The incredible Roger Federer ∞
I love it when I find viral videos after the fact. Roger Federer hitting a can off some guy’s head? Perfection.
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Mad Men meets Daft Punk ∞
Might even be better than Bill Clinton playing Daft Punk on his sax…
Oh, Kmart ∞
Nothing like Big Gas Savings…
Russian dash cams can still surprise ∞
Absolutely crazy to see something like this.
How to walk to Manhattan ∞
A lot harder than I’d imagined.
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.
