Boy Crisis Does Youtube

Break's over. Ahh! Here are more fake Boy Crisis videos by Bob Weisz '07.

Boy Crisis and the possibilities of movement:


Boy Crisis in Japan:


Bollywood, nature, various sex acts. Some parts kind of NSFW:

Wes on iTunes U and YouTube

If you're looking for a Wesleyan-related way to avoid writing that paper you've been putting off all day—or if you're an alumnus looking to stay connected to Wesleyan—University Communications and the New Media Lab have just the thing for you.

Wesleyan now has a presence on YouTube and iTunes U!

Wesleyan's YouTube channel (cough, WesTube, cough) lets you watch Wesleyan-related videos about campus events, music, lectures, dances, athletics, and more. It's supposed to be updated every week; right now, there's a nifty video of campus reactions to the inauguration of President Barack Obama H'08.

Wesleyan has also created a presence on iTunes U, the educational side of Apple's iTunes. It serves up Wesleyan-related audio and video podcasts. According to the University, there are over 90 podcasts to download, including:

• Public Lecture Series talks
• Writing Program talks
• WESeminars
• Academic lectures
• Homecoming and Commencement videos
• Videos of CFA events
• Athletics podcasts

Some of these things actually look pretty entertaining, and brain-expanding. Cool.

EuroChristmas

For once, I'm actually impressed by Bush

President Bush's quick reaction time and skillful ducking kept him from getting hit after Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi launched both his shoes right at the president's face, while yelling, "This is a farewell kiss, dog!" Bush's response? A classy, "All I can report is it is a size 10."

Good work, Bush. I'm actually proud of you, for once.

Yes, you can... own a piece of history!

Order yours today—before the die is destroyed forever!

Wesleyan's Youtube Contest

The administration has launched a video competition for students, "Your Minute with the President-Elect", in an apparent effort to show that we are smart in addition to being effortlessly hip.

The administration using the Internet for community-building like this is unprecedented. :

"You have one minute to meet with the next president of the United States. What would you say?" You're invited to respond to this challenge by creating an original video describing how you would advise America's 44th President, and submit it before midnight on November 30th to www.youtube.com/wesleyan.

What's in it for you? A chance to give the White House a piece of your brilliant mind, win the $100 cash grand prize for best video as judged by viewer count and video rankings, show the world what Wesleyan is made of, and gain a worldwide following for your creativity.

Videos may be up to 2:00 minutes in length and should not violate YouTube standards. Other than that, anything goes.

The goal of the Wesleyan "Minute with the President-Elect" Video Contest is to raise awareness of the stimulating intellectual environment at Wesleyan.

Wesleyan's "Minute with the President-Elect" Video Contest is made possible by the Office of University Communications and the New Media Lab.

Click here for the official rules, videos will be accepted until midnight on November 30.

If you've got ideas, go for it, be as wacky/intellectual/masterful in your viral-video-making as you can be. The best entries will definitely be posted here on Wesleying, even if your video doesn't go on to multimillion-view YouTube fame.

Links:
Youtube: Official Wesleyan Channel
"Minute with the President-Elect" Contest Rules
Contest Entry Form

Salvia to be Banned Because of Wacky Youtubers

In case you missed the sort of hilarious front-page article this morning, the movement to federally ban the heretofore-completely-legal-by-omission potent hallucinogen salvia has been gaining steam recently, despite the potential benefits of its responsible usage. This is why:

Those who support the contemplative use of salvia disdain the YouTubers for disrespecting the herb’s power and purpose.

“They’re not really taking it as a tool to explore their inner psyche,” said Daniel J. Siebert, a Californian who pioneered the production of salvia extracts. “They’re just taking it to get messed up.”

Try explaining this reasoning to your friend during the seven minutes when the couch they're sitting on is sucked into a space-time rift, or something.

NYTimes: Popularity of Hallucinogen May Thwart Medical Uses

[via Gawker]

Guy Doing Goofy Dance Around the World

Ok these four-and-a-half minutes of pure joy have been everywhere on the Internet except here, which changes now:



MinnPost: Dancing with the universe

Why are you voting Republican?

A bit over the top at times, but nevertheless, here are some great reasons to vote Republican in November!



The best part is from 2:00 to 2:38:

I'm voting Republican because...

Because I really enjoy being screwed by the utility companies. We need more minorities in prison. Because hybrid cars really suck. I just don't feel I deserve health insurance. Because Texas needs more billionaires.

I'm voting Republican because sometimes the Constitution is just one big, inconvenient headache. I think the whole world should be run by one big corporation. I think it'd be so much cozier! Because all other countries are inferior to us, and we should start as many wars as we need to keep it that way.

So I can stay in Iraq. So I can go to Iran!

Lifted from Caterwauled. Thanks, Ed!

Memes Everywhere! in Weezer Video

Weezer shows some love for a whole lot of viral YouTube celebrities/Internet memes from recent memory in their new video. And here I thought All Your Base was safely buried among memories of junior high.

Thanks to David Foregger '11 for sending this over.

Big telco (heart)s Wesleyan alumni

It started with Wes alum and King of Awesome Michael Bay. Now, it's twins Adam and Todd Stone '05 in an ad for Verizon's fiber-optic, we-steal-all-your-copper FiOS service:

Anonymous' message to Wesleyan students

Fighting Scientology with computer-generated speech software! Because whoever took the time to make this, as well as set up a Gmail account for Wesleyan Anonymous, deserves some recognition.



EDIT (not by Justin): And here is the text for your enjoyment (notice the quote from Boondock Saint's)

HELLO Wesleyan student body. We are Anonymous and we have manifested ourselves in this video to draw your attention to a vital issue. Anonymous has rallied in order to redress the crimes of the Church of Scientology and combat the threat it poses both in cyberspace and real space. The Church is an insidious body responsible for destroying the lives of its enslaved membership, attempting to censor the Internet and attempting to defraud government institutions in order to secure its ill gotten financial gain. For those seeking evidence of these claims, Anonymous suggest that you Google the following key words: Lisa McPherson, Elli Perkins and Operation Snow White. Thus, Anonymous has decided that this organization must be dismantled for the good of its followers, humankind and for our own enjoyment. Please note that this enterprise is not a vendetta against Scientology's doctrine or individual Scientologists. Rather it is the opposite. Anonymous hopes to liberate these people from an oppressive and ill-conceived institution. We hold that one's religious beliefs are one's own affair. Our movement is non-violent and centered around demonstration. We hope that you will join us as fellow anonymous on the Ides of March as we stand united against this tyranny.
Finally, the core of our collective outrage and our message to the Church is this: Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles that every man of every faith can embrace. These are not polite suggestions. These are codes of behavior and those of you who ignore them will pay the dearest cost. For those who disregard them, Anonymous will be there. There will be consequences.

Thank you for your attention.

Anonymous is One.
Anonymous is Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.

Yeah, baptize America... it's like a dinosaur!

I'll leave the editorializing to you.

We Are What You Think, what you do, and who you do

The success of YouTube has generated lots of spin-offs, each with its own agenda, including  The Hub: a "YouTube for human rights," GodTube: "broadcast him," and lots and lots of free porn (probably the agenda with the most entertainment value, so props). 

The new kid on this block is BigThink, a YouTube for ideas, whose motto is "We are what you think". It even has financial backing from ex-Harvard President Lawrence Summers. Eventually the Big Thinkers want to create a facebook-like social networking feature for serious intellectual types. 

It's a nice idea. Really, I applaud their efforts. I think it has a lot of potential. This could be a great way to fight holiday brain-rot, except... it's BORING (you might not think so, but then again you're probably just pretending-- the emperor has no clothes!). I'm willing to cut BigThink some slack because it's brand spankin' new, but I hope they'll come around eventually. 

Case in point: I just watched composer John Harbison talk for two minutes about composition. I have an active interest in the subject-- I'm a music major and I compose. I've heard of Harbison, studied him in class, and listened to his works, some of which I don't hate. I understood everything he said and can place it within a larger historical dialogue. Even so, I was bored to tears. 

The problem? The entire website is all talk. "Experts" sit in front of a white background and talk. talk. talk. Harbison is a composer-- a video of a composer talking about composing while giving no concrete examples and no soundbytes to demonstrate his points is useless, no matter how articulate he is (and in fact Harbison is not all that articulate in the video). 

Also, I believe Big Think's dullness is directly related to its puritanical streak: I knew the big guys behind BigThink had the wrong idea when I read Summers' one worry about the site: "Let say someone puts up a porn video next to my macroeconomic speech?" 

Obviously Summers overlooked the fact that the best ideas put porn and economics together. Seriously, ever read D.H. Lawrence? 

Since Wesleyan is the pioneer institution for the intellectualization of porn (those of you not in the know google COL289: Pornography), I say we generate a porn dialogue on BigThink (preferably with more ambitious cinematography than the videos currently on there)-- do whatever you want, but keep it intellectual, guys. 

BigThink, you're welcome. 

oh and p.s. speaking of D.H, the entire text of Lady Chatterly's Lover is availabe here. 

"A YouTube for human rights"

Brandi over at House of Procrastination (it's in the sidebar, to the right) sends us this, from Influx Insights:

The coverage of the recent and continued protests in Burma, shows just how powerful amateur footage can be. In a country closed to most journalists and censoring news, the amateur is often only way people in the outside world can see what's going on.

Witness is a human rights organization dedicated to helping people use technology to record and document human rights abuses. They do a ton of work making sure the equipment gets out to the people who need it and make sure the footage is seen. It therefore seems a logical next step that Witness would bring all this content together in one central location. To do this, Witness just launched The Hub, which is kind of a YouTube for human rights.

Looks interesting.