8 posts tagged “video”
Slick time-lapse video of traffic flow in the Vietnamese capital city:
This reminds me of the time I went back to visit Metro Manila with my family in 1999. Nighttime traffic flow was much like this, except with twice as many jeepneys and four times the number of cars (daytime traffic, however, looked like this, basically a massive multiplayer game of Filipino Frogger). The first couple of nights left me terrified that we were going to be in some sort of horrible accident -- I think the traffic lights and lane markers were more of an afterthought than anything else -- but we emerged unscathed and breathless through every intersection and lane change.
The secret, it turned out, was to have an extremely heightened sense of awareness of all the other vehicles around you, to take the right of way as needed, but yield accordingly. The result was a pleasant and harmonious experience of flowing, like a current of water. Unsurprisingly, that realization made for much more exhilirating subsequent rides, all without incident.
Somehow I don't think this would work here in the States.
Fully Flared is a skateboarding video featuring pro skaters dodging carefully-planted explosions in super slow-motion. Spike Jonze directed the introduction. From Wikipedia: "According to Brandon Biebel, the most dangerous part of the introduction was Mike Mo Capaldi's 'Switch Napalm Flip', which was followed by a staircase being blown up with napalm."
Stuff blowing up in slow-mo is damn cool.
In other news, I'll be posting sporadically over the summer as I'm taking classes for the next eight weeks -- priorities and all that. I've admittedly lost the rhythm of posting entries (this is the first one in over a month), but hopefully I'll get back into it as my schedule permits. I'll also try to catch up on my neighborhood posts, so expect me in your comments section in the next few days.
Very close to the end of the semester now, so I'm afraid Vox will have to take a back seat once more as I get my ass kicked by final exams. Be back soon. If I survive.
In the meantime, enjoy this nice little clip, featuring a father and son from Amsterdam creating some calligraphic art side-by-side. From the notes: "Spontaneous jam sessions in our studio inspired us to make this film about the fun drawing letters." It does look like fun, doesn't it?
The last bit is the best. So damn funny [NSFW for language]. Happy Saturday.
Ah, rabbits. Here's a great video [Flash] from the Australian band TISM (This Is Serious Mum) called "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me." While the depressing title might sound like one that Dashboard Confessional would come up with, the song itself is pure unabashed pop rock: funny, upbeat and catchy as hell. The video, although simply animated with few colors, is creative and really well-done (especially with regard to facial expression and body language) and quite different from the usual crap being broadcast on your mainstream music television channels. A summary:
The video was chosen from a multitude of entrants in a competition. The winning entrant was a cartoon [by Bernard Derriman] featuring two rabbits, one a depressed singer and the other a masked keyboardist ... The number on each bunny's chest indicates the number of times it has had sex. The main bunny, commonly known as "The Sex Bunny" in Internet circles, has the number "1". Other bunnies of various ages and appearances are shown, some with surprisingly high numbers (in one version of the video, a jaded-looking male rabbit with a handlebar mustache claims an impressive 10,419). Despite the singer's lament, one bunny is shown who has had even less sex: the masked keyboardist, with a number of "0". [from Wikipedia]
Which got me to thinking a little. How differently would we treat each other if we had our own "numbers" prominently displayed on our chests (or floating above our heads)?
I haven't posted any video of my daughter for a while, so here's a new one. Sorry it's so dark! Hopefully you can see.
Veronica engages in a four-and-a-half-minute battle of truly epic proportions as she attempts to answer one of life's most important questions.
Lately I've been really craving some good sushi. Unfortunately for me, none of it can reliably be found close by (I sorely miss the easy accessibility of multitudes of Japanese restaurants in Southern California and Seattle). Kaiten-zushi, however, was always a favorite dining experience of mine; you couldn't beat the convenience and fun (not to mention the relatively low cost) of watching your favorite pieces of sushi or sashimi slide by enticingly on a conveyor belt, ready to be devoured. I spent many a memorable evening side by side with good friends, eyeing colored saucers of sushi as they approached, our mouths watering -- and hoping nobody further up the line grabbed a particular plate before it got a chance to make it down to us!
Click the play button. Then drag your mouse left and right on the video screen to pan across the 360° view.
(Filmed probably just a few blocks from the Immersive video.) Ahhh, that takes me back. Matter of fact, look for more music-related posts sometime in the near future, probably lamenting the demise of the artform that I grew up on.
