Entertainment

Bill Mazeroski's home run ball

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Yah!

Yah!

I was reading the story about Ryan Howard’s 200th home run ball and they linked to a Time article about the fate of the top 10 home run balls in history. Most of the stories are about how some rich guy now owns them and either sent them back to the player or to the Hall of Fame. But the first one is about Bill Maseroski and it’s a little different.

Leading off in the bottom of the ninth, Pittsburgh Pirate second baseman Bill Mazeroski hit a home run over the left-field wall to win the World Series against the New York Yankees. It was the first time a home run had ever ended a World Series. According to reports, Ted Szafranski, 13, caught the ball but returned it to Mazeroski after the game in exchange for two cases of beer. The ball has since been placed in the Hall of Fame.

I know that 1960 was a different time. But “The Maz” traded 2 cases of beer to a 13 year old boy and nobody thought twice about it? Those were the good old days.

And now the internet has reached it's logical end.

Entertainment, The Interweb

This may be the perfect project for the internet. At first we were all just surfing around looking for naked celebrity gif images, then modems got better and we discovered videos. Then some of us started making videos of us lip syncing to popular songs. Then someone coined this term “crowdsourcing” where you get a lot of people to do little bits of something. Now there’s this… and now we can all go home.

Wait… we’re already at home.

Star Wars: Uncut Trailer from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.

3 frames — If you know… you know

Entertainment, The Interweb
3 Frames from Rad

3 Frames from Rad

Maybe it’s that I’ve seen most of these movies? Maybe it’s because it seems like at any moment they might come to life in full video. We see so much full motion video on the internet now that its surprising to see moving images that are still gif animations. Certain ones are better than others, I personally like ones where not all the elements are moving at the same speed. When you look at a full page of posts you almost slip into a drug induced stupor for a second. Check it out, I’m sure you’ll enjoy a few of them.

Facebook is for adults and Vimeo is for creative people

Entertainment, The Interweb

Almost every video that I find on Vimeo is really high quality and looks like it took a lot of time. Maybe it’s that the producers spent a lot of time on them and they dont want them being dominated in views by the new talking cat video or some kid  in his basement lip-syncing to Lady Gaga.

This one is worth your time.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

Japanese collectors are a little more organized

Entertainment, The Interweb
Great Lighting comes with great responsibility

Great Lighting comes with great responsibility

I think all the guys who fill their basements with old 7-11 collectable slurpee cups and tape posters to every available wall space could learn something from this guy. Great organization and lighting can make these things look more classy and valuable.  I really like his wall of R2 units. I’m going to have to get some plastic boxes .