{"id":12110,"date":"2009-05-16T19:31:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T02:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/05\/16\/12110.html"},"modified":"2009-05-16T19:31:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T02:31:54","slug":"items-video-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/05\/16\/items-video-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Video roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My backup system makes my computer unusably slow if I have too many Safari windows open that contain videos, even if the videos aren't playing. Odd.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in the interests of being able to use my computer, here's an assortment of unrelated videos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercuryseries.com\/\">Mercury Men<\/a> site provides a trailer for a forthcoming new web series, featuring an office worker and a \"daring aerospace engineer\" attempting to stave off an invasion. I love the retro look and feel; looking forward to the series.<\/li>\n  <li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironsky.net\/\">Iron Sky<\/a> site features a couple of trailers for a forthcoming new feature-length film. Here's the tagline: \"In 1945 the Nazis fled to the moon. In 2018 they are coming back.\" I love the look and feel of the trailers here, too&mdash;production values for online video are getting pretty high. Oddly, the trailers look to me like they're for a serious retro-adventurey kind of movie (except for the jokey title sequence at the end of the main trailer), but the site describes the film as a science fiction comedy. Also of interest: \"The script is written by award-winning science fiction writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johanna_Sinisalo\">Johanna Sinisalo<\/a>\"&mdash;a Finnish writer who won the Tiptree a few years ago. The production is being put together by the same Finnish group that did a <cite>Star Trek<\/cite>\/<cite>Babylon 5<\/cite> parody movie called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwreck.com\/\">Star Wreck<\/a>.<\/li>\n  <li>Jon Stewart on <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:227351\">Obama and torture and Don't Ask, Don't Tell<\/a>. I don't always love the <cite>Daily Show<\/cite>, but this is a great segment&mdash;funny and sharp.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sCCuOrRzoSc\">Auto-Tune the News #3<\/a>. Mad geniuses <a href=\"http:\/\/thegregorybrothers.com\/\">the Gregory Brothers<\/a> use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auto-Tune\">Auto-Tune<\/a> to turn a set of TV snippets into song. (I had never heard of Auto-Tune before; turns out that a bunch of musicians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/2004-06-10\/news\/pro-tools\/\">use it to stay on pitch<\/a> when they sing, both recorded and live.) Funny and neat, and my description doesn't nearly do it justice. If you have a have a hard time understanding the lyrics, click the \"more info\" link in the little grey sidebar to the right of the video.<\/li>\n  <li>Obama's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T0GwZFAV1Lw\">speech at the 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner<\/a> is very entertaining, though perhaps less so if you haven't been following the news lately. It's 17 minutes long; around 13:00, he changes to a serious tone, praising journalists, so if you're just watching for the jokes, you can stop there. Or if you don't have time to watch the video, you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2009\/05\/10\/2009-05-10_barack_makes_dc_jollies_keeps_em_laughing_at_first_white_house_press_dinner.html\">some of the best jokes<\/a> in various news articles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have bunches of other links to post, but none of them are videos, so the open windows won't slow down my computer use, so I can hold off on those. Tonight, I have to do a bunch of magazine work and a bunch of packing, which is why I'm sadly not attending any of the various events and social activities that are going on.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My backup system makes my computer unusably slow if I have too many Safari windows open that contain videos, even&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,55,45,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-net-video","category-politics","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}