51 Things
August 12, 2009 9:24 AM Subscribe
51 Things is a YouTube vlogging meme. Here are a few of the more interesting videos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
wow... I couldn't stand that....
Maybe... what...I'm too old? But, someone explain to me WHY I should spend my time watching that???
posted by HuronBob at 9:48 AM on August 12, 2009
Maybe... what...I'm too old? But, someone explain to me WHY I should spend my time watching that???
posted by HuronBob at 9:48 AM on August 12, 2009
...well, that and the pig-tailed german psychopath under #8.
posted by koeselitz at 9:49 AM on August 12, 2009
posted by koeselitz at 9:49 AM on August 12, 2009
It's like one of those MySpace surveys, only it requires hours and hours of more work.
posted by hermitosis at 9:53 AM on August 12, 2009
posted by hermitosis at 9:53 AM on August 12, 2009
SinisterPurpose: Oh, I really want to find that song in the fourth video. Cursory examination of the page has yielded zip.
Well, then just curse some more. The very first comment (click on 'see all comments') named it: it's 'Je Veux Te Voir' by Yelle.
posted by koeselitz at 9:54 AM on August 12, 2009
Well, then just curse some more. The very first comment (click on 'see all comments') named it: it's 'Je Veux Te Voir' by Yelle.
posted by koeselitz at 9:54 AM on August 12, 2009
I TOO HAVE STUFF lET ME SHOW YOU IT
posted by everichon at 9:57 AM on August 12, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by everichon at 9:57 AM on August 12, 2009 [2 favorites]
2) Does just anything count as entertainment now?
No, but unfortunately this does count as identity.
posted by YoBananaBoy at 10:01 AM on August 12, 2009 [2 favorites]
No, but unfortunately this does count as identity.
posted by YoBananaBoy at 10:01 AM on August 12, 2009 [2 favorites]
I felt that #3 embroadened my knowledge substantiatively.
posted by Magnakai at 10:03 AM on August 12, 2009
posted by Magnakai at 10:03 AM on August 12, 2009
I didn't watch any of them all the way through, but the mix of styles was kind of interesting. I liked #8, as he had some... very interesting things. And #6, where the guy had his own rap-like thing in the background.
posted by gemmy at 10:09 AM on August 12, 2009
posted by gemmy at 10:09 AM on August 12, 2009
keep_evolving: Those girls are hot. That is all.
Man, I hate it when people pull out that tired old 'eponysterical' joke out, don't you? Of course, it probably annoys you a lot more than it annoys me; people must do it to you all the time.
posted by koeselitz at 10:13 AM on August 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
Man, I hate it when people pull out that tired old 'eponysterical' joke out, don't you? Of course, it probably annoys you a lot more than it annoys me; people must do it to you all the time.
posted by koeselitz at 10:13 AM on August 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
Makes one long for the days when the internet was about hot chicks farting on cakes.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 10:25 AM on August 12, 2009
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 10:25 AM on August 12, 2009
SLC: interesting as a checkpoint in the history of conspicuous consumption, perhaps?
posted by honest knave at 10:27 AM on August 12, 2009
posted by honest knave at 10:27 AM on August 12, 2009
Gandhi's things could have been your things (for a cool $1.8 million USD).
posted by filthy light thief at 11:16 AM on August 12, 2009
posted by filthy light thief at 11:16 AM on August 12, 2009
Hmm..things. Mildly irritating, but now I'm tempted to make a "51 wtf things I found in my home that you would never want in yours" video.
vlogging? do people still say that? it's SO 2005.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 11:19 AM on August 12, 2009
vlogging? do people still say that? it's SO 2005.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 11:19 AM on August 12, 2009
I guess they were better than that "51 things people accidentally sat on" vlog my proctologist sent me.
posted by sanko at 11:46 AM on August 12, 2009
posted by sanko at 11:46 AM on August 12, 2009
I'm growing a deep affection for these list-based memes that float around youtube and facebook and livejournal and etc: ten things you don't know about me, twenty books I've read, 51 things I own, all of them.
Individually there's no reason they should be interesting to anyone who doesn't already personally know the person engaging in the meme -- and for the most part that's all who will see them, except on those rare occasions when some aggregator like MeFi chooses to dragnet a handful up into more public view.
But collectively they turn into more than just lists. They become these little formalized packets of identity. Structured ways for all these countless individuals to say "this is me. This is who I am."
Every once in a while I get overwhelmed by just how many humans there are.
posted by ook at 11:50 AM on August 12, 2009
Individually there's no reason they should be interesting to anyone who doesn't already personally know the person engaging in the meme -- and for the most part that's all who will see them, except on those rare occasions when some aggregator like MeFi chooses to dragnet a handful up into more public view.
But collectively they turn into more than just lists. They become these little formalized packets of identity. Structured ways for all these countless individuals to say "this is me. This is who I am."
Every once in a while I get overwhelmed by just how many humans there are.
posted by ook at 11:50 AM on August 12, 2009
"Interesting," how, exactly?
In defense of the poster: The links were advertised as the more interesting videos. A relative term. We can only assume that the other videos all consisted of grainy footage of 51 patches of different nuances of grey paint drying on a dimly lit wall ...in slow motion.
posted by JeNeSaisQuoi at 12:08 PM on August 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
In defense of the poster: The links were advertised as the more interesting videos. A relative term. We can only assume that the other videos all consisted of grainy footage of 51 patches of different nuances of grey paint drying on a dimly lit wall ...in slow motion.
posted by JeNeSaisQuoi at 12:08 PM on August 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
Vlogging meme!
posted by StopMakingSense at 12:22 PM on August 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by StopMakingSense at 12:22 PM on August 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
These (and the whole constellation of related net ephemera) will be a gold mine for future historians, if they survive (these videos, not the historians, I mean). How many historians have bemoaned the fact that very few people document the seemingly irrelevant minutia of daily life in their time? Lots, that's how many.
posted by rusty at 12:25 PM on August 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by rusty at 12:25 PM on August 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
Rusty: How many historians have bemoaned the fact that very few people document the seemingly irrelevant minutia of daily life in their time? Lots, that's how many.
Back before he became an insufferable chickenhawk, I used to enjoy James Lilek's historical musings.
Back before he became an insufferable chickenhawk, I used to enjoy James Lilek's historical musings.
"So I dumped out the bins and sorted the dross from the gold, always wondering who had assembled this collection, and why. Well, we know why: to light things with. But why so many of the same? Why save the standard-issue King Edward Relaxor matches? I’m glad they did; people like me are ever grateful of those who saved the commonplace items, because they fill in the details you never would otherwise know. We know how presidents look and how popular TV show themes sounded. But what did gum taste like? Was there something different about the taste of hamburgers? What did soap smell like? What sound was ubiquitous on city streets in 1947, and forgotten completely ten years later? We'll be able to answer these questions for our time, I think. But the past has lost its flesh; the past is a dancing skeleton."posted by unixrat at 1:18 PM on August 12, 2009
Exactly. James Lileks and many others whose names escape me at the moment.
posted by rusty at 2:04 PM on August 12, 2009
posted by rusty at 2:04 PM on August 12, 2009
In college I once counted every object in my house (I still lived with my mother). In 25 years in that house we had accumulated more than 4,000 objects. I was surprised.
Not cheating, the first 51 I can see from my desk, left to right.
1. Zip tie.
2. Ammo box.
3. Bundle of wire.
4. Webcam.
5. Lithium batteries.
6. 21" Monitor from Craigslist.
7. Keyboard.
8. Computer mouse.
9. Mouse (running in his wheel).
10. Bike.
11. Another bike.
12. Bike parts.
13. Lithium grease.
14. Coffee mug.
15. Multimeter.
16. Soldering iron.
17. Half built USB volume knob.
18. Unpaid bills.
19. Japanese knife.
20. French knife.
21. Swedish knife.
22. Japanese water stones.
23. Aeropress.
24. Britta filter.
26. Old Thinkpad.
27. Box of cables.
28. Old Powerbook.
29. Crystal Red Shrimp 17 gallon tank (breeding like cute little swimming candy colored roaches).
30. Tiger shrimp 5 gallon tank (not breeding at all).
40. Bag of diatomaceous earth.
41. Pitcher plant.
42. Lithops plant.
43. Kuru Toga mechanical pencil.
44. Otoh Super Promecha mechanical pencil.
45. Picture of Rotring 600 mechanical pencil.
46. Garbage bag.
47. Microscope.
48. Precision scale.
49. Vortex filter.
50. Asolo hiking boots.
51. Celestial Pearl Danio 6 gallon tank (breeding like it's the end of the world)
posted by dirty lies at 3:02 PM on August 12, 2009
Not cheating, the first 51 I can see from my desk, left to right.
1. Zip tie.
2. Ammo box.
3. Bundle of wire.
4. Webcam.
5. Lithium batteries.
6. 21" Monitor from Craigslist.
7. Keyboard.
8. Computer mouse.
9. Mouse (running in his wheel).
10. Bike.
11. Another bike.
12. Bike parts.
13. Lithium grease.
14. Coffee mug.
15. Multimeter.
16. Soldering iron.
17. Half built USB volume knob.
18. Unpaid bills.
19. Japanese knife.
20. French knife.
21. Swedish knife.
22. Japanese water stones.
23. Aeropress.
24. Britta filter.
26. Old Thinkpad.
27. Box of cables.
28. Old Powerbook.
29. Crystal Red Shrimp 17 gallon tank (breeding like cute little swimming candy colored roaches).
30. Tiger shrimp 5 gallon tank (not breeding at all).
40. Bag of diatomaceous earth.
41. Pitcher plant.
42. Lithops plant.
43. Kuru Toga mechanical pencil.
44. Otoh Super Promecha mechanical pencil.
45. Picture of Rotring 600 mechanical pencil.
46. Garbage bag.
47. Microscope.
48. Precision scale.
49. Vortex filter.
50. Asolo hiking boots.
51. Celestial Pearl Danio 6 gallon tank (breeding like it's the end of the world)
posted by dirty lies at 3:02 PM on August 12, 2009
I'm just impressed that you were able to go left to right, dirty lies; my desk depends heavily on the z dimension...
posted by ook at 3:43 PM on August 12, 2009
posted by ook at 3:43 PM on August 12, 2009
This is useless. But then, I'm over 16.
posted by ElmerFishpaw at 4:13 PM on August 12, 2009
posted by ElmerFishpaw at 4:13 PM on August 12, 2009
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