Life in the Milky Way

Time-lapsed photo collage shot on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i provides an amazing view of our place in the galaxy…

Direct link to the video provides more information on the technique and camera used.

Posted on March 8, 2010 at 4:50 pm by Jeff · Permalink · One Comment
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Rube Goldberg Machine

Given that this video has had well over four million views, you probably have already seen it. But if not, you’re in for a special treat. It’s a massive Rube Goldberg machine set to the music of ‘OK Go’ who are featured in the video. More about how they pulled all this off later…

Here’s the [...]

Posted on March 6, 2010 at 8:24 am by Jeff · Permalink · Leave a comment
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SuperBowl Sway

The hoopla that surrounds the Super Bowl is always a lot of fun. Sometimes it even eclipses the game itself, though I think that highly unlikely this year. An Indianapolis band is ramping up support for the Indy Colts second Super Bowl championship bid with a new song that’s going viral on the Internet and is [...]

Posted on January 31, 2010 at 6:52 pm by Jeff · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Getting Fresh Prince’D

The video below is a five-minute clip from some Christian TV program where they read email prayer requests from viewers. It seems that recently they’ve been peppered with prayer requests that sound oddly like the theme song from Fresh Prince of Bel Air…

Hilarity ensues but the prayer lady remains completely unflappable as she plows ahead. [...]

Posted on January 25, 2010 at 6:06 pm by Jeff · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Lonesome George Gobel

George Gobel was born in 1919. He was an Army Air Force flight instructor during World War II. His show business career included his own popular weekly NBC television program, The George Gobel Show that ran from 1954 to 1960. It was a big hit and the popularity of the series made Gobel one [...]

Posted on January 18, 2010 at 8:37 am by Jeff · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Mister Sandman

Here’s another little ditty from Pomplamoose Music, similar to the first one I posted a few weeks ago.
Remember, this is a new multimedia genre called a “VideoSong” and there are a couple of rules:

What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice).
If you hear it, at some point you see it (no [...]

Posted on January 9, 2010 at 6:23 pm by Jeff · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Baby It’s Cold Outside

Waking up to single digit temps the last couple of mornings has been a little tough to take after having enjoyed a fairly mild winter up to this point. It’s on mornings like this when the house is still and the outside temperature so low that I imagine hearing strange sounds coming from the furnace. [...]

Posted on January 2, 2010 at 7:40 am by Jeff · Permalink · Comments Closed
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