@BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
(Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. I'll be posting periodic roundups here on the motherBoing.)
- Richard Metzger: America! F*CK YEAH!! Link
- Andrea James: RT @Channel101 Celebrate America's freedom and might Channel 101 style: Link
- Andrea James: Penn & Teller burn the U.S. flag Link
- Jesse Thorn: particularly like the t-shirt in this ukulele version of the Beastie Boys' Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun Link
- Jesse Thorn: Your Yo Gabba Gabba knock-knock joke of the day, with Paul Scheer and Jack McBrayer: Link
- Susannah Breslin: I, for one, welcome our new sushi robot overlords: Link
- Jesse Thorn: Footage from a 1982 tech show hosted by Bill Murray. "R2D2 was cute, he was funny, he was a fine fine actor." Link
- Jesse Thorn: Trailer just released for Ricky Gervais first written & directed film, The Invention of Lying: Link
- Susannah Breslin: Michael Jackson face transformation: Link
- Richard Metzger: Girl freaking out on acid caught on video Link
- Susannah Breslin: Dance like a polygon, you mad fool, you: Link
- Richard Metzger: Vivienne Westwood meets her hero, environmentalist James Lovelock by @rodstanley Link
- Susannah Breslin: Grace Jones hulahoops to "Slave to the Rhythm": Link
- Richard Metzger: Church of Michael Jackson @davidschneider Link
- Susannah Breslin: The great love and infinite sadness of strange animals in and out of love: Link
- Richard Metzger: Lulu sings The Man Who Sold the World 1974 Link
- Laughing Squid: The 50 Greatest Movie Trailers of All Time as ranked by @IFCdotcom Link
- Susannah Breslin: A boy, a girl, and his alter-ego: Link
- Richard Metzger: RT @robertpopper Live (Religious) Phone Sex Link
- Jesse Thorn: I saw this doc "Soul Power" over the weekend, and it was amazing. James Brown, Bill Withers, Fania AS & more. Link
- Richard Metzger: Church exorcism of gay teen -if it doesn't work, will they burn him at the stake? Link
- Susannah Breslin: Banksy assaults the Bristol Museum, spray paint can in hand: Link
- Robin Sloan: Remember "The Neverending Story"? Remember Falkor? Here's my code-art homage: Link
More @BBVBOX: boingboingvideo.com
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(For purely self-serving reasons) I would also recommend:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/1631afa1b7/paul-merrill-all-american
America! YEAH!
I love your invention of this BBVBOX Xeni.
Great anims suggestions by Suzannah B., heart filling.
Finally, after about a decade of hesitant growth and eventual maturing, video seems to have reached a stable plateau (on the internet) - thank goodness Boing Boing vid-picks are of good quality. There are no nauseatingly-cute kitty cat viddiez that I can detect
On a more serious note, I've always been worried that the internet would become just another slightly glitzier version of dumb old cable TV, but that eventuality will have to wait for at least another few years until internet outlets figure out the real deal concerning accurate video advertising for a web audience.
However, one must admit that the gap between standard cable TV content and what's going on online (video-wise) is very narrow - in fact, for the most part overall internet video content is quite a bit more moronic than that found on yer average living room TV set.