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Video of a couple of young kids
Video of a couple of young kids going all Harlem Globetrotters on the court.
Video of a man putting on 155 tshirts
Video of a man putting on 155 tshirts over a four-hour period; at the end, the conglomerate top weights 100 pounds. (via josh)
Trailer for Steven Johnson’s new book, The
Trailer for Steven Johnson’s new book, The Ghost Map. If it’s uncool to love book trailers, so be it. Also, I’ve read the book (review forthcoming); it’s as interesting as it sounds in the trailer. (via sbj)
Why does Ze Frank’s face fill the
Why does Ze Frank’s face fill the entire screen on The Show? According to experiments described in The Media Equation, when participants were shown a series of photographs of people shot from different distances from the camera, “the faces that had the most impact on the viewers were the ones with screen-filling faces and that seemed ‘closer’ to the viewer, those with the least interpersonal distance”.
Richard Dawkins’ latest book is out: The
Richard Dawkins’ latest book is out: The God Delusion. (Guess what it’s about!) Here’s a clip of Dawkins discussing the book where he namechecks the Flying Spaghetti Monster. And here’s a recent presentation Dawkins gave at TED.
Several episodes of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series
Several episodes of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series are available on Google Video. They were all there at some point, but it looks like some got taken down.
Stylus magazine has a list of their
Stylus magazine has a list of their top 100 favorite videos, complete with embedded YouTube clips of the videos themselves for your instant gratification. Ok, now let’s fight about what was excluded and how wrong that is… (via paul)
Handbrake is an OS X application that
Handbrake is an OS X application that will, among other things, rip DVD video to a files that will play on an iPod (how to). However, I’ve found that this takes an absurd amount of time…2.5 hours for a 1.5 hour-long movie (on a 1.67 Ghz Powerbook with 2 GB RAM). Are there faster options out there?
Turn up the sound because everyone in
Turn up the sound because everyone in the office is gonna wanna see this video.
Great video explaining how to turn a
Great video explaining how to turn a Britney Spears song into a Bach-style fugue. (via waxy)
A video tour of all the “on
A video tour of all the “on a stick” foods available at the Minnesota State Fair. Photos of fair foods here. Mmmm, deep-fried Twinkie. And hot dish on a sitck! (thx, michael and lia)
Update: More food on a stick photos from the 2006 fair.
Documentary on hacking: The Secret History of
Documentary on hacking: The Secret History of Hacking. Features Woz, Capt. Crunch, and Kevin Mitnick.
Noah Kalina Everyday
Photographer Noah Kalina has taken a daily photo of himself for more than 6 years and recently made a movie of the results.
Completely mesmerizing. Best viewed large. (via kdunk)
BMW commercial featuring the beautiful kinetic sculptures
BMW commercial featuring the beautiful kinetic sculptures of Theo Jansen, who I covered previously on kottke.org. (via poptech)
New Improv Everywhere mission: 225 people at the
New Improv Everywhere mission: 225 people at the Home Depot in Chelsea all moving in slow motion. The sped-up video showing all the slow-moers moving at normal speed while everyone else zips around is pretty great. (thx, jakob)
Here’s a great video of old school
Here’s a great video of old school arcade games represented using household items…here’s a Frogger screenshot. The rest of the photos and videos are worth a look as well; Roof Sex is reminiscent of Furniture Porn (nsfw). (via waxy)
Video for Gnarls Barkley’s Smiley Faces
Video for Gnarls Barkley’s Smiley Faces, my favorite song of theirs. (Even though the mashup with the Notorious B.I.G.’s Hypontize might be better.)
Classic Sesame Street video clip on how crayons are made.
Classic Sesame Street video clip on how crayons are made.
Video of Travis Pastrana performing a double
Video of Travis Pastrana performing a double backflip on a motorcycle, the first time it’s been landed successfully in competition.
New tagline for kottke.org: “bringing you
New tagline for kottke.org: “bringing you the world’s finest treadmill music videos”.
Watch the first hour ever broadcast on
Watch the first hour ever broadcast on MTV. Of course, you have to wade through MTV’s crappy interface and, oops, you can’t look at it on a Mac because “Microsoft’s Windows Media Player Plug-in for Macintosh does not support Windows DRM”. Thanks, assholes. Hopefully this will show up on YouTube soon, DRM or no. (via girlhacker)
Very simple Japanese game show: fail to
Very simple Japanese game show: fail to correctly repeat a tongue twister and you get hit in the balls. Bonus video: a monkey playing with a dog.
Update: The video in question is not a game show, it’s of some sort of comedy team; here’s a bunch more of their stuff. (thx, evan and gavin)
“Three horrible videos from people who want
“Three horrible videos from people who want to be a United States Senator from Maryland”. Welcome to Razzmania! (thx, ajit)
Boing Boing has information on YouTube’s recently
Boing Boing has information on YouTube’s recently revised Terms and Conditions, which now state that they can use uploaded video for pretty much anything they want. For some users, that may be a steep price to pay for “free” bandwidth. The longer term question is, can YouTube find a business model that won’t completely screw up their wonderful offering or will they ultimately go the way of Napster?
Unnecessary censorship video. Brilliant take on how
Unnecessary censorship video. Brilliant take on how ridiculous the whole TV censorship thing is. (via cyn-c)
What On Earth!
Thanks to the glories of YouTube, you can now watch Kaj Pindal’s Oscar-nominated short film, What On Earth!:
Made in 1966 under the auspices of the National Film Board of Canada, the animated film records a visit by Martians to Earth and their observations about the planet’s dominant life form, the automobile.
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