{"id":13354,"date":"2010-10-17T18:54:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T01:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/10\/17\/13354.html"},"modified":"2010-10-17T18:54:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T01:54:50","slug":"video-roundup-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/10\/17\/video-roundup-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Video roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It's that time again: my browser's getting slow from all the videos in open windows. So here's a bunch of unrelated videos for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5659382\/\">3D projection onto a pile of boxes<\/a>. Gorgeous. (4 min)<\/li>\n  <li>Gir from <cite>Invader Zim<\/cite> sings the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fqcn_TPu4qQ\">Doom Song<\/a>. (47 sec) I've never watched <cite>Invader Zim<\/cite>, but this makes me want to.<\/li>\n  <li>Man climbs into his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/206470\/man_creates_lifesize_r2d2_replica_takes_it_for_a_spin.html\">life-sized R2-D2 replica<\/a> and drives it around his driveway. (1 min)<\/li>\n  <li>A bunch of nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/ztresearch\">lightning videos<\/a>, some in slow motion and some in time-lapse. (15 sec to 3 min)<\/li>\n  <li>&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8\">Complete History of the Soviet Union, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris<\/a>,&rdquo; a music video by a group called Pig with the Face of a Boy (&ldquo;the world's best neo-post-post-music hall anti-folk band&rdquo;). I suspect people who played the relevant versions of Tetris will enjoy this even more than I did. (7 min)<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GDpwkZirSNU\">Human-powered-monorail racing<\/a>. (2 min 30 sec) The New Zealand company that made this system, <a href=\"http:\/\/shweeb.com\/\">Shweeb<\/a>, has just become one of the winners of Google's <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/10-million-for-project-10100-winners.html\">Project 10^100 contest<\/a>. Brad Templeton <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.4brad.com\/im-loving-shweeb-concept\">discusses Shweeb<\/a> (text, not video) from a Personal Rapid Transit perspective.<\/li>\n  <li>Guy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YHbk11e4YYQ\">skates on roller coaster track<\/a>. (30 sec)<\/li>\n  <li>Leo Laporte discusses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/television\/I-m-On-A-Horse-How-They-Made-The-Old-Spice-Ad-23021.html\">making of that Old Spice commercial<\/a> (the &ldquo;Look at your man. Now back to me&rdquo; one) with the guys who wrote it. (20 min)<\/li>\n  <li>Speaking of that ad: Grover appears in &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zkd5dJIVjgM\">Smell Like a Monster<\/a>.&rdquo; (1 min)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again: my browser&#8217;s getting slow from all the videos in open windows. So here&#8217;s a bunch of&#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":[18,7,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-music","category-net-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354","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=13354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}