Don’t watch this if you haven’t seen seasons one and two of Breaking Bad yet.

(Also see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcMm6TJoYL0)

I’ve only been away a week, but this really makes me miss San Francisco:

[On vacation, so shorter posts for the next while.]

I mentioned this on Facebook earlier in the week, but it’s important enough to also write a post about.
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No real blog post this week, my apologies. Instead you get this:

I fear my occasional mirror dialogues may have a similar emotional arc to this video:

Cinema’s Greatest Mirror Pep Talk from FilmDrunkDotCom on Vimeo.
Created by Oliver Noble for FilmDrunk.com. For more information, including full list of movies, see http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/07/new-supercut-cinemas-greatest-mirror-pep-talks.

Newspaper headlines from The Simpsons:

MK12 | Follow the Sun | 2011 from MK12 on Vimeo.

Maybe it’s shooting fish in a barrel, but I thought this was well done:

I’m pretty sure this is a piece of viral marketing, but even so, it’s too cool not to post:

I find this video, of a diver entering the ash-covered Nahuel Huapi Lake in Argentina, eerily disturbing:

This is beautiful:

CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.

This has been out a while, but is awesome and worth watching. Background: Newsweek listed Grand Rapids, Michigan, as one of America’s “top 10 dying cities”, and Grand Rapids made this in response:

This is a rather cool video:

3-Way Street from ronconcocacola on Vimeo.

I gotta say, cyclists in NYC seem to be significantly crazier than cyclists here. It’s probably necessary given New York traffic, but still.

Another fantastic list. I love it, even though I think the very last one is terrible:

This has been a public service announcement.

I think this is great:

With the end of the world apparently approaching fast, here’s a mashup of disaster scenarios:

Eclectic Method – The Apocamix from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

I was watching this when Nadal hit it and was rather stunned:

Absolutely amazing shot. Nadal still lost the match, however; Djokovic is playing unbelievably good and consistent tennis, and is closing on McEnroe’s record of 42 consecutive match wins to start the year.

(I do have to wonder whether Novak brings this out in his opponents.)

This looks amazing. I want this to be really successful so that one opens near San Francisco. Yes, this is partly because I’m a little risk-averse for typical freerange parkour/freerunning; yes, I also know that the whole point of parkour is to reclaim urban spaces by traversing them in unorthodox ways and that hence doing them in specialized spaces is missing the point—but somewhere safe to train still seems like a good idea.

This is very cool, but my first reaction to it was one of being disturbed and slightly frightened.

I felt significantly better when I saw them miss.

Here’s March’s companion to last November’s compilation:

I’m stealing links from Andy Baio again, because for a geek like me this is just irresistible: Jörg Piringer put together a video (33 minutes long) consisting of all the displayable characters in Helvetica on OS X.

I now want to find an event/gathering for which it would be appropriate to project this, looped, onto the walls.