Category: video
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Myq Kaplan on Late Late Show
Myq Kaplan, who you may remember as the vegan from the most recent series of Last Comic Standing, was on the Late Late Show. I especially like the bit about sets and subsets – what’s next, going out for rectangles or shapes?
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Simpsons Intro by Banksy
(via BoingBoing) Banksy directed intro to the Simpsons. The good stuff comes in about 0:36 in, so don’t miss it. Wonder what 20th Century Fox thought of that one? Would have been a fun production meeting to be a fly-on-the-wall for.
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Human Ventriloquism
(via BizarroBlog) An excellent, short, funny video from Paul Zerdin who takes a volunteer from the audience and turns him into a human dummy:
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Whole Lotta War Pigs Love
(via Laughing Squid) comes this mashup of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” and Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” – masterfully mixed by Wax Audio.
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Animated Painting: Avett Brothers
(via ze frank) Beautiful video for the Avett Brothers’ song “Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promises” – an animation by Jason Mitcham. There’s also a “making of” video, but watch the real one first.
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Carnism as an ideology
Loved this, from a discussion on Making Hay of Dr. Melanie Joy’s new book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: What we eat – what we choose to consider food – is the product of ideology when we aren’t forced by necessity to eat whatever we can get. And this: Our goal…
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Two New Vegan Blogs
Two well known folks in the animal rights / vegan community have launched new blogs – check them out and subscribe! First, Erik Marcus, who you likely know as the person behind Vegan.com, as well as the author of Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating, Meat Market: Animals, Ethic, and Money, and The Ultimate Vegan…
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Swine Flu and Factory Farming
As H1N1, aka the flu formerly known as swine flu, aka “The Other White Death,” continues to dominate the public media, it’s important to recognize the contribution factory farming (and animal agriculture in general) makes to these superviruses. Here’s video from CNN with Dr. Michael Greger from the HSUS: Embedded video from CNN Video Related…
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Film Screening: Seeing Through the Fence
(Guess it’s BVS week here at Goatless) This Tuesday, May 12th, the Boston Vegetarian Society is hosting a screening of Seeing Through the Fence, a film by Eleni Vlachos (who blogs at Binge Cafe), including a pre-screening vegan buffet with the the filmmaker herself.
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Bittman (sort of) gets it
Mark Bittman’s a columnist for the NY times, and is getting lots of attention recently for his new book Food Matters. He’s essentially urging a plant-based diet, though he consistently stops short of encouraging people to go fully vegan as that would be “difficult” and/or “unpopular.” I’ve also never seen him really acknowledge – perhaps…
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Teabaggin’
Doesn’t anyone at Fox News know how to use the Urban Dictionary?
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New Years Day
One of my favorite songs from what I think of as “first-period” U2 (the era before Unforgettable Fire) has always been “New Year’s Day,” with its juxtaposition of optimism and acquiescence, suggesting: Nothing changes on New Year’s Day. On New Year’s Day. But then at the center of the song declaring with renewed affirmation: Though…
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A Holiday Tune for the Rest of Us
(From The Satirical Political Report via boing boing) A version of Adam Sandler’s Hannukah song reworked with new lyrics by Don Davis, as performed by Louie Aronowitz: Put away your Fathiesm, its time to celebrate atheism: Atheism is, the festival of Enlightenment, Unlike many religions, it doesn’t depend on crazy enfrightenment Very Sandler-esque.
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No They Can’t
I just wanted to quickly share two recent videos cover my disgust over California’s prop 8 and related legislation better than I could myself. The first is Lindsay Campbell, from MobLogic.tv: The second, from Countdown with Keith Olberman on MSNBC: I’m simultaneously very proud we managed to elect Obama; equally sad we chose to remove…
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What’s Wrong With What We Eat & The Humane Myth
Two recent finds online worth sharing. First, a video which came through the TED Talks video feed in Miro. It’s not actually from TED but from EG, which is a similar conference in Monterey focused on innovative ideas and wealthy audiences. It’s Mark Bittman, a food critic for the New York Times (and author of…
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Once Upon a School
I’ve been watching Ted talks lately on my morning commute. This one is definitely inspiring – Dave Eggers talking about Once Upon a School (which, unfortuntely, seems to be down at the moment). It’s the story of 826 Valencia, a publishing house / writing center / pirate supply store / tutoring community in San Francisco,…
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The Cheeseburger Footprint
Just came across an excellent post from Jamais Cascio on the Carbon Footprint of the Cheeseburger In summary, he concludes: To make it clear, then: the greenhouse gas emissions arising every year from the production and consumption of cheeseburgers is roughly the amount emitted by 6.5 million to 19.6 million SUVs. There are now approximately…
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Like Hope, But Different
What if will.i.am were a McCain fan rather than an Obamaniac? My favorite moment is the guy hyperventilating into a paper bag as McCain talks about a hundred years, maybe a thousand years . . .