I Am is a video by Steven Nicholas Smith, where random people in Philadelphia are asked to complete this sentence: “I am _____.” As you can expect, he interacts with a ton of people, and gets a ton of varied responses to the prompt. In a few instances, Smith explores individual stories a little deeper……
This is a captivating video of a talk by Dan Pink on what motivates our work. The pacing and myriad of examples he presents is really fascinating, and pretty eye-opening. Money, it turns out, isn’t as much of a motivator as we thought. This is a great video, and absolutely worth the ten minutes it’ll…
This is an awesome video slideshow that captures Ben and Allison’s honeymoon in Iceland. This was somewhere Allison had visited before, but the first time for Ben. Shutterbugs that they are, they both took a ton of great photographs. Allison and I traveled counter-clockwise around the island on the ring road, starting in Reykjavík on…
This is a fascinating 10-minute documentary on just how prevalent product placement is, within popular Hollywood movies. Right off the bat, there are some staggering numbers: Pampers paid $50,000 to appear in Three Men and a Baby, and Exxon paid $300,000 to appear in Days of Thunder. There is some interesting commentary on how movie…
Web 3.0 is a short documentary on the semantic web, by Kate Ray. I don’t recognize a lot of names of folks who were interviewed, by Clay Shirky’s stands out. Lots of interesting points and points of view here. Overall, it’s about 15 minutes long. Context and relationships are two very interesting terms to banddy…
Heeey, nice lady. With the food and the mmmmm… glavin. [via Cute Overload]
This is an impressive and hysterical compilation of video clips, all featuring the phrase “Get out of there!” I’m amazed at how long this clip is, and awed by how much time it must have taken to stitch all these segments together, from all the different movies listed. [via MetaFilter]
This is Charo, performing Malagueña on the guitar. From her Wikipedia entry comes this interesting tidbit: “One of Charo’s regrets is that because of her flamboyant stage presence, she has been overlooked as a serious guitar player.” I had no idea – color me impressed. More guitar videeos over at the original MetaFilter thread.
Thanks to Juliet, for sending in this great documentary short about tailor Martin Greenfield. Made by Galen Summer, it’s an intimate look at Greenfield’s career, the surprising arc of his life from childhood until now, and his view on both clothing and people. Greenfield strikes me as the kind of guy you want to hang…
I saw one or two of the Hitler “Downfall” parodies a long while ago, had a few chuckles, and sort of forgot about them. The scene centers around the specific moment when Hitler realizes that the war is truly lost, and his progression from disbelief, rage and, ultimately, defeat. The audio is in German, but…
To celebrate my return to broadband Internet, how about some videos? Enough with all these text posts… let’s have a bit of multimedia, shall wel? Pixels, by Patrick Jean and OneMoreProduction. [via BoingBoing, MetaFilter and Juliet]
A while ago, there was an Internet meme centered around the question: How many 5 year olds could you take in a fight? In a similar vein, this is a video clip of a professional soccer team, taking on a team of 100 school kids. Hilarious! Japan, you are a magical country. FYI – lots…
So it’s a YouTube kind of day, but this had me cracking up. [via Twelvestone]
Vimeo has posted their 25 Favorite Videos of 2009. I’m slowly going through them, and really enjoying the quality of both the videos and the stories within each. So far, my favorite has been the music video for “Luv Deluxe,” by Cinnamon Chasers. Interesting sidenote: one of the videos to make the list was something…
Wow! Just learned there’s a new Terry Gilliam movie coming out! It’s called The Imagniarium of Doctor Parnassus. You may know Gilliam from some of his earlier films (Time Bandits, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) or possibly his even earlier involvement with Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I remember Time Bandits as…