Back in the day, I occasionally made blog posts about small gems I’d find on YouTube. Mostly it was to share what I found interesting, but it also made excellent “I can’t come up with new material, so I’ll post something random for now” fodder.
I think it’s time to make another such post. The TTG is coming along nicely, but I don’t feel like going through the trouble of editing photos. I also don’t want to give away too much information about other projects, since I have a tendency to become overwhelmed and start favoring one over the other, try to do a little bit of each every day, become more involved with a single project and feel guilty for neglecting the others… and so on.
So have some YouTube videos I found.
The YouTube algorithm gives strange gifts sometimes. Like a short, heavily pixelated video of a Seattle mall… from 20 years ago.
It wasn’t long before the algorithm decided that it needed to show more old footage. While this was uploaded five years ago, the content itself is from 1976. The blurbs on the thumbnail claim this vlog is “inane [and] pointless”, but commenters—who are now accustomed to watching the lives of others for leisure and profit (I should get into that reaction video racket)—were enthralled.
Sometimes I wish I were part of a couple that did creative things together. I don’t know if martial arts would be one of those things, but it’s still fun to imagine.
Besides the fact this was filmed in the 1930s, it’s even more amazing that this woman could throw down a man while wearing heels.
As I’ve said in the past, I’m not musically inclined. I just know that I like whatever I hear, and I especially like it if it somehow ties into one of my projects. The folks of my fantasy world of Eximirene have attempted (and nearly entirely failed) to hold onto the pledge to maintain ideals adopted in the 1550s, the decade of its establishment. Modernity still finds a way into the Realm. Transforming pop hits into madgrial arrangements is one of them. I can imagine a small troupe entertaining an oblivious noble with harmonious renditions of ABBA.
Speaking of music, I’ve been using this Castlevania Evening Jazz album as music for my stream. I didn’t think horror-inspired digital tunes would lend themselves well to mellow ear candy (or ear wine… no, let’s stick with ear candy), but it works.