{"id":3617,"date":"2006-07-23T20:07:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T03:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/07\/23\/3617.html"},"modified":"2006-07-23T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T03:07:40","slug":"video-roundup-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/07\/23\/video-roundup-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Video roundup, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here's the promised second set of videos.  If you're short on time, skip down to the cute pet videos at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Music videos and such:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Odd <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-2314763718101875161\">human-puppet-based music video for song \"Be Gentle With Me\"<\/a>, by band The Boy Least Likely To.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/basshunter.m0o.eu\/anna\/index_en.php\">Swedish pop music video of a song about using IRC<\/a>.  Be sure to watch for the surprise twist ending.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-5503582578132361295\">Animusic: Pipe Dream<\/a>: cool music-with-computer-animation piece.  See also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animusic.com\/\">Animusic<\/a> site, where you can order DVDs.<\/li>\n<li>Clip from music video \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.partizanlab.com\/partizanlab\/media\/clips\/74.mov\">The Child<\/a>,\" featuring a city made out of text, by the same guy who did the Honda \"Cog\" commercial.  (This clip is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.partizanlab.com\/partizanlab\/home\/\">Partizan Lab<\/a> site.) This used to be the whole piece, I think, but now it's just a brief clip.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=3575240706086773003\">Googlehead<\/a>, a family music video which, despite the word \"Googleheads\" and the Google logo variant on the T-shirts, doesn't actually seem to have anything in particular to do with Google.<\/li>\n<li>Remember the lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/12\/18\/3277.html\">Sony Bravia ad<\/a>, with all the superballs?  Here's a parody of that, which also happens to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-1778434084116683289\">ad for Tango Clear<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(On a vaguely related side note, I was delighted that the iTunes Music Store finally started selling the video for \"Take On Me\" a couple weeks ago.  I bought it immediately, of course.  I was going to point to it here, even though it's not free, but it appears to have been removed from the iTMS. Sigh. Maybe some day it'll be back.)<\/p>\n<p>Other performances:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yDjrnnucLC4\">Music arcade game<\/a>, like Dance Dance Revolution but using hands instead of feet, and played at very high speed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RB-wUgnyGv0\">Quick-change artists<\/a> David and Dania going through a dazzling array of costume changes in seconds.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p55YD8QhQ3o\">William Shatner \"sings\" \"You Did It Your Way\" to George Lucas<\/a> at the 2005 AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Lucas, plus dancing stormtroopers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prangstgrup.com\/\">Prangstgr&uuml;p<\/a> is apparently a college performance\/prank group at Columbia.  You've probably seen their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prangstgrup.com\/startupsound\/quicktime.php\">Start-Up Sound<\/a> video, which made the rounds a while back; when I first saw it, I had assumed all the students present were actors, but now I'm pretty sure they weren't.  The site features several other videos, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prangstgrup.com\/lecturemusical\/quicktime.php\">Lecture Musical<\/a> and (my favorite) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prangstgrup.com\/librarymusical\/popup.php\">Reading on a Dream: A Library Musical<\/a>.  (Btw, note that the \"Fantastic Iraq\" video is just an ad for MoveOn, not a prank or parody.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2006\/07\/07\/strangest-skating-performance-ever-evgeni-plushenko\/\">Olympic gold medalist Evgeni Plushenko skating to the Tom Jones song \"Sex Bomb\"<\/a>.  And, um, taking off some of his clothes.  There are also some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windweaver.com\/coi\/plush.htm\">still photos<\/a> that make slightly clearer what's going on with the odd muscle markings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cute pets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Very short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nXZ8H3PuWwg\">kitten vs. cat<\/a> clip.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cdXTDovB9K8\">Kitten vs. laptop<\/a> (specifically, vs. Apple's Frontrow software).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YbvlOqWCPCc\">Red pandas being impossibly cute<\/a>.  On seeing this, I had to restrain myself from squealing \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuteness_in_Japanese_culture \">KAWAIIIII<\/a>!\" out loud.  But I was thinking it. This video keeps disappearing from various places; if the link here is broken, try Googling for [\"red panda\" video kawaii].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the promised second set of videos. 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