Showing posts with label Vsauce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vsauce. Show all posts

Friday, May 13, 2016

Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 131)

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we talk about the web then go back in time with two very nostalgic video game themes.

  • First, Michael from VSauce wants to talk about how and why we surf the Web (and why the web is not the net).
  • Next, Caitlin and Vaughan take a trip back in time with the Menu Theme from Wolfenstein 3D.
  • Finally, Mr. Smooth McGroove straps into his Ar-Wing and takes us back to the SNES Star Fox. Goood luck!

Friday, March 04, 2016

Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 123)

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we play some video game music and take some video game facts out of the guts of a PlayStation.

  • The first video is from, Caitlin and Vaughan, of Geek and Sundry Vlogs, playing "Into the Wilderness" from Wild Arms. I've never played Wild Arms (I had a real it's not an RPG if you don't have armour and a sword thing going for way too many years), but the music's good. 
  • Next, Ben Chan presents his arrangement of "Wind Scene" from Chrono Trigger. This music always grabs me, and I like his performance and his improvisation in the second half.
  • Finally, on VSauce 3, Jake takes apart a PlayStation and finds out that it's full of interesting facts. 

Friday, January 01, 2016

Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 116)

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we swear, we share and we care (honestly that was the best I could come up with using the thesaurus... sorry).

  • First, Michael from Vsauce has some bad words to say to us.
  • Next, John Green talks about how the Vlogbrothers and Nerdfighteria handles the phrase Don't Forget to Be Awesome, how trade marks work and how not forgetting to be awesome doesn't become less awesome when it gets shared.
  • Finally, Yungtown needed to put some words about his crushing crush into song. Which he did along with the very awesome Satchell Drakes.

Friday, December 18, 2015

Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 112)

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we look ourselves, and death in the face. Then we lighten up and vlog, then think about the most effective way to hit people with iron sticks.

  • First, VSauce videos are always amazing, but this one leaves me stunned and speechless every time I watch it. Here, Michael looks at the immense power we are able to wield and how we wield it. It makes me want to be a better ape.
  • Next, in a slightly lighter vein, Kevin Gisi returns. You may not have noticed he left, but that's mostly a side effect due to the time travel I'm making you do. Also don't worry about the bacon, thanks to the general effect of us travelling forward at one second per second we should be able to skip directly by the past that already happened... I think.
  • Finally, Lindybeige has a point about sword pommels that we need to be aware of.

Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 79)

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we look at the Internet from its GIFability, its weight and its smoothness.

  • First, Gunnarolla has noticed that Tessa Violet and Nanalew are so GIFable and he wrote a song about it.
  • Next, Michael Stevens from VSauce talks at TED-Ed, looking to answer the question, how much does a video weigh and looking to see what asking that question means to us.
  • Finally, for those of you who might have though that Mr. Smooth McGroove only communicates through the medium of video game sound tracks, he disproves this notion communicating through the medium of talk-singing.

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