{"id":13170,"date":"2010-07-17T18:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T01:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/07\/17\/13170.html"},"modified":"2010-07-17T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T01:25:12","slug":"items-video-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/07\/17\/items-video-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Video roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Assorted videos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Fascinating discussion, with images: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JKTvFhRbBt8\">Are Anime Characters Caucasian or Japanese?<\/a> I'm a little dubious about some of the generalities, but the video nonetheless adds to my understanding of a topic I've been interested in for a while. (See also non-video article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matt-thorn.com\/mangagaku\/faceoftheother.html\">The Face of the Other<\/a>, by Matt Thorn.) (7 min)<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ywCX6znxUWQ\">American-food section<\/a> of a Berlin grocery store. (Swiss Miss, Campbell's soup, Kraft macaroni and cheese, marshmallow fluff, etc) (2 min)<\/li>\n  <li>Improv Everywhere does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J5gCeWEGiQI\"><cite>Star Wars<\/cite> on a subway car<\/a>. (3 min)<\/li>\n  <li>Best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE\">Old Spice ad<\/a> parody that I've seen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ArIj236UHs\">Study like a scholar, scholar<\/a>. (1 min)<\/li>\n  <li>See also, of course, the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.go386.com\/247\/2010\/07\/old-spice-the-ad-blitz-your-man-could-smell-like.html\">Old Spice personalized-ad blitz<\/a>. (30 seconds times 100+ videos, but the article gives the gist.)<\/li>\n  <li>1980s-style <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5582513\/firefly-the-credits-sequence-it-deserved\"><cite>Firefly<\/cite> opening credits<\/a>. (2 min) But they left out Simon Tam, because they were saving him for the <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5584194\/the-real-reason-simon-tam-wasnt-in-our-1980s-firefly-intro\"><cite>Simon Tam, M.D.<\/cite> opening credits<\/a>. (1 min)<\/li>\n  <li>Charming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9BDOOvu5luk\">Argentinian same-sex-marriage ad<\/a>. (1 min)<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9nxcw7ln9AU\">William Shatner stole Leonard Nimoy's bicycle<\/a>. (6 min)<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/07\/15\/rex-the-robotic-exoskeleton-aims-to-make-wheelchairs-obsolete\/\">Robotic exoskeleton helps wheelchair user walk<\/a>. (5 min, 4 min)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assorted videos: Fascinating discussion, with images: Are Anime Characters Caucasian or Japanese? I&#8217;m a little dubious about some of the&#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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13170","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=13170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}