The comment thread at Reddit where this terrific video was posted is chockfull of information about this clip and Steadicam work in general, such as the fact that the rig that the cameraman was wearing in this long, long shot looked like this and was equivalent in weight to a small bovine.
From Buzzfeed. If some of these don’t get to you then your tearducts aint working right.
A sweet film in which Cambodian schoolkids try to pronounce something quite atrocious.
This one goes out to the inimitable Twinkly Sparkles — poetess, domestic badass, master of the gangster lean — on 21 years of marriage. Thanks for sticking with it, baby.
The secret to a long marriage? Don’t get divorced.
Wow, I’ve read a lot of dumb stuff in my day but this screed from Charles Hurt in the Moonie Times about how bikeshare programs are communist truly is the dumbest thing I have ever read. Either that or it’s the most accomplished piece of satire ever written.
Unlike Sarah Palin or Tina Fey, or whoever it was, I really can see Russia from my front porch. Or, at least, I can see broken-down socialism.
That is because across the street from my house on Capitol Hill is a loud, clanging “Capital Bikeshare” docking station. It is one of the locking ports for those fat, red communal bicycles you see peddled all over town by commune enthusiasts.
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Having people pedal around on these bikes, they say, means fewer people riding pollution-emitting city buses and fewer cars clogging the roads. And healthy riders means less of a burden on socialized medicine. These people get very excited talking about all the upsides.
Oh, and the smugness with which these pedaling heroes pump away! I have seen proud drivers of Priuses look away in shame as they ease by in their bio-electric and sometimes spontaneously combustible vehicles.
This communal bike program is a success from their tingling toes through their throbbing hearts all the way to bright, gleaming faces. It makes them feel so good!
This is what happens when you take a fake treasure chest, fill it with chocolate gold coins, bury it at Venice Beach in the middle of the night, and then dig it up the next day when the beach is packed.
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