This is sensational. I wish my twelve year old self had done something like this for my thirty year old self. But alas.
There’s a slight language warning first up.
Tag: youtube
Real life Hotwheels loop
Amazing. Mind blowing. Gravity defying.
Visualising the Dominos supply chain
This is pretty cool – though in the US. GPS tracking on delivery trucks opens up some pretty fun possibilities for this sort of thing.
Theory of motorsport relativity
Somehow, mostly related to picking up a couple of consulting clients, I’ve become professionally interested in motor sport. So I watched this video. Relative to really fast cars, Formula One cars are really fast.
This is an overlay of two videos – one featuring normal fast cars, the other featuring Formula One cars.
Via Kottke.org
How to “pass a beer” in style
For when you want your beer shaken. Not stirred.
PSA: Avoid Vertical Video Syndrome
Two things – I love that one of the characters in this Public Service Announcement is called Fafa, which is what we call my maternal grandfather, and I love that this is a thing…
Oh. A third thing – iMovie on the iPhone/iPad makes rotating videos really easy. You just pinch and turn – so you don’t even have to hold your phone the right way.
Hardcore (probably Canadian) farmer looking old guy opens beer with a chainsaw
Because sometimes the simple, non-petrol powered, ways, aren’t the best.
Apparently paramedics talk about cases, trivial cases, where they get called in, as “chainsaw-bonsai” cases. I reckon this guy could prune bonsais with this sort of precision.
Dub step tap dancing thing
This is quite mesmerising.
Super super hero super group via super mashup
This gets style points for so closely matching the soundtrack. But if The Avengers wasn’t supergroup enough for you, imagine all these guys teaming up…
Very useful “how to” videos
I watched these and I laughed till I cried and my chest hurt and I couldn’t breathe properly. I was up until 3am this morning though.
Timelapse: The Milky Way speaks…
This timelapse of the Milky Way is just stunning. I hope heaven has a button where you can just watch stuff timelapse style.
I think last time I posted one of these, or maybe the time before, someone quoted the first half of Psalm 19 on my Facebook wall. It’s a sensational bit of inspired poetry to be reflecting on while enjoying this sort of thing.
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
5 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
6 It rises at one end of the heavens
and makes its circuit to the other;
nothing is deprived of its warmth.
In other news I’m going all sentimental. Parenthood has changed me.
Thanks to Andrew for posting this video on the St. Eutychus Facebook page – I welcome your content suggestions, and that’s a great way to do it.
When nerds attack: office pranks in a science lab
This is pretty funny.
Here, in a 13 second nutshell, is a Skyrim meme using the punch line of this amazing air cannon prank.
Here’s the original…
Here’s behind the scenes…
Trike Drifting combines stupidity with remedial cycling
But it looks pretty awesome. There’s a possible language warning on the soundtrack, but I couldn’t really tell what words they were singing.
Flight of the Bumblebee on Boomwhackers
Until I saw this video I had no idea what a boomwhacker was.