Thing 16: YouTube

I explored YouTube at home fairly recently so I am going to just recap what I found then. I am on the reference desk right now so I wouldn’t be able to listen to what I'm watching.

I started looking for things in YouTube after I watched the documentary The Nomi Song because I wanted to see more of the performance footage. I found a lot of really fun things to watch.

At another time, I read something about a Sony Bravia commercial with thousands of bouncy balls set loose on the streets of San Francisco. I had to look for the commercial and then watch some of the making of footage. It was pretty amazing. See for yourself:


I also watched this Sony Bravia commercial with exploding paint on a building in England or Scotland. It was also amazing.


I have also looked for really bizarre and obscure things like the David Lynch commercial for a home pregnancy test where he switched the test the actress did with a test from someone who was pregnant.


Here is another weird video I saw recently:


The other night I was watching Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN and they had some footage from YouTube that was such bad quality, they really shouldn’t have shown it. That often seems to be a problem with YouTube videos, the quality of the footage is just so bad the videos are basically unwatchable.