On this Video Saturday I want to show you some videos of voice actors. It’s amazing what they can do with their voices.
Let’s start with some Simpsons voice actors. Hank Azaria is cool!
Next up, more Simpsons. Did you know that Bart Simpson is voiced by a woman?
And more Simpsons, this time with Yeardley Smith (who was also in "As Good As It Gets", by the way).
And The Guy Of 100 Voices:
And Billy West does Futurama voices:
Enjoy and please comment!
Hello you wonderful people reading my blog! You may be wondering, why on earth haven’t I written in an eternity?! Well, I moved. Yes, indeed, I’m among the lucky people with an apartment now and it didn’t have its internet built in so it might take another week or two until I’m back online, so to speak.
Anyway, today’s Video Saturday is about Slam Poetry, so here you go:
Claudia Alick - Employed Poor
Alix Olson - America’s On Sale:
Ani DiFranco - Grand Canyon:
Scorpio Blues - Second Guessing:
Shannon Matesky - My Space:
And one in German by Nadja Schlüter:
Enjoy and COMMENT!
Utah Phillips (May 15, 1935 – May 23, 2008)
This Video Saturday is all about Utah Phillips. He passed away on May 23rd, 2008. I only know him through his collaboration with Ani DiFranco - or her collaboration with him, rather. From what I understand, she took hours and hours of his material and toyed with it to create Past Didn’t Go Anywhere and Fellow Workers.
Bruce “Utah” Duncan Phillips (May 15, 1935 – May 23, 2008) was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and the “Golden Voice of the Great Southwest”. He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action. He often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words.
(from Wikipedia)
Look at those videos to get an idea who Utah Phillips was, if you don’t know yet:
You can find more Utah Phillips on YouTube on VeniceArtists’ profile and on mediagrrl9’s profile or if you simply search for Utah Phillips.
Enjoy and comment.
On this Video Saturday I present you some interesting interviews.
The first two videos are an interview with Joan Jett on the Henry Rollins Show. She looks eerie (like she’s had a bit too much work done..) but she says some very very interesting things about Howard Dean and the US media.
Also a bit political, but mostly hilarious is Wanda Sykes on The Ellen DeGeneres Show:
And now another interview, only hilarious, Lauren Graham on The Ellen DeGeneres Show:
Enjoy and COMMENT!
On this Video Saturday I will show you some swell time lapse movies. They’re done by either speeding up normal footage, or by taking photographs in certain intervals and then sticking them together.
A thunderstorm time lapse video. Note how at some point,
the clouds are going in two different directions.
Time Lapse in the Antarctica. Fascinating.
(Click for more videos by Antzarctica.)
The famous Dove Evolution time lapse. Must see!
This one is called A Beautiful Storm Cloud Time Lapse (with a surprise).
And last but not least:
Time Lapse in San Francisco at night. Very pretty.
Enjoy and comment!
It’s Video Saturday again, and if you are wondering whatever the heck happened on last Saturday (and Music Monday, for that matter), let me just tell you that I was preparing for a job interview and then went off to Ireland for that, so I was a little distracted. But now I’m back and I bring to you today: Susan McDougal!
It’s been a while since I read her amazing book The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk, which I wholeheartedly recommend to you. I mostly read it because I watched the documentary The Hunting Of The President, and while I found the documentary confusing, somehow what Susan McDougal said stood out. Since they wrote in the credits that she wrote a book, I decided to get my hands on it, and well - I think it’s very interesting and Susan McDougal is quite an amazing woman.
Basically what happened was that in the Whitewater scandal, nothing illegal had really happened, and someone jumped on it because one of the people involved said he could help bring down Bill Clinton. So from the very beginning, they asked Susan McDougal to testidy against Clinton, or to say that she’d had an affair with him, which of course would’ve been a lie. Since she refused to testify against Clinton, they put her in jail for 18 months to get her to talk.
So, today I present to you the videos I could find of her online (sadly, that’s all I could find - if you know of any other videos, do tell me!). They’re on a website called Truthdig.com and they’re from 2007. Enjoy, and feel free to comment!
Click on the image to watch the videos.
PS: If you’ve read the book, you might also be interested in these Excerpts From Session That Led to the Indictment of Susan McDougal as published in the New York Times in 1998.
Today’s Video Saturday is about puppets. If you don’t care about the topic, at least watch the very last video in article. If you do care, let’s get started with a puppeteer that was performing on Las Ramblas in Barcelona.
It’s a dancing and singing skeleton! Neat!
The world famous ventriloquist Señor Wences! ‘S alright!
Another cool ventriloquist, Kevin Johnson.
Damon Scott and Bubbles, the Puppet Monkey. This one is kind of odd.
This is by young director Kiri Davis, and it’s originally from MediaThatMattersFest.org. I once saw something about this on the news in the US and then went on to search for it online because I was very impressed. There’s also an interview with Kiri Davis on YouTube, or rather a snippet of her talking about the documentary.
That’s all for today, please do comment!
It’s Video Saturday and today we’ll look at some videos of people that took a picture of them every day for years. I should do that. But I’m lazy. It seems to be more men than women doing it, but if you dig long enough, you can find almost anything on YouTube.
This is JK’s Daily Photo Project and I like it because he goes from a
nerdy-looking guy to a handsome looking guy to a hobo. It’s funny
how you can see his hair grow and stuff. There’s also a
6 minute version of this.
This is called “9 months of gestation in 20 seconds.
Michael takes a photo of himself every day for a year.
This guy supposedly took a picture of himself every day
for 17 years. He does get bald eventually, so maybe it’s
real. Wow.
And here’s artist Ahree Lee taking a picture of herself for
three years. This is only the first minute, but you can
watch the whole three minute film at AtomFilms.
This is called “Seven Months of my life” and it’s notable because
this guy was actually a little creative so you don’t JUST see
hair growing and stuff.
This is called “Amanda takes a photo of herself everyday for
1 year” and she’s shown here between the ages of 14 and 15.
It’s really good already, but if she keeps this up, that’ll be one
amazing video by the time she’s, say, 18 or so.
Last but not least we have this little video called “Beard Growth”,
which is actually quite neat once you sit through the boring
40-second intro.
Well, I hope you enjoyed today’s videos. Leave a comment and have a nice day!
Once again Video Saturday is on a Sunday. This time because I started tidying/cleaning yesterday and it took me a while. Cleaning can be so gratifying that I decided to make cleaning the topic for this week. Maybe it’ll inspire you to tackle your messy room and make it all nice and tidy.
A room that cleans itself.
And another one.
Three days of cleaning in 103 seconds.
And a different take on the whole thing. Original.
So, do you feel like cleaning now? Comments, anyone?
Today’s Video Saturday is about the police. Not the band, no. It’s about police officers, some crazy ones and some just doing their job.
This first video is of a cop named Officer Salvatore Rivieri, who roughs up a skateboarder. He’s been a police officer for 17 years and boy, was he mean to that young skateboarding kid that called him “dude”. He’s been suspended after the incident, and rightly so.
This next video is called “Police Brutality at
Drive Thru”. I think some cops get a superiority
complex and think they can do everything
they want to just because they have a uniform
and a weapon. What a jerk.
However, the police are brave when it’s
about chasing cars, even when the people
in them are more than reluctant to get caught.
They also have to pull over drunk drivers, because
driving drunk kills people. If you drive drunk,
you’re not only putting your own lives at stake.
So don’t do it.
And here’s another video, this time with a drunk
guy, a police officer, and a taser. This
video is to show you that what you see on
TV is not true, you don’t pass out for hours
after having been tasered. Also, it’s a
word of warning: if you’re pulled over,
you’d better listen to the officer.
That’s all for today. Maybe next time I’ll have a more exciting topic. :)
UPDATE: Here’s another video someone pointed me to (you know who you are). It’s the Spanish police trying to deal with a drunk person. Drunk people suck!
