As Above

Very trippy. How much of the six minutes can you stand, without chemical assistance?

Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 12, 2024 - Comments (4)
Category: Science, Video, Abstract, Non-figurative, Non-representational

301 views

The video below is interesting as a peek into the way that YouTube works, but it's also interesting as a YouTube curiosity because its view counter is permanently stuck at 301, and has been for 11 years now, even though its actual view count is probably well over 1 million. Someone at YouTube had to deliberately freeze its view counter. As far as I know, it's the only video on YouTube that's received special treatment in this way.

Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 08, 2023 - Comments (1)
Category: Technology, Internet, Video

Aldo Tambellini’s BLACKOUT (1965)

Let us know when you jump ship.

The creator's Wikipedia page.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 20, 2021 - Comments (1)
Category: Art, Avant Garde, Video, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults

He Opens Doors

The YouTube channel "I Open Doors" is all about opening doors. Every day the guy who runs it (he remains anonymous) posts a short video of himself opening a door. It's usually a different door each day. He’s been doing this now for almost a year.

His most popular video (below) shows him opening a toilet door in an airplane.

He only shows himself opening doors with his left hand, but he promises that if his channel ever reaches 100,000 subscribers he’ll reveal his right hand. As of now (Mar 2020) he’s at 513 subscribers. So he's got a ways to go.

You can read an interview with him at theverge.com.

Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 26, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Boredom, Video

The man hanging from ceiling

Scholarpedia defines inattentional blindness as "the failure to notice a fully-visible, but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task, event, or object."

One of the classic examples of this is provided by the Invisible Gorilla experiment, in which test subjects were asked to watch a video showing a group of people passing a basketball back and forth. Asked to count the number of times the ball was passed, half completely failed to notice that a man wearing a gorilla suit walked through during the middle of the scene.

A recent viral video provides another example. Popular Youtuber Sushi Ramen Riku tied himself to the ceiling of his grandmother's apartment and waited to see how long it would take for her to notice him. Even though he's perfectly visible to her the entire time, in her peripheral vision, she simply doesn't notice him, for over ten minutes. Evidently she didn't expect her grandson to be strapped to the ceiling.

Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 03, 2019 - Comments (5)
Category: Video, Psychology

Murphy the Molar

A talking tooth from Canada.

More info: Lorne Park Dental

Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 08, 2019 - Comments (3)
Category: Video, 1970s, Teeth

ME Pearl and her Opossum

She's been posting videos to YouTube for the last six years featuring her opossum and sometimes a squirrel. Her two most viewed videos are below. You can also check out her website.

Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 11, 2017 - Comments (2)
Category: Animals, Video

Scopitones

Full story here.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 31, 2016 - Comments (3)
Category: Music, Video, 1960s

Sunscreen-Pooping Seagull

What if seagulls were robots and they pooped sunscreen on small children? Nivea made it a reality.

Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 08, 2016 - Comments (2)
Category: Video, Advertising

Staging a Left-olution

Today's post features a bunch of sinister, leftist radicals, in honor of International Left Handers Day (August 13).



Also, check out the Bill of Lefts.

Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 13, 2015 - Comments (6)
Category: Riots, Protests and Civil Disobedience, Video, Poetry