Samuel Sidler

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.

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.