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The Amen Break: The world’s most important 6-sec drum loop

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 8:25 am

“This fascinating 20-minute video [well, let’s say audio documentary, since there’s hardly any visuals to it] narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.”


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Beautiful Sand Art on Ukraine’s Got Talent

Posted by Pete Berg on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

This is really amazing…I was completely engrossed for all 9 minutes.


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How firebreathers make popcorn

Posted by Pete Berg on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 8:13 am

Pretty sweet, but I wouldn’t want to eat it.


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Playing For Change: One Love

Posted by Pete Berg on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 12:03 am

A few months ago, I posted Playing For Change: Stand By Me, which features artists from all over the world singing different parts of the same song, which are then expertly edited together to make a beautiful international collaboration. Here is another song from this series, this time covering Bob Marley’s classic reggae song “One Love.”

Below it is a similar video — same concept, same song — but it’s not with artists around the world…it’s artists from around Los Angeles. But considering how multicultural LA is, it’s actually quite diverse.


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Ferrofluids!

Posted by Sean Brogan on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 7:32 pm

What do you get when you suspend nanoparticles of iron in a colloidal solution of water, oil and a surfactant? Ferrofluids, a liquid that reacts to magnetic fields in trippy ways that make you think that science is both magical and potentially evil.


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Some guys you don’t want to face in Beer Pong

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 3:46 am

Trick shot masters. This is the most impressive “beer pong skillz” video I’ve seen yet.

Trick Shot Masters – Click here for more blooper videos


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National Anthem

Posted by Jeff Picarello on Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 9:51 am

Oh yeah, played on a Louisville Slugger.


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Woman Survived a Two-Mile Drop

Posted by Jeff Picarello on Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at 10:45 pm

So apparently this is a thing people can do…


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Heavy Metal Monk

Posted by Jeff Picarello on Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at 10:33 pm

And just like that, my surprising-choice-of-musical-expression search is over.


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Greyhound running beside car at 45mph

Posted by Pete Berg on Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at 6:40 pm

One fast doggy.


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Gorilla Drummer

Posted by Harrison Flatau on Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at 6:43 am


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Mall Mania!

Posted by Pete Berg on Saturday, July 11th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

Time-lapse of an LA mall in 1990. Oh, how things haven’t changed in twenty years. (Except for the awesome synth music choice.)

MALL MANIA 1990 time-lapse from Joel Fletcher on Vimeo.


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Oops! Old Russian ladies cover Britney Spears

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

Great commercial! Reminds me once again how absolutely stupid that song is.

Anyone remember the spoken word interlude in the middle?

“All aboard!”
“Britney, before you go, there’s something I want you to have.”
“Oh, it’s beautiful! But wait a minute, isn’t this… ?”
“Yeah, yes, it is.”
“But I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end…”
“Well, baby, I went down and got it for ya.”
“Aw, you shouldn’t have.”

Gag…


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Rapping Mom Calls Out a Rude Woman

Posted by Jeff Picarello on Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

BLAM! Think twice before you’re rude to strangers.
Now we just need to get that woman she’s rapping about to find this video.


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Florence Rasmussen

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 10:39 am

In 1979, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris produced his first film, Gates of Heaven, about a pet cemetery in California, and the strange characters that surounded it. It’s one of the most surreal and bizarre docs ever made, but also one of the most poignant and philosophical, exploring life and death, loneliness, and the like.

Halfway through the film, there is a five minute segment where an old lady in a doorway is interviewed. This is Florence Rasmussen, a crazy old coot, who goes on one of the craziest (and saddest) rambling monologues in film history. Errol Morris just lets the camera roll. Watch:

Here is the complete transcript:

“I’m raised on a farm, we had chickens and pigs and cows and sheep and everything. But down here I’ve been lost. Now they’ve taken them all away from here up to that – What’s the name of that place? Up above here a little ways? That town? Commences with a ‘B.’ Blue. It’s – Blue Hill Cemetery, I think the name of it is. Not too far, I guess, about maybe twenty miles from here. A little town there, a little place. You know where it’s at. But I was really surprised when I heard they were getting rid of the cemetery over here. Gonna put in buildings or something over there. Ah well, I know people been very good to me, you know. Well, they see my condition, I guess, must of felt sorry for me. But it’s real, my condition is. It’s not put on. That’s for sure! Boy, if I could only walk. If I could only get out. Drive my car. I’d get another car. Ya… and my son, if he was only better to me. After I bought him that car. He’s got a nice car. I bought it myself just a short time ago. I don’t know. These kids – the more you do for them… He’ s my grandson, but I raised him from two years old… I don’t see him very often. And he just got the car. I didn’t pay for all of it. I gave him four hundred dollars. Pretty good! His boss knows it. Well, he’s not working for that outfit now. He’s changed. He’s gone back on his old job – hauling sand. No, not hauling sand; he’s working in the office. That’s right. He took over the office job. His boss told me that on the phone. But, you know, he should help me more. He’s all I got. He’s the one who brought me up here. And then put me here by myself among strangers. It’s terrible, you stop and think of it. I’ve been without so much, when I first come up here. Ya. It’s what half of my trouble is from – him not being home with me. Didn’t cost him nothing to stay here. Every time he need money, he’d always come, ‘Mom, can I have this? Can I have that?’ But he never pays back. Too good, too easy – that’s what everybody tells me. I quit now. I quit. Now he’s got the office job, I’m going after him. I’m going after him good, too – if I have to go in… in a different way. He’s going to pay that money. He’s got the office job now. And he makes good money anyway. And he has no kids. He has not married. Never get married, he says. He was married once – they’re divorced. Well, she tried to take him for the kid, but she didn’t. They went to court. It was somebody else’s kid. She was nothing but a tramp in the first place. I told him that. He wouldn’t listen to me. I says, ‘I know what she is.’ I said, ‘Richard, please, listen to me.’ He wouldn’t listen. He knew all, he knew everything. Big shot! But he soon found out. Now that’s all over with. I’ve been through so much I don’t know how I’m staying alive. Really, for my age… if you’re young, it’s different. But I’ve always said I’m never going to grow old. I’ve always had that, and the people that I tell how old I am, they don’t believe me, because people my age as a rule don’t get around like I do.” — Florence Rasmussen


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