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2007-09-06 10:02 pm

PITT tip tip

Here’s a tip for anybody who uses Faber-Castell PITT pens: After the tip gets all worn and frayed, you can pluck it out with tweezers, spin it around, and put it back in backwards. There’s a second tip on the other end! Make sure not to spill the ink out of the marker’s body while you’re doing this. Here’s a YouTube video of the process, from Adam “Ape Lad” Koford.

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2007-03-29 11:35 pm
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"It's a family game!"

“The name of the game is Ball Buster!”

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2007-01-20 03:50 pm
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2007-01-17 01:25 am
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It's funny 'cause I don't know them

Home video footage, from out some guy’s window, of cars slip-sliding away on Portland’s icy streets. (via [livejournal.com profile] holyoutlaw)
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2006-10-15 10:56 pm
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Foreign people make crazy videos!

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2006-08-06 11:45 pm
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Obvious in retrospect

Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 video for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was the world’s first shojou manga music video. Seriously, you could probably redo 98% of it with footage out of Revolutionary Girl Utena.

(From a discussion on Making Light.)

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2006-05-04 08:54 pm
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Cool videos

  • C for Cookie: Parody of the V for Vendetta trailer. (via [livejournal.com profile] bugsybanana)
  • Incredible Machines: 13-minute collection of bumpers for a Japanese TV show, consisting of elaborate Rube Goldberg devices made from household materials. The video wasn’t available just now when I looked, but maybe it’ll come back up. Oh wait, here it is on YouTube!
  • Itaccora suicci: 2-minute Italian parody of Incredible Machines video. (via [livejournal.com profile] bugsybanana)
  • Ryan vs Dorkman: Amazing 5-minute homemade lightsaber fight.
  • G4 + BOOOUM = G5: A professional video editor needs a new G5 Mac, so he says he’ll ’splode his old G4 if he gets $5000. He does, and does. (via [livejournal.com profile] mister_wolf)
  • iTalk concept video: Short fake ad for possible combination cellphone/video iPod from Apple. Very cool, but probably just vaporware right now.