Bill Bailey on the difference between major and minor musical keys. He's a brilliant comedian and I'd love to see him live. I always enjoy seeing this clip.
This is funny! It's only about a 5 minute video. And, IMHO, a very appropriate thing to do to him.
I'm not going to bother talking about the nominees. There was a point in time where I had a minimal interest in that, but not anymore. Most of the Best Picture nominees never show at my local theater, and my theatrical movie watching has really declined over recent years.
The thing that I find interesting is that in two years, we'll have the last broadcast on broadcast television. It is estimated that ABC/Disney paid over $100,000,000 for last years broadcast, and were looking for lower fees as viewer numbers have been declining. With the broadcast going streaming, there's no time limit: as the article says, the broadcast could be six hours long with Mr. Beast hosting.
It will be mildly interesting to see what kind of viewership numbers YouTube/Google can pull. Most people with streaming can pull it up on the same TV with which they watched it on ABC, but now they can easily view it in more countries than ABC/Disney was able to reach. And people can probably watch it more easily on devices while at work.
But I still don't really care.
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/oscars-youtube-2029-1236610989/
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/17/210247/the-oscars-will-abandon-broadcast-tv-for-youtube-in-2029
The thing that I find interesting is that in two years, we'll have the last broadcast on broadcast television. It is estimated that ABC/Disney paid over $100,000,000 for last years broadcast, and were looking for lower fees as viewer numbers have been declining. With the broadcast going streaming, there's no time limit: as the article says, the broadcast could be six hours long with Mr. Beast hosting.
It will be mildly interesting to see what kind of viewership numbers YouTube/Google can pull. Most people with streaming can pull it up on the same TV with which they watched it on ABC, but now they can easily view it in more countries than ABC/Disney was able to reach. And people can probably watch it more easily on devices while at work.
But I still don't really care.
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/oscars-youtube-2029-1236610989/
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/17/210247/the-oscars-will-abandon-broadcast-tv-for-youtube-in-2029
A bit of fun!
Nov. 10th, 2024 10:45 pmThe Danish National Symphony performing the theme to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly!
He rigged the plane with cameras, wore a parachute and had a selfie stick with a video camera attached. 35 minutes into a flight, he shut off the engine and bailed. The plane went down as he parachuted down. He then hiked to the crash and retrieved the footage from the cameras, which were probably GoPros or something similar.
He then contacted the FAA reporting the crash as an engine failure and they launched an investigation, as they are responsible for investigating all crashes. And this is why he's going to prison for six months. He and a buddy went back to the crash site, retrieved the plane, took it back to an airport hanger and cut it up and disposed of it.
All for clicks to promote a sponsor's crypto wallet or some sort of garbage.
Six years would have taught him a much more valuable lesson.
Basically he was convicted of lying to federal investigators and impeding a federal investigation.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-pilot-crashed-plane-youtube-201728505.html
He then contacted the FAA reporting the crash as an engine failure and they launched an investigation, as they are responsible for investigating all crashes. And this is why he's going to prison for six months. He and a buddy went back to the crash site, retrieved the plane, took it back to an airport hanger and cut it up and disposed of it.
All for clicks to promote a sponsor's crypto wallet or some sort of garbage.
Six years would have taught him a much more valuable lesson.
Basically he was convicted of lying to federal investigators and impeding a federal investigation.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-pilot-crashed-plane-youtube-201728505.html
A sword-fighting dog!
Apr. 4th, 2023 11:20 amThis is so amazing! My eyes are still wet from laughing! My thanks to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
motodraconis for posting this.
motodraconis for posting this.Mainly because I was cleaning out some old browser tabs and found a new one to Trans-Siberian Orchestra that was awesome!
First off, blamejames_davis_nicoll for starting it, as he provided this first video.
I loved it! Now, before doing the second fire truck light show, you need to see the real TSO video to Wizards In Winter.
And now, the firetruck version!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog reading.
First off, blame
james_davis_nicoll for starting it, as he provided this first video.I loved it! Now, before doing the second fire truck light show, you need to see the real TSO video to Wizards In Winter.
And now, the firetruck version!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog reading.
Boss Bitch Fight Challenge(s)
Jun. 2nd, 2020 10:32 pmCan't remember if I posted this, I know I didn't post the others that I've found since I just found them tonight!
This is the first one that I saw, from the Brits, they have a stunt fighter registry and figured out how to choreograph a fight sequence while home isolating.
Boss bitch fight challenge: women actors and stunt fighters. This isn't the original that I saw, but it's the same footage with subtitles identifying who the actor is.
An Italian boss bitch fight. This one is nice because there's some prop continuity between the cut scenes.
Broadway Women:
The German women get in on the action:
This one is a departure from the Boss Bitch Fight, it's a South African stunt fighter series, and I'm disappointed in that it has a bare knife and a gunshot with animated blood. Takes away some of the fun IMO. But there's a great faux Matrix scene.
Ring of Steel fight reel. They do fight demos at conventions and renaissance festivals.
This is an AWESOME fight reel of martial artists! I assume some of these people may be stunt people or coordinators.
And the last one, which is also the last one that I could easily find, is quite something! I think it's made by people who are super in to cosplay, the ones who when they do, for example, a Japanese fighting character, they learn the fighting style behind the character and can do the moves. And they do the moves! Very well done video.
This is the first one that I saw, from the Brits, they have a stunt fighter registry and figured out how to choreograph a fight sequence while home isolating.
Boss bitch fight challenge: women actors and stunt fighters. This isn't the original that I saw, but it's the same footage with subtitles identifying who the actor is.
An Italian boss bitch fight. This one is nice because there's some prop continuity between the cut scenes.
Broadway Women:
The German women get in on the action:
This one is a departure from the Boss Bitch Fight, it's a South African stunt fighter series, and I'm disappointed in that it has a bare knife and a gunshot with animated blood. Takes away some of the fun IMO. But there's a great faux Matrix scene.
Ring of Steel fight reel. They do fight demos at conventions and renaissance festivals.
This is an AWESOME fight reel of martial artists! I assume some of these people may be stunt people or coordinators.
And the last one, which is also the last one that I could easily find, is quite something! I think it's made by people who are super in to cosplay, the ones who when they do, for example, a Japanese fighting character, they learn the fighting style behind the character and can do the moves. And they do the moves! Very well done video.
This is absolutely nuts! And hillarious!
Jun. 1st, 2020 03:31 pmTake the lyrics to Michael Jackson's Thriller, translate them to several different languages progressively, then back to English. Like English -> French -> German -> Spanish -> Lithuanian -> Swahili -> Irish -> Mongolian -> Scots Gaelic -> English, then perform them like karaoke.
It's a wild trip.
And she does this weekly.
I think I've found a possible new way to entertain people in Lord of the Rings Online....
It's a wild trip.
And she does this weekly.
I think I've found a possible new way to entertain people in Lord of the Rings Online....
A squirrel obstacle source
May. 31st, 2020 12:14 pmjames_davis_nicoll recently found an intact squirrel corpse, and the question was posited whether or not not squirrels could fall to their deaths.I recently watched a video putting squirrels through an obstacle training course - yes, really - which included a catapult if they stayed on a platform too long. And according to this video: no, they cannot. They don't have enough mass to hit a terminal velocity is the most important aspect, and their fur is an automatic speed brake. They fluff out their tails to act as a drag parachute, they turn their eyes to lock on to where they want to land and maintain that orienting lock, then they move their arms and legs in and out to control their rotation and orientation. At the last possible moment, they extent their legs to act as shock absorbers when they land, then they scamper off.
Presumably the guy who invented the obstacle course - who is an engineer who worked for NASA and invented the package thief glitter/stink bomb/GPS tracker - did some serious research on the subject. And since it appears on the internet - in a video, no less! - it must be true.
On to the video, which is quite an amazing way to spend 22 minutes of your life.
We'll lead off with a Bohemian Rhapsody parody:
Followed with a very clever Spoonful of Sugar parody by a very charming Julie Andrews impersonator:
Our houseguest, Dave, found this on Facebook.
And finally, another brilliant Spoonful parody, only this one by Randy Rainbow, called A Spoonful of Clorox:
I found Randy's video from this HPuffPo link.
Followed with a very clever Spoonful of Sugar parody by a very charming Julie Andrews impersonator:
Our houseguest, Dave, found this on Facebook.
And finally, another brilliant Spoonful parody, only this one by Randy Rainbow, called A Spoonful of Clorox:
I found Randy's video from this HPuffPo link.
Danny Macaskill's Gymnasium
Jan. 10th, 2020 02:31 pmFriend of mine came across this, it's absolutely amazing. And exactly what I needed Wednesday.
There's outtakes at the end in case you thought it was a perfect shoot.
There's outtakes at the end in case you thought it was a perfect shoot.
Bad Lip Reading: Stranger Things
Jun. 3rd, 2019 11:50 pmDone sort of in the style of Wonder Years. I needed to totally discharge my laptop battery from 3% to zero, and playing video seemed like a good way to do it.
As if Stranger Things isn't weird enough, changing it to an episode of Wonder Years really puts it over the top.
As if Stranger Things isn't weird enough, changing it to an episode of Wonder Years really puts it over the top.
Care to guess his response?
I apologize in advance if the video auto-starts as it did with me.
The CEO's reluctance to disclose his SSN, DOB and address was that he'd suffer identity theft and had done so three times in the last decade. The representative's point was that his company's attorney's were arguing in court to dismiss the class action lawsuit against Equifax that no harm had been done by that exact information being disclosed. She was arguing that he needed to have a long talk with his attorneys and suggest perhaps a realignment in talking points.
The clip came from the Lawrence O'Donnel show on MSNBC.
I apologize in advance if the video auto-starts as it did with me.
The CEO's reluctance to disclose his SSN, DOB and address was that he'd suffer identity theft and had done so three times in the last decade. The representative's point was that his company's attorney's were arguing in court to dismiss the class action lawsuit against Equifax that no harm had been done by that exact information being disclosed. She was arguing that he needed to have a long talk with his attorneys and suggest perhaps a realignment in talking points.
The clip came from the Lawrence O'Donnel show on MSNBC.
Theresa May as Gollum
Dec. 10th, 2018 01:33 pmWell, Andy Serkis as Theresa May as Gollum. And it's beyond brilliant.
How It Should Have Ended (HISHE) Videos
Apr. 21st, 2017 05:45 pmI've been watching a lot of these today, and I think this one to Jurassic World is perhaps the best single video. The one for Captain America: Civil War is also quite excellent.
