MetaFilter posts tagged with video

DOES WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN

boo_radley — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:38:55 -0800

two youtube videos and a motherfucking crossfader

A female milk man? That's rich.

Afroblanco — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:31:31 -0800

If there's one thing that MeFites are absolutely universal in loving, it's the TV show Mad Men. Right? Right? Well, here's something that even the haters will enjoy : Milk Men - A Mad Men Parody

It's what it says on the tin.

flatluigi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:40:24 -0800

People Doing Stuff. Strangely compelling.

Dawn French interviews Russell Brand

mhjb — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:48:43 -0800

Russell Brand talks to Dawn French about comedy, revealing a peculiar and compelling intelligence apparently gleaned from TV and substance abuse. Part 1, 2, 3, 4 [YT]

It Was a Monster Math!

Christ, what an asshole — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:07:03 -0800

We all wish we had a teacher like this

Never give any important decision to a public radio host

l33tpolicywonk — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:29:19 -0800

Put This On is a new video series and blog by MeFi's Jesse Thorn (youngamerican) and Adam Lisagor (Twitter's lonelysandwich) on men's style, with the style-unconscious but pragmatic beginner in mind. [via mefi projects] In an interview for the Amateur Science podcast, Jesse describes his style methodology as not just about neckties: "fashion has to do with how well you fit into your social circle ... style for men is a lot richer and more sophisticated and it's something that's a skill that you can develop over the course of your life." The blog has so far highlighed all sorts of sweaters, cool E-Bay finds and sharp dressers. Episode 1 is on denim. Jesse visits Rising Sun and Co in Pasadena to pay respect to a $500 hand-crafted pair of jeans, Adam wears a jumpsuit from which to dispense tips on matching your shoes to your belt and everybody wears nice duds.

Battle for Milkquarious

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:46:45 -0800

Battle for Milkquarious - The greatest Rock Opera ever made. About milk. [Flash, dairy advertising] From the California Milk Processor Board. There is also a director's commentary.

We are all connected

bwg — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:01:04 -0800

Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye, sing to us (auto-tuned in a way that I actually don't hate), in We Are All Connected*. *Possibly NSFW owing to sidebar video links. Something similar was mentioned here previously.

"Everything is pessimistic. Your grandma stocks up on washing-up liquid in case there’s another Holocaust."

sleepcrime — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:48:28 -0800

Marc Isaacs is a British documentary maker with a talent for making poignant, revealing films about people. You can watch his new film Men In The City ‒ an affecting and beautifully shot profile of four very different London workers ‒ on the iPlayer, following its broadcast on the BBC yesterday. You also shouldn't miss his BAFTA-nominated short film Lift, filmed entirely from within an elevator inside a block of flats, and All White In Barking, a study from an English town with high immigration and strong BNP support ( pertinently ). Another interview with Marc.

Before hippies, even.

mikesch — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:57:26 -0800

Jeff Altman took some of his grandfather's 16mm Kodachrome home movies and made some really nice HD transfers out of them: San Francisco circa 1958, Disneyland in 1956 (part 2).

Every party should be a windows 7 party

Artw — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:13:01 -0800

Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party (Previously)

Just Do It, Flailing

Toekneesan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:25:12 -0800

A bunch of people, sort of running, in slow motion

Fans of Spinal Tap, take note.

albrecht — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:25:20 -0800

Fans of U2 have probably already seen concert footage from their current tour of the giant elliptical LED screen that morphs into a 7-story high cone-shaped structure, enveloping the band as it extends. But what you may not know is that it was designed (in collaboration with Barco) by Chuck Hoberman, inventor of the Hoberman Sphere. According to the press release [pdf], the display is made of 888 hexagonal LED screens, with a total of 500,000 pixels encompassing an area of 3,800 square feet. Video about the making of the transformable LED screen here. Other designs by Hoberman: -Expanding Hypar at the California Museum of Science and Industry -The Hoberman Arch, from the medals ceremony at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. -Brain Twist, a tetrahedral puzzle similar to a Rubik's cube.

SWEDEMASON

flatluigi — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:35:03 -0800

The Works of Swede Mason: "Jeremy Clarkson," "Get in the Back of the Van," "Jungle All The Way," "Bill Wyman's Metal Detector," "Put the Lotion in the Basket, *" "Got The Sucka," "The Gobshite, *" "Squashed Thingy," "Spare Me The Madness," and the pair of tracks based on Neighbors deaths "Coffee And Croissants" and "Todd....Dead." note: starred tracks have NSFW audio. mp3 downloads can be found here.

Alfred Hitchcock on The Tomorrow Show

dhammond — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:34:50 -0800

"Long thought to be lost or destroyed, this complete recording of one of the few hour long interviews of Alfred Hitchcock has been found." From the description on the YouTube page:

Originally broadcast as one of the first Tomorrow Shows with Tom Snyder in the Fall of 1973. This recording appears to be from a second repeat of this show broadcast on Memorial day, 1980. The VHS (SP) tape itself was found to be in excellent condition. While properly stored in a climate controlled environment it apparrently had not been played in decades. Great care has been taken to make the digital transfer.

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

"I don't think it's nice to have diversity anywhere, myself."

afx237vi — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:43:42 -0800

BNP Wives. A 46 minute documentary following three female members of the far-right British National Party.

Fracture/Frame

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:11:20 -0800

Split Screen is a blog about      |   From Edwin S. Porter's Life of an American Fireman
the eponymous film technique    |   to Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls to Michel Gondry's
and its alternatives, with many   |   Sugar Water (the BEST EVER, imo), split screens have
surprising, intriguing examples.  |   encouraged alternate and ideally unlimited perspecitves.

Brittle Bullet

Rinku — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:58:10 -0800

1,000,000FPS video of bullet impacts. Stay tuned for the glass, ballistics gel, and bullets impacting each other in the air. Warning: unnecessary techno music. More compilation videos of slow motion impacts on mattrece's channel; videos of individual impacts with technical details can be found on the creator's site.

Shiny, Shiny Ballet on Czechoslovak TV

The Devil Tesla — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:35:40 -0800

It’s the 70s, you’re Czech, sassy, and your future is bright. Disco ballet via coilhouse. (previously)

Mind Body Spirit Place

netbros — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:34:39 -0800

Appalachia Ohio is home to an eclectic mix of individuals united by a common sense of place. Through photography, video, audio, text and interactive graphics, Soul of Athens reveals the spirit of this unique community. Produced by students at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication. (2008, 2007)

"I knew there was an element of danger, but the job had to be done."

Monsters — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:26:44 -0800

Inside Chernobyl Sarcophagus (1996). Deep inside the sarcophagus, a remarkable group of Soviet physicists is at work in levels of radiation that would be considered almost suicidal in the West. In 1991, a joint team from WGBH and the BBC went to Pripyat, Ukraine to interview the scientists working in the wreckage of Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A BBC team went back in 1996 to follow up with the scientists. This documentary is the result, updating the 1991 footage with ten minutes of new material. The film shows nuclear scientists Viktor Popov, Konstantin Checherov, Alexander Borovoi and Edvard Pazukhin in 1991 and 1996, as they attempt to manage the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident while battling fierce levels of radiation, 'Chernobyl heart,' and "an invincible bureaucracy." The 1991 footage seems to be the same footage that aired in the USA as "Suicide Mission to Chernobyl", for which PBS received an Emmy Award in 1992. Previously on Chernobylfilter: Chernobyl Today: A Creepy Story Told in Pictures. Radioactive Fungi. Chernobyl, 20 years later. Surviving Chernobyl.

CGI-brows short mockumentary

planetkyoto — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:04:40 -0800

CGI-brows (link goes to video on Vimeo which contains a naughty word but is otherwise SFW.) A short mockumentary about extreme emoting through SFX by RocketSausage (Dir. Andrew Gaynord) which has won the Virgin Media Shorts People's Choice Award for 2009.

Ce soir sera une bonne soirée!

Rhaomi — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:56:54 -0800

On September 10th, to celebrate their initiation week, 172 communications students at the University of Quebec at Montreal decided to put on a show. After weeks of preparation, the costumed and prop-wielding crowd enacted an exuberant, complex, and flawlessly-choreographed performance of the Black Eyed Peas song "I Gotta Feeling" that sprawled through the campus's multi-story Judith Jasmin Pavilion... and they did it all in one continuous take (on their second try). The feat is just the most recent example of "lipdubbing" -- a video phenomenon where a single camera moves through a crowd of highly coordinated lip-syncers in a single seamless take, with the original recording dubbed over the finished product. Though the basic concept was pioneered by viral videos like the Numa Numa Dance and OK Go's "Here It Goes Again", the current model for lipdubbing was conceived by Vimeo founder Jakob Lodwick, who coined the term after dubbing a recording of himself singing "Endless Dream" by Apes & Androids. According to technical writer and blogger Tom Johnson's analysis of the video, the best lipdubs appear "spontaneous, authentic, participatory, and fun." Lodwick's video was followed up by a Vimeo business partner's staff doing their rendition of Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta" (previously). The technique soon exploded in popularity -- everything from web magazines to TV studios to hospitals got into the act. But perhaps no group took to lipdubbing better than universities. Following the lead of The University Lipdub Project (original video), colleges from multiple nations adopted lipdubbing as a way to showcase their campus life and school spirit:

School, Nation - Video info - Song Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Rouen, France - 140 people - "Thriller" by Michael Jackson HEC Paris, France - 120 people - "Lollipop" by Mika l'Université de Poitiers, France - 56 people - "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" by the Scissor Sisters Mines de Saint Etienne, France - "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" by the Scissor Sisters IUT Belfort/Montbéliard, France - 353 people (a world record) - "La Confession de Monsieur Connard" by Les Tock'art HEC Montréal, Canada - 150 people - "Mamma Mia" by Abba Institut Notre Dame de la Providence, France - "Toi + Moi" by Grégoire Ecole Polytechnique, France - "Love Is All" by Roger Glover Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany - "LMU" (original song) IHECS, Belgium - 100+ people - "Banana Split" HEC Montréal, Canada - 172 people - "Summer of '69" by Bryan Adams European Business School, Germany - "Tell It to My Heart" by Dyane Taylor, "I Get Around" by the Beach Boys ESC Dijon, France - 95 people - "Working Together" by Gonzales Essec Business School, France - 200 people - "Let's Get It Started" by the Black Eyed Peas Emlyon Business School, France - 300 people - "Pop the Music" by Triim, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by Buggles ENSIC, France - 85 people - "Hot N Cold" by Kate Perry Campo Limpo Paulista College, Brazil - 56 people - "Ultramen" by Santo Forte

Bonus one-shot goodness:

Children of Men's climactic 6-minute one-shot scene (spoilers) Honda's "The Cog" (previ-ously) The Way Things Go (previously) Bike Hero (previously) Slydini's Newspaper (previously)

Go Deep

juv3nal — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:57:19 -0800

The Deepening. A nsfw video choose your own undercover cop adventure with bad fake moustaches. (via RPS)

UGO

Matthias Rascher — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:26:34 -0800

UGO. The latest project by MIND and Jeff K-ray.