Category Archives: Video

The Black Angels – Young Men Dead

Apropos of nothing in particular, certainly nothing that’s going on right now, a video of found footage where lots of people died, where the cameras are all focused on one side as protagonists. Where bombs go off far away but we get close ups on the artillery being fired. Absolutely top notch song though.

I’m against young men dying. I’m against people starving each other and murdering each other and driving each other from their homes. I do not think death is the solution for much and stories don’t stop just because we think it’s a good conclusion.

I’m sure everything is more complex, I’m sure, I’m sure – but that’s where most of my reactions stem from.

Young Fathers – Shame

I can’t get enough of Young Fathers – I slowly realized I’m a fan after noticing I’ve listened to tons of their stuff and saved it to listen to again. Look at this beautiful story:

How about this gorgeous track with a gorgeous video that goes meta and comes back to itself? Notice the proportions!

I can’t stop dancing around to Border Girl either:

Oh I grin every time when the beat comes back at 1:58.

Pingplotter

I need to see if my remote connection to work is healthy and if my remote connection to video conferencing is suffering.

I wrote a little utility to handle that in the commandline. It’s dumb but it works. Let’s call it pingplotter. It’s in the public domain, go nuts.

It’s fine to just pop in a terminal you have open, but it plays really nice with tmux and glances (I use both).

I think I spent nearly as much time making these screencasts as I did writing the shell script. I should blog that too, if only so I don’t have to research that again.