Weekend Reading: YouTube Edition
I have a friend who always says movies are books for the illiterate. There were a ton of good YouTube videos that I saw this week, here are some of the best.
Gates and Seinfeld
Make sure you watch until the very end.
Transylvania Book Heist Reenactment Video
I found out about this via Jon Clark via Beast via Twitter if that makes sense.
Court TV has a show called Masterminds. The show re-creates crimes and explains what happened with different cases. We have known for some time that there was an episode concerning the infamous Transy Book Heist. Unfortunately we were never able to watch it because the cable service on campus didn’t have the channel. (conspiracy? possibly…)
Long story short, watch this before it gets pulled down.
Update: The videos are now back online, they were previously taken down.
Transylvania Book Heist – Part 1/3
Transylvania Book Heist – Part 2/3
Transylvania Book Heist – Part 3/3
Blast from the Past
I noticed today that my youtube videos have been viewed a total of 217,917 times. Wow! Because I don’t have time to post anything too original or complicated, here is my most watched video of all time.
I Met The Walrus
I think this was nominated for an Oscar, but I don’t have time to look it up.
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.