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I Met the Walrus: Interview with John Lennon

eleavitt (http://www.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:52:56 -0700

(33 votes - 11 comments - 1076 views)
In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan managed to snag a brief interview with John Lennon in his hotel room in Toronto. Using his reel-to-reel tape recorder, Levitan asked Lennon a series of questions about peace, popularity, and messages in music. The answers give us a portrait of Lennon at the end of his involvement with The Beatles.

In 2007, Levitan collaborated with director Josh Raskin, illustrator James Braithwaite, and animator Alex Kurina to produce I Met the Walrus, a short animated film featuring a condensed version of the Lennon-Levitan interview set to sprawling stream-of-consciousness animation. The resulting film has won an AFI Award and was nominated for an Academy Award.

It’s a strange little piece — five minutes of psychedelic rambling that, in the end, carries a message of hope. The advice Lennon gives Levitan here is simple: peace

(Excerpted from Mental Floss)

Very complex kung fu move

eleavitt (http://www.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:57:34 -0700

(186 votes - 10 comments - 62354 views)
Bored grocer demonstrates a never before seen martial arts move. Scene from Cashback.

This American Life: This Little Piggy Made Me Vomit

eleavitt (http://www.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:28:03 -0700

(19 votes - 3 comments - 631 views)
From Youtube:

Our film crew goes to Iowa to investigate the ever-increasing role genetic science is playing on the modern pig farm. But once we're there, some of us find out that there are things about pork production that we don't actually want to find out.

This clip comes from Pandora's Box, the season finale of This American Life with Ira Glass. See it now, only on Showtime.

robot chicken-inspector gadget

eleavitt (http://www.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:04:06 -0700

(12 votes - 7 comments - 507 views)

Amazing Phone Commercial

eleavitt (http://www.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:06:57 -0700

(19 votes - 3 comments - 549 views)

Mario Killing Spree

eleavitt (http://www.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:08:05 -0700

(25 votes - 4 comments - 2556 views)

Trick Shots & Juggling

eleavitt (http://www.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:06:03 -0700

(19 votes - 6 comments - 405 views)

Limozeen plays Trogdor live

eleavitt (http://www.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:02:14 -0700

(35 votes - 6 comments - 1762 views)

Siskel and Ebert's review of Evil Dead II

eleavitt (http://www.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:16:20 -0700

(25 votes - 5 comments - 641 views)
Here's Siskel and Ebert's review, which includes some key scenes, and mentions The Three Stooges.

H.P. Papercraft

eleavitt (http://www.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:26:49 -0700

(20 votes - 1 comment - 856 views)
from Youtube:

Barry gets himself into a bind when he tries out a project he found on the internets.

We created this short for an episode of Boing Boing tv. To check out the episode, which includes a behind the scenes look at For Tax Reasons