Auto tune the news (which I’ll acronymise to ATTN) is my new favourite YouTube feature. It’s very clever. Though I’m sure I’ll get sick of it soon. Here’s the latest…
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How to fit in at a pentecostal church
Everyone knows, that apart from my wife, all the really good looking Christian girls go to pentecostal churches.
If you’re a young man hoping to lure a princess away from the Pentecostal Castle to a more moderately expressive church then you need to know how to fit in on your covert visits.
This video will help…
Via David Ould.
How to host a book burning
I have a new ambition in life… I want to write a book and have it burnt by the Amazing Grace Baptist church. You do too. You may not know it yet, but you’d be in great company. And if you go along you get BBQ or fried chicken – because they’re not works of Satan.
This video has been doing the rounds. It’s a news report on the Amazing Grace Baptist book burning – their list includes books by Billy Graham (a heretic), Mark Driskol (sic) (probably a heretic), and any version of the Bible that is not a King James. Because it, and only it, is the inspired, infallible, and inerrant word of God. I’ve always wondered what research the KJV only mob do to come to the conclusion that it was produced by better translators than our modern translators. I think I’ll try to contact this pastor guy and ask him. He has a church of 15, so he’ll have time. After the book burning of course…
YouTube Tuesday: the Auto Tune edition
Better late than never…
Some science… with Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan
Some news…
Some advertising…
And finally, a joke you can play on your minister…
A project for the weekend
If you’re not doing anything this weekend you could try to make this rubber band machine gun. Or this machine rubber band gun… either way it’ll be great fun going back to work with this on Monday…
Magic fail
Or is it? At the very least it made me laugh.
YouTube Tuesday: Kid ay?
If the North Queensland lifestyle had an iconic album it would not be Kid A – despite the reference to an endemic verbal tick. Ay.
Pitchfork has just listed the top 20 albums of the decade. And Kid A was number one. Here’s a nice little paragraph from their review.
“Radiohead were not only among the first bands to figure out how to use the Internet, but to make their music sound like it, and they kicked off this ridiculously retro decade with the rare album that didn’t seem retro. Kid A— with its gorgeously crafted electronics, sparkling production, and uneasy stance toward the technology it embraces completely– feels like the Big Album of the online age.”
And here’s a live version of the first song from the album…
Slap stick
This made me laugh more than it should have.
One take wonders
One take videos are impressive. This one has the best elements of one take direction and “flashmob” audience participation.
It’s not quite Forrest Gump in one minute. But it’s impressive.
While my uke gently weeps
So, I’m sitting at home, watching Spicks and Specks, writing our work Annual Report… and this awesome ukulele player named Jake Shimabukuro did a segment. I looked him up on YouTube. Here he is in a duet with Tommy Emmanuel. It’s times like this I wished I kept at the ukulele lessons… and only times like this…
PS – I did, briefly, learn the ukulele as a child. Our church didn’t have tambourines, we had a ukulele group…
Human Tetris
These guys get style points for getting the piece shapes right, and getting the theme music spot on too.
Thanks to Scooter, whose blog seems defunct so I won’t link to it in order not to get your hopes up.
More Hollywood learning experiences
Today we’ve learned a couple of lessons about Hollywood plot devices – cool guys not looking at explosions and the Willhelm Scream… continuing in that vein we have the current horror movie plot device of choice – mobile phones that don’t work (contains some rude words).
You just don’t see that happening in the classics…
YouTube Toosday: Willhelm Scream
I thought I’d mentioned the Willhelm Scream before. It’s a sound engineer’s joke in movies. A reoccuring scream sound effect from 1951. It has a life of its own. Here’s a little video documentary about it… apparently the scream was quite possibly produced by the guy who sang the Purple People Eater song.
YouTube Twosday: the second coolest thing you can do on a skateboard
The coolest thing you can do on a skateboard is fall off and hurt yourself.
The second coolest thing you can do on a skateboard is strap neon shapes to your head and create a scene from Tetris.
You get less points for getting the geometry of Tetris wrong – but style points for trying…
YouTube Tuesday: Explosions
So it’s Wednesday today – but Tuesday was a bit of a write off thanks to a stomach bug and an endless stream of comments to moderate…
But I’ll make up for it. Promise. With this song that points out a particularly interesting cinematic phenomena – I’d never noticed it before. But I’ll leave it to the band to explain…