I've come across several fun/interesting videos on YouTube the past few weeks, never got around to posting them because I've been busy with stuff at college. The end of the semester is sadly always like this. Just tests, tests and more tests that keep you from doing anything else.
Anyway in a way it's a good thing, because now I get to make a whole post with just the videos! They would have otherwise ended up as footnotes, footnotes you'd probably not even notice. So here are Varun's Top 10 Recently Watched Videos, ranked in reverse chronological order. "Top 10" lists are always more fun than plain bulleted ones, aren't they?
10. If You Come Today — South Indian English Video
I'm sure most of you would have already seen this by now. If you haven't, you should.
9. Tale of Rock
A very well made 3D animated short film by Stevo Payne and John Godwin. It's funny too.
8. System of a Down - Chop Suey
A 2 year old kid rocking out to this SOAD song!
7. Pentagram - Electric
Indian rock band Pentagram's latest released video. Groovy.
6. Orestes — Piano Cover
I always thought Maynard's voice was unimitable. But this guy is just amazing.
5. Mel Blanc on David Letterman
Mel Blanc is the voice of classic cartoon cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and hundreds of others. Wonder how he remembers what his actual voice sounds like.
4. Content-Aware Image Resizing
A new technique of image resizing that keeps the important features of the image undistorted.
3. 300 — Speed Painting and Animation
I don't think I will ever have the patience to do something like this.
2. Linkin Park Parody
One of my friends had added this video to his favourite videos list on Orkut. I can see why.
1. Portal
And I thought people ran out of ideas for video games.
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Assortedness
Semester exams are over and I'm finally jobless again! Okay not really, this break is going to be more of a long study session than anything else. If I don't start my CAT preparation soon, I might as well forget about writing the exam in November. We also have some on-campus recruitments the next couple of weeks, so yeah, busy times ahead.
Rajeev wanted me to make a good post, so I'm going to try doing that by putting together all the random stuff that comes to my mind right now. Randomness is good, right?
If you look at the little counter at the bottom of this page, you'll notice it has crossed 10,000! That works out to what? 20 visits per day? Considering how infrequent my posts are, that's really good. Wondering where all the visits come from? Well, according to Statcounter, a lot of the hits are from people who get here by searching for phrases like "lip twitching", "why is my lip twitching", "upper lip twitch" and the sort. People's lips actually twitch? Weird. Welcome to India seems to be a popular song. A lot of people get to my post searching for that song. Then of course, there's my nanoaudience (which most probably includes you) who take the time to read and comment on my posts. Thanks! I wouldn't be writing if I didn't have readers.
The results of the CNN-IBN "Rising India" Photo Contest was out recently. Watch the video here.
Obviously I didn't win, otherwise I would have posted sooner. The contest was open for months, so they got loads of entries. Unfortunately, the whole contest was by judged by just one person (ace photographer Raghu Rai) which isn't a good thing. Photography is very subjective, after all. Besides, Raghu Rai seemed pretty clueless about the theme which was "Photographs that best define why we love India". I don't quite see how the winning photos fit that theme, but like I said, photography is subjective.
I always thought Indians were clueless about composition. These two videos prove me wrong.
"Tales of Mere Existence - Procastination" by Lev Yilmaz - Pratyusha pointed me to this. Hilarious!
"Le Petit Bonhomme en Mousse" - Way better than any puppet show I've ever seen.
"Drawing a Perfect Circle" by Alexander Overwijk - Would have been a useful skill back in school (remember the time you used to draw loads of circumcircles, incircles and excircles?)
Rajeev wanted me to make a good post, so I'm going to try doing that by putting together all the random stuff that comes to my mind right now. Randomness is good, right?
10,000+ Visitors
If you look at the little counter at the bottom of this page, you'll notice it has crossed 10,000! That works out to what? 20 visits per day? Considering how infrequent my posts are, that's really good. Wondering where all the visits come from? Well, according to Statcounter, a lot of the hits are from people who get here by searching for phrases like "lip twitching", "why is my lip twitching", "upper lip twitch" and the sort. People's lips actually twitch? Weird. Welcome to India seems to be a popular song. A lot of people get to my post searching for that song. Then of course, there's my nanoaudience (which most probably includes you) who take the time to read and comment on my posts. Thanks! I wouldn't be writing if I didn't have readers.
CNN-IBN "Rising India" Photo Contest
The results of the CNN-IBN "Rising India" Photo Contest was out recently. Watch the video here.
Obviously I didn't win, otherwise I would have posted sooner. The contest was open for months, so they got loads of entries. Unfortunately, the whole contest was by judged by just one person (ace photographer Raghu Rai) which isn't a good thing. Photography is very subjective, after all. Besides, Raghu Rai seemed pretty clueless about the theme which was "Photographs that best define why we love India". I don't quite see how the winning photos fit that theme, but like I said, photography is subjective.
Videos on Youtube
I always thought Indians were clueless about composition. These two videos prove me wrong.
"Incredible India" Campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWuGEbPALy0
"I am India"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2qZEiZMgWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWuGEbPALy0
"I am India"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2qZEiZMgWs
"Tales of Mere Existence - Procastination" by Lev Yilmaz - Pratyusha pointed me to this. Hilarious!
"Le Petit Bonhomme en Mousse" - Way better than any puppet show I've ever seen.
"Drawing a Perfect Circle" by Alexander Overwijk - Would have been a useful skill back in school (remember the time you used to draw loads of circumcircles, incircles and excircles?)
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