The Web’s Best Video Clips: Videos With A Brain

Archive for November, 2007

30 Nov

Ted & Anna’s Excellent Adventure

Love is a beautiful thing. And watching someone get engaged can really melt your hearts. It happens to most of us sometime. Even when you just hold a mic boom for a living. And it’s more fun when your co-workers get in on the act. On the set of Scrubs.
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30 Nov

Air Force Cargo Drop Mishaps

Things don’t always go as planned…
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27 Nov

Fan Engine Blade Off Testing

Let’s just say that losing a single blade out of a turbine fan is a bad thing, OK? Wow!
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27 Nov

The World’s Largest Motorcycle

It’s 11 ft. high and 20 ft. long…and the handlebars are mostly for show…as no human is big enough to use them. Greg Dunham has crafted the world’s largest motorcycle. And it only cost him 300 grand.
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26 Nov

Robotics Development Inspired By Nature

Robotics researchers are learning lessons from nature and incorporating that info into their new technological innovations. Absolutely fascinating.
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26 Nov

Creative Flipbook Animation

Things that don’t originate on video often don’t transfer very well…and this is one of those cases…i.e., the image quality is pretty terrible. But that’s about the only thing you can say in criticism here. The animation is very creative and very well done.
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26 Nov

Boston Fans Help A Guy Along

It was Disability Awareness Day at Fenway Park. The guy chosen to sing the National Anthem got a case of the giggles halfway through the song. Would the crowd savage him? After all, this was a sports crowd. But no, they help the guy finish strong. A very human moment. Hard to watch and not [...]

19 Nov

What Does Cigarette Tar Look Like?

So, yeah…smoking makes you cough. And it makes your teeth yellow. And the room kinda stinks for other people. And it trashes your car windows. But, really…the whole lung thing…well, you can’t see it, so it’s probably no big deal, eh? Take a look at the tar from two cartons of cigarettes.
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14 Nov

Larry Lessig: Creativity Strangled By The Law

From the 2007 TED Conference: Larry Lessig offers an elegant presentation of “three stories leading to an argument.” The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and [...]

11 Nov

Basejumping: Dave Barlia

Over the hills of France…just him and his wingsuit. Oh yeah, he takes a parachute with him most of the time, as well.
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