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The Rotapult

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:09:25 -0700

(1 vote - 0 comments - 22 views)
This guy makes amazing machines. Watch him throw a ball into the air, catch it, and throw it again.

From the submitter:

This is the most demanding catapult machine design I've attempted, to date. That it works at all, much less very reliably, is fairly astonishing. For physics buffs, note that the throwing arm is aimed almost at a tangent to the circle of rotation. Very tricky!

An American Crime

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:38:37 -0700

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I just watched the film for which this is a trailer, and it is amazingly powerful. I'm going to go on at length about it in the part of the post that won't really show with the thumbnails.

This movie is about the real-life murder of Sylvia Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski in 1965 in Indiana. One of the things about it that is unique (in my experience) for a "true crime" movie is that the actual crime in real life was much worse than what is shown in the film. A woman, in charge of the well being of a 16 year old girl not only abused her, but had her own children and neighborhood children abuse her, until the abused child was dead.

So the cinematic question is, how could this have happened? Ellen Page is amazing. She did tons of research about torture victims, and she's so believable. Catherine Keener, as Gertrude, is also amazing. If there is any chance at all of not hating the worst villain I've ever seen on screen, Ms Keener can do it.

I recommend the movie. It's about humanity's darker side, but it isn't completely dark.

mentos kiss cam

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:41:40 -0700

(5 votes - 2 comments - 90 views)

Ira Glass: This American Life--Still Life

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:28:26 -0700

(2 votes - 0 comments - 30 views)
Ira Glass says: Marcus Halevi has photographed victims of war and injustice all over the world. But there's one sequence of photographs, taken right here in the United States, that haunts him more than any other. We collaborated with director Josh Seftel on this story.

This clip is from Act 3 of "My Way," the 2nd episode of This American Life with Ira Glass.

Tarantino's foot fetish

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:29:46 -0700

(17 votes - 3 comments - 316 views)
Just a few examples from Tarantino films that make it clear how much he would like to be kicked in the teeth by the right woman.

Sonic Mutation

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:14:34 -0700

(12 votes - 0 comments - 162 views)

Giant Missle Command using Multitouch

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:25:21 -0700

(22 votes - 0 comments - 271 views)
This is an 8' by 4' multitouch wall being used for a two player version of Missle Command.

I want to play!

Vagina Dentata and you

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:23:03 -0700

(13 votes - 10 comments - 420 views)
This is probably a viral ad for the coming movie "Teeth". But I'm not completely sure...

Pleo goes boom at Maker Faire

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:54:03 -0700

(14 votes - 7 comments - 338 views)
Oh, the screams of the children in the background! Poor little Christmas darling of 2007! What madmen set up this vicious destruction of dinosaur cutness!

Craig Ferguson has Hugh Laurie as his 5/5/08 guest

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:09:01 -0700

(62 votes - 4 comments - 1495 views)
I just love these two, and I love them together.

"Ever have an implant in your mouth?"