Posts tagged: Videos
My Doctor
I’ve given Matt Smith a full season to woo me over but sadly, he’s just not doing it for me. Therefore, I hereby state… Now and forever after… David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor, is MY Doctor.
Now, I’ve been a Doctor Who fan for a while. I have fond memories of watching Tom Baker era episodes during family dinner & I quite like the Peter Davison era as well. I missed initially when the series returned but caught up pretty quickly a few of years ago and have been loving the ride ever since. I liked Christopher Eccleston fairly quickly with his big grinned humor just barely concealing a starch seriousness and pain of recent losses. When the first season came to a close and all we got from Tennant was,
“Hmm, new teeth. That’s weird. Now where was I? Oh yeah, Barcelona!”
… I wasn’t really sure. But then came four seasons of the absolute best television I’ve ever watched. Tennant’s Doctor immediately embodied every humanistic value and idea I hold dear. He approached every situation with compassion, curiosity and reason with a skeptical mind seeking for and usually finding the natural explanation. He engendered the best of humanity in those he met and left them all better people. (Even Jackie)
Tennant’s Doctor also had a dense pain hidden on his face that could come out at any moment in a way that made you realize he’d been holding it back for far too long. He carried a burden but never let it get in his way of doing what he thought had to be done for the good of the universe.
There’s always the possibility that Matt Smith or some future Doctor could swoop in and steal the crown… but I’m highly skeptical. Well, I say skeptical, I mean doubtful. Well, pretty impossible actually, now that I think about it…. anyways… Oh, look at that… That is beautiful!
Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir
This is stunning!
Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre used his blog, Facebook and YouTube to put a call out, assemble and audition over 200 singers for his virtual choir. He sent them all sheet music so they could each video themselves performing their individual parts and Whitacre Scottie Haines (thanks Ian) then spliced it all back together to create the truly beautiful, Lux Aurumque.
Here’s the final video.
Via: Mashable
Noah’s Ark-God, Giraffes & Genocide
Don’t get caught using logic!
Great stuff by The Thinking Atheist
Via: Atheist Media Blog
Tour the known universe in 6 minutes
The AMNH has put together this amazing tour of the entire known universe based on the most up-to-date astronomical data. Every object is in its correct location, with proper scale and movement.
Here’s the full article to go with it.
Via: Pharyngula
Happy in Paraguay
I simply had to share this. Its a clip of Star Trek: TNG with, more or less, random words dubbed in that just happen to match up with people’s lips. I don’t know anything about Dayjob Orchestra’s music, but their spoof/parody videos are brilliant.
Check out their other similar videos here.
Via: io9
When Galaxies Collide
Felicia Day *swoon* (and Sean Astin) try to educate the public about colliding galaxies in this hilarious NASA PSA for the Spitzer Space Telescope.
There are a lot of great little inside jokes in there. “What in the name of Joss Whedon?” And Felicia makes a wonderful point:
It just goes to show you don’t have to make up explosions or doomsday scenarios to make science interesting. Astronomy is pretty interesting on its own.
Via: The Bad Astronomer
We Are All Connected
Symphony of Science has done it again. This time with appearances by Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye.
Check out their previous video, grab MP3 and FLAC files of the songs as well as video downloads at their website.
Surrounded by ignorance
Just watch this… as the video progresses, try to NOT let your mouth hang open in disbelief.
Oh… My… God! Now, I know many people are genuinely ignorant of things that don’t really affect them in their day-to-day lives. But really, America? This level of ignorance is just absurd. Apparently there are people living among us who don’t know how many sides a triangle has and don’t see something wrong on a map where the entire country of Australia is labeled “Iran” or “North Korea”.We also seem to have had THREE world wars and Hiroshima and Nagasaki are only famous for sumo wrestling.
Wow.
Via: Unrelated TechCrunch post.
Bill Maher: Biblically Incorrect (Audio)
What constitutes a Bible-based marriage?
Mrs. Betty Bowers makes it easy.
Via: Atheist Media Blog
Everything is amazing and nobody is happy
Comedian Louis C.K. reminds us just how much modern technology we take for granted.
Links in case embedding gets cut off: here and here
Wassup Obama!
True dat.
Pipe Wrench Fight!
What if the lyrics to those catchy 80s songs actually told the story that was portrayed in their whacked-out artsy videos? You might get something like this…
Currently, they’ve redone Tears for Fears’ ‘Head Over Heels’ and Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s ‘Under The Bridge’ as well. Be sure to check out all of them.
Tip o’ the pipe wrench to the creators.
Via: Pharyngula
DO IT! Like, Nowsville.
I mean it. NOW! You’ve only got a few days left. So stop reading this and go register. I did. It only took me a couple seconds. You can spare a couple of seconds, right? For your future, I mean. Right?
The future is in our hands
