Free 'How-To' Tutorial Videos
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MonkeySee provides free access to a large collection of professionally-produced and user-generated how-to videos. Some of the more interesting tutorials include How To Apply Heath Ledger Joker Makeup, How to Tell if Your Food Has Gone Bad, How to Build a Terrarium, How To Tell If Someone is Lying To Me and How to Get Out of a Speeding Ticket.
posted by Effigy2000 (16 comments total) 15 users marked this as a favorite
 
I better not watch the how to get out of a speeding ticket one. I might jinx my natural vibe, which has gotten me off more times than I can even count. And I'm not even especially large-chested (for a man).

I like that one category is "Science & Rockets" although there aren't any rocket videos, so....
posted by DU at 6:48 PM on October 27, 2008


Love this! I will be absorbed for awhile.
posted by bjgeiger at 6:52 PM on October 27, 2008


How to Select a Sexy Halloween Costume is a post-feminist nightmare.
posted by squalor at 7:03 PM on October 27, 2008


How to Select a Sexy Halloween Costume is a post-feminist nightmare.

... that's just breathlessly bursting at the seams with plump, firm cross-marketing and product placement.

What?

This ain't no instructables (and in some ways, that's good).
posted by 5MeoCMP at 7:06 PM on October 27, 2008


There's a pole. And music. I don't think any of the other how-tos feature music. Or poles.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 7:11 PM on October 27, 2008


In this one about meditation, the dude near the end seems to be repeating

"bastard!"
"bastard!"
"bastard!"

as his focus.
posted by 5MeoCMP at 7:13 PM on October 27, 2008


How to tell if your food has gone bad.

Sticky in AskMe?
posted by Science! at 7:33 PM on October 27, 2008 [1 favorite]


How to Select a Sexy Halloween Costume is a post-feminist nightmare.

Yes, god forbid hot chicks should be allowed out on Halloween wearing costumes. Of all the nerve.
posted by Zambrano at 7:47 PM on October 27, 2008


Other free 'how-to' video sites:
  • WonderHowTo
  • Howcast
  • VideoJug
  • 5min
  • ViewDo
  • 5min
  • Graspr
  • Expert Village
  • TeacherTube

  • posted by twoleftfeet at 8:43 PM on October 27, 2008 [3 favorites]


    No corpse disposal how-to videos?
    posted by UbuRoivas at 8:56 PM on October 27, 2008


    UbuRoivas: ha, ha, that was covered in an infamous askmefi post (and answer), which I am guessing you're thinking of?
    posted by uni verse at 10:25 PM on October 27, 2008


    exactly, uni verse.

    i'm guessing that Effigy2000 got the inspiration for this post from the same article i saw, which was doing the rounds of the press websites down under:

    We're all plagued by the eternal questions of life. What is the point of it all? Is there such a thing as true love? And, perhaps most importantly, how on earth can I stop my risotto from becoming gluggy?

    i scanned it for any mention of AskMe, but found nothing, because it was about video sites.

    that got me thinking...why not a MeFi project to transform important AskMes into how-to videos? and corpse disposal would have to be right up there at the top of the list.
    posted by UbuRoivas at 10:58 PM on October 27, 2008 [1 favorite]


    the dude near the end seems to be repeating

    "bastard!"
    "bastard!"
    "bastard!"


    It sounded to me like he was chanting 'die nigger die!' I've sent mefimail to our video websites mod, flapjax at midnite, for a definitive ruling.
    posted by PeterMcDermott at 2:18 AM on October 28, 2008 [1 favorite]


    How to Select a Sexy Halloween Costume is a post-feminist nightmare.

    Double.
    posted by rokusan at 2:56 AM on October 28, 2008 [1 favorite]


    In the future, all content will be video.

    The Heath Ledger makeup routine was not as impressive as I had hoped. It was more like "zombie who thought a tube of lipstick was a severed finger and couldn't quite figure out how to get it into her mouth." (How did they get that craggy, wrinkle-emphasizing look on Ledger?) And, gracious, if I could do without yet another "sexy" costume setup. I liked costumes better when people made them and you could get a feel for their creativity. Maybe they were scary, or fanciful, but now it's just "dress like a tart" day.

    Wait, hold on ... perverse justification circuits warming up: post-feminists should embrace the construction of "sexy" costumes (deconstructed from "safe" outfits accessories), as they allow liberated women to not only show that they have a deeply sexual nature, but that they might also express it according to their own individuality; a woman with her own desires and preferences is inherently threatening to the suppressive forces which sought to restrain a woman's costume choices to Alice in Wonderland or a nun. This Halloween, the scariest thing for the patriarchy is a woman who is confident in her desires and is unafraid to show her body! Women's sexuality isn't just something that goes bump in the night. Let's make sure that Halloween is every day. Thank you, postmodernism!
    posted by adipocere at 3:54 AM on October 28, 2008 [1 favorite]


    I liked costumes better when people made them and you could get a feel for their creativity.

    Yes! Anyone can wear some skimpy nylon pre-packaged costume. Making something out of glue and wire and cardboard, that's the fun of it.

    Friends of mine had a British Institutions party. One of my friends went as "In The Closet", which involved a suit on his top half, suspenders and stockings on his bottom half, and a cupboard that he wore around him, partying from within it. Lining the inside walls of the cupboard was hardcore gay porn. It was brilliant.

    One drawback was that he was unable to move his arms outside the cupboard, so when very drunk I realised this and thought it would be funny to push him over because he couldn't stop himself falling. Gosh, I'm a dick sometimes.
    posted by alasdair at 9:35 AM on October 28, 2008


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