Artful Articulations

Your flight, from your baggage's perspective

2012-01-28T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's passenger travel video, from your bag's point-of-view:

Not good at parking? There's an app for that

2012-01-27T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's parking assistant:

Polite distances

2012-01-26T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's etiquette video:

100 Years in 10 Minutes

2012-01-25T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's history video recap:

Rollerman

2012-01-24T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's extreme sports video - "Rollerman" Jean Yves Blondeau:

Move

2012-01-23T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's travel video - a guy travels the world and splices together one second of video from each location:

Musical interlude

2012-01-22T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - Jarrod Radnich plays his original arrangement of themes from Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean":

Maybe she's born with it ... or maybe it's Fotoshop

2012-01-21T19:00:00.004-05:00

Tonight's digital image-manipulation video satire - Fotoshop by Adobé:

The higher the heels, the bigger the fall

2012-01-20T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's catwalk fashion model video:

Lobsters... Whoa!

2012-01-19T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's cute kid reaction:

Best of 2011

2012-01-18T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's best-of compilation:

Dance like nobody's watching

2012-01-17T19:00:00.006-05:00

Tonight's laundromat dancer, Angela Trimbur - in a laundromat in Echo Park, CA:

The Three Little Pigs, Shakespeare edition

2012-01-16T19:00:00.004-05:00

Tonight's fairy tale, in the manner of The Bard:

Snowboarding

2012-01-15T19:00:00.003-05:00

Tonight's best-of compilation - snowboarding videos:

That's about how it works

2012-01-14T19:00:00.006-05:00

Tonight's debt increase video satire:

Serene

2012-01-12T19:00:00.013-05:00

Tonight's time lapse video - The Mountain, filmed from El Teide in Spain:

From the video's description [link(s) omitted]:

... The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know El Teide. I have to say this was one of the most exhausting trips I have done. There was a lot of hiking at high altitudes and probably less than 10 hours of sleep in total for the whole week. Having been here 10-11 times before I had a long list of must-see locations I wanted to capture for this movie, but I am still not 100% used to carrying around so much gear required for time-lapse movies.

A large sandstorm hit the Sahara Desert on the 9th April and at approx 3am in the night the sandstorm hit me, making it nearly impossible to see the sky with my own eyes.

Interestingly enough my camera was set for a 5 hour sequence of the milky way during this time and I was sure my whole scene was ruined. To my surprise, my camera had managed to capture the sandstorm which was backlit by Grand Canary Island making it look like golden clouds. The Milky Way was shining through the clouds, making the stars sparkle in an interesting way. So if you ever wondered how the Milky Way would look through a Sahara sandstorm, look at 00:32.

Looping elevator

2012-01-11T19:00:00.009-05:00

Tonight's unusual elevator - the cyclic elevator, or Paternoster lift, at the Attenborough Tower at the University of Leicester, UK:

From WikiPedia:

A paternoster or paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two persons) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping. Passengers can step on or off at any floor they like. The same technique is also used for filing cabinets to store great amounts of (paper) documents or for small spare parts. As a result of safety issues, many such lifts have been shut down, however a small few survive around the world, the largest of these located in the Arts Tower at the University of Sheffield, which also remains the tallest university-owned building in the UK.[1]
...
First built in 1884 by the Dartford, England engineering firm of J & E Hall Ltd as the Cyclic Elevator, the name paternoster ("Our Father", the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin) was originally applied to the device because the elevator is in the form of a loop and is thus similar to rosary beads used as an aid in reciting prayers.[2]

Paternosters were popular throughout the first half of the 20th century as they could carry more passengers than ordinary elevators. They were more common in continental Europe, especially in public buildings, than in the United Kingdom. They are rather slow elevators, typically travelling at about 0.3 metres per second, thus improving the chances of getting on and off successfully.[3]

The construction of new paternosters is no longer allowed in many countries because of the high risk of accidents (people tripping or falling over when trying to enter or alight). Five people were killed by paternosters from 1970 to 1993. The elderly, the handicapped and children are the most in danger of being crushed.[4] In 1989, the paternoster in Newcastle University's Claremont Tower was taken out of service after a passenger undertaking an up-and-over journey became caught in the drive chain, necessitating a rescue by the Fire Service. A conventional elevator was subsequently installed in its place. This accident led to an 18-month close-down of all UK paternosters for a safety review,[citation needed] during which additional safety devices were fitted. ...

Take a photo

2012-01-10T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's photo experiment:

News bloopers 2011

2012-01-09T19:00:00.004-05:00

Tonight's news blooper compilation:

Movie quotes, Arnold Schwarzenegger edition

2012-01-08T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's movie quote compilation (Warning: language NSFW):

Roller coaster

2012-01-07T19:00:00.004-05:00

Tonight's European mountain ride:

Zeitgeist 2011

2012-01-06T19:00:00.003-05:00

Tonight's year in review video:

Musical interlude

2012-01-05T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - a rendition of The Chordettes' Mister Sandman:

Near miss

2012-01-04T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's close call:

Party tricks

2012-01-03T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's party tricks video:

Address is approximate

2012-01-02T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's short movie:

From the video description:

Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins.

Story: A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View. ...

Happy New Year!

2012-01-01T07:00:00.003-05:00

Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous New Year!

Today's video - Where the Hell is Matt?, dancing his exuberantly silly little jig (now over 40 million views on YouTube):

Gone fishin'

2011-12-26T19:00:00.003-05:00

Taking a few days off from posting. See you in the New Year.

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-25T07:00:00.019-05:00

Wishing everyone a joyous and very merry Christmas! May the nativity of our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ fill our hearts, minds, and souls with joy and His Divine Love.

Musical interlude

2011-12-24T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Canon Rock:

Hallelujah Chorus

2011-12-23T19:00:00.013-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude, Alaskan grade school edition - Hallelujah Chorus - with kids from the Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat 5th Grade school, and villagers from Quinhagak, Alaska:

Puppies for Christmas

2011-12-22T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's video montage - puppies for Christmas!

Musical interlude

2011-12-21T19:00:00.003-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - Celtic Woman performs Panis Angelicus:

Hallelujah Chorus, Silent Monk edition

2011-12-20T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - the Hallelujah Chorus, by the Silent Monks:

Veni, Veni Emmanuel

2011-12-19T19:30:00.015-05:00

Tonight's (bonus) musical interlude -- the beautiful Advent hymn Veni, Veni Emmanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel) rendered in the beautiful Latin:

This performance by L'Accorche-Choeur, Ensemble vocal Fribourg, conducted by Zoltán Kodály:

This more contempory performance by Mannheim Steamroller:

Musical interlude

2011-12-19T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - Celtic Woman performs Amazing Grace:

A hub of activity

2011-12-18T19:00:00.006-05:00

Tonight's Internet infrastructure video:

From the video's description:

Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible. ...

Musical interlude

2011-12-17T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - Celtic Woman performs Little Drummer Boy:

Musical interlude

2011-12-16T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - the North Point Community Church's iBand makes music using iPads and iPhones:

Bob Hope - Christmas with the troops

2011-12-15T19:00:00.003-05:00

Tonight's video - Bob Hope entertains the troops:

FedEx Ground dominoes

2011-12-14T19:00:00.006-05:00

Tonight's domino video, FedEx edition:

Special effects

2011-12-13T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's special effects video collage, showing the use of blue and green screens in movies and TV shows:

Mi nombre es ...

2011-12-12T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's vocal impersonator, from the Spanish-language show Mi Nombre Es...:

Showtime

2011-12-11T19:00:00.004-05:00

Tonight's department store Christmas display - Saks Fifth Avenue 3D video projection show at their flagship store in New York City:

Never Wet

2011-12-10T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's hydro-phobic video:

A friendly voice

2011-12-09T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's friendly voice:

Musical interlude

2011-12-08T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - Anna Burden (I think that's the singer's name) performs Lulu and the Lampshades' You're Gonna Miss Me:

Earth time lapse from ISS

2011-12-07T19:00:00.005-05:00

Tonight's time lapse video - Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 on board the International Space Station from August to October,
2011:

When news anchors fail

2011-12-06T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's news anchor fail compilation:

Musical interlude

2011-12-05T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude, a repost - from an October 2010 performance:

From the video's description:

... [T]he Opera Company of Philadelphia brought together over 650 choristers from 28 participating organizations to perform one of the Knight Foundation's "Random Acts of Culture" at Macy's in Center City Philadelphia. Accompanied by the Wanamaker Organ - the world's largest pipe organ - the OCP Chorus and throngs of singers from the community infiltrated the store as shoppers, and burst into a pop-up rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's "Messiah" at 12 noon, to the delight of surprised shoppers. ...

Never Wet

2011-12-04T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's dry innovation:

Happy Hannukkah

2011-12-03T19:00:00.003-05:00

Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish visitors! Tonight's Hannukkah rap -- Candlelight, by the Maccabeats:

Musical interlude

2011-12-02T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - actor and comedian Michael Winslow, billed as the "Man of 10,000 sound effects" for his ability to make sound effects using only his voice, performs Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love on a Norwegian TV show:

Human slingshot

2011-12-01T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's fun-with-bungee-cords video:

Musical interlude

2011-11-30T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - from Sachal Studios, Lahore, Pakistan, doing their take on Take Five, by the Dave Brubeck Quartet:

No more dammed river

2011-11-29T19:00:00.011-05:00

Tonight's time lapse dam destruction:

From the video's description:

The White Salmon River in Washington state is flowing again as the nearly 100-year-old Condit Dam was disabled with explosives Wednesday. The reservoir draining took about 2 hours. ...

The Plain Truth

2011-11-28T07:00:00.001-05:00

Today's food-for-thought, courtesy Judge Andrew Napolitano:

Starlings

2011-11-27T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's avian video - wildlife cameraman and travel journalist Dylan Winter captures flocks of starlings in flight:

Adrenaline

2011-11-26T19:00:00.004-05:00

Tonight's stunt video collage:

Musical interlude

2011-11-25T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - Keith Medley plays Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King on his 27 string guitar:

Happy Thankgiving!

2011-11-24T19:00:00.012-05:00

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. And as we thank God for our many blessings, let us not forget to also help all those who are in need.

Tonight's musical interlude - Thanksgiving, by George Winston:

Chevy Sonic, Skydiver

2011-11-23T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's skydiving auto:

Used car salesman

2011-11-22T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's "pre-owned" car ad:

Forgot the combination? No problem

2011-11-21T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's lock picking video:

Musical interlude

2011-11-20T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - guitarist Chris Quiray performs his percussive guitar solo Self Indulgence:

Made in Iceland

2011-11-19T19:00:00.006-05:00

Tonight's pedestrian travel video - Klara Harden takes a hike through Iceland:

Read more about her trip here.

2011-11-18T19:00:00.004-05:00

Tonight's humor - ventriloquist Paul Zerdin performs at Comedy Rocks:

Fun with sticks

2011-11-17T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's mindless entertainment:

Landscapes

2011-11-16T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's time lapse landscape video - scenes from Arizona and Utah, shot with a Canon 5D2 DSLR:

Musical interlude

2011-11-15T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - Things You Think, by Ben Folds and Nick Hornby:

Jumping rope, automotive edition

2011-11-14T19:00:00.000-05:00

Tonight's agile car:

Musical interlude

2011-11-13T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - the Copenhagen Philharmonic does a flash mob performance of Ravel's Bolero at Copenhagen Central Station:

Parachuting Into Michigan Stadium with the 101st Airborne Division

2011-11-12T19:00:00.011-05:00

Tonight's football delivery service:

From the video's description:

Sgt. Adam Sniffen from the 101st Airborne Division delivers the game ball via parachute before the Michigan vs. MSU game at Michigan Stadium on Oct. 9, 2010.

Note the service members on the field to retrieve the American flag when he lands so that the flag doesn't lay on the ground.

Goes, well, like a rocket

2011-11-11T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's rocket launch:

From the video's description:

On September 30, 2011 at 11:08am, Derek Deville's Qu8k (pronounced "Quake") launched from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to an altitude of 121,000' before returning safely to earth. Above 99% of the atmosphere, the sky turns black in the middle of the day and the curvature of the earth is clearly visible. The rocket motor produced 4,000 lbs of thrust for 8 seconds accelerating the vehicle to over Mach 3 at over 10,000'. After that, momentum carried the rocket skyward for another 84 seconds to a peak altitude of 121,000'.

Monster shredder

2011-11-10T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's shredder on wheels:

Musical interlude

2011-11-09T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's musical interlude - Zoe Keating, a San Francisco-based musician who uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to create her music:

Quantum levitation

2011-11-08T19:00:00.002-05:00

Tonight's levitation video - from a demonstration at the Association of Science-Technology Centers 2011 conference, held in October at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore:

Workout

2011-11-07T19:00:00.003-05:00

Tonight's French commercial:

So sexy

2011-11-06T19:00:00.001-05:00

Tonight's how-not-to-flirt video:

Korean pizza

2011-11-05T19:00:00.012-04:00

Tonight's hard-hitting Korean-Italian culinary expose-satire-commercial:

When turkeys attack

2011-11-04T19:00:00.001-04:00

Tonight's not-so-intrepid mainstream newswoman - a producer from Sacramento's KXTV gets chased by a turkey:

Bob

2011-11-03T19:00:00.002-04:00

Tonight's animated short (be sure to watch until the very end, after the credits):

Super-soaker choreography

2011-11-01T19:00:00.000-04:00

Tonight's water performance:

This is Halloween

2011-10-31T19:00:00.001-04:00

Tonight's musical interlude - This is Halloween, from The Night Before Christmas:

Musical interlude

2011-10-30T19:00:00.001-04:00

Tonight's musical interlude - Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, harp duet version:

Not as tall as you think

2011-10-29T19:00:00.001-04:00

Tonight's circumferential measure video:

You call those lyrics?

2011-10-28T19:00:00.001-04:00

Tonight's musical history - 26 songs, 47 years, no actual words:

The making of grit

2011-10-27T19:00:00.003-04:00

Tonight's time lapse, done for a photo in the article "What if the Secret to Success is Failure?" in the New York Times Magazine:

The gag from outer space

2011-10-26T19:00:00.001-04:00

Tonight's space gag:

We few, we happy few

2011-10-25T19:00:00.009-04:00

Tonight's Shakespeare speech, from Henry V, on this anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, fought this day in A.D. 1415. King Henry played by Kenneth Branagh in this version:

Car or motorbike?

2011-10-24T19:00:00.001-04:00

Tonight's hybrid vehicle:

You just don't get it, do you?

2011-10-23T19:00:00.005-04:00

Tonight's movie montage [language warning - NSFW]:

Copyright

2011-10-22T19:00:00.002-04:00

Tonight's intellectual property video:

How many continents are there?

2011-10-21T19:00:00.001-04:00

Tonight's useless question video:

A photo a day

2011-10-20T19:00:00.001-04:00

Tonight's video collage - four and a half years of photos in 40 seconds:

Landscapes

2011-10-19T19:00:00.006-04:00

Tonight's time lapse nature video - scenes from Arizona and Utah, taken with Canon 5D Mark II DSLR:

Imperial March, floppy disk drive edition

2011-10-18T19:00:00.002-04:00

Tonight's Star Wars theme, played on floppy drives:

Diaper science

2011-10-17T19:00:00.003-04:00

Tonight's fun with polymers:

Bloopers

2011-10-16T19:00:00.001-04:00

Tonight's blooper reel, from season 7 of The Office:

Pretty extreme

2011-10-15T19:00:00.002-04:00

Tonight's sports compilation: