Towse: views from the hill

June 2, 2007

They were younger then …

Filed under: music,video — Towse @ 11:27 pm

… and so were we.

This video leaves me feeling … almost a feeling of saudade except that you can’t go home again. You can never go back.

For all you nostalgia freaks, myself included, which of the couples in this video are still a pair?

Or even would be if all the principals were still alive?

John and Yoko? John died.
Paul and Linda? Linda died.
George and Patti? Divorced. George married Olivia. Patti married Clapton. Patti divorced Clapton. George died.
Ringo and Maureen? Divorced. Maureen died.

sigh

May 1, 2007

Derren Brown – subliminal advertising

Filed under: URL,video,woowoo — Towse @ 5:40 am

Derren Brown on subliminal advertising.

… on NLP

Fascinating stuff.

Derren Brown on C4′s site

Derren Brown’s Web site

I’d never heard of Derren Brown until tonight. I just went back to see how I’d fallen into this Derren Brown universe. My original heads up was from a post on AdRants.

April 28, 2007

Doll Face by Andy Huang

Filed under: video — Towse @ 11:37 pm

Doll Face by Andy Huang ~4min.

Doll Face follows a machine’s struggle to construct its own identity.

Strange. Thought provoking.

[Lifted from halsted’s del.icio.us links]

April 27, 2007

Film clips from yesteryear

Filed under: history,San Francisco,SFOBayBridge,video — Towse @ 10:36 pm

The Web’s a wonder …

Film clip of the opening of the world’s largest bridge. 1937.

[spotted on Curbed SF]

March 18, 2007

[YOUTUBE] Hillary mashup

Filed under: politics,video — Towse @ 7:34 pm

The YouTube Hillary mashup made it to the front page above the fold of today’s Chronicle.

Found two versions at YouTube:

Short: Vote Different (1:13)

Long: VOTE SMART: a warning to all women about hillary clinton (5:14)

Obama’s campaign sez they had nothing to do with it. Others are pointing fingers to the same folk who brought us the Swift Boat Veterans.

Being as the presidential primaries don’t kick off until the Iowa caucuses next January, it looks like it will be a very interesting tit-for-tat election this time around.

Update: Above the fold, front page, SFChronicle today (20 Mar 2007) as well, with a buzz buzz article about who might have mashed it and why. A Rove device to slam Hillary and catch Obama in the crossfire with one swat?

Have you watched both videos? I think the short one is more effective. The long one just goes on and on and on, well past my patience. I believe the long one is a revamp of the short one. Who co-opted the short video? Wonder what the original masher thinks of that?

Update2: Archer has a link to a Barack 1984 video. As I commented there, Too bad the Clinton supporters are so lacking in originality. They’re ripping off a mashup, for pete’s sake. Do your own clever thing, peoples. This just looks petty. And stoopid.

March 16, 2007

[YOUTUBE] Middle Ages Tech Support

Filed under: books,video — Towse @ 4:26 pm

[via hisnibs who received it in e-mail from SueJ. Thanks, Sue!]

February 27, 2007

Everything I know – Buckminster Fuller and other treats from Smashing Telly

Filed under: media,URL,video — Towse @ 7:16 pm

First heard about Smashing Telly over at Sour Grapes, where SG offered up a link to Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville.

Man, what a resource Smashing Telly is.

Everything from Jean-Luc Godard to this forty-one minute interview with Buckminster Fuller (“Everything I Know”) to over an hour with George Carlin to Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten to interviews with Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio for The Making of Koyaanisqatsi.

David Galbraith explains: Smashing Telly is a hand edited collection of the best free, instantly available TV on the web. Not 30 second clips of a dog on a skateboard, or the millionth person to mime the Numa song, but full length programs. Smashing Telly, not Gimmick Telly.

Many of the items that I’ll be putting up on a regular basis are documentaries, since that’s what tends to be out there at the moment.

February 22, 2007

CBS5 brings you thirty minutes with Gavin un-cut. No question off the table.

Filed under: people,San Francisco,video — Towse @ 9:25 pm

KPIX brings you thirty minutes un-cut of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom answering questions from KPIX CBS5′s Hank Plante.

An exclusive and you can bet your bottom dollar Newsom’s not going through this for each and every one of you newshounds out there. You could almost see Gavin draw in a breath after some questions and thinking, what is he going to ask next.

(And, sweet mercy, when will this be over?)

Plante: “Let me ask you another question. … There are rumors that you also used cocaine and other substances…”

(The actual news spot was far shorter. That’s also available at the site.)

Craig Ferguson and his heartfelt why-I-won’t-trash-Britney remarks

Filed under: people,video — Towse @ 7:26 pm

Twelve minutes.

Well worth it.

Craig Ferguson’s monologue from Tuesday, 20 Feb 2007.

I’d embed it for you (tried!) but CBS isn’t allowing embedding.

February 21, 2007

KFOG Kaboom! 2007

Filed under: music,San Francisco,video — Towse @ 8:26 pm

This post is for the someone who came by this site earlier with a Yahoo! search for /2007 kfog kaboom, piers 30 & 32/

According to the Port Authority Web site (KFOG Kaboom “Hold for Event”), mark May 12th on the calendar for this year’s Kaboom!

a link to the 2006 Kaboom! page with a click to video of the fireworks set to a rock music soundscript.

… and ditto for 2005.

[coinkadinkly: KFOG sent out an e-mail to Fogheads late yesterday telling us that the date this year for Kaboom! is May 12th! Hah.]

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