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Crazy Football Commentary, Animated!
I’ve shared animator Nick Murray Willis’ videos before — he takes snippets of sound & dialogue from sports commentary & movies and creates context-shifted animations from them. For instance, in the two videos above with football (soccer) commentary, a commentator’s chant of “Messi, Messi, Messi” becomes a French street performer thanking the crowd (“merci, merci, merci”).
(Ok, I’ve caught myself attempting to explain humor, so I’m gonna wrap this up by urging you to watch the videos if you want.)
Tags: animation · Nick Murray Willis · remix · soccer · sports · video
The 7 Coolest Mathematical Discoveries of 2024, including “the biggest prime number...
The 7 Coolest Mathematical Discoveries of 2024, including “the biggest prime number yet, a new formula for pi, mysterious patterns in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and even a whole new kind of shape”.
“Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how...
“Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.”
You can use this game to narrow down 30 monospaced typefaces to...
The most popular Wikipedia articles of 2024 (thru Nov 22), including Deaths...
The most popular Wikipedia articles of 2024 (thru Nov 22), including Deaths in 2024, Project 2025, Griselda Blanco, UEFA Euro 2024, ChatGPT, Taylor Swift, and Kamala Harris.
Costco Board Pushes Back Against Anti-DEI Activists
A group of Costco shareholders, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s continued assault on the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, called on the company’s board to “conduct an evaluation and publish a report” on the risks involved in maintaining their DEI program, whi...
Absolutely brilliant interactive explainer on everything about the Moon: how it moves,...
Absolutely brilliant interactive explainer on everything about the Moon: how it moves, how it formed, what causes tides, solar eclipses, etc. So fun to play with all the gravity widgets in this.
A reader found her father in a photo on the back cover...
A reader found her father in a photo on the back cover of Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste. The photo was of a crowd of people at the 1963 March on Washington.
The unbearable slowness of being: “Streaming a high-def video takes about 25M...
The unbearable slowness of being: “Streaming a high-def video takes about 25M bits/sec. The download rate in a typical American home is about 262 million bps. Now researchers have estimated the speed of information flow in the human brain: just 10 bps.”
An Epic 2024 Movie Trailer Mashup
How to Make 80s School Cafeteria Pizza
Food historian Max Miller stumbled upon the original recipe for 1980s/90s school cafeteria pizza (you know, with the iconic rectangular slices) and decided to whip up a batch (with “pourable dough”).
Tastes just like it. You can like — all of those herbs are exactly the s...
You can watch the first five seasons of The Dick Van Dyke...
Minnesota Guaranteed Free School Meals for All Kids. Now Let’s Do It...
Minnesota Guaranteed Free School Meals for All Kids. Now Let’s Do It Nationwide. It’s been a big success: “We can see that students are just better prepared. They’re better able to learn and focus.”
California’s raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers and contrary to some...
California’s raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers and contrary to some bad press & much industry outcry, it’s been a success. “California’s fast-food sector gained jobs in all but one month since September 2023.”
Whooping cough cases reach highest level in a decade. “The U.S. has...
Whooping cough cases reach highest level in a decade. “The U.S. has recorded over 32,000 whooping cough cases this year, compared with around 5,100 as of mid-December last year. Infants are most vulnerable…” (Guess why?)
10 years ago, I wrote about why I support Wikipedia with a...
10 years ago, I wrote about why I support Wikipedia with a monthly donation. “I consider it a subscription fee to an indispensable and irreplaceable resource I use dozens of times weekly while producing kottke[dot]org.”
Louis Armstrong Reads ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
While poking around for Christmas music, I found this little-known recording of Louis Armstrong reading ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas, recorded shortly before he died.
The poem, first published in 1823, would be Armstrong’s final commercial recording. Armstrong taped it on February 26, 1971, on a reel-to-reel recorder at his home in Queens, New York, during his last spell of good health.
Truly one of the great voices of all time.
Tags: Louis Armstrong · video
You can watch the first 8 minutes of Severance season two right...
You can watch the first 8 minutes of Severance season two right now on Apple TV+. The season starts on Jan 17. To prep, you might want to watch a recap and/or the excellent season one finale.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
Blockbuster auteur Christopher Nolan’s next movie will be an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. Here’s what we know and don’t about it so far:
The film will be a “mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX technology” distributed by Universal Pictures.
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This hotel in Monterey Bay, CA has a stick library available for...
This hotel in Monterey Bay, CA has a stick library available for dogs. “Every morning my dog would carefully pick one out to take to the beach.”
You shouldn’t be driving over 100 mph — and your car shouldn’t...
You shouldn’t be driving over 100 mph — and your car shouldn’t let you. “The NTSB recommended that automakers be required to install technology to prevent reckless speeding.”
A roundup of the words of the year for 2024, including brat,...
A roundup of the words of the year for 2024, including brat, manifest, kakistocracy, polarization, brain rot, enshittification, sanewashing, girl mossing, vibe, and broligarchy.
Pricing calculator for creator economy platforms. For instance, if you have a...
Pricing calculator for creator economy platforms. For instance, if you have a newsletter with 1000 subscribers that pay $5/mo, Substack will cost you $500/mo, Patreon $400/mo, Ghost $19/mo, Beehiiv $39/mo, Ko-fi $6/mo, Buttondown $29/mo.
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants
Well this is something special, a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a group of archivists (including Chris Person) has uploaded an HBO magic special by Ricky Jay that has been largely unavailable since it aired in 1996.
This is an RF rip of Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistant...
Gisèle Pelicot, Dominique Pelicot, and what many men would do. “What would...
Gisèle Pelicot, Dominique Pelicot, and what many men would do. “What would a woman do to an unconscious man if she thought no-one would find out?”
Rickey Henderson has died aged 65. “There may not have been any...
Rickey Henderson has died aged 65. “There may not have been any player in history who was better at more things than Rickey Henderson was.” He was so fun to watch.
Last minute gift idea for the art fan in your life: Amy...
Last minute gift idea for the art fan in your life: Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Saw this in the bookstore this morning and it’s such a beautiful book.
My mouth is watering reading this retrospective by Cup of Jo’s retiring...
My mouth is watering reading this retrospective by Cup of Jo’s retiring food writer, Jenny Rosenstrach. Lots of good recipes, like Smashed Pea Toasts with Ricotta? Yum.
Balkonkraftwerk: a German word meaning “balcony power plant”, aka the low-cost solar...
Balkonkraftwerk: a German word meaning “balcony power plant”, aka the low-cost solar panels people are hanging from their balconies to generate extra household energy.