How to walk to Manhattan ∞
A lot harder than I’d imagined.
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This is Water ∞
The Glossary put David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon College commencement speech to video, adding in quite a bit of context. It uses an abridged version of the audio recording, but is well worth watching.
Be sure to read the entire 2005 commencement speech.
Magic is Everywhere ∞
From the Hotpipes’ album “Dust.”
Two months breaking ice ∞
From Cassandra Brooks, a five minute video of her two month trip in the Ross Sea of Antarctica on an ice breaker. Not footage you get to see very often.
The Challenge ∞
A Spock-based Audi commercial.
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ∞
The 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean, just off the coast of Indonesia, is considered the deadliest tsunami of all time, taking over 230,000 lives. A couple of videos have covered it including this one called Tsunami, Caught on Camera. It uses survivors’ footage and testimony from Indonesia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka to paint a fairly grim picture. Warning: It can be pretty graphic at times.
More recently, the Perennial Plate went back to Sri Lanka where eight members of a small fishing family were taken in the tsunami.
Just last year, Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor starred in an English-language Spanish true-story film called The Impossible about a family caught in the midst of the tsunami.
Abe ∞
Short film from Rob McLellan. So yeah, maybe we shouldn’t teach robots to love…
LEGO Breaking Bad Video Game ∞
Since the premier of the final season of Breaking Bad is getting ever closer, I’m not surprised to see this spoof on what a LEGO video game of the AMC series would look like. It should go without saying that if you’ve never seen the show… spoilers!
Two Chips ∞
An animated short from Adam Patch, in which his wife tells a story after a bottle of wine and he animates it.
Japanese Wall of Boxes ∞
Japanese game shows are the best. Gaki No Tsukai apparently has a Wall of Boxes challenge.
