Re-runs of Davey and Goliath were a staple of my childhood, and possibly the most compelling thing about this show was that it was the only kids’ show on the tube Sunday morning during the late 70s and early 80s—such a radical difference from the Saturday morning smorgasbord of Hanna-Barbera.
The stop-motion animation is in [...]
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Davey and Goliath: Christmas Lost and Found
Published by December 14th, 2009 in TV, YouTube and pop culture. 3 CommentsAce in the Hole
Published by July 11th, 2009 in YouTube, film, film noir, films and movies. 0 CommentsThe Media Funhouse just posted about the unbelievable classic film treasures that enjoy a short, but rich life on YouTube (kinda like the cicada in August). And the two collections he links to are filled with Western and Film Noir gems. I am featuring Ace in the Hole (1951) here because it is [...]
Stopover in a Quiet Town
Published by May 3rd, 2009 in TV, YouTube, audio, television and video. 0 CommentsMy favorite Twilight Zone episode for the last six or seven years is “Stopover in a Quiet Town.” I think the whole idea of two people waking up after a bender in an abandoned town in which they discover everything is artificial—one gigantic prop—is one of the scariest ideas I can imagine. It is also [...]
The fearless Anand Rao just tweeted a link to two Public Service Announcements from 1976 about the Swine Flu (via the Daily Beast). They are pretty awesome, the 70s aesthetic is absolutely one of my favorites of all time. I spent the whole minute and a half waiting for the zombies from Romero’s Dawn of [...]
Over at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, Kliph Nesteroff linked to a cartoon he found at Cartoon Brew (a new gem in the reader) titled “In the Nicotine” from 1961 which is about a man who is checked into a kind of rehab for smokers by his wife to kick the habit. I think the [...]
The time people will spend watching crap
Published by January 31st, 2009 in YouTube, video and video games. 5 CommentsI was talking to Andy Rush and Jerry Slezak recently about the fact that the over 90 videos I have uploaded to my YouTube account have almost 360,000 views. A figure that is modest by YouTube standards, but still kind of blows my mind. And then Jerry asked the simple question, “How much time do you [...]
Aldous Huxley on freedom, communism, technology, and the pharmacological revolution
Published by November 15th, 2008 in TV and YouTube. 0 CommentsCliph Nesteroff’s blog Classic Television Showbiz is one of the great filters for YouTube on the web. He consistently puts up a ton of great clips of all sorts of gems from the golden age of television. Recently he linked to an interview between Mike Wallace and Aldous Huxley which is well worth a watch. [...]
YouTube experimenting with copyright?
Published by September 13th, 2008 in Uncategorized and YouTube. 2 CommentsAfter uploading the final speech from First Blood to YouTube, I was immediately delivered a copyright notice from Google and Lionsgate. Here is what it looks like:
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To quote:
Lionsgate has claimed some or all audio and visual content in your video First Blood (1982). This claim [...]
Here is a wild moment in film/TV history via the ever entertaining Classic Television Showbiz blog. The two video clips below are from a 1977 episode of “The Mike Douglas Show,” featuring interviews with Star Wars cast members Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Harrison Ford. The film is still in theaters at the time of [...]
Speech, YouTube, and WordPress
Published by August 24th, 2008 in YouTube and insructional technology. 0 CommentsLast semester, Professor John Morello’s “Communication and Political Campaigns” class did something interesting with UMW Blogs. Rather than thinking of the class blog as a semester long activity for writing and reflecting (which is always good), he used it for one specific assignment. The blog provided a space where students could upload, categorize, and receive [...]
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