Video

31 Jan 2018

College males admit to regularly getting stoked.

Getting stoked occasionally can be healthy, panelists say on In the Know With Clifford Barnes, but apparently there's a pandemic going on.

31 Jan 2018

A paradoxical-ass piece of vocabulary.

A Finnish comedian, visiting the Conan O'Brien show, makes the compelling argument that "ass" is one of the more difficult pieces of English to master (bump the video to around 1:50). Linguists of strong language agree: A search for ass on GDoS currently yields 137

29 Jan 2018

How to make B movies about tough gents.

An entertaining glimpse from Little Atoms into what it takes to produce the straight-to-DVD, low-budget gangster films that constitute Britain's "hard-man" movie scene (as exemplified in the trailer above for Bonded by Blood 2). Most of the films follow a predictable pattern.

26 Jan 2018

Still Life

So much to suck in the eyes here, but especially the shifting light and shadows in "Often I Look at Them."

25 Jan 2018

What's inside a metal stuff sack.

The US military used to store down sleeping bags in waterproof sardine tins for use in emergency situations. From Popular Mechanics: The M1949, also known as “Sleeping Bag, Mountain, M1949” is well known in collector circles. Introduced in 1949, the M1949 is what we would today call a “mummy bag.

24 Jan 2018

Fractal rock

Lovely work by Hugo & Marie using eye-popping fractals and other shapes.

23 Jan 2018

Transcription of a singing Bird.

Amazing to watch YouTube's frame rate try to keep up with the improvisations of the great Charlie Parker, bebop master on the alto saxophone. (This author will admit he tried and failed to work the lick at 0:59 into every high school jazz solo he ever performed.