Well the last post wasn’t that exciting, so here is one that Mike showed me last night. If you like Stripes at all, you should read these Mindhole Blowers: 20 Facts About Stripes That Might Make You Want to Sing “Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do”. Apparently it all started from trying to figure out the song that Murray sings when his girlfriend breaks up with him in the beginning, which is now my new favorite song:
The instragram for the New York City Library is a very good use of instagram. A review of a item is put up on Tuesdays (like the above) and on Mondays they put up a question they received from their reference desk because they “were google before there google existed.” Check out a collection the Gothamist put together of some good questions.
Via SwissMiss. Oh, and fuck New York, too.
It is easy to get burned out on supercuts and get into video essays (as you can probably tell fi saw a timeline of posts here), but this video/documentary by Kevin B. Lee is commenting on how I should probably analyze the video essays a little more. I like the difference between this video praising women in Scorsese movies versus this video showing a quite different view.
Via Awesomer.
Based on some best-viral-videos-of-the-year videos and then watching the ones that I missed, here are links to some of them: