You know what’s cool? Video demos featuring me. (Though I’m no longer the first result for “cyberpresse” apparently.)
Via Sekhmet.
Category Archives: Video
Jon Lajoie: SuperHab
From Jon Lajoie:
Note: Please do not take this literally. Flyers fans are human too. If you see one trying to steal the purse of a helpless old lady, please report the matter to the police immediately and do not — I repeat: do not — beat the person to a bloody pulp.
The real culprit
I think we’ve found the real reason there was a riot around Crescent St. on Monday night: Bilal and CHOM’s Hockeyville (not to be confused with CBC/Kraft Hockeyville). Time to repent, Bilal…
Recognize any of these faces?
More faces from the … ahem … “alleged” rioters of Monday night.
Also posted on YouTube is the security video of a Rogers Wireless store downtown that was looted Monday night. They couldn’t take any cellphones because those were tied to the display tables, and those prepaid phone cards are useless because they have to be pre-activated by the cashier. But have fun with those charging adapters, I guess.
Let’s make fun of Indian people
Hey hey hey goodbye indeed
Some might decry this as a lack of class, but really Canadiens fans deserved this after Boston beat us in overtime yesterday: Bruins fans heckling Habs fans in the bathroom at [Corporate name here] Garden in Boston, singing “you’re gay, you’re gay, you’re gay, you’re-gay-you’re-gay-you’re-gay”
Olé
On behalf of the city, we’d like to apologize to anyone who tried to sleep after 10pm last night. (And, very possibly, anyone trying to sleep after 10pm tonight or 10pm Tuesday night.)
Not that they weren’t toying a bit with our heartstrings to begin with.
Actually, on second thought, no we’re not sorry. If you were trying to sleep during a playoff game, there’s clearly something wrong with you.
Expos nostalgia
39 years ago this week, major league baseball came to Canada for the first time with the creation of the Montreal Expos. For those unfamiliar with the story, they began in 1969, with the greatness of Expo 67 still in our minds, and played at Jarry Park until they moved to the Olympic Stadium, where they played until the franchise moved to Washington in 2004.
We can go on and on about how sad it is that baseball is no longer here and how much we want to bring them back, but this is the anniversary of its birth, not its death.
Thanks to the magic of YouTube, we can look back on the great moments of this glorious team, including some peeks at individual seasons (1977, their first at the Olympic Stadium; 1981, including the tragedy of Blue Monday, when they failed to make the World Series by a single run in a single game; 1982, including the first-ever major-league all-star game outside the U.S.) or fun little tidbits like a really-really young Céline Dion singing the national anthem or Fernand Lapierre performing the Expos theme song.
But my favourite is this goofy 1988 CFCF piece with Randy Tieman and Rob Faulds doing an Expos parody of Dragnet, “investigating” stolen bases.
If only rampant base theft was still a problem here…
Frozen at Place Ville-Marie/Central Station
Usually I get advanced notice of stuff like this, but someone organized a public freeze under my radar today, similar to what happened at Berri-UQAM metro in February:
This supposedly happened today at Central Station.
UPDATE: Another video of the event, which also involved a freeze in the food court of Place Ville-Marie. And another one, which shows CTV’s Paul Karwatsky, making it abundantly clear to everyone that this is an organized event, and another one.
UPDATE (April 15): Don’t ask me why they waited more than a week, but CFCF finally has a report on the freeze from Karwatsky in his “My Generation” segment.
CUPFA using YouTube
After six years of failed contract negotiations, CUPFA, the Concordia University Part-Time Faculty Association, has instituted “rotating strikes” which sound more like “picketing between classes”. Among their demands are pay equity with full-time teachers (represented by another bargaining unit, CUFA) as well as basic job security, if only so that students don’t see “TBA” listed as their professors for upcoming courses.
Concordia University has declared that the show must go on though they will tolerate CUPFA’s tactics. Students must still complete all work, handing it in to departments directly if necessary.
Part of CUPFA’s tactics include setting up a YouTube channel and posting videos.
Here, head honcho Maria Peluso explains the skinny on CUPFA’s position.
Muppet bloopers
This video has been making the rounds of the Internet recently. Be sure to check out the interview with the song’s creator.
41 years and counting
The Leafs are officially eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs.
And Best Buy is there to rub salt in the wound:
That Gagné fellow sure did get around
From Associated Press’s YouTube channel (which doesn’t use the pretentious “The” in its username), a clip on the deep family histories of the presidential candidates. Hillary Clinton is linked with some Canadian superstars (Alanis, Trudeau, Celine, Kerouac) through her French-Canadian background.
There are no generic people
You know, there’s a good reason why you should never use stock footage of identifiable people without knowing who those people are:
Especially if you’re a politician, and there’s a chance that the person is an active supporter of your opponent.
Patrick Boivin
The Domster points us to amazing special-effects videos of Patrick Boivin, who’s done commercials and other work with stop-motion animation or really cool CGI that looks like stop-motion animation.
He points to a couple of videos, but my favourite is this tribute to Evolution of Dance with Optimus Prime: