Archives for the 'video' Category
Playing with Fire
I’m now 2 for 3 with viral youtube science experiments. Previously I fail to make Mountain Dew glow green and successfully created a spouting diet coke geyser.
Yesterday’s experiment, and my Thing for ThingADay, was to try to recreate the handheld fireball* on this youtube video.
The result? Success! Well, mostly. The fireball heats […]
Thing a Day overview
I haven’t been posting every day, but I’ve been doing things every day.
On Wednesday the “thing” I made was a tattoo. On Saturday I took a picture of my sweet electric guitar. Today I made a hand-held fireball (following along with this youtube video). Friday I “made” Manu Ginobili of the Spurs sign […]
Melbourne, Distilled
When I was studying abroad in Melb’n I remember walking down Lonsdale street once when a passing, slightly drunk-looking Melburnian greeted with me an effusive, “G’day mate.” I wanly said, “Hi,” and he confidently replied, “Yeah, not bad,” as he strode past me. That experience has always seemed uniquely Australian to me, and […]
Bearduary: A True Gentleman Grows a Beard
It’s not too late to start your Bearduary beard.
In March of 2006 I assisted Sai in the making of this documentary:
Here is a clip of John Hodgman, from his book The Areas of My Expertise, to get you in the mood on March 1st when it comes time to shear your cheeks.
peep show on chime.tv
I was skeptical of Chime.Tv until I spent 45 minutes last night watching peep show. Nice.
The wisdom of attaching 4MB video files to chain emails
There’s a generational gap right around age 45 that divides those who send mass emails out with a link to a video and those who send the video as an attachment. I’ve always considered attaching the video as antiquated practice. Today my dad forwarded me a WMV file that showed a baseball getting […]
YouFamous; Not Original or Quick Enough
I just came up with the term YouFamous to describe people that become famous via, and whose fame is primarily limited to, the YouTube viewing audience. Turns out there are already a few matches on Google for the term, although I only count three in their first page of results, and a search on […]
Friday Double Feature: Sign of the Times and Leslie the Mime
Since it’s Friday, I’m going to put up two films today. First, the story of Leslie Thumb, mime:
And then go see this music video for Sign of the Times to see a special guest cameo by Leslie Thumb.
Your Future Computer is a Big-Ass Table
I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to come up with a video today (thus endangering the integrity of this week’s theme), what with, you know, working and all, but I just found this via kottke.
Touch-screen computing is the wave of the future, no doubt. But who wants to bet the killer […]
Popularity Dialer Redux
This makes me more excited than when I discovered there was a Popularity Dialer Typosquatter (at popularitydAIler.com): The British TV station Channel 4 created a spoof video using the audio from the Female Popularity Dial. Here it is:
