Sunday, November 27, 2011

Backflipping Over the Fountains















Backflipping a motorbike over the fountains at Ceasar's Palace - it's Mike Metzger.

Story










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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Back with the Ribbons - a video set to "Our Cultural Mission" by Blue Movie +1

The video was shot as cb and I drove home from winning handfuls of ribbons at the Sonoma County Fair, mine for movies and hers for her beautiful colorful pictures.  She drove, I shot.


Ths music is a live recording of me singing with Blue Movie in 1988 (my vocals were "fortified" years later) at The Oasis, SOMA, SF, USA. You can read more about this song here: Our Cultural Mission

















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You can see lots more of my driving videos - and lots of other stuff! - on my tiny online TV station, www.HalfBeat.com, and you can read about my groovy day job as a name consultant at www.MarkGunnionNames.com

Ride the Rail - straight down this Austrian rail-ride with no brakes!

A great four minute ride on a one-rail coaster down an Austrian mountain.

Worth hitting the full-screen button for!















Tip o' the hat to HuffPo.
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Cars can be Backflippers, too.

                                                                       Whoopee!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Colorful Pictures of the Lovely cbrownsf, set to "Rolling Blackouts"



My lovely wife cb is a terrific fine art photographer, and she creates beautiful, colorful pictures from her photographs of the city and country.  A few years back, I picked several of my favorites from among her pictures at that time, and set them to a little tune I'd written and recorded called "Rolling Blackouts".  I hope you like it!










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You can see more of cb's pictures at her lovely website, http://www.cbrownsf.com - and you can see more of my music videos at my tiny online TV station, www.HalfBeat.com , and you can read more about my cool day job as a name consultant at http://www.MarkGunnionNames.com

Monday, November 14, 2011

One of the Best Backflippers Ever - Kid backflips to avoid dodgeball!










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The Earth from Above - an awesome time-lapse vid

I know I steal lots of stuff from boing boing, but I just couldn't resist this one.  I think it's some of the coolest video ever. 

Low-Light Time Lapse from the International Space Station













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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Busby Berkeley Meets The Matrix - Live!

Excellent street gang dance number, apparently in some traditional campus competition, evokes a grid of rhythmic Agent Smiths.  The only thing that keeps me from enjoying this completely is the sneaking suspicion that if I was in high school in whatever country this is, I'd totally be doing this stuff. 


http://youtu.be/0dsrsV6jwF4

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The Blue Meanie Hits Geyserville

Two weeks ago, Geyserville, the tiny burg we call home, hosted its annual Fall Colors Celebration and Hot Rod Show.  Far and away the star of the show - in my eyes, anyway - for the short time it was on display - was this fabulous baby-blue Buick, with a big On/Off switch on the back, known as The Blue Meanie.  I clumsily deleted my pictures of the great German Gothic mirror-silver lettering along the side of the car, but my lovely wife cb got these great pics, showing the awesome rake of the thing, hunched up on its big rear wheels.  After sitting curbside for a short while, the driver got in and drove it off, and when he was a quarter-mile away at the edge of town, he gunned it, and it sounded like an Indy car as he disappeared in a puff of blue-grey smoke.  Was it a dream?  We may never see it again - it was for sale for ten grand.  







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You can see some of my videos about previous years' Geyserville Fall Folors and Hot Rod Show on the "Mark's" channel of my tiny online TV station, www.HalfBeat.com , and you can find out about my cool day job as a name consultant at www.MarkGunnionNames.com

Friday, November 4, 2011

Cops Ram Smuggler's Plane On Runway

Nope, it's not footage from a "Miami Vice" episode - it's actual dash-cam footage of some cops stopping a smuggler plane's getaway, the hard way.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Your Money Face

Show Me Your Money Face







I could do this one.  I just have to get my hands on a fifty!





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7 Billion People On Earth - Which One Are You? (I'm #3,070,917,691)

Calculate Your Birth Order - Among All 7 Billion Of Us





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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Beefy Business Cards!

Not for your hungrier clients.

Business Cards Made of Meat!

Laser-printed on beef jerky - no kidding.



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