home made mythbusting videos and the winner would get a meet and greet with the Mythbusters in San Fransisco. This is the winning clip.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Dead Whale + Dynamite = Bad Idea
News Report from 1970 when some idiots decided that the proper way to get rid of an 8 ton dead whale would be to dynamite it.
Brad Neely: Prisoner Christmas
Prepare yourself: This Christmas, the Professor Brothers are breaking out of academia and into a lil' ditty about jailbirds.
Maria Bamford: Dropout
Maria Bamford was once a rising Hollywood star with her own cable comedy special. But that was before she had a nervous breakdown onstage, which led to her moving back home with her parents... with sexy results.
Maria Bamford: Crevasse & Bread
Crevasse
Description:
It's such a shame. Maria was doing so well, too. That was all before her big show tanked and her boyfriend broke up with her. And she descended into a metaphorical crevasse.
Bread
Out of the crevasse and back in show biz! Maria gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open for '70s soft rock giants, Bread. At the Grizzly Bear Casino's Ribaldry Room, no less!
Description:
It's such a shame. Maria was doing so well, too. That was all before her big show tanked and her boyfriend broke up with her. And she descended into a metaphorical crevasse.
Bread
Out of the crevasse and back in show biz! Maria gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open for '70s soft rock giants, Bread. At the Grizzly Bear Casino's Ribaldry Room, no less!
Optical Tricks of the Parthenon
from Youtube:
Ancient Greek architects were on to something when they built the Parthenon with subtle curves and no right angles. While it remains debatable, some scholars argue that these features were intended to counter the brain's tendency to see optical illusions. http://www.pbs.org/nova/parthenon
Watch "Secrets of the Parthenon" Tuesday, January 29 at 8pm ET/PT on PBS (check local listings). Or join us online at http://www.pbs.org/nova/parthenon
"Secrets of the Parthenon" is a Providence Pictures production for NOVA and WGBH Boston in association with Studio International and ARTE France. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Additional funding for "Secrets of the Parthenon" is provided by The Solow Art and Architecture Foundation.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
ART OF SEDUCTION: Not Pretty, Really
http://www.sundancechannel.com/seduct... Being good-looking has its perks. But as this group confess, sometimes being beautiful can be a burden in fair disguise.
Pistol shrimp creates temperature of the sun
Pistol shrimp blowing a blast of water a speed of 100km/h with temp 9900C
Penn & Teller burn an American flag in the White House
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In this clip from the West Wing, Penn and Teller burn an American flag in front of an audience in the White House
When you kill a person for the first time...
A video looking at the psychology of combat and reactions of people to killing in the combat zone.
Super Foam Inventor Takes Shovel Blows to the Head
From TGdaily: "A new super foam promises to protect athletes from impact and its inventor proved the point by taking a full force shovel hit to the head. Called D3O, the orange substance is soft and malleable, like Silly Putty, but becomes rigid when accelerated. D3O can be fashioned into clothing and in this case, a protective beanie that withstood a shovel hit from Sky News reporter Derek Tedder."
Trailer for: The Machine Girl
Trailer for this film: http://www.azsiafilm.hu/index.php/Hamarosan.../Machine-Girl-2008.html
Sing-a-long with Mr. T
From "Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool," surely Mr T's finest performance.
And now, the same thing again in Spanish:
Muy Caliente!
Hardeep Singh Kohli's The Beginners Guide To L Ron Hubbard
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from videosift:
This is the story of Hardeep Singh Kohli discovering the philosophy of Scientology outside the official church traveling to Russia in his pursuit of knowledge experiencing Scientology first hand. Includes never before filmed footage of actual auditing taking place.
Daily Show & Colbert Writers Stage "Code Pink" Disruption
In a mock debate before members of the United States Congress, a few writers from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report decided to get their message across, Code Pink style.
FCU with Bill Murray
Pete and Brian check the facts on Bill Murray.
an official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
directed by Dan Beers
written by Dan Beers, Peter Karinen, Brian Sacca
starring Peter Karinen, Brian Sacca, Kristen Schaal and Bill Murray
Tornado Passes Over People Under Overpass
video of tornado on 26th April 1991 that passed by just next to people hidden under overpass.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Celine Dion is Amazing
from Videosift:
This video uses supporting evidence to make the case that Celine Dion is F#*king amazing (and by extension, you're not). "Don't blame me; blame God." (All footage excerpted from the A New Day... 2-DVD set.)
TED: Five Dangerous Things to Let Your Kids Do
from TED:
Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids -- and spells out 5 (and really, he's got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do. Allowing kids the freedom to explore, he says, will make them stronger and smarter and actually safer.
This talk comes from TED University 2007, a pre-conference program where TEDsters share ideas.
Father Guido Sarducci's Five Minute University - SNL skit
Father Guido Sarducci teaches what an average college graduate knows after five years from graduation in five minutes.
You Suck It Photoshop - Vol 4
Donnie is back for Vol 4 of his tutorials on the use of Adobe Photoshop.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
TED Conference: Ben Dunlap - The story of a passionate life
from http://www.ted.com:
Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian man he met at Wofford College. In telling Teszler's dramatic life story, which arcs from the Holocaust to the American Deep South of the 1950s, Dunlap shares some deep and, ultimately, moving lessons about justice -- and the power of lifelong learning.
Three Reba McEntire Videos that foreshadow her co-starring in Tremors
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Fancy
Does He Love You
Fancy
Does He Love You
Nikola Tesla - The Forgotten Wizard
from Videosift:
The life story and work of Nikola Tesla. He invented AC electricity, Neon Lights, Radio transmission, The Electric motor, Wireless electricity transfer, Remote control, Hydraulics, Lasers, Space weapons, Robotics, and many, many more things.
As Tesla claimed to have invented a way to harness free energy from the voltage difference in the ionosphere that causes lighning, he was seen as a threat to the world energy economy and most of his inventions were classified for national securtiy by the US govenment.
A lot of his discoveries in physics have not been released to the public, depsite being invented nearly 100 years ago. In 2006 the first comapany publically announced it could successfully power items by remote power without wires, (news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6129460. stm) something Tesla had invented nearly a century ago. Other technologies not yet released to the public include HAARP Elecromagnetic technology and high energy particle beams used in space weapons.
http://www.netsense.net/tesla/
David Lynch interview (The Culture Show)
David Lynch talking about his art exhibition in Paris to Andrew Graham-Dixon on The Culture Show.
This American Life: Every Bitch Must Tip! - The Wiener's Circle
Wiener's Circle is a popular restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. It is best known for its famously abusive staff members.
The best (and some say ONLY) time to visit the Wiener's Circle is Thu, Fri, Sat after 1AM...getting crazier by the minute until 4 or 5AM when the bars let out and the drunken clientèle vigorously argues back with the abusive staff.
Robert Oppenheimer's thoughts after first atomic explosion
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Oppenheimer discusses the Hindu verse that entered his thoughts when he witnessed the first atomic explosion.
Elna Baker at The Rejection Show
Comedian/Storyteller Elna Baker shares a rejection story at The Rejection Show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NYC.
ractalfece: This One is Copyrighted
TotalVom:
http://totalvom.com
Music:
Insula Dulcamara
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/4030
Ben's Imaginary Band
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/16852
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The Man who can take off half his face
From Youtube:
The Guinnes book of records names Leonard McQueeny with having the most extensive facial prosthesis. Nearly half his face is silicone rubber that he can snap on and it has changed his life.This technological medical advancement was developed in Australia. Other footage show people with prosthetic ears and nose.This segment is taken from the American television show Guinness World Records: Primetime. It aired and was videotaped 24 Aug 1998. WARNING: Parts of this video are graphic.People literally take parts of their face off.Don't watch if you are squeamish.
Nova Observed (Poems)
(CD cover from "Nova Observed")
As a younger non-MFA Minnesotan busting hump at a Wells Fargo call center, I recorded a CD of what I considered at the time my finest poetry. I understand Leonard Nemoy did the same thing. I stumbled across the CD in a drawer and--as I love humiliation like it was a baby duck--I've posted the ZIP file here for all to download.
http://www.mediafire.com/?acsyiz2nrji
Please don't be hatin, but if you must hate don't hate the player, hate the game.
Fear the Bullet Ant
Incredible Ritual With Hundreds of Poisonous Bullet Ants
Cracked.com:
From:
Rainforests from Nicaragua to Paraguay
Why you must fear it:
It's a full inch long, it lives in trees and thus can and will fall on you to scare you away from its hive--the one you didn't know was there, because it's in a fucking tree. Before it does this, it shrieks at you. This ant, you see, can shriek.
It's called a Bullet Ant because its 'unusually severe' sting feels like getting shot. On the Schmidt Sting Index, Bullet Ants rate as the number one most try-not-to-shit-out-your-spine painful in the entirety of the Kingdom Arthropoda.
Also--and we do feel the need to stress this--they fucking shriek at you before they attack.
More scary shit:
Are you the sort of person who likes to think of yourself as tough? A "badass," perhaps? "Hard," as they say?
Some of the indigenous peoples of the area use Bullet Ants as part of this initiation-to-manhood ceremony that they do. You know the kind we mean, with us it's like, a big party and your relatives give you money and everyone loves you and is so proud of you? Yeah with them, it's these special leaf sleeves with hundreds of bullet ants woven into them, stingers-inwards. They put them on and are immediately stung to holy fucking bejeezus by, and this is important, hundreds of Bullet Ants woven into the sleeves, stingers-inward.
The goal is to leave them on for 10 minutes, after which their arms are stiff, useless lengths of twisting agony, their bodies wracked with uncontrollable spasms for days. And in order to be actually pass the ordeal and become a man, they have to do it 20 fucking times.
Cracked.com:
From:
Rainforests from Nicaragua to Paraguay
Why you must fear it:
It's a full inch long, it lives in trees and thus can and will fall on you to scare you away from its hive--the one you didn't know was there, because it's in a fucking tree. Before it does this, it shrieks at you. This ant, you see, can shriek.
It's called a Bullet Ant because its 'unusually severe' sting feels like getting shot. On the Schmidt Sting Index, Bullet Ants rate as the number one most try-not-to-shit-out-your-spine painful in the entirety of the Kingdom Arthropoda.
Also--and we do feel the need to stress this--they fucking shriek at you before they attack.
More scary shit:
Are you the sort of person who likes to think of yourself as tough? A "badass," perhaps? "Hard," as they say?
Some of the indigenous peoples of the area use Bullet Ants as part of this initiation-to-manhood ceremony that they do. You know the kind we mean, with us it's like, a big party and your relatives give you money and everyone loves you and is so proud of you? Yeah with them, it's these special leaf sleeves with hundreds of bullet ants woven into them, stingers-inwards. They put them on and are immediately stung to holy fucking bejeezus by, and this is important, hundreds of Bullet Ants woven into the sleeves, stingers-inward.
The goal is to leave them on for 10 minutes, after which their arms are stiff, useless lengths of twisting agony, their bodies wracked with uncontrollable spasms for days. And in order to be actually pass the ordeal and become a man, they have to do it 20 fucking times.
Fear the Army or Soldier Ant
Army ants swarm a harvestman and try to eat it alive
From Cracked.com:
From:
The Amazon Basin. There's other subfamilies living in Asia and Africa, but these are the most notorious.
Why you must fear it:
By now, you will not be surprised to hear that these ants are, in fact, fucking huge, with the soldiers reaching a half inch in length. You will also not be surprised to learn that they have massive, powerful, machete-like jaws half the length of the soldiers themselves. They're notorious for dismantling any living thing in their path, regardless of size. They're also completely blind, which for some reason makes the whole thing worse.
They're called 'Army' ants because their entire colony, comprising up to and over one million insects, is a 100 percent mobile battalion. They don't make permanent hives like other ants, no, they bivouac down in single locations just long enough for the queen to shit out thousands of eggs, while the soldiers spread out in wide fans daily in search of food ("food" here, means "anything moving"). Then the eggs hatch and they enter the dreaded swarm phase of their existence.
Much like the word "killer," nature takes words like "dreaded" and "swarm" very, very seriously. They carefully pick up their larvae and go on the move, a near-solid mass of insect death and horror moving steadily and swiftly along the jungle floor, flaying alive and disassembling every living thing too stupid, slow or asleep to get the living fuck out of the way. There is no talk of painful stingers or ballistic acid here, no, this is terror of a far more primordial nature--the kind that simply flows over you by the hundreds of thousands and rips you apart with massive, unbelievably powerful jaws, utterly and literally blind to size and species, considering everything in their path to be a threat to the continuation of their colony.
There are reports of animals the size of horses being overwhelmed and shredded by them. Go stand next to a horse and then think about what that means for you.
More scary shit:
Army Ants are masters of wholly-organic, living architecture. For the good of the colony, the ants will use their own living bodies to build any conceivable structure necessary, latching on to each other foot-to-foot to create protective walls and ceilings against the ravages of the weather, bridges to cross otherwise impassable spans, whatever happens to be needed. (Can they form themselves into a crude catapult mechanism and launch themselves at prey? Not yet.)
There is no other living thing in the entire world that does this.
And, they're blind.
From Cracked.com:
From:
The Amazon Basin. There's other subfamilies living in Asia and Africa, but these are the most notorious.
Why you must fear it:
By now, you will not be surprised to hear that these ants are, in fact, fucking huge, with the soldiers reaching a half inch in length. You will also not be surprised to learn that they have massive, powerful, machete-like jaws half the length of the soldiers themselves. They're notorious for dismantling any living thing in their path, regardless of size. They're also completely blind, which for some reason makes the whole thing worse.
They're called 'Army' ants because their entire colony, comprising up to and over one million insects, is a 100 percent mobile battalion. They don't make permanent hives like other ants, no, they bivouac down in single locations just long enough for the queen to shit out thousands of eggs, while the soldiers spread out in wide fans daily in search of food ("food" here, means "anything moving"). Then the eggs hatch and they enter the dreaded swarm phase of their existence.
Much like the word "killer," nature takes words like "dreaded" and "swarm" very, very seriously. They carefully pick up their larvae and go on the move, a near-solid mass of insect death and horror moving steadily and swiftly along the jungle floor, flaying alive and disassembling every living thing too stupid, slow or asleep to get the living fuck out of the way. There is no talk of painful stingers or ballistic acid here, no, this is terror of a far more primordial nature--the kind that simply flows over you by the hundreds of thousands and rips you apart with massive, unbelievably powerful jaws, utterly and literally blind to size and species, considering everything in their path to be a threat to the continuation of their colony.
There are reports of animals the size of horses being overwhelmed and shredded by them. Go stand next to a horse and then think about what that means for you.
More scary shit:
Army Ants are masters of wholly-organic, living architecture. For the good of the colony, the ants will use their own living bodies to build any conceivable structure necessary, latching on to each other foot-to-foot to create protective walls and ceilings against the ravages of the weather, bridges to cross otherwise impassable spans, whatever happens to be needed. (Can they form themselves into a crude catapult mechanism and launch themselves at prey? Not yet.)
There is no other living thing in the entire world that does this.
And, they're blind.
Fear the Bot Fly
removing the bot fly larva
From Cracked.com:
From:
Most species found in Central and South America, some species found all over the world
Why you must fear it:
Oh boy. Ohhhhh boy. Okay, Bot flies.
There are dozens of varieties of Bot Fly, they're each highly adapted to target a specific animal, they have delightfully descriptive names like Horse Stomach Bot Fly, Sheep Nose Bot Fly and, hey, guess what. One of them is called Human Bot Fly.
They each have a different and elaborate reproductive cycle, all of which end with a fat, half-inch maggot embedded in living flesh. Feeding.
Horse Stomach Bots, for example, lay their eggs in grass. Horses eat the grass. And the eggs. Which hatch in the heat of the horse's mouth. Upon which they chew through the horse's tongue and burrow, through the horse, into its belly. Where they meet up and dig honeycombs into the horse's stomach. And get fat. When they're ready to be flies, they just let go and get pooped out of the system.
The Human Bot Fly lays its eggs on a horsefly or a mosquito, something that will attempt to land on a human. This carrier finds a human and lands on him or her. The eggs rub off onto the human, whose body heat hatches the eggs. The larvae drop onto the skin and burrow right the fuck in. Where they live. Under your skin. Eating.
Here's video of them removing one. DO NOT FUCKING WATCH THIS. Fuck, we don't even know why we linked it.
More scary shit:
Here is the best part. The larvae can grow anywhere in your body, it just depends on where the eggs wind up. Which could end up with you having a fat wormy thing in your tear duct. Or your brain. We know, because that's happened.
A Human Bot Fly larvae, burrowing into your brain. Eating your thoughts.
From Cracked.com:
From:
Most species found in Central and South America, some species found all over the world
Why you must fear it:
Oh boy. Ohhhhh boy. Okay, Bot flies.
There are dozens of varieties of Bot Fly, they're each highly adapted to target a specific animal, they have delightfully descriptive names like Horse Stomach Bot Fly, Sheep Nose Bot Fly and, hey, guess what. One of them is called Human Bot Fly.
They each have a different and elaborate reproductive cycle, all of which end with a fat, half-inch maggot embedded in living flesh. Feeding.
Horse Stomach Bots, for example, lay their eggs in grass. Horses eat the grass. And the eggs. Which hatch in the heat of the horse's mouth. Upon which they chew through the horse's tongue and burrow, through the horse, into its belly. Where they meet up and dig honeycombs into the horse's stomach. And get fat. When they're ready to be flies, they just let go and get pooped out of the system.
The Human Bot Fly lays its eggs on a horsefly or a mosquito, something that will attempt to land on a human. This carrier finds a human and lands on him or her. The eggs rub off onto the human, whose body heat hatches the eggs. The larvae drop onto the skin and burrow right the fuck in. Where they live. Under your skin. Eating.
Here's video of them removing one. DO NOT FUCKING WATCH THIS. Fuck, we don't even know why we linked it.
More scary shit:
Here is the best part. The larvae can grow anywhere in your body, it just depends on where the eggs wind up. Which could end up with you having a fat wormy thing in your tear duct. Or your brain. We know, because that's happened.
A Human Bot Fly larvae, burrowing into your brain. Eating your thoughts.
You Must Fear the Giant Japanese Hornet
from Cracked.com:
From: Japan, obviously.
Why you must fear it:
It's the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison. We really wish we were making that up for, you know, dramatic effect because goddamn, what a terrible thing a three-inch acid-shooting hornet would be, you know? Oh, hey, did we mention it shoots it into your eyes? Or that the poison also has a pheromone cocktail in it that'll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you until you are no longer alive?
Think you can outrun it? It can fly 50 miles in a day. It'd be nice to say something reassuring at this point, like "Don't worry, they only live on top of really tall mountains where nobody wants to live," but no, they live all over the goddamned place, including outside Tokyo.
Forty people die like that every year, each of them horribly.
More scary shit:
Here's how the Japanese hornet treats other insects (and would presumably treat us, if we were small enough). An adult hornet will fly miles to find some squishy shit to feed to its children. Often times, it finds its food in, say, a hive inhabited by thousands of bees.
What to do? Well, Vespa japonica sprays the nest with some of the acid/pheromone and brings in reinforcements, usually consisting of 30 or so fellow hornets. They then descend upon the beehive like an unholy plague of hell-born death engines and proceed to make this world a scary goddamned place. This is maybe 30 wasps against 30,000 bees and the 30,000 bees do not stand a chance.
Behold the hornets systematically seize them with huge, wicked jaws and literally fucking cut them apart, one by one by one by fucking one. In three hours, there are piles of limbs and heads and just fucking bits of things that could possibly have been alive at one point, and the hornets have stormed the hive and flown away with all the bee's children. Who will then be eaten.
Nature is fucking hardcore.
Eunoia - poem by Christian Bok
Christian Bök reading from his book, Eunoia, in the Kuopio Sound Poetry Seminar, Kuopio, Sept. 2, 2006. Eunoia features five chapters, which are, in order, "A," "E," "I," "O," and "U." Each chapter only uses one vowel. Here is the online text version.
http://www.chbooks.com/archives/online_books/eunoia/index.html
"Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie" (full film)
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(93 min) "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie" is a 1995 American documentary film directed by Peter Kuran. It is narrated by William Shatner. Using restored archive footage, the film traces the development of nuclear weapons and their testing, from America's Trinity test of 1945 (hence the title) to the first Chinese atomic bomb test in 1964.
Jimmy Carr and Stand Up Comedy
Jimmy Carr selling comedy t-shirts
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From Videosift:
James Anthony Patrick Carr (born September 15, 1972 in Isleworth, England [1]) is an English-Irish comedian, known for his deadpan, satirical, and often dark humour. He holds dual citizenship with Ireland[2][3] and the United Kingdom[1].
Jimmy Carr vs. Heckler
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Jimmy Carr - Live at the Apollo (1/2)
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Jimmy Carr - Live at the Apollo (2/2)
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From Videosift:
James Anthony Patrick Carr (born September 15, 1972 in Isleworth, England [1]) is an English-Irish comedian, known for his deadpan, satirical, and often dark humour. He holds dual citizenship with Ireland[2][3] and the United Kingdom[1].
Jimmy Carr vs. Heckler
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Jimmy Carr - Live at the Apollo (1/2)
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Jimmy Carr - Live at the Apollo (2/2)
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Riddled with Love
Batman villians ruminate on their love life. By Ryan Prows and Rorschach Productions.
Rabbit: A Short Film by Run Wrake
From Neatorama:
A surreal short film by Run Wrake presenting an allegory about human greed. Artistically, the film is modeled after early 20th Century children’s early readers. 8 minutes, 20 seconds long.
Roller Chester 4: Dr. Synthesizer b/w Hey, I Like Your Socks
ROLLER CHESTER is a short-format sketch comedy show by Drew, the author of daily comic toothpastefordinner.com . Includes Dr. Synthesizer instructional video and "Hey, I Like Your Socks."
The Evolution of God
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From videosift:
A thoughtful journey through the various ways people perceive God. The piece is originally entitled 'The Foxhole Manifesto'.
About the artist: Nick Fox-Gieg is an animator and video artist based in Toronto. His short films have been shown at the Rotterdam and Ottawa film festivals, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and on Canada's CBC TV. He's received three U.S. state Media Arts Fellowships, and was awarded a Fulbright grant to the Netherlands in 2006.
BBC's "Anaesthesia Mavericks"
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Animals and lab tests can only take you so far - in the end you have to experiment on people. But who would want to go first? Award-winning journalist and former doctor Michael Mosley exposes the curious, gruesome and sometimes fatal ways in which scientists have transformed medical knowledge by using themselves as guinea pigs.
Michael reveals how pain-free surgery became possible because of self-experimenters like Humphrey Davy and Sigmund Freud. He also experiences for himself some of what they went through and watches a modern day self experimenter in action.
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Animals and lab tests can only take you so far - in the end you have to experiment on people. But who would want to go first? Award-winning journalist and former doctor Michael Mosley exposes the curious, gruesome and sometimes fatal ways in which scientists have transformed medical knowledge by using themselves as guinea pigs.
Michael reveals how pain-free surgery became possible because of self-experimenters like Humphrey Davy and Sigmund Freud. He also experiences for himself some of what they went through and watches a modern day self experimenter in action.
John Cleese Interview Wih Michael Parkinson
John Cleese on Parkinson. John discusses his parents and losing his virginity.
Big Lebowski commentary by the Coen brothers
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Italian Spiderman Trailer
from Youtube:
Alrugo Entertainment, bring you:
ITALIAN SPIDERMAN
Unearthed for the first time in 43 years and lovingly restored at Maxischermo Studios Milan, this rare theatrical trailer for the 1964 Italian classic 'Italian Spiderman' is a real treat. Featuring Franco Franchetti of 'Mondo Sexo' fame in his last ever role before being killed in a spear fishing accident in 1965. Director, Gianfranco Gatti, reminisces on 'Italian Spiderman'; "I have made some mistakes in my life...bad, bad mistakes".
Keep Posted for more Alrugo action.www.myspace.com/alrugo
For Spider music visit: www.myspace.com/theitalianspiderman
Professor Brothers: Prisoner Christmas
Prepare yourself: This Christmas, Brad Neely and the Professor Brothers are breaking out of academia and into a lil' ditty about jailbirds.
Comedy Connections - A Bit of Fry and Laurie
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Series charting the history of some of the best of British comedy looks at sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie. The two stars met in the Cambridge Footlights and wrote four series between 1986 and 1995 before moving into the worlds of literature, television, theatre and film. Featuring interviews with Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, producers Roger Ordish and Jon Plowman, script editor Jon Canter and directors Nick Symons and Bob Speirs. (From YouTube)
Max Fleischer influenced Japanese Cartoon
From Youtube:
UGOKIE-KO-RI-NO-TATEHIKI(1933)
(Moving picture -Fox and Asian racoon's cheats each other)
Director:Ikuo Oishi
In the temple that became ruins, the fox that disguises as the samurai does the fight of magic with Asian racoon's parent and child.
It seems that it was influenced from the style of Max Fleischer's Cartoon.
http://www.n-eigashinsha.jp/kori.html
Re: Re: You, Me, & Problems With the World
TotalVOM Show
http://www.totalvom.com
Animation by Sam Liberto
http://www.fakinglife.com
Ractalfece's Legal Struggle with University of Metaphysical Science
From Youtube:
Le TotalVOM Show
http://www.totalvom.com
Attributions and Thank Yous
My Parody Video Response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Yker...
Music: Pedro Collares (CC)
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Celine Dion is amazing
from neatorama:
I’ve always thought that Celine Dion is a great and successful artist - but as this YouTube clip shows, she is simply frickin’ amazing! How can you NOT love a woman who did "the claw," "Who let the dogs out" and the chicken dance on camera?
Saving Pvt. Ryan Beach Scene Filmed In 4 Days
From Youtube:
How 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the TIMEWATCH program "Bloody Omaha"...
Due to the youtube interest in our little 'making of' vid , we have just heard they are going to repeat the full Programme on BBC2 on Sunday 27th Jan at 23:20! (see video reponse below for trailer)you can catch it for the following week on the new BBC iplayer. copy and paste this link... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer (i think its UK only at the mo... ) U.S. 'tubers keep an eye out for TIMEWATCH: BLOODY OMAHA on the Smithsonian Channel coming soon (www.smithsonianchannel.com)
People in Order
From Neatorama:
100 people, arranged in order of their ages from one to 100, all play a drum. It’s much more fascinating than it sounds. The film was produced by Lenka Clayton and James Price.
Amazing ant colony
From Neatorama:
This remarkable video segment from a Science channel show on ants came through Digg today:
The structure covers 538 square feet and travels 26 feet into the earth. In it’s construction, the colony moved 40 tons of soil. Billions of ant loads of soil were brought to the surface. Each load weighed four times as much as the worker ant, and in human terms, was carried over 1/2 mile to the surface.
In the video, the scientists pour ten tons of liquid concrete into the ant colony, wait several weeks for it to set then excavate it.
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