Thursday, July 09, 2009
When United Declines Your Claim
Thursday, July 02, 2009
The subject was hotdogs and the Fourth of July
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Microwaving a cellphone (better than Peeps!)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
"Batman wore those socks ..."
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Scrabble ad. Really!
[another gem from Andrew Sullivan's blog]
Labels: advertising, video
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Susan Boyle - Britain's Got Talent ... a one hit wonder?
Susan Boyle aced Britain's Got Talent and the link to the video of her performance is flashing around the Web. The YouTube video was even mentioned in Jon Carroll's column this morning.
But can she really sing or was her rendition of I DREAMED A DREAM from Les Miserables a fluke?
Listen.
(Thanks, Annie Chernow!)
Update: ?? I guess! Guy Kawasaki Twitters about an analysis of Susan Boyle's viral video. http://adjix.com/c7ti
Holey moley!
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But can she really sing or was her rendition of I DREAMED A DREAM from Les Miserables a fluke?
Listen.
(Thanks, Annie Chernow!)
Update: ?? I guess! Guy Kawasaki Twitters about an analysis of Susan Boyle's viral video. http://adjix.com/c7ti
Holey moley!
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Simon Wood on writing with dyslexia
TV interview on ABC News 10's Sacramento and Co.
Simon talks about dyslexia and his writing and the back doors you learn to use to do what you want to do when the dyslexia is holding you back. Simon, for those who don't know him, writes thrillers (as Simon Wood) and horror (as Simon Janus) and (under yet another pseudonym, Simon Oaks) has a nonfiction book out last month, WILL MARRY FOR FOOD SEX AND LAUNDRY.
Simon's Web site
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Simon talks about dyslexia and his writing and the back doors you learn to use to do what you want to do when the dyslexia is holding you back. Simon, for those who don't know him, writes thrillers (as Simon Wood) and horror (as Simon Janus) and (under yet another pseudonym, Simon Oaks) has a nonfiction book out last month, WILL MARRY FOR FOOD SEX AND LAUNDRY.
Simon's Web site
Labels: books, mystery, video, writers, writing
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Book trailers.
Book trailers are like movie trailers, in a way. Movie trailers cut and piece from the movie to give you a taste of what you will see when you see the movie, to lure you into the theater to buy a ticket.
Book trailers are a video advertisement for a written book. They cut and piece from the book -- add sound, action, pictures, sometimes live actors -- and turn the result into what would be a mini-trailer for the movie the book would be if the book were a movie. The hope is that you will see the trailer and buy the book.
Came across this one just now and thought it was a good example.
There was a panel that included some talk on book trailers at LCC a few weeks ago. You can make your own trailer for something less than $100 (and up) and post it on Facebook or your blog or you can pay one of the companies that know what they're doing (Circle of Seven Productions was specifically named) and for something in the range of $2K-3K (although the price can be much higher, depending on your needs) you get a professional video and the placement/marketing expertise of the company. Or you can make your own trailer and contract with a company like Circle of Seven to do the promotion.
Book trailers as advertisement. As lures. With hopes that the trailer will go viral and the fever will translate into sales.
This trailer (Michael Connelly, THE BRASS VERDICT) is a more sophisticated production with screenplay and actors.
Would you buy a book from a book trailer?
Do you ever send them on?
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Book trailers are a video advertisement for a written book. They cut and piece from the book -- add sound, action, pictures, sometimes live actors -- and turn the result into what would be a mini-trailer for the movie the book would be if the book were a movie. The hope is that you will see the trailer and buy the book.
Came across this one just now and thought it was a good example.
There was a panel that included some talk on book trailers at LCC a few weeks ago. You can make your own trailer for something less than $100 (and up) and post it on Facebook or your blog or you can pay one of the companies that know what they're doing (Circle of Seven Productions was specifically named) and for something in the range of $2K-3K (although the price can be much higher, depending on your needs) you get a professional video and the placement/marketing expertise of the company. Or you can make your own trailer and contract with a company like Circle of Seven to do the promotion.
Book trailers as advertisement. As lures. With hopes that the trailer will go viral and the fever will translate into sales.
This trailer (Michael Connelly, THE BRASS VERDICT) is a more sophisticated production with screenplay and actors.
Would you buy a book from a book trailer?
Do you ever send them on?
Labels: book promotion, books, video
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Carl Sagan's Cosmos
Carl Sagan's Cosmos is available for free! at Hulu.
In 1980, the landmark series Cosmos premiered on public television. Since then, it is estimated that more than a billion people around the planet have seen it. Cosmos chronicles the evolution of the planet and efforts to find our place in the universe. Each of the 13 episodes focuses on a specific aspect of the nature of life, consciousness, the universe and time. Topics include the origin of life on Earth (and perhaps elsewhere), the nature of consciousness, and the birth and death of stars. When it first aired, the series catapulted creator and host Carl Sagan to the status of pop culture icon and opened countless minds to the power of science and the possibility of life on other worlds.
[via JDRoth's twitterfeed]
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In 1980, the landmark series Cosmos premiered on public television. Since then, it is estimated that more than a billion people around the planet have seen it. Cosmos chronicles the evolution of the planet and efforts to find our place in the universe. Each of the 13 episodes focuses on a specific aspect of the nature of life, consciousness, the universe and time. Topics include the origin of life on Earth (and perhaps elsewhere), the nature of consciousness, and the birth and death of stars. When it first aired, the series catapulted creator and host Carl Sagan to the status of pop culture icon and opened countless minds to the power of science and the possibility of life on other worlds.
[via JDRoth's twitterfeed]
Labels: culture, science, video
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Don't let the door hit you on the way out! Buh buh bye, George!
You taught me the meaning of "preemptive strike."
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Labels: election2008, video
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
US Presidents - George Washington to Barack Obama
US Presidents - George Washington to Barack Obama
44 US Presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama morphed to the music Boléro by Ravel
Must admit that I don't really know what each and every president looked like.
James K Polk was a surprise. He had a sly grin look about him. Reminded me of Baryshnikov somehow. Also reminded me of the They Might Be Giants song.
James Monroe I couldn't've picked out of a crowd.
And then there were the "He's on the $xxx bill" presidents.
John Tyler. Had I ever seen a picture of him that wasn't in a heads-of-all-the-presidents poster?
Grover Cleveland looked like a well-fed beermeister.
Entertaining.
gekko talked about the smiling/not-smiling aspect of the morph. I was more fascinated by the facial hair. Chester Arthur. Whoa.
[hattip to gekko, who posted this link on Usenet but I'm using a link to her blog instead of a link to that post.]
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44 US Presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama morphed to the music Boléro by Ravel
Must admit that I don't really know what each and every president looked like.
James K Polk was a surprise. He had a sly grin look about him. Reminded me of Baryshnikov somehow. Also reminded me of the They Might Be Giants song.
James Monroe I couldn't've picked out of a crowd.
And then there were the "He's on the $xxx bill" presidents.
John Tyler. Had I ever seen a picture of him that wasn't in a heads-of-all-the-presidents poster?
Grover Cleveland looked like a well-fed beermeister.
Entertaining.
gekko talked about the smiling/not-smiling aspect of the morph. I was more fascinated by the facial hair. Chester Arthur. Whoa.
[hattip to gekko, who posted this link on Usenet but I'm using a link to her blog instead of a link to that post.]
Labels: election2008, history, people, video
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
What you can find on the Web. Knopfler. Clapton. EmmyLou.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
What some people do for fun
Tonight was a meet-up at a pub in the south bay for beer and dinner with friends from the old job. Well-attended. Chance to catch up and see what people are up to.
Here's what one of the old friends is doing for fun these days.
Tom King's solo run in a supercharged Acura NSX at 150 mph average speed in the 2008 Nevada Open Road Challenge:
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Here's what one of the old friends is doing for fun these days.
Tom King's solo run in a supercharged Acura NSX at 150 mph average speed in the 2008 Nevada Open Road Challenge:
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Monday, December 29, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Fireworks and explosions
Of the jobs I wish I'd had, fireworks designer/handler is up near the top of the list. Also near the top is implosion designer/handler.
Implosion designers don't just blow things up, they calculate things so precisely that the building/stadium/whatever blows up and falls in on itself without damaging nearby structures.
Beautiful example of a controlled implosion. RCA Stadium. Indianapolis, IN. This morning. Eight hundred holes drilled and kaboom! powder added and then at the specific moment ...
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Implosion designers don't just blow things up, they calculate things so precisely that the building/stadium/whatever blows up and falls in on itself without damaging nearby structures.
Beautiful example of a controlled implosion. RCA Stadium. Indianapolis, IN. This morning. Eight hundred holes drilled and kaboom! powder added and then at the specific moment ...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Beethoven's 5th Argument
Beethoven's 5th Argument
Sid Caesar. Nanette Fabray.
A Classic.
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Sid Caesar. Nanette Fabray.
A Classic.
Labels: video
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
There's never been anything false about hope.
I watched this whenever I felt like it was all an impossible quest.
Thank you, will.i.am.
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Thank you, will.i.am.
Labels: election2008, music, video
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
YouTube - Charles Meets Barack
YouTube - Charles Meets Barack
"Everybody my age, they're dying off. ... these young people ... they are really a united people [the volunteers] and that's what this country needs right now."
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"Everybody my age, they're dying off. ... these young people ... they are really a united people [the volunteers] and that's what this country needs right now."
Labels: election2008, video
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Excerpts of Seven Year-Old Obama Interview Cause Stir
City Room™ - Politics - Excerpts of Seven Year-Old Obama Interview Cause Stir
In 2001, Chicago Public Radio interviewed then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama about civil rights. Over the weekend, someone posted excerpts of the interview, edited to misrepresent Obama's statements. The item is now catching national attention.
Click here for Obama's full interviews.
The clips are taken from an interview that aired in January of 2001. Then State Senator Obama is one of three legal scholars interviewed for a show about civil rights. Over the weekend, someone pulled excerpts of the show and posted them to You Tube—and today, the posting caught fire on political blogs, the Drudge Report, and Fox News.
The 4 minute spliced collection of clips portrays Obama as advocate a redistribution of wealth through the power of the Supreme Court. That folds in with some allegations by the McCain Palin campaign.
The twist here is that, when heard in the context of the whole show, Obama’s position is distinctly misrepresented by the You Tube posting. Taken in context, Obama is evaluating the historical successes and failures of the Civil Rights movement—and, ironically, he says the Supreme Court was a failure in cases that it took on a role of redistributing resources.
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In 2001, Chicago Public Radio interviewed then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama about civil rights. Over the weekend, someone posted excerpts of the interview, edited to misrepresent Obama's statements. The item is now catching national attention.
Click here for Obama's full interviews.
The clips are taken from an interview that aired in January of 2001. Then State Senator Obama is one of three legal scholars interviewed for a show about civil rights. Over the weekend, someone pulled excerpts of the show and posted them to You Tube—and today, the posting caught fire on political blogs, the Drudge Report, and Fox News.
The 4 minute spliced collection of clips portrays Obama as advocate a redistribution of wealth through the power of the Supreme Court. That folds in with some allegations by the McCain Palin campaign.
The twist here is that, when heard in the context of the whole show, Obama’s position is distinctly misrepresented by the You Tube posting. Taken in context, Obama is evaluating the historical successes and failures of the Civil Rights movement—and, ironically, he says the Supreme Court was a failure in cases that it took on a role of redistributing resources.
Labels: election2008, legal, politics, video
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People in the Middle for Obama
Seven videos from People in the Middle for Obama
Labels: election2008, politics, video
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Monday, October 27, 2008
MTV MUSIC - I Want My MTV
MTV MUSIC - I Want My MTV
MTVmusic.com, a very clean, very simple, good looking site full of music videos and only music videos. Lots of older, classic stuff, too, like one of our favorites, Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing."
The site looks good and, in our limited testing, works great. And like Hulu, MTV also (smartly) lets you embed their videos on your blog, MySpace or Facebook profile, Tumblr, etc. (see below). It also has the requisite "social" functions like comments, rating up/down, etc.
[via Huffington Post]
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MTVmusic.com, a very clean, very simple, good looking site full of music videos and only music videos. Lots of older, classic stuff, too, like one of our favorites, Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing."
The site looks good and, in our limited testing, works great. And like Hulu, MTV also (smartly) lets you embed their videos on your blog, MySpace or Facebook profile, Tumblr, etc. (see below). It also has the requisite "social" functions like comments, rating up/down, etc.
[via Huffington Post]
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Itzhak Perlman: Vote NO on Proposition 8
"The Constitution of California currently sees all of our children and grandchildren as equal ... Why would you change that?"
Labels: culture, election2008, legal, video
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2048 - There was a country
2048 - There was a country
Wow. Just wow.
And from there go to other 2048- titles on YouTube:
There was a country!
There was an environment!
There was a unity!
There was a freedom!
There was a dream!
There is still a future!
This is an election like no other and YouTube is having an influence that no one would have imagined four years ago. Some stunning creative work online.
The background music and shooting technique put me in mind of V FOR VENDETTA. I don't know why.
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Wow. Just wow.
And from there go to other 2048- titles on YouTube:
There was a country!
There was an environment!
There was a unity!
There was a freedom!
There was a dream!
There is still a future!
This is an election like no other and YouTube is having an influence that no one would have imagined four years ago. Some stunning creative work online.
The background music and shooting technique put me in mind of V FOR VENDETTA. I don't know why.
Labels: election2008, politics, video
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YouTube - A Poem For The Youth Voter
YouTube - A Poem For The Youth Voter
Yes. We. Did.
The Web is a wonder. Here's a GOTV video addressed to the youngsters who might get complacent and stay home "on the sofa, watchin' Oprah" instead of voting.
[PSA]
Go vote, if there's early voting in your precinct. Last thing you want is for something to come up on election day -- broken down car, boss wanting you to work late, food poisoning -- and miss voting.
Vote now.
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Yes. We. Did.
The Web is a wonder. Here's a GOTV video addressed to the youngsters who might get complacent and stay home "on the sofa, watchin' Oprah" instead of voting.
[PSA]
Go vote, if there's early voting in your precinct. Last thing you want is for something to come up on election day -- broken down car, boss wanting you to work late, food poisoning -- and miss voting.
Vote now.
Labels: election2008, video
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Ron Howard's Call To Action
See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die
Opie, Andy, and the Fonz want you to vote for Obama.
Labels: election2008, video
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Vote for Hope
Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
This is the first presidential election with YouTube videos prepared by passionate supporters on both sides, the first presidential election with political blogs and political Web sites setup and maintained by supporters, the first presidential election that will be influenced, at times greatly, by the Web.
Sit back. Watch.
Labels: election2008, politics, video
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Friday, October 03, 2008
www.declareyourself.com [a USA-centric post]
Excellent vid -- chock full o' celebrities -- for www.declareyourself.com and a plea to us'ns and thems to REGISTER TO VOTE.
Some voter registration deadlines are tomorrow! October 4th! and if you aren't registered to vote by then, you can't vote in the upcoming elections!
Some um. language makes this an only-on-the-Web phenom.
Well done.
Are you registered to vote? If not, and you are eligible and if you even just maybe kinda think that come next month you may be wanting to vote, register now! Watch the vid (or not), and hie over to www.declareyourself.com.
If you aren't sure if you are already registered, check here. If you didn't vote in the last presidential election or any election since, you are almost most certainly no longer registered to vote. That's the way it works. Don't vote in a presidential? Off the rolls. Haven't re-registered and voted since? You're still off the rolls. Have you moved since you registered? You need to re-register.
Register. Now.
(And all that bilge that the only resource used to call people for jury duty is the voter rolls so if you don't want to be called for jury duty, you shouldn't vote? Not so. California uses the drivers license registry and other resources. The bilge that you can't register to vote where you are if you're a student from somewhere else? That's bilge as well. Register. Vote.)
Labels: election2008, video
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Reverse Graffiti Project
Reverse Graffiti Project, April 2008, Broadway Tunnel, San Francisco.
Brilliant, but ... if the work hadn't been pretty, it would've been just as snarly as those folks who spray paint crappy letters on walls.
Good ad for the green cleaner used.
[via Sour Grapes' shared items in Google Reader]
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Brilliant, but ... if the work hadn't been pretty, it would've been just as snarly as those folks who spray paint crappy letters on walls.
Good ad for the green cleaner used.
[via Sour Grapes' shared items in Google Reader]
Labels: art, graphics, San Francisco, video
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
[SNL] Sarah Palin's Interview with Katie Couric
Tina Fey is a geeenyus.
And, oh, hey. That person doing her Katie Couric imitation isn't half-bad either.
[SNL] Sarah Palin's Interview with Katie Couric
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And, oh, hey. That person doing her Katie Couric imitation isn't half-bad either.
[SNL] Sarah Palin's Interview with Katie Couric
Labels: election2008, politics, video
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Gorgeous time lapse
Twin Peaks San Francisco Sunrise from Chad Richard on Vimeo.
Or click through to Vimeo. Poke around while you're there. That's how I found this.
(I'd visited to watch Sarah Silverman's THE GREAT SCHLEP. Caution: THE GREAT SCHLEP is not safe for work)
Labels: San Francisco, video
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Anderson Cooper panel: McCain move called misstep
CNN video: McCain move called misstep
Ed Rollins, Gloria Borger, Paul Begala talk with Anderson Cooper.
Begala says, "Bush is a high-functioning moron." Yikes.
But even Ed Rollins isn't too fond of McCain, it seems.
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Ed Rollins, Gloria Borger, Paul Begala talk with Anderson Cooper.
Begala says, "Bush is a high-functioning moron." Yikes.
But even Ed Rollins isn't too fond of McCain, it seems.
Labels: election2008, video
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The Living Room Candidate - Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008
The Living Room Candidate - Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008
Amazing dance back in time. 1952. A good year.
[via Andrew Tobias]
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Amazing dance back in time. 1952. A good year.
[via Andrew Tobias]
Labels: advertising, election2008, history, video
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Pfizer: Graffiti | Creativity Online
Pfizer: Graffiti | Creativity Online
If you can watch this through to the end without a tear. ...
*sniff*
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If you can watch this through to the end without a tear. ...
*sniff*
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
DNC: Montana Governor Schweitzer's address
So far ... tops on my list: Michelle Obama's speech. Kucinich. Hillary's.
... and Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer.
What a guy. You go KICK BUTT, Schweitzer!
He had them up and cheering.
"Stand up, Colorado! Stand up!"
"Florida! Stand up!"
"Michigan! Stand up!"
"Pennsylvania! Stand up!"
"Get off of your hind end!
"In the cheap seats! Stand up!"
Entertaining.
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... and Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer.
What a guy. You go KICK BUTT, Schweitzer!
He had them up and cheering.
"Stand up, Colorado! Stand up!"
"Florida! Stand up!"
"Michigan! Stand up!"
"Pennsylvania! Stand up!"
"Get off of your hind end!
"In the cheap seats! Stand up!"
Entertaining.
Labels: election2008, politics, video
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Mark Warner Democratic Convention Speech: Text
Mark Warner Democratic Convention Speech: Text
I am way not keen on Mark Warner.
As I watched his speech, something went woop!woop!woop! in the background.
Warner's speech
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I am way not keen on Mark Warner.
As I watched his speech, something went woop!woop!woop! in the background.
Warner's speech
Labels: election2008, politics, video
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Well done, Hillary.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Michelle Obama @ DNC
Took me a long time to get the vid for this, so if you've been having the same sorts of issues, here you go.
I don't remember other political spouses doing their thing at conventions.
Michelle's was ... pretty good! I think.
... and I think, after labeling this "politics," maybe I should have a "2008 elections" label, eh?
Update: I've added an election2008 label to the stasho'labels. I'll fill it in over the next while.
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I don't remember other political spouses doing their thing at conventions.
Michelle's was ... pretty good! I think.
... and I think, after labeling this "politics," maybe I should have a "2008 elections" label, eh?
Update: I've added an election2008 label to the stasho'labels. I'll fill it in over the next while.
Labels: election2008, people, politics, video
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Ted at the DNC
Towse's True Confessions...
I have never been a Ted Kennedy fan, for various reasons I won't go into here.
But this made me cry.
(Thought it was interesting that C-SPAN thought they had to identify Caroline Kennedy as "daughter of John F. Kennedy".)
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I have never been a Ted Kennedy fan, for various reasons I won't go into here.
But this made me cry.
(Thought it was interesting that C-SPAN thought they had to identify Caroline Kennedy as "daughter of John F. Kennedy".)
Labels: election2008, people, politics, video
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Monday, August 18, 2008
FORA.tv - Videos Covering Today's Top Social, Political, and Tech Issues
FORA.tv - Videos Covering Today's Top Social, Political, and Tech Issues
FORA.tv is advertising for unpaid interns on CraigsList.
Toddled off to see what's up with that. I'd seen a stack of FORA.tv lit over at the Commonwealth Club offices on Saturday.
Long Now talks. Aspen Institute talks. Commonwealth Club talks. ...
Here's a Roger Rosenblatt interview with Amy Tan at the Chautauqua Institution on July 10, 2008. The interview is broken out in sections. If you only want to hear Tan speak on "Writer's Memory" you can click straight to the spot.
E.L. Doctorow on the Problematic Nature of Writing Novels
The indexing is superb. You can select one of the broad subject ranges and then one of the sub-sections. You can search for subjects. You can find all videos from the Hoover Institution.
Brilliant stuff.
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FORA.tv is advertising for unpaid interns on CraigsList.
Toddled off to see what's up with that. I'd seen a stack of FORA.tv lit over at the Commonwealth Club offices on Saturday.
Long Now talks. Aspen Institute talks. Commonwealth Club talks. ...
Here's a Roger Rosenblatt interview with Amy Tan at the Chautauqua Institution on July 10, 2008. The interview is broken out in sections. If you only want to hear Tan speak on "Writer's Memory" you can click straight to the spot.
E.L. Doctorow on the Problematic Nature of Writing Novels
The indexing is superb. You can select one of the broad subject ranges and then one of the sub-sections. You can search for subjects. You can find all videos from the Hoover Institution.
Brilliant stuff.
Labels: culture, media, politics, video, web2.0, writing
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
new video: "Republicans and military men on John McCain"
This election has the internet (columns, blogs, newsgroups, sites, videos, commentary, Web2.0 electioneering) playing a huge part, for those who use the internet.
And even for those who don't, if they read the papers or watch TV.
McCain's ad comparing Obama to Paris and Britney didn't have much play in paid air time, but it was on the Web getting a zillion views and MSM picked it up and talked about it and wondered about it and speculated about it and suddenly a fairly small media budget got a factor of n more traction than it would otherwise.
But it's not just the videos produced by professionals and paid for by campaigns or major political parties. I am stunned by the brilliance of some of the non-campaign videos that are popping up. (And stupefied by the webisodes that were shot of John Edwards and paid for by his campaign, but that's another story. ...)
The younger nib grew up making videos and belonging to movie/video clubs and competing in movie/video competitions from his teen years as did many of the Y generation.
Those years of practice show up when professionals donate their work to the cause: will.i.am's Obama 'Yes, we can' video and Paris for President.
Those years of practice show up too in the amateur videos made for YouTube distribution.
This morning I came across a link to "Republicans and military men on John McCain" in the comments tail of a Huffington post. Visuals. Captures. Background music. Amazing work from someone who seems to be the same age as the younger nib.
Director: Aaron Hodgins Davis, Skidmore. Uploaded 31Jul2008.
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And even for those who don't, if they read the papers or watch TV.
McCain's ad comparing Obama to Paris and Britney didn't have much play in paid air time, but it was on the Web getting a zillion views and MSM picked it up and talked about it and wondered about it and speculated about it and suddenly a fairly small media budget got a factor of n more traction than it would otherwise.
But it's not just the videos produced by professionals and paid for by campaigns or major political parties. I am stunned by the brilliance of some of the non-campaign videos that are popping up. (And stupefied by the webisodes that were shot of John Edwards and paid for by his campaign, but that's another story. ...)
The younger nib grew up making videos and belonging to movie/video clubs and competing in movie/video competitions from his teen years as did many of the Y generation.
Those years of practice show up when professionals donate their work to the cause: will.i.am's Obama 'Yes, we can' video and Paris for President.
Those years of practice show up too in the amateur videos made for YouTube distribution.
This morning I came across a link to "Republicans and military men on John McCain" in the comments tail of a Huffington post. Visuals. Captures. Background music. Amazing work from someone who seems to be the same age as the younger nib.
Director: Aaron Hodgins Davis, Skidmore. Uploaded 31Jul2008.
Labels: politics, video, web2.0
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Monday, July 21, 2008
The First Today Show: January 14, 1952 with Dave Garroway
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The Daily Show & The Colbert Report on Hulu
The Daily Show & The Colbert Report on Hulu
[Thank you, Laughing Squid]
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[Thank you, Laughing Squid]
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Louise Ure - Muderati - Funeral Music
Louise Ure has a good blog post over at Murderati, the typepad blog that rotates posts by murder writers through the week.
Her post this Tuesday was about funeral music -- specifically, your funeral music. What music would you choose to play at your funeral?
When my cousin died, the family and her friends gathered at Pfeiffer Beach down in Big Sur. The music that played while her dad waded out into the surf to sprinkle ashes was Joan Baez singing Amazing Grace, a capella.
When Elizabeth died, her granddaughter sang Bette Midler's Wind Beneath My Wings, a capella:
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
but I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it.
I would be nothing without you.
One of the songs Ure mentions is this one, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's medley of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World.
What is the music of your life, your soundtrack?
My answer later. We're off (on this friggin' hot afternoon -- up over 93dF upstairs) to the Waterfront Restaurant down by Pier 5the Ferry Building for a Spanish wine tasting.
Later.
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Her post this Tuesday was about funeral music -- specifically, your funeral music. What music would you choose to play at your funeral?
When my cousin died, the family and her friends gathered at Pfeiffer Beach down in Big Sur. The music that played while her dad waded out into the surf to sprinkle ashes was Joan Baez singing Amazing Grace, a capella.
When Elizabeth died, her granddaughter sang Bette Midler's Wind Beneath My Wings, a capella:
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
but I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it.
I would be nothing without you.
One of the songs Ure mentions is this one, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's medley of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World.
What is the music of your life, your soundtrack?
My answer later. We're off (on this friggin' hot afternoon -- up over 93dF upstairs) to the Waterfront Restaurant down by Pier 5
Later.
Labels: life, music, people, video
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Tales of the City: Derek Powazek
Derek Powazek - 90-Second Story: Grumpy Neighbor
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Friday, April 04, 2008
"Gordon Ramsay always advises his victims on Kitchen Nightmares to simplify, and it's good advice."
Ah, jeez.
I don't watch TV. Period. None. Zip. Even if I did, I don't think I get the Fox Network in the subset of available channels that comes with our barebones ($2.80/mo in addition to my computer connection) from Comcast.
After SG's comment (see title of this post), I hied off to Google with a /kitchen nightmares gordon ramsay/ search.
First up: the Fox Kitchen Nightmares Web site. Entertaining little itty-bitty less-than-a-minute clips.
After some poking and prying around in YouTube, HotDiggity! a stash of episodes (which I have, with great reluctance, set aside until later. ... His nibs doesn't care to be forced to listen to YouTube clips I'm playing while he's plunked in the chair of the desk face-to-face with me. ... Later!)
Thanks, SG! I just caught up on the season finale of Project Runway yesterday and was wondering what I'd do ... Gordon Ramsay it is!
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I don't watch TV. Period. None. Zip. Even if I did, I don't think I get the Fox Network in the subset of available channels that comes with our barebones ($2.80/mo in addition to my computer connection) from Comcast.
After SG's comment (see title of this post), I hied off to Google with a /kitchen nightmares gordon ramsay/ search.
First up: the Fox Kitchen Nightmares Web site. Entertaining little itty-bitty less-than-a-minute clips.
After some poking and prying around in YouTube, HotDiggity! a stash of episodes (which I have, with great reluctance, set aside until later. ... His nibs doesn't care to be forced to listen to YouTube clips I'm playing while he's plunked in the chair of the desk face-to-face with me. ... Later!)
Thanks, SG! I just caught up on the season finale of Project Runway yesterday and was wondering what I'd do ... Gordon Ramsay it is!
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Monday, February 11, 2008
YouTube - IT'S OVER Roy Orbison
Amazing what's available on YouTube.
I'm a huge fan of Orbison. I will probably bounce from YouTube to YouTube to YouTube to ... until (not long from now) I decide I'm about ready to crash.
Claudette. Pretty Woman. Running Scared.
Blue Bayou
from Orbison to Patsy Cline
to Hank Williams
to ... well ... oddly enough there's nothing much on YouTube from Cisco Houston.
Joan Baez, however. ...
I bought a photograph of Mimi and Debbie Green, taken while Mimi lived on Alta. The two are goofing off at the corner of Union and Montgomery, with the piers and Bay as backdrop.
Thank you, John Cooke.
Cooke sold me a piece of his life. Man, I love the Web and the John Cookes of the world.
Labels: music, people, Telegraph Hill, video
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
Michelle Obama - Be Not Afraid
Need a little cheering up?
Monday, February 04, 2008
Super Bowl 2008 ads now up
Super Bowl 2008 ads now up on hulu: Watch your favorites. Anytime. Anywhere.
Link courtesy Laughing Squid
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Link courtesy Laughing Squid
Labels: culture, design, video
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
Obama - Yes, we can.
Liked this. 4:30m video. "Obama. Yes, we can" from Dipdive.com
Forwarded on to me by the younger younger Guy. Thanks.
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Forwarded on to me by the younger younger Guy. Thanks.
Labels: people, politics, video
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
People in Order by Lenka Clayton and James Price
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Watch Daily Show Video Clips Online
By golly they DID IT!
Watch Daily Show Video Clips Online
Comedy Central's putting all Daily Show videos online (paired with subtle and well-thought-out advertising, natch).
1999-Now. Seven thousand one hundred twenty-eight videos so far.
The national productivity index makes a whooshing sound as it plummets by.
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Watch Daily Show Video Clips Online
Comedy Central's putting all Daily Show videos online (paired with subtle and well-thought-out advertising, natch).
1999-Now. Seven thousand one hundred twenty-eight videos so far.
The national productivity index makes a whooshing sound as it plummets by.
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Mothers, don't let your babies grow up to be sk8trs
Fun with ping pong balls.
Time spent? Who knows? Probably time enough to develop a perpetual motion machine or discover the meaning of life.
[Rube Goldberg, eat your heart out.]
Labels: toomuchtimeontheirhands, video
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Friday, September 21, 2007
"If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it."
Read/watch this lecture, billed as Randy Pausch's "last lecture."
As an intro, the article in the WSJ that talks about the lecture.
The video of the speech is an hour and three-quarters if you watch to the very end. There's also an edited five-minute video, but it doesn't capture what the full video does.
Randy Pausch's speech (and Randy Pausch), inspirational.
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As an intro, the article in the WSJ that talks about the lecture.
The video of the speech is an hour and three-quarters if you watch to the very end. There's also an edited five-minute video, but it doesn't capture what the full video does.
Randy Pausch's speech (and Randy Pausch), inspirational.
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A coach. An act of kindness. Goosebumps. Tears.
The video this post links to is dashing around the Web this week even though it was taken four years ago.
Made me cry. I'm sure the young woman singing the National Anthem still remembers that night and the kindness of Mo.
Check out this article, written not long after the video was taken in 2003.
*sniffles*
Also check out Patti Digh's blog, 37days, which is where this all came from.
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Made me cry. I'm sure the young woman singing the National Anthem still remembers that night and the kindness of Mo.
Check out this article, written not long after the video was taken in 2003.
*sniffles*
Also check out Patti Digh's blog, 37days, which is where this all came from.
Labels: blog, life, people, video
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
For K and for those second cousins of mine who wear big buckles
Wandering from song to song in YouTube, I came across a couple anthems for a cowboy grandma and my second cousins who wear big buckles:
The Highwaymen: Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
and
The Highwaymen: The Last Cowboy Song
'night.
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The Highwaymen: Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
and
The Highwaymen: The Last Cowboy Song
'night.
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Who knew? Brian Hyland
I was reading someone's blog tonight and they mentioned Brian Hyland and Gypsy Woman.
Gypsy Woman? What? I knew Gypsy Woman, of course, but had never associated it with Hyland. Why would I? I knew Hyland because of his big hit in the summer of 1962, Sealed With A Kiss. I know it was 1962 because that was the summer after fifth grade, the school year when I'd swooned over Phil Johnston, whose sister Sheila was in my older sister's class. When school ended in June, Phil'd up and moved away. Sealed With A Kiss, was my anthem that summer as I mooned about. Sealed with a kiss, if only.
Same Brian Hyland? How many Brian Hyland's singing in that time frame could there be?
So, I popped /"brian hyland" "gypsy woman" "sealed with a kiss"/ into Google and found out Hyland wasn't a one hit wonder. He was indeed the same dude and, furthermore, his first and biggest hit (recorded in 1960 when he was a sophomore in high school) was Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss.
Who knew?
Last, but not least, my Web searching scored me a vid of Hyland lip-synching Sealed With A Kiss on some bandstand show, probably Dick Clark's.
Check out the dancers! There's a classic nerd with black rimmed glasses and plaid jacket and a girl doing what looks like the Frug. (No, not those on the stage behind him. Later in the video. Watch! The guy she's dancing with is dressed in a buttoned cardigan sweater. No lie!)
Nostalgia hits hard tonight.
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Gypsy Woman? What? I knew Gypsy Woman, of course, but had never associated it with Hyland. Why would I? I knew Hyland because of his big hit in the summer of 1962, Sealed With A Kiss. I know it was 1962 because that was the summer after fifth grade, the school year when I'd swooned over Phil Johnston, whose sister Sheila was in my older sister's class. When school ended in June, Phil'd up and moved away. Sealed With A Kiss, was my anthem that summer as I mooned about. Sealed with a kiss, if only.
Same Brian Hyland? How many Brian Hyland's singing in that time frame could there be?
So, I popped /"brian hyland" "gypsy woman" "sealed with a kiss"/ into Google and found out Hyland wasn't a one hit wonder. He was indeed the same dude and, furthermore, his first and biggest hit (recorded in 1960 when he was a sophomore in high school) was Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss.
Who knew?
Last, but not least, my Web searching scored me a vid of Hyland lip-synching Sealed With A Kiss on some bandstand show, probably Dick Clark's.
Check out the dancers! There's a classic nerd with black rimmed glasses and plaid jacket and a girl doing what looks like the Frug. (No, not those on the stage behind him. Later in the video. Watch! The guy she's dancing with is dressed in a buttoned cardigan sweater. No lie!)
Nostalgia hits hard tonight.
Labels: life, music, people, video
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Some folks with faaaaar too much time on their hands
(For those who can't embed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvdq8cRNBM)
Rube Goldberg cooks ramen.
For jeffkos 'cause we all know how much he likes ramen and because I'm tinkering with the bookmarks I recently moved to http://del.icio.us/towse and I happen to be poking around in foodie links and came across Matt Fischer's (moved since I first found it while he was at umr.edu) Official Ramen Homepage which eventually led me to YouTube (as all things do) and 'cause kos said the bikini wax post "did nothing to help my day along. Not a thing." Here's something to help your day along, Jeff. The things I will do for my funs.
Just six and a half minutes of your time. (You could be watching an egg hardboil.) This is better. Trust me.
NOTE: Japanese play-by-play ...
Labels: food, toomuchtimeontheirhands, video
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Amy E. Boyle Johnston
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Amy E. Boyle Johnston, LA Weekly.
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Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
"Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was," Bradbury says, summarizing TV's content with a single word that he spits out as an epithet: "factoids." He says this while sitting in a room dominated by a gigantic flat-panel television broadcasting the Fox News Channel, muted, factoids crawling across the bottom of the screen.
His fear in 1953 that television would kill books has, he says, been partially confirmed by television's effect on substance in the news. The front page of that day's L.A. Times reported on the weekend box-office receipts for the third in the Spider-Man series of movies, seeming to prove his point.
"Useless," Bradbury says. "They stuff you with so much useless information, you feel full." He bristles when others tell him what his stories mean, and once walked out of a class at UCLA where students insisted his book was about government censorship. He's now bucking the widespread conventional wisdom with a video clip on his Web site (http://www.raybradbury.com/at_home_clips.html), titled "Bradbury on censorship/television."
As early as 1951, Bradbury presaged his fears about TV, in a letter about the dangers of radio, written to fantasy and science-fiction writer Richard Matheson. Bradbury wrote that "Radio has contributed to our 'growing lack of attention.'... This sort of hopscotching existence makes it almost impossible for people, myself included, to sit down and get into a novel again. We have become a short story reading people, or, worse than that, a QUICK reading people."
[...]
"I was worried about people being turned into morons by TV," Bradbury says in the censorship/television video clip. The collection of clips includes his explanation of how he wrote Fahrenheit 451 in nine days in a clip titled (oddly enough) FAHRENHEIT 451.
The Bradbury site also includes a wonderful obit for Marguerite Susan McClure (Maggie) Bradbury, who died in 2003.
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Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
"Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was," Bradbury says, summarizing TV's content with a single word that he spits out as an epithet: "factoids." He says this while sitting in a room dominated by a gigantic flat-panel television broadcasting the Fox News Channel, muted, factoids crawling across the bottom of the screen.
His fear in 1953 that television would kill books has, he says, been partially confirmed by television's effect on substance in the news. The front page of that day's L.A. Times reported on the weekend box-office receipts for the third in the Spider-Man series of movies, seeming to prove his point.
"Useless," Bradbury says. "They stuff you with so much useless information, you feel full." He bristles when others tell him what his stories mean, and once walked out of a class at UCLA where students insisted his book was about government censorship. He's now bucking the widespread conventional wisdom with a video clip on his Web site (http://www.raybradbury.com/at_home_clips.html), titled "Bradbury on censorship/television."
As early as 1951, Bradbury presaged his fears about TV, in a letter about the dangers of radio, written to fantasy and science-fiction writer Richard Matheson. Bradbury wrote that "Radio has contributed to our 'growing lack of attention.'... This sort of hopscotching existence makes it almost impossible for people, myself included, to sit down and get into a novel again. We have become a short story reading people, or, worse than that, a QUICK reading people."
[...]
"I was worried about people being turned into morons by TV," Bradbury says in the censorship/television video clip. The collection of clips includes his explanation of how he wrote Fahrenheit 451 in nine days in a clip titled (oddly enough) FAHRENHEIT 451.
The Bradbury site also includes a wonderful obit for Marguerite Susan McClure (Maggie) Bradbury, who died in 2003.
Labels: biography, books, history, obit, video
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Sic Press: Book Repair & Cleaning Supplies for Booksellers
Sic Press not only sells supplies but also a how-to book: UNBOUND: Book Repair for Booksellers ($16).
Sic Press also offers (free!) on-site informative how-to videos with titles like "How to Remove a Bookplate" and "Re-attaching a Single Cover."
Useful info on the Web for the bibliophiles with beat-up old books amongst us.
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Sic Press also offers (free!) on-site informative how-to videos with titles like "How to Remove a Bookplate" and "Re-attaching a Single Cover."
Useful info on the Web for the bibliophiles with beat-up old books amongst us.
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Saturday, June 02, 2007
They were younger then ...
... and so were we.
This video leaves me feeling ... almost a feeling of saudade except that you can't go home again. You can never go back.
For all you nostalgia freaks, myself included, which of the couples in this video are still a pair?
Or even would be if all the principals were still alive?
John and Yoko? John died.
Paul and Linda? Linda died.
George and Patti? Divorced. George married Olivia. Patti married Clapton. Patti divorced Clapton. George died.
Ringo and Maureen? Divorced. Maureen died.
sigh
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This video leaves me feeling ... almost a feeling of saudade except that you can't go home again. You can never go back.
For all you nostalgia freaks, myself included, which of the couples in this video are still a pair?
Or even would be if all the principals were still alive?
John and Yoko? John died.
Paul and Linda? Linda died.
George and Patti? Divorced. George married Olivia. Patti married Clapton. Patti divorced Clapton. George died.
Ringo and Maureen? Divorced. Maureen died.
sigh
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Monday, April 30, 2007
Derren Brown - subliminal advertising
Derren Brown on subliminal advertising.
... on NLP
Fascinating stuff.
Derren Brown on C4's site
Derren Brown's Web site
I'd never heard of Derren Brown until tonight. I just went back to see how I'd fallen into this Derren Brown universe. My original heads up was from a post on AdRants.
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Saturday, April 28, 2007
Doll Face by Andy Huang
Doll Face by Andy Huang ~4min.
Doll Face follows a machine's struggle to construct its own identity.
Strange. Thought provoking.
[Lifted from halsted's del.icio.us links]
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Doll Face follows a machine's struggle to construct its own identity.
Strange. Thought provoking.
[Lifted from halsted's del.icio.us links]
Labels: video
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Film clips from yesteryear
The Web's a wonder ...
Film clip of the opening of the world's largest bridge. 1937.
[spotted on Curbed SF]
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Film clip of the opening of the world's largest bridge. 1937.
[spotted on Curbed SF]
Labels: history, San Francisco, SFOBayBridge, video
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
[YOUTUBE] Hillary mashup
The YouTube Hillary mashup made it to the front page above the fold of today's Chronicle.
Found two versions at YouTube:
Short: Vote Different (1:13)
Long: VOTE SMART: a warning to all women about hillary clinton (5:14)
Obama's campaign sez they had nothing to do with it. Others are pointing fingers to the same folk who brought us the Swift Boat Veterans.
Being as the presidential primaries don't kick off until the Iowa caucuses next January, it looks like it will be a very interesting tit-for-tat election this time around.
Update: Above the fold, front page, SFChronicle today (20 Mar 2007) as well, with a buzz buzz article about who might have mashed it and why. A Rove device to slam Hillary and catch Obama in the crossfire with one swat?
Have you watched both videos? I think the short one is more effective. The long one just goes on and on and on, well past my patience. I believe the long one is a revamp of the short one. Who co-opted the short video? Wonder what the original masher thinks of that?
Update2: Archer has a link to a Barack 1984 video. As I commented there, Too bad the Clinton supporters are so lacking in originality. They're ripping off a mashup, for pete's sake. Do your own clever thing, peoples. This just looks petty. And stoopid.
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Found two versions at YouTube:
Short: Vote Different (1:13)
Long: VOTE SMART: a warning to all women about hillary clinton (5:14)
Obama's campaign sez they had nothing to do with it. Others are pointing fingers to the same folk who brought us the Swift Boat Veterans.
Being as the presidential primaries don't kick off until the Iowa caucuses next January, it looks like it will be a very interesting tit-for-tat election this time around.
Update: Above the fold, front page, SFChronicle today (20 Mar 2007) as well, with a buzz buzz article about who might have mashed it and why. A Rove device to slam Hillary and catch Obama in the crossfire with one swat?
Have you watched both videos? I think the short one is more effective. The long one just goes on and on and on, well past my patience. I believe the long one is a revamp of the short one. Who co-opted the short video? Wonder what the original masher thinks of that?
Update2: Archer has a link to a Barack 1984 video. As I commented there, Too bad the Clinton supporters are so lacking in originality. They're ripping off a mashup, for pete's sake. Do your own clever thing, peoples. This just looks petty. And stoopid.
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Friday, March 16, 2007
[YOUTUBE] Middle Ages Tech Support
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Everything I know - Buckminster Fuller and other treats from Smashing Telly
First heard about Smashing Telly over at Sour Grapes, where SG offered up a link to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville.
Man, what a resource Smashing Telly is.
Everything from Jean-Luc Godard to this forty-one minute interview with Buckminster Fuller ("Everything I Know") to over an hour with George Carlin to Charles and Ray Eames' Powers of Ten to interviews with Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio for The Making of Koyaanisqatsi.
David Galbraith explains: Smashing Telly is a hand edited collection of the best free, instantly available TV on the web. Not 30 second clips of a dog on a skateboard, or the millionth person to mime the Numa song, but full length programs. Smashing Telly, not Gimmick Telly.
Many of the items that I'll be putting up on a regular basis are documentaries, since that's what tends to be out there at the moment.
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Man, what a resource Smashing Telly is.
Everything from Jean-Luc Godard to this forty-one minute interview with Buckminster Fuller ("Everything I Know") to over an hour with George Carlin to Charles and Ray Eames' Powers of Ten to interviews with Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio for The Making of Koyaanisqatsi.
David Galbraith explains: Smashing Telly is a hand edited collection of the best free, instantly available TV on the web. Not 30 second clips of a dog on a skateboard, or the millionth person to mime the Numa song, but full length programs. Smashing Telly, not Gimmick Telly.
Many of the items that I'll be putting up on a regular basis are documentaries, since that's what tends to be out there at the moment.
Labels: film, media, URL, video
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
CBS5 brings you thirty minutes with Gavin un-cut. No question off the table.
KPIX brings you thirty minutes un-cut of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom answering questions from KPIX CBS5's Hank Plante.
An exclusive and you can bet your bottom dollar Newsom's not going through this for each and every one of you newshounds out there. You could almost see Gavin draw in a breath after some questions and thinking, what is he going to ask next.
(And, sweet mercy, when will this be over?)
Plante: "Let me ask you another question. ... There are rumors that you also used cocaine and other substances..."
(The actual news spot was far shorter. That's also available at the site.)
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An exclusive and you can bet your bottom dollar Newsom's not going through this for each and every one of you newshounds out there. You could almost see Gavin draw in a breath after some questions and thinking, what is he going to ask next.
(And, sweet mercy, when will this be over?)
Plante: "Let me ask you another question. ... There are rumors that you also used cocaine and other substances..."
(The actual news spot was far shorter. That's also available at the site.)
Labels: people, San Francisco, video
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Craig Ferguson and his heartfelt why-I-won't-trash-Britney remarks
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
KFOG Kaboom! 2007
This post is for the someone who came by this site earlier with a Yahoo! search for /2007 kfog kaboom, piers 30 & 32/
According to the Port Authority Web site (KFOG Kaboom "Hold for Event"), mark May 12th on the calendar for this year's Kaboom!
a link to the 2006 Kaboom! page with a click to video of the fireworks set to a rock music soundscript.
... and ditto for 2005.
[coinkadinkly: KFOG sent out an e-mail to Fogheads late yesterday telling us that the date this year for Kaboom! is May 12th! Hah.]
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According to the Port Authority Web site (KFOG Kaboom "Hold for Event"), mark May 12th on the calendar for this year's Kaboom!
a link to the 2006 Kaboom! page with a click to video of the fireworks set to a rock music soundscript.
... and ditto for 2005.
[coinkadinkly: KFOG sent out an e-mail to Fogheads late yesterday telling us that the date this year for Kaboom! is May 12th! Hah.]
Labels: music, San Francisco, video
posted by Sal Towse at 12:26 PM|
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
San Francisco Street Art / Graffiti
Ryan pulled together a very well-done video collage of photos he took of San Francisco Street Art / Graffiti while he was tooling around the City on his bicycle in 2006.
Some of my favorites are here: Mona Caron's Duboce Bikeway Mural, f'rex (visible from the N-Judah).
Some of my favorites aren't in the collection: the mural on the side of the building at the NW corner of Columbus and Broadway (thx to karbon69 for the click) and "One Tree" by RIGO [photo by kootenayvolcano]. There are others not included, including the murals on some buildings on Bay just up from Tower Records, but I can't find pictures. Guess I'll have to make some of my own.
[YouTube link from a link Ryan posted to SFist/labs/contribute last month]
[note: flickr has photo pool for San Francisco/murals. Check it out if this sort of thing interests you.]
posted by Sal Towse at 1:59 PM||
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Some of my favorites are here: Mona Caron's Duboce Bikeway Mural, f'rex (visible from the N-Judah).
Some of my favorites aren't in the collection: the mural on the side of the building at the NW corner of Columbus and Broadway (thx to karbon69 for the click) and "One Tree" by RIGO [photo by kootenayvolcano]. There are others not included, including the murals on some buildings on Bay just up from Tower Records, but I can't find pictures. Guess I'll have to make some of my own.
[YouTube link from a link Ryan posted to SFist/labs/contribute last month]
[note: flickr has photo pool for San Francisco/murals. Check it out if this sort of thing interests you.]
Labels: art, photographs, San Francisco, urban, video
posted by Sal Towse at 1:59 PM|
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
