Just threw the video up on the web, like
April 11, 2019 4:58 AM Subscribe
didn't even give it a title. default filename tv displays videos uploaded to youTube that have not been given their own filename. It's a little like browsing the web pre algorithm-driven content management.
This is a project from Everest Pipkin, an artist with a keen eye on technology. Their Instagram
This is a project from Everest Pipkin, an artist with a keen eye on technology. Their Instagram
It also feels somehow voyeuristic, even though these videos were uploaded to the Internet. It's sort of like watching a bunch of home movies I bought at an estate sale.
posted by duffell at 5:25 AM on April 11, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by duffell at 5:25 AM on April 11, 2019 [3 favorites]
First video is for a guy selling a way to make money while you work out at the gym or sleep at night and the guy is winded from just having worked out so it sort of sounds like he's under duress. Surreal but also a bummer.
posted by Space Coyote at 5:28 AM on April 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Space Coyote at 5:28 AM on April 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
YouTube has wired my brain to continually expect something terrible / funny / gross / otherwise unexpected to happen in these videos.
"Oh, there's someone walking behind a horse, I bet they get sprayed with horse diarrhea, oh... no, never mind."
"Oh, a toddler is helping his baby sister drink from a bottle, what hijinks will ensue?! Oh... he's just being a good and helpful older sibling."
It's refreshing, really.
posted by duffell at 5:35 AM on April 11, 2019 [13 favorites]
"Oh, there's someone walking behind a horse, I bet they get sprayed with horse diarrhea, oh... no, never mind."
"Oh, a toddler is helping his baby sister drink from a bottle, what hijinks will ensue?! Oh... he's just being a good and helpful older sibling."
It's refreshing, really.
posted by duffell at 5:35 AM on April 11, 2019 [13 favorites]
Let's have some fun: search Youtube for "DSC_####" where "####" is a day and month or year that's important to you. Birthday, first date, anniversary, numerology, whatever.
What's the best thing you found?
posted by mhoye at 6:14 AM on April 11, 2019 [3 favorites]
What's the best thing you found?
posted by mhoye at 6:14 AM on April 11, 2019 [3 favorites]
What's the best thing you found?
A video, shot at a distance with a long lens, of me raking my yard. However, the date I put in the filename was my own birthday thirty years ago, before youtube, before this house was built, back when this was all farmland. The "me" was fifteen-year-old me, raking my twenty-first century house...how...
(this website also feels like an ARG, you need to watch them all and pull together the pieces, which give you a phone number to call, which is a voicemail with a domain name mentioned, which directs you to a billboard at...etc.)
posted by AzraelBrown at 6:21 AM on April 11, 2019 [6 favorites]
A video, shot at a distance with a long lens, of me raking my yard. However, the date I put in the filename was my own birthday thirty years ago, before youtube, before this house was built, back when this was all farmland. The "me" was fifteen-year-old me, raking my twenty-first century house...how...
(this website also feels like an ARG, you need to watch them all and pull together the pieces, which give you a phone number to call, which is a voicemail with a domain name mentioned, which directs you to a billboard at...etc.)
posted by AzraelBrown at 6:21 AM on April 11, 2019 [6 favorites]
astronaut.io, previously on MeFi, has a similar curation system:
These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you).
posted by little onion at 6:23 AM on April 11, 2019 [2 favorites]
These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you).
posted by little onion at 6:23 AM on April 11, 2019 [2 favorites]
Just saw a baby doing a passable job of being cute, someone's tennis game, and a person auditioning for some sort of McDonald's model family competition. This is the real dark web. I love it.
posted by phooky at 6:24 AM on April 11, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by phooky at 6:24 AM on April 11, 2019 [5 favorites]
I am really enjoying this - so far no downers and a lot of people playing music. And then I got this, which I thought was just delightful.
posted by Mchelly at 6:25 AM on April 11, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Mchelly at 6:25 AM on April 11, 2019 [2 favorites]
Mchelly, I liked that too, especially as it's such a sweet bike.
My finds so far include this, which has me curious about who they are--did they go pro, or are they just doing it for fun?--and, using my birthday, this high school production of Bye Bye Birdie.
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:31 AM on April 11, 2019
My finds so far include this, which has me curious about who they are--did they go pro, or are they just doing it for fun?--and, using my birthday, this high school production of Bye Bye Birdie.
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:31 AM on April 11, 2019
“Strict safesearch is on”: Aww, man, or Thank god. I can’t decide.
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 7:31 AM on April 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 7:31 AM on April 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
The most intriguing thing I found is this video from what I think is an improv, in a language I don't understand, featuring people who seem to be into it.
posted by fiercekitten at 8:00 AM on April 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by fiercekitten at 8:00 AM on April 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
I found this lovely channel of a Japanese man feeding stray cats. Most videos have 50-100 views.
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld at 8:08 AM on April 11, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld at 8:08 AM on April 11, 2019 [5 favorites]
And speaking of cool bikes, I also got this one
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld at 8:14 AM on April 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld at 8:14 AM on April 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
I vaguely recall doing this with early google image search. You'd search for filename:DSC_####.JPG or something and get pages full of unrelated images, some of them quite striking.
I was delighted to find that after a short twerking clip (which was about the level I expected) I got a young man cycling along main roads in Japan ("thankfully downhill" he says). I was actually marvelling at the bollard placement for the first minute before realising that I'd been served a thoroughly on-brand video through sheer random chance.
I've closed the tab now. I won. I'll quit while I'm ahead!
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 9:01 AM on April 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
I was delighted to find that after a short twerking clip (which was about the level I expected) I got a young man cycling along main roads in Japan ("thankfully downhill" he says). I was actually marvelling at the bollard placement for the first minute before realising that I'd been served a thoroughly on-brand video through sheer random chance.
I've closed the tab now. I won. I'll quit while I'm ahead!
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 9:01 AM on April 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
Fabulous, thanks. This is heart warming. I loved facebook live before they pulled the map that allowed you to zoom in on random livestreams in remote areas. It was wholesome to go there after, e.g. reading about immanent civil war in Venezuela, and to find a livestream of someone painting their nails. Most of life is unspectacular, most deeds are well intentioned, and things are mostly ok most of the time. YMMV.
posted by stonepharisee at 9:33 AM on April 11, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by stonepharisee at 9:33 AM on April 11, 2019 [5 favorites]
"YouTube has wired my brain to continually expect something terrible / funny / gross / otherwise unexpected to happen in these videos."
Can you really blame youtube for that? Like, if I were expecting anything, it would be for these videos to turn into a long video essay about something trivial, or just footage of someone playing a videogame.
posted by GoblinHoney at 9:57 AM on April 11, 2019
Can you really blame youtube for that? Like, if I were expecting anything, it would be for these videos to turn into a long video essay about something trivial, or just footage of someone playing a videogame.
posted by GoblinHoney at 9:57 AM on April 11, 2019
Jeez, the first video I got was of a four or five year old girl dancing at a stripper pole with strippers cheering in the background.
No thanks.
posted by Sphinx at 9:58 AM on April 11, 2019
No thanks.
posted by Sphinx at 9:58 AM on April 11, 2019
Jesus, watched 10 videos and hit two cockfights. Ugh... I hate the statistical mechanical implications of that.
posted by pjenks at 11:39 AM on April 11, 2019
posted by pjenks at 11:39 AM on April 11, 2019
MetaFilter: Aww, man, or Thank god. I can’t decide.
posted by webmutant at 12:15 PM on April 11, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by webmutant at 12:15 PM on April 11, 2019 [2 favorites]
What's the best thing you found?
waiting for a bus? a verdict? god?
soothing
Elliott fait du vélo
somebody's dad is a very good sport
blow on 'em a bit, so they move?
posted by notquitemaryann at 3:29 PM on April 11, 2019
waiting for a bus? a verdict? god?
soothing
Elliott fait du vélo
somebody's dad is a very good sport
blow on 'em a bit, so they move?
posted by notquitemaryann at 3:29 PM on April 11, 2019
I saw a nice video of a band playing a corrido song in some metro somewhere. I was interested in watching it again so I could find out more about it, but when it was over and I clicked “previous video” to go back to it, the website served up a whole different video. Ah well, it’s gone into the ether now.
posted by Kattullus at 2:55 AM on April 12, 2019
posted by Kattullus at 2:55 AM on April 12, 2019
Well, I got a puppy, and little kid with a stick, and then this, so thanks for the curse I guess.
posted by lucidium at 10:18 AM on April 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by lucidium at 10:18 AM on April 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
(Actually that just leads to someone who is making chill music about space, not sure how it got caught in the playlist.)
posted by lucidium at 10:38 AM on April 12, 2019
posted by lucidium at 10:38 AM on April 12, 2019
Whoa. First one was an adorable video of a Dad reading, in Spanish, a children's book to his son who was laughing with wild abandon at each page. A few amazing videos, then a video of someone recording an old school boom-box playing a tape, then showing how to record the playing tape with another tape. Press play. Then press play+record with the other tape. Truly you can learn about anything on YouTube.
posted by amanda at 2:37 PM on April 12, 2019
posted by amanda at 2:37 PM on April 12, 2019
My favorite find was Jess giving it everything she's got to lift the weight.
posted by Lafe at 7:28 PM on April 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Lafe at 7:28 PM on April 12, 2019 [2 favorites]
A cat & a puppy romp through a tube for an impossibly long time while the weather report plays in the background
posted by taquito sunrise at 1:41 AM on April 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by taquito sunrise at 1:41 AM on April 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
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