Posts Tagged ‘video’

Pioneers of recycling

In Uncategorized on 21 April 2009 tagged disney, video with Comments Off

Note: I totally recom­mend watch­ing this while listen­ing to The Sug­ar­hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight

T-Mobile at Liverpool Street Station

In Odd, Photos and Videos on 19 January 2009 tagged advertisment, video with Comments Off

Well. That just never hap­pens at my bus stop…

On the buses — Leith Walk to Newington

In Photos and Videos on 15 January 2009 tagged bus, edinburgh, video with Comments Off

Edin­burgh from the num­ber 14: from the top of Leith Walk to New­ing­ton, via North and South Bridges.

Welcome back!

In Odd, Websites on 26 November 2008 tagged awesome, video with Comments Off

Inter­rupt­ing a two day sleep-fest (something’s broken, but I don’t know what…) to tell you that I love this to pieces:

Wel­come Back from ImprovEvery­where on Vimeo.

Fritzovision

In Hamster on 15 November 2008 tagged fritzy, Hamster, video with Comments Off

Every day on my way to uni I pass a char­ity shop. Out­side it on Tues­day, was a big box full of ham­ster toys and, des­pite the fact that I was already late, I headed in and nabbed it for Fritz. In the end it turns out that I paid £7.50 for about £100 worth of ham­ster won­der­land (there was a huge amount of Rota­stack stuff that I might one day set up as a cage but in the mean­time will just make tube mazes with. It’s like Lego for ham­ster own­ers.) includ­ing a ham­ster car. If you’re won­der­ing what a ham­ster car is, exactly, let me tell you: it’s a device for mak­ing humans happy. Wit­ness exhibit A:

 

Clearly, ham­ster cars are the best things ever. Clearly, mak­ing films of ham­sters is an excel­lent way to avoid work­ing. And clearly, I giggle like a maniac.

Talking about talking monkeys

In language on 4 November 2008 tagged apes, evolution, language, linguistics, monkeys, university, video with Comments Off

It’s not often I get to sit and watch videos online and still file it under ‘being pro­duct­ive’, so I enjoy it when I can. This is Susan Savage-Rumbaugh talk­ing about Kanzi, a bonobo who can “talk”. While the evid­ence on the mat­ter is slightly con­tra­dict­ory, it still seems like a good excuse to watch a film about a mon­key*.

*Yes, yes. Tech­nic­ally, a bonobo is not a mon­key. I know that. But in my mind’s fuzzy “prim­ate” cat­egory, everything is a mon­key. And it would annoy my lec­turer less if I used the cor­rect term, and where would the fun be. Also, mon­keys are cuter**.

**Insinu­ations that I am not tak­ing my Ori­gins and Evol­u­tion of Lan­guage course entirely ser­i­ously, and am just treat­ing it as a fun diver­sion from my really heavy sub­jects and overly com­plic­ated dis­ser­ta­tion, may not be entirely unfoun­ded. But surely enjoy­ing a course, for whatever reason, is a good thing?