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This is why I love Craig Ferguson.

Kevin — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:37:22 +0000

Here’s how the man opened last night’s episode of The Late Late Show:

Lip synching to Britney Spears’ “Oops, I Did It Again.”
With backup dancers.
And puppets.

It. Is. Awesome.

The Late Late Show
Craig Ferguson – Oops! Craig Does It Again – 05/18/09
Episode 879
Craig does his best Britney Spears impression with a little help from his friends. [2:07]

Amazing slow-motion video of NYC

Kevin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:29:41 +0000

New York 2008 [4:20] from Vicente Sahuc on Vimeo.

So how’d they do it?

From the video’s page on Vimeo (including typos):

So this is how I proceded:

The shots were done with the casio EX-F1 at 300 fps and edited at 24 fps. You can’t choose the quality, so you’ll get low definition and strong compression (it’s a 700 euros camera…). I was roller skating, this gave the long and smooth travellings. but the most important thing is the stabilization, I used the Steadicam Merlin for that. It’s really important. The rollers were important but the steadicam is the key (with the slow motion) of the smooth touch.

For the colors, I edited it on Premiere. Transforme the .mov in single frames with Quick Time. And used Photoshop with the “automate” fonction. Then two layers, a black and white and a color with a polaroid effect. Then 50 or 55% opacity on the top layer. And back to a .mov folder with Quik time. And then the sound in Premiere again. But I guess that if you desaturate, contraste and add some yellow on the highlight and midtone, it would be something very close to that.

I think I didn’t forget anything
Thanks again for watching it.
Best!
Vicente

SNL: Sam Waterston for Old Glory Insurance

Kevin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:09:19 +0000

Old Glory Insurance: For when the metal ones decide to come for you… And they will.

It’s a Black Knight kind of Friday

Kevin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:19:03 +0000

“Black Knight” [4:24] via the new Monty Python channel on YouTube

Transcript via Sacred-Texts:

ARTHUR:  You fight with the strength of many men, Sir knight.
  I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
  [pause]
  I seek the finest and the bravest knights in the land to join me
  in my Court of Camelot.
  [pause]
  You have proved yourself worthy; will you join me?
  [pause]
  You make me sad.  So be it.  Come, Patsy.
BLACK KNIGHT:  None shall pass.
ARTHUR:  What?
BLACK KNIGHT:  None shall pass.
ARTHUR:  I have no quarrel with you, good Sir knight, but I must
  cross this bridge.
BLACK KNIGHT:  Then you shall die.
ARTHUR:  I command you as King of the Britons to stand aside!
BLACK KNIGHT:  I move for no man.
ARTHUR:  So be it!
  [hah]
  [parry thrust]
  [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off]
ARTHUR:  Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
BLACK KNIGHT:  'Tis but a scratch.
ARTHUR:  A scratch?  Your arm's off!
BLACK KNIGHT:  No, it isn't.
ARTHUR:  Well, what's that then?
BLACK KNIGHT:  I've had worse.
ARTHUR:  You liar!
BLACK KNIGHT:  Come on you pansy!
  [hah]
  [parry thrust]
  [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's right arm off]
ARTHUR:  Victory is mine!
  [kneeling]
  We thank thee Lord, that in thy merc-
  [hah]
BLACK KNIGHT:  Come on then.
ARTHUR:  What?
BLACK KNIGHT:  Have at you!
ARTHUR:  You are indeed brave, Sir knight, but the fight is mine.
BLACK KNIGHT:  Oh, had enough, eh?
ARTHUR:  Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT:  Yes I have.
ARTHUR:  Look!
BLACK KNIGHT:  Just a flesh wound.
  [bang]
ARTHUR:  Look, stop that.
BLACK KNIGHT:  Chicken!  Chicken!
ARTHUR:  Look, I'll have your leg.  Right!
  [whop]
BLACK KNIGHT:  Right, I'll do you for that!
ARTHUR:  You'll what?
BLACK KNIGHT:  Come 'ere!
ARTHUR:  What are you going to do, bleed on me?
BLACK KNIGHT:  I'm invincible!
ARTHUR:  You're a loony.
BLACK KNIGHT:  The Black Knight always triumphs!
  Have at you!  Come on then.
  [whop]
  [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's other leg off]
BLACK KNIGHT:  All right; we'll call it a draw.
ARTHUR:  Come, Patsy.
BLACK KNIGHT:  Oh, oh, I see, running away then.  You yellow
  bastards!  Come back here and take what's coming to you.
  I'll bite your legs off!

You need to check this out.

Kevin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:32:34 +0000

This neat YouTube ad (0:45) for Wario Land Shake It! definitely operates outside the box.

Just follow the link.

The Tutors of 826LA

Kevin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:14:19 +0000

Another funny video (4:30) from Judd Apatow and Co. at Funny or Die.

cat in a box

Kevin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:35:15 +0000

YouTube video (0:29)

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I pity the fool that don’t play World of Warcraft

Kevin — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:51:57 +0000

“Maybe Mr. T is pretty handy with computers. Had that occurred to you, Mr. Condescending Director?”

Video @ GameVideos.com, via Wired’s Game | Life. Author Susan Arendt describes this as “the single greatest videogame advertisement ever created.” I can only agree.

Is Halo 3 the second coming? Probably not.

Kevin — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:32:57 +0000

This review of Halo 3 is chock full of win.

Video @ The Escapist: Zero Punctuation reviews Halo 3

Schadenfreude

Kevin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:37:50 +0000

Teh Awesome is strong in this one.

Chad Jones at Theater Dogs points us to what is my favorite YouTube mashup of the year:

“If You Were Gay” from Avenue Q
plus
“I Am Not Gay!” from Sen. Larry Craig:

YouTube vid: If Larry Craig were Gay

[via Valli « via Theater Dogs]

Internet commenter business meeting

Kevin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:34:29 +0000

…including what is, I think, the ideal use-case for a captcha.

Video @ CollegeHumor (NSFW: language)

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“Fck you, Bob.” “(ha!) Fck you, Jim.”

Kevin — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:09:20 +0000

YouTube vid: “Swear Jar”

The Landlord

Kevin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:04:21 +0000

Will Ferrell’s landlady is all manner of ill-tempered and foul-mouthed.

The video’s embedded after the cut. I couldn’t get it not to auto-run (man, that pisses me off), and my email to the site’s techs went unanswered (man, that pisses me off).

via shimaera