Rocks! lighthouses! And, finally, a video of a drone with a sausage.
31st January 2022
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Hello!
I've had an exhausting week filming up in Scotland for both channels this week! Projects are on a very tight turnaround at the moment, so the first of those videos has already gone live: it's literally just three minutes where I talk about rocks.
I've had an exhausting week filming up in Scotland for both channels this week! Projects are on a very tight turnaround at the moment, so the first of those videos has already gone live: it's literally just three minutes where I talk about rocks.
And I'd like to try a test of something! Here's an old video of mine: This Video Has 51,213,878 Views (the title updates, so it'll differ a little by the time you get there). If you've never seen that video before, or even if you have: could you perhaps spare a few minutes and watch some of it? I'm wondering if
pushing my audience to older videos could give my back-catalogue a bump in YouTube's recommendation systems...
Anyway! Elsewhere in the world of video this week:
- I've been really enjoying a cooking series called "Tasting History", hosted by Max Miller. A 450-year-old recipe for pumpkin cheesecake is a good place to start!
- Tibees has made an animated sort-of-mathematical film called "Finding X": designed for kids, but with enough references to keep adults with math knowledge smiling too. To me, it feels like the sort of things that, many years ago, you'd stumble across on television as a strange one-off broadcast, that would then
stay with you for a long time afterwards.
- I stumbled on the most British video I've seen in a while: a David-Bowie-style-parody song about a bin wasp at Thorpe Park (note: one bit of moderate swearing). It made me smile, and also appreciate the craft behind it. And it's been stuck in my head for days. Off the back
of it, I found this lovely retro-styled album with the same vocalist.
- And you may remember last week that I was skeptical about the "dog rescued by hanging a sausage from a drone" story, because there was no video available. I am happy to announce: yes, there is video, it's exactly what you'd hope for. (Thanks to Alex for the heads up!)
Outside the world of video:
- Remember I made a video about Britain's most dangerous crossroads? Well, it's been fixed!
- There was a strange and awful noise, screaming out 24 hours a day in Brooklyn Heights. This is the story of how the residents tracked it down.
- An absolutely beautiful map where the dots are all the lighthouses in Europe, and they flash just like those lighthouses do. Although I have been told this is incorrect or incomplete in many places, because the OpenStreetMap data it relies on isn't up to date. Hopefully that'll get fixed soon!
- And finally, a live map of which McDonald's ice cream machines are broken. (Thanks to Felix for sending this in!)
All the best,
— Tom
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