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LEAD PIPE GO
Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want To Be A Magical Girl, a voice-acted animatic and pilot. 11 minutes.
You won't be surprised to learn that this was NOT clotted cream.
Queen of Afternoon Tea reviews the Railcar 91 Tea Room at the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida.
This Post Kills Fascists
Wanted to share some Woody Guthrie Covers for several different songs: Starting with"Fascists Bound to Lose" by Billy Bragg and Wilco. [more inside]
What Makes This Song Stink is back!
Pat Finnerty is finally back with a new episode of What Makes This Song Stink, on the topic of the song "Lonely Road." Suggested talking points include hot tub fates, The Fuckin Songs, misguided covers, and excessive tattoos.
“I'm from Bosnia, take me to America”
Salvatore Ganacci advises you about middle school. His Take Me To America is (perhaps) about trying to be a good son. Elsewhere, Salvatore chooses an onion, avoids the police, invents Grakour, deals with a problematic carrot, and visits 1980s Japan. The Vedran Rupic trilogy of Salvatore videos consists of Boycycle, Step-Grandma, and the award-winning [CW: weird violence] Horse.
IanOnYouTube
Why Am I 30 years old working a dead end retail job? This is a kind of YouTube video I haven't seen for a long time. Most popular YouTubers nowadays make their living from YouTube, produce slick, polished content, and give the impression of being super successful. This guy is actually cleaning the floor in this video, as part of his job. Seeing someone so genuine, hardworking, and economically challenged, it's touching how many people are donating, now that his channel has, due to some YouTubular quirk, massively blown up.
Escapism for free at your local internet video rental store
Warner Brothers has just released 33 of their classic movies onto YouTube for free. Here's the full playlist. Selections include: | The Incredible Mr. Limpet. | Oh, God | Waiting for Guffman | Mutiny on the Bounty | True Stories | SubUrbia | Plenty of gems and just as many questionable/stinkers to be watched, but if you've never seen one of these and have an hour or two to spare, you could do much worse than a slice of any of these free pies, just sitting there on the windowsill. Mmmmm.... I can smell the blockbuster checkout aisle they have hostess pies...
Social Justice Jihadi - Full Comedy Special of Sammy Obeid
Enjoy 90 min of Lebanese-Palestinian-Syrian-Italian-American comedian Sammy Obeid. May contain jokes about Israel/Palestine, among other things.
I FREQUENTLY THINK EVERY NOW AND THEN
There are now three different Green Eggs and Ham (1973 Dr. Seuss on the Loose version) YouTube Poop collabs, all with the clips in narrative order: 2012 (12m), 2018 (48m), 2024 (1h28m). That is NOT all. More collaborous collabs after the jump. (Flashing images and sudden loud noises are inevitable.) [more inside]
Indie animated sci-fi short series: Deep Space Discounts
The fifth and final episode of the season premieres today (assuming you read this on 31st January 2025). Each episode is 5-10 minutes. Link to the trailer, which is part of a playlist of the whole thing.
This is a really charming, funny, well characterised little show.
It's entirely scripted, directed and animated by DeepBlueInk, who has been mentioned on Mefi before as a fan animator. [more inside]
All hail our Linux-using grandmother overlords
With her British accent, grandmotherly appearance, stately pace and lightly edited videos, Andrea Borman may not seem like the Youtuber type, but that is where she is, and this is there she does. So, where what is the does that she do? Knitting? Baking cookies? Dressing up cats? Nope, with her it's Linux distros and software. Here she discusses why you should ditch Windows (24m) - Is Fedora Linux for new users? (25m) - Comparing Windows Movie Maker with Openshot Video Editor (27m) - How she makes her videos (18m)
Rise up against your electronic pickleball oppressors
bradsucks, who haunts this cavernous place on occasion, has a new music video out called Learning to Lie that is VERY entertaining. And educational too! I had no idea that pickleball required one of the players to be a Kaiju Big Battel-style cardboard robot!
Porn Bombing: A New Tactic to Force Your Critics Off Youtube
Unless you roam the "shady underbelly" of the Internet looking for information on "get rich quick" schemes, you probably have never heard of Danny de Hek, also known as "The Crypto Ponzi Scheme Avenger" on Youtube, Facebook, and other social channels.
[more inside]
"Bringing and arranging sticks is part of their bonding process."
Did you know that a bald eagle makes a sound like a teakettle when it is laying an egg? I know that now, thanks to the Friends of Big Bear Valley (CA) Eagle Cam, going in to its seventh year. More about the eagle nest and the camera. [via]
The Milestone Society
... was formed in 2004 "to identify, record, research, conserve and interpret for public benefit the milestones and other waymarkers of the British Isles". They have a history of milestones on their site, and link to a more detailed one. Last year members found a stolen milestone listed for auction in Welshpool, and got it restored to its site in Derbyshire. [more inside]
Inside a Single-Engine Aircraft
How a Cessna 172 Works A 20-minute animated tour showing the important components of this popular general aviation aircraft, using detailed 3D rendering.
AlmazanKitchen
The YouTube channel of AlmazanKitchen is technically a series of advertisements for its fancy-pants chef's knife. It is also the most intense, voice-free, music-free, 4K food porn you will ever see. Suggested starting points: Pork Belly with Crispy Skin. Carbonara with Handmade Pasta and Dry-Aged Bacon. Cheese and Egg Toast. Carolina Reaper Triple Chili Chicken Wings. Szechuan Pork Noodles.
"Slow blur/roses in the snow"
Black Tape For A Blue Girl: Live at the Middle East, Boston, July 21 1998 (SLYT, except here's a Bandcamp link)
The Second
"In an alternate version of today’s world where dueling is still acceptable, Philip, a man of tradition, must perform the role of “Second” on the day of his only son’s duel." [more inside]
Here's some cute pandas
Giant Pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao play in the snow. The National Zoo in Washington, DC, has a new pair of pandas after returning three pandas at the end of 2023 to China. Bao Li and Qing Bao will be visible to the public beginning January 24, 2025.
The cooking videos of Elaine Luo
Elaine Luo cooks Szechuan Dumplings, Vegan Mapo Tofu, Mala Shrimp, and Steamed Fish with Chil Sauce and you can watch.
The Use of Weird Weapons
The Honey Trap
Browser extension Honey promises to find you the best coupon deals for various goods and services online. But does it really? (Spoiler alert: no.) Apparently they've been doing two things surreptitiously: a) substituting affiliate links with their own, so that they get credit for the sale, and b) making sure that the "best" coupon deal for any given product isn't necessarily the actual best deal, via an agreement with the seller of that product. YouTuber MegaLag has the deets. [YT 23:10] [more inside]
🏛️ Senatus vs. Populusque Romanus ✊🏼
After a series of foreign wars, a dysfunctional republic finds itself wracked by economic inequality, with property and wealth increasingly monopolized by greedy elites. A leading politician, newly elected on a platform of redistribution, social welfare, and political reform, bypasses Senate obstruction with a legislative loophole -- only to find his ambitious agenda blocked by a former ally on behalf of special interests. The leader: Tiberius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs. The year: 133 BC. What happened next would shatter longstanding norms, introduce political violence to the Roman forum, and lay the groundwork for the bloody collapse of the Republic, more than a generation before the birth of Julius Caesar and the rise of the Empire. [So much more inside] [more inside]
7 minutes and 47 seconds of films
5 Second Films's 2024 Year in Review presents every 5-second sketch the internet video comedy stalwart produced this year. [more inside]
The moral of Romeo and Juliet is that they die at the end
In 1985, Folgers Coffee aired "Peter Comes Home For Christmas", a heartwarming ad about bringing family together.
A quarter century later, they aired the remake, "Coming Home" -- a headscratching ad that brought family a little too close together.
GQ's 10th anniversary retrospective [previously] thoroughly explored the ad's background and cultural impact, from "subtle" recuts and parodies to fanart and an entire genre of "Folgerscest" stories. Four years later, voluble and hyperkinetic YouTuber-musician extraordinaire CJ the X went on a sincerely empathetic deep dive into the greatest of these works -- the sweeping romantic tragedy "A Home For All Seasons" -- and what it says about the nature of love, grief, and how the relentless march of time brings bittersweet closure to us all. #buyfolgerstoday
The Winter Solstice at Newgrange
At the prehistoric passage tomb of Newgrange, built around 3200 BCE, the light from the rising sun at the winter solstice shines along the 19m passage to the wall of the tomb, illuminating the triple spiral carvings. There is a livestream of the event from 8.40am on the 21st (I think that's 3.40am Eastern Standard Time and 12.40am PST). Last year's recording is here. [more inside]
Hell is other truss connectors
The Invention that Accidentally Made McMansions. Architecture youtuber Stewart Hicks breaks down how a simple invention you've probably never heard of transformed the American residential landscape.
"Some cold metaphorical literal rain"
'Window' is a new music video by Canadian singer/songwriter Tamara Lindeman's The Weather Station.
WE call information "DATA!"
Youtube channel PeriscopeFilm is a movie archival group that specializes in military subjects, but an anomaly among its collection is "Microcomputers: An Introduction" from 1982, a 17 minute cartoon where farm girl Jennifer positively dances and sings with delight at the prospect of introducing city cousin Jack to the wonders of home computing. They also trap a bank robber remotely in their entirely computer-automated barn.
Pre-internet this was the only way people could get cute cat videos
Mining Accident Theater is a sequence of fan-made tributes to Mystery Science Theater 3000, all available on Youtube. Bogdan, Catherine and Tom are stuck down in a mine, waiting for rescue, and in the meantime they watch old film reels they find in the mine and comment on them. Most are between 8 and 30 minutes. The newest one is the delightful What Is A Cat? (15m). A few others (there are currently 12 in all) are the one full-length movie so far, Italian sci-fi film War of the Robots (1h42m), for the holiday season the sloooow-paced, but short, Legend of Mary (9m), a kinescope of the early anthology series Lights Out entitled The Angry Birds (25m), and Leonard Nimoy Presents Magnavision (13m). [more inside]
Home Alone for the holidays
Patrick Explains HOME ALONE (And Why It's Great). Single link YouTube by Patrick Willems (previously) that's pretty great about a pretty great movie.
UNITED HELLCARE
...organizations are not nameless and faceless. They are groups of people, and people are responsible for decisions... A single link 13 minute overview of United Healthcare from 2023.
youtube repair video of expensive "audiophile" phono preamp blocked
The £25,000 Pre-Amp Repair and the Copyright Strike. UK youtuber Mend It Mark makes interesting electronic repair videos
He recently made a fascinating one about the repair of a £25,000 phono pre-amp which had explanations of its operation gathered from observation and measurements of the circuit:
https://youtu.be/-RJbpFSFziI.
It got taken down with a "copyright claim" so he made a light hearted reply video. [more inside]
Dancing hands?
Daft Hands - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is a classic and well-liked YouTube video from the early days of YouTube in 2007 (previously). But there's also a more experimental followup(?) from 2018 that received a more... mixed... response: Daft Hands 2 - The Daftening (tw skull). Some YouTube comments "beggining of the video: omg finally a sequel after 10 years / finished the video: i'm spooked" and "So glad i turned on post notifications lmao / Edit: Ok never mind I wish I never saw this.". The pinned comment is "2X speed / You’re welcome... |:)"
Murder for Dummies
Murder for Dummies is a 6-part horror-comedy whodunnit series in the form of a true crime mockumentary about the murder of ventriloquist Keith Flapp. Created by comedy troupe Casual Violence. Youtube playlist. Trailer.
People will travel more often and travel longer distances.
How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
I Can't Drive 25
Via the Video Game Weather ASMR YT channel & This Week in Sound: Eight hours with no loops, "driving around the city of Los Santos in a thunderstorm on a lonely night . . . GTAV ASMR. Grand Theft Auto V recorded using an Elgato 4K60 Pro capture card with OBS and edited with Wondershare Filmora 11. Video game weather ambience for ASMR." No other sounds but you, in the car, driving very slowly through a thunderstorm, exploring the city. The streets are empty, nobody's around or awake. It's nighttime.
"Excuse me, I'm trying to do my job!"
"Books. Comedy. Tomfoolery. Miscellaneous other forms of chaos."
Generic Entertainment is the YouTube channel of Nathaniel Beardsley. He's best known for short genre-related comedy videos, like the Two Types series (fantasy worldbuilders, sci-fi worldbuilding, alt-history worldbuilding), making fun of specific fans (Dune fans, Wheel of Time fans, hard SF fans, Lord of the Rings fans) and one offs (If Contemporary Fiction Was Written Like Science Fiction, If Toxic Authors Made Video Essays, If Subatomic Particles Could Talk). But he also does indepth book reviews, such as Small Gods, Left Hand of Darkness, Pattern Recognition and Satyricon. But there are a lot more videos.
Obrigado, Arigato, Tinky-Winky Terminator, Duolingo on acid [trumpets]
[CW: LB's attitude to Cultural Appropriation is "All of them"] Kurwa is the new song and video by Little Big, now recording as a duo. Previously: Tacos, Skibidi, Big Dick, Go Bananas. A BBC Newsnight interview on why they left Russia and are now living in Los Angeles.
Outpost In Space 1959
Who's that looking through my window?
Who's that standing on my lawn?
Who's that fellow with the LCD eyes?
A 12-foot Home Depot Skeleton!
(A song from Louie Zong and Kitsch Club.) [more inside]
Who's that fellow with the LCD eyes?
A 12-foot Home Depot Skeleton!
(A song from Louie Zong and Kitsch Club.) [more inside]
There's a first time for everything
First time my baby hears Clair de Lune
- violin
- viola
- guitar
- drums
- fiddle
- Moonlight Sonata
- Hans Zimmer
- Pavarotti
- headphones
- reggaeton
- Johnny Cash
- harp and violin
- a storybook
- opera singing
- string quartet
- Backstreet Boys
- Elvis
- Beat It
- Guns N' Roses
- the bassoon
- the paper towel dispenser
- bubble wrap
It's time to learn Geography (𝗡𝗢𝗪)
On October 15th, 2014, budding Korean-American YouTuber Paul "Barbs" Barbato uploaded a 6-minute guide to the country of Afghanistan. A longtime geography geek disappointed by the lack of country-by-country educational content on the platform, his Geography Now! series set the ambitious goal of making one in-depth episode for all 193 UN-recognized sovereign nations. Following a basic four-part structure (Physical and Political Geography, Demographics, and "The Friendzone" for foreign relations), these initially amateurish episodes slowly expanded in size and scope over time, incorporating motion graphics, increasingly absurd vexillological running gags, myriad side topics, faux-country April Fools, fan content from "Geograpeeps", special correspondents and history skits from eclectic friends from around the world, and even on-location specials in select countries -- deep dives into culture whose breezy humor revealed a deep love for the world and all the people in it. Now, ten years after it started, Barbs has released the final episode in the series: Zimbabwe. While he's implied the channel may evolve into a travel-focused one (perhaps modeled on his moving "Letter to..." series of travelogues), for now you can check out the completed A-Z playlist on YouTube to experience the impressive journey for yourself.
VFX Artists Expose AI Scams
Visual Effects channel the Corridor Crew (previously) look at AI scams and how to identify them (25 minutes)
Analog horror for the web
FAKE DOCUMENTARY Q is a subtle, slow-burn psychological horror mockumentary series from Japan, consisting of a series of 22 standalone episodes "sourced" from old VHS tapes, security camera footage, answering machine messages, and more, all forming a loosely-linked narrative which can be watched in any order: CURSED VIDEO - BASEMENT - THE PORTRAIT - INFERNO - NO FICTION - THE VISIT - SANCTUARY - STRANGE MESSAGES - HOUSE OF MIRRORS - EXORCISM - HIDDEN LINK - LAST COUNTDOWN - PASSENGERS - WHAT THE DECEASED LEFT BEHIND - FLOWER OFFERING - OBSCURE - PLAN C - BIVOUAC - TAKE100 - MINDSEEKER - MOTHER - LIVESTREAM. English subtitles are available for all entries. More: Fake Documentary Q: Gateway into Modern Japanese Horror
"This year tried to kill us, baby"
'Buffalo' is a new music video by Hurray for the Riff Raff (SLYT).
In a Beautiful World, We Are Melting
Fresh off their 2022 debut album A Light for Attracting Attention and recorded in the same sessions as this February's sophomore record Wall of Eyes, prolific Radiohead side project (and increasingly main project) The Smile has published their third album, Cutouts, for free on YouTube. Accompanied by a number of deliriously trippy glitchwave videos, the band's intricate, evocative blend of lush Vangelis-like soundscapes, knotty retro-electronica and languid orchestral beauty continue to impress: "Cutouts feels a little like the cheeky younger sister of Wall of Eyes. The arrangements on that second album skewed traditional; more sombre and vulnerable in tone. Here, there’s a newfound vibrancy perhaps taking cues from [drummer Tom] Skinner’s jazz background. It’s extraordinary really, that two albums were born out of the same sessions. [...] When The Smile are as good as this, there’s no real reason to gripe about a Radiohead return." [more inside]
Walking with Scout and Tim Walz
Matt from "weratedogs" ambles through an off-leash park in Minnesota with VP candidate TIm Walz and his rescue dog Scout in another celebrity dog-walking interview. Hard-hitting questions about some of Scout's past scandals are answered! (No politics as such, if you're wary.)