tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55521826385591819882011-11-27T19:10:14.089-05:00Like an MP3 blog, but for mp4's. And mpeg2's. And mov's and avi's and wmv's. And stuff.Scott Watkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837278982279000050noreply@blogger.comBlogger291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5552182638559181988.post-76014247915316057952007-04-02T23:20:00.000-05:002007-04-04T22:28:36.661-05:00

NIN's Hurt, as performed by Sad Kermit.(Probably NSFW: language, Heroin Junkie Kermie, general wrongness)The AccordionGuy http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/3/29/2843732.html">blogged this before I did. That doesn't make it right.Kermit the Frog is beloved by millions. Not just liked. Beloved. How could any star, amphibious or not, handle that kind of pressure?Sure, it's easy

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The Mad A Johnny Kalangis film.About a week and a half ago I got a call out of the blue from Kyree Vibrant, a long time friend and crime partner of mine. "Are you doing anything tonight?" She asked. Remembering that the last time she asked me to do something for her I had wound up dressed as a garden gnome for her wedding, I prepared to dig in my heels. "Well, I -" I said. "You have to come to

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Strong Kids, Safe Kids!(Possibly NSFW - frank discussion about bad touching)Okay, yes. It's been a Looonngg while since I've posted. I got pretty busy with work, and the dog ate my blog posts, and I'm feeling some kind of existential angst anyways....The bottom line is I became a giant blogcrastinator, if there is such a word. I inadvertently almost fulfilled this prophecy (it's French for it's

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Transit Camp(from CityTV)Alright,Something even more timely than Saturday's post, a current event!Yesterday, Joey the Accordion Guy and several others organized something that, weirdly, has probably never happened before. A bunch of tech-savvy, bleeding edge, [Insert web cliché here] geeks, who also happen to be transit nerds, got together for self organized Bar Camp style get together to figure

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I've had some writer's block for a little bit, I'm afraid. I've got a wealth of vids to write about, but I've been having trouble doing it. I think it's the winter weather. I've decided to try and just muscle through it, so here goes.I haven't posted a longer piece in a bit (this one's an hour), but since I've been talking about supposedly limitless resources I can't get at, here's a piece on

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(NSFW : Language, rude gestures, kick ass fighting saviour)I'm back from my inpirational reload break, and I've got a few quickies to post over the next few days to get back into the swing.Previously, while talking about Channnel 101, I mentioned Channel 102. Well here's one of my favourite from the New York version of this "TV" fest. As you'd expect from a New York show, the 102ers have

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ApacheSorry posting has been sporadic. I need to take some time to get ahead of the game again. Regular posting will resume shortly.In the meantime, here's Apache by the Tommy Seebach band.

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WTTV Chicago - Max Headroom Pirating Incident - November 22, 1987NSFW : brief male nudity, butt smacking, Doctor Who footage.I'm not exactly sure how the word piracy came to mean anything other than robbery committed at sea. That being said, in the modern world, there are two definitions of the word that are heard far more often. These days, I'm sure the most common use is to denote copyright

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Nerdcore Rising f. MC FrontalotWhat better way to follow a trailer for a documentary on Nerdcore Hiphop, than with another trailer for a documentary on Nerdcore Hiphop.MC Frontalot is arguably the founder of the Nerdcore genre. As such he is also one of it's best known proponents. From his Wikipedia entry:Early daysDamian Hess began releasing music as "MC Frontalot" in 1999. His first successes

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Nerdcore for Life TrailerNSFW : LanguageI'm not actually sure what order I should have done today's and tomorrow's posts in, so I asked both of my roommates whether they thought I should go general to specific or specific to general. One said the first choice, and one wouldn't say.Okay, now that I've got the meta-blogging out of the way, today and tomorrow I'm going to talk about Nerdcore Hiphop,

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Unemployed Skeletor's Blog of Evil #1Hands up anyone who's been unemployed. All of you? Most I'm sure. If you have (and probably if you haven't) I'm sure you can empathise with an Evil Genius who's down on his luck.I'm unemployed right now. There's very little work for actors in January, and my day job has laid me off until next month. So like Skeletor, I too know what it's like to sit around at

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The Story of 1Okay, so, what am I doing mentioning math, of all things, in a week I've devoted to slack?My father was an uncelebrated mathematical genius who worked in computer graphics before computer graphics was cool (we're talking the 60's and 70's here). I discovered sometime in High School that, although I was suitably bright, I had not inherited the math genes. Dad was very, very good at

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My Box(NSFW: language, references to Canada's National Symbol)The Internets work at lightning speed.How else to explain this reply to the Justin Timberlake / Adam Samberg video I posted just before Christmas. Well, OK - It had been on the air a few days before that, and I'm actually posting this a week after it first hit the net, but I'm saying that the Internets work at lightning speed, not me

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(video from Collegehumor.com)Spiders on DrugsLate in the day, but I'm still trying to post every weekday. Keeping with my slacker theme this week, this is what happens when you put spiders on drugs.This is a parody (created by First Church of Christ, Filmmaker), but experiments like this really happened. Someone actually got sizable grants to get arachnids all doped up and shi^H^H^H stuff.As for

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He's The Computer ManIn the spirit of slacking off after the holidays, here's one I know little about.Apparently he's a computer man, and by computer, he means Mac. To each their own.this was Dugg a while ago, and there's a thread about it here.This guy seems to be the one that put it up, and claims to work for the White Hatted One. This is obviously from the mid 90's and there's probably

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TimebeltHappy New Year!...Am I a bit late for that?Okay well, now that the holidaze are out of the way, back to some serious vid posting.Speaking of being late for things, time to switch on the wayback machine, at least in Internet time - back to the far off year of 2003. Before 2003 I was interested in online video in a fairly abstract sense. I thought that somehow, some way, eventually

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White Christmas, as animated by Joshua Held.From my cousin Matt, who got this from his brother Ken (also my cousin ;-} ).Just a quick little number for the holidays. Joshua Held animated this in 2002. The music is Irving Berlin's White Christmas as performed by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters in 1953.I missed posting yesterday due to the

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I'm continuing the festive spirit by posting another commercial. This one I found embedded in an article at Radar Online. The article counts down the top ten worst toys ever.Leaving aside for the moment the fact that I personally had Number Nine on that list (oh, to be late 70's naive again), Number Eight, the 'Johnny Reb Cannon' was a real hoot of a toy. This commercial from 1961 demonstrates

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A Special Box from Saturday Night Live (NSFW: language)Kelly Z sent around this one. I dug up the uncensored version elsewhere.Andy Samberg is someone I've been following for a while. He and the rest of the Lonely Island crew are one of the main reasons SNL doesn't suck as much as it used to. On SNL the trio now focus on shorts, often music videos, and they've started to develop some real street

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...And what better way to celebrate than taking last year's hottest gadget, and sticking it in a blender. Will It Blend is a series of videos produced by Blendtec, makers of the Total Blender, a high end blender that they claim can blend anything. And they've set out to prove it. Alright, yes. This is a glorified commercial. This video exists only to

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from JapanoramaMy homie Slacks beat me to this one.This is an episode of Japanorama, a BBC documentary series about Japan. Otaku is Japanese for nerd. Otaku culture is the biggest thing to hit Japan since Gojira.BBC presenter Jonathan Ross has been spending the past few years touring Asia in documentaries, and has spent 2 seasons touring Japan with this series. The Otaku episode explores nerd

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Yellow FeverOkay, so, again in the interests of full disclosure, I am a white guy. And while the number of chicks I get is statistically non-zero, I do not, in fact, "get all the chicks". In that way I could be considered an honourary Asian, I suppose (with my apologies to Asians everywhere). Nevertheless, I applaud Wong Fu Productions on their bold exploration of this racially sensitive topic.

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Okay, so in an effort to accommodate my legions of adoring fans (alright, Adam, my legionnaire of vague tolerance) I've decided that if someone sends me a vid and I haven't figured out what to post tomorrow, up it goes (subject to personal taste, whim, the terms and conditions of my web provider, and other considerations - YMMV).In other words, blame Adam for today's vid.William Shatner's

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This picture (courtesy Wikipedia) is believed to be the first picture ever placed on the web. The subjects are believed to be the first band on the web. Ladies, Gentlemen, and the rest of you, I present Les Horribles Cernettes.Sometime around the beginning of the Gayer Nineties (as in much more gay than the Gay Nineties), a young woman working as a secretary at the CERN labs in Switzerland was

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The Sesame Street Martians discover the clock.The martians were hands down my favourite characters in Sesame Street history. My sister and I spent a not inconsiderable amount of time imitating these guys as children. I'm sure the child psychologists at the Children's Television Workshop would say differently, but to my mind a successful children's show is one with strange, incomprehensible

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Music video time."User Generated" video being what it is, low budget is given a new meaning. Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on crew, lighting, sets, costumes, dancers and choreography are replaced by one guy against a beige wall with an acoustic guitar.Acoustic covers can often sound better than the original. Certainly Torontoist thinks so, having included this in their

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So this is Jake Moxie, and the Battle Between the Planets. This is also the basis of my first IMDB entry. Oddly enough, this isn't the first version of this project.Jake Moxie was written by Adam Swimmer and Scott Albert, and was originally concieved as an old time black and white serial, to be shot as live action on video and shown before films at the Bloor Cinema, a downtown Toronto rep-house.

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ABOUT ME:I am, myself, an actor, writer, and film-maker. As such I will, from time to time, post about something I did. In that case, I'll let you know I'm in it, and in lieu of a review or comment about it, I'll let you know something about making it, mostly focusing on my own involvement, because I'm terribly self-centered.

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This is the first post. It is also the post in which I tell you what the heck I'm doing. The idea is that I've been finding all of this video on The Internets, and it occured to me that you might need a handy guide. So the next time I see a good video online, or I want to talk about something I found online, I'm gonna talk about it here. If you've produced something and put it online, or just

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