Category Archives: video

State Radio at the Fillmore

By Dave | Published: January 18, 2010

This weekend, we saw one of my favorite bands, State Radio, play at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco. It was my first time seeing them, and it was fantastic. Here’s the music video for their song, “Gang of Thieves.”

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Beats Antique at the Independent

By Dave | Published: January 3, 2010

Last night, we checked out Beats Antique (also on Last.fm) at the Independent. They’re a pretty awesome fusion of electronic music with a middle eastern bent. Pretty awesome stuff! I love this sort of ambient music as it makes perfect background music for working and such! They also feature belly dancers during their live performances, [...]

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Star Wars intro mashups

By Dave | Published: December 29, 2009

Hah! Star Wars / A-Team intro And even better, here is a Star Wars / Airwolf intro

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Rube Goldberg Machine of Beer

By Dave | Published: December 27, 2009

Hah, this commercial is pretty awesome. It’s like the Rube Goldberg machine of beer.

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Nike soccer commercial

By Dave | Published: December 23, 2009

Just saw this brilliant advertisement again. I first noticed it last year, during the Euro Cup. It’s a commercial by Nike, following the career of an unknown teenage soccer player through their eyes. In two minutes, the commercial goes from playing in a youth league, to playing for Arsenal, to playing for Holland in the [...]

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Funny shorts in Barcelona

By Dave | Published: December 18, 2009

While traveling through Europe last year, we stopped for a few days in Barcelona to check out the capital city of Catalonia. The hostel we were staying in gave us a flyer of interesting things to do over the next few days. One particular entry caught our eye. “¡Una nit de curts còmic!” It’s written [...]

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This octopus is nuts

By Dave | Published: December 18, 2009

This octopus is using a coconut shell for shelter and carrying it around wherever it goes on the ocean floor! The more I read about octopi, the more fascinated I am with them.

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The Known Universe

By Dave | Published: December 17, 2009

This video of The Known Universe is from the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City, and zooms out from the mountains of Tibet, showing every single satellite (artificial and not), star, and known galaxy in the universe. Absolutely incredible! Can you imagine if this was displayed in the Cal Academy [...]

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