Getting Excited, Making Things

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we accidentally the whole ... food!

First, Kevin Gisi tackles the dreaded, I don't know what to make a video about video. As it turns out most issues are complex and there are a lot of ways to look at them. I like the idea of sticking to a schedule (he said as all his deadlines sailed past) because it forces you to keep going and not to get stuck on things, but there's also something to be said for getting things done as well as you can when you get them done. I guess that's why there are two models of Patreon funding.

Finally, we recently watched AcapellaScience set string theory to Bohemian Rhapsody, but in case you're still looking for nerdy content in the from of incredibly long rock songs, here Pat the NES Punk and Brentalfloss present us with: Nintendohemian Rhapsody.

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we get excited about Mars, Star Wars and the Internet!

First, on Sci Show, Hank Green gets excited about finding water in the soil of Mars. It's funny then that as I'm posting this, we just discovered that there are flows of liquid water across the surface of Mars. (So you can watch Hank get excited about water on mars again in about 75 more favourites posts.

Next the people at Sincerely Truman, lay down some rules for Mr. Abrams on what's essential to make Star Wars good. I think the rules are pretty good ones, and I'm cautiously optimistic that the new movies will follow these.

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we find out how the world works and then choose to ignore it anyway.

First Henry from MinutePhysics and Derek from Veritasium team up to explain what's really going on with magnets.

And then, Mr. Smooth McGroove defies all laws of physics to bring us the sounds of Sonic speeding across a glacier.

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, fight bugs and we look at how to come together, both online and offline.

First, in a follow up to a video his about what to do with YouTube, Kevin Gisi, takes a more serious look at what the options are to replace YouTube. He may not have had what he needed in pocket, but I am glad (as I said last time) that Subbable and Patreon came to exist and while they haven't solved all of the problems I think it's better for creators and fans today than it was back then.

Next, Adam Savage shows off his favourite video game and discovers that as soon as anyone films you playing a game your skill immediately drops off by about 90%.

Finally, The City of Calgary, put together a video to thank all of the volunteers and the city that came out to help put peoples homes and the city back together after the flood here in 2013. Not going to lie, I may have cried into my coffee cup rewatching this one.