Posts Filed Under — Videos

[ September 30th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Video: Color Changing Punching Bag, Why Not?

If you can really punch a bag (by punch, I don’t mean the pathetic windmill hits that the folks in this are doing), then the hiss of escaping air, the swing of the bag and the fist sized indentation that you see in front of you ought to enough visual stimulation. However, if you [...]

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[ September 16th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Video: Unboxing; Always Stupid, Sometimes Amusing

Allow me to state for the record that I think that unboxing is dumb, unless of course it is incompetent unboxing, like in the video after the jump, because that is really funny. It is not often that I find myself laughing out loud at someone trying to free their latest piece of gadgetry from [...]

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[ September 10th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Video: Fireworks War, Greek Town Celebrates Easter With a Rocket War Against Its Neighbor

I always found fireworks, I don’t know kinda pointless and boring - at least that is until now. Two parishes, Panagia Erithiani and Saint Mark’s, launch fireworks, lots of fireworks at each other once a year on Easter to celebrate a custom that dates back to Turkish occupation. While it might sound dangerous, it is [...]

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[ September 9th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Video: Homemade Human Catapult Action - Don’t Try This at Home

Reader Seth sent us in the link to a video of some homemade human catapult craziness. It looks like awesome, dangerous fun; though I did note that at least one of the catapultees was wearing a Gath helmet to protect his crazy noggin.

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[ August 27th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]

Video: Preparing for Burning Man

The infrastructure for the hot, sweaty and sometimes naked experience known as Burning Man is currently being prepared. If you want to have a look at some of the work that goes into a project like this and the sheer scale of Burning Man, then check out the video. [Current via Boing Boing, MAKE]

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