Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]
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My favourite is The Debunkathon - https://youtu.be/OX-Ra4nrVj0. I found the overall message deeply touching.
The debunk videos are his major stock in trade, but I personally love (and discovered him through) the explainers about frame rate and shutter speed, color spaces, interlacing, and other details of the video art.
And of course, his mindbogglingly detailed exploration of Flight of the Navigator -- if you've seen the film, make some time tonight and watch it.
I honestly don't know how the film holds up today, especially from the eyes of a grown-up watching it for the first time. The overall narrative may or may not earn its keep, I guess. But all those VFX shots were in service of a larger story, and if nothing else I think you'll appreciate them more in context.
I recall Paul Rubens, jokes about Twisted Sister, morphing spaceships, time travel, Fort Lauderdale Florida (which seemed impossibly alien to this midwesterner), and a lot of pop culture references.
i searched for HighSeasflix and got 0 results, is that just your way of talking about torrenting?
Always worth the watch.
Oooh true, that makes sense. Cheers!
Way back in the day, Michael Crichton's Rising Sun, it talks about primitive video editing (when some people are editing the video scene of a crime). Looking at security camera footage over a period of time is monotonous, but harder too is also editing the audio. You could stare at the screen and still easily overlook a glitch, but a hard cut/slice in the audio will catch your notice even when only minimal attention is being paid.
For me, someone on Mastodon linked it maybe a year ago. I've watched at least half the videos back and became a Patreon for a while. I can't believe I never heard anyone talk about the channel before or since -- until this HN post. I've shared it with some friends but nobody knew it. People here seem to be familiar, though, so I am curious how you discovered this gem of a creator
If it wasn't on my homepage 10+ years ago, it was likely Reddit. Been a huge fan since.
He's somewhat in the same mental collection for me as the old Corridor Digital videos.
I went searching for videos that explained it, and found Captain D's video which was so much better than everything else, like just breathtakingly done, and funny, and I watched it like 3 times to let everything sink in.
I probably watched a few other videos on the topic from other creators, but they weren't remarkable enough to hook me and make me gorge myself on their other stuff.
When seeing the ads for the new Crow on Reddit (showing up a lot in my feed), with the tagline: "Keep The Promise, Break Everything Else"
In my mind I hear this variation on the CD quote:
"Love With Your Heart: Use Violence For Everything Else"
But the nature of motion glitches found suggests they did actually post-process on a shaky video. They could do a better job, but then the trick worked for more than 10 years, and thus fulfilled its purpose more than enough.
I know it's not the only subspecialty that has such an in depth consideration to UX but it's worth mentioning.
"Welcome to 3D Software" parody song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWY7fsXwh24
"Spooky Scary Skeletons" parody song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT3L8fQKvmM
"Stop using [ZBrush] Dynamesh" short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w4fVwfcYQvs
and TodePond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4OIcwt8vcE
It didn’t turn out that way, of course, but it’s nice to know it’s still possible. Thanks for the link.
> But they are technically very accomplished.
I don't agree. They are technically apt, not very accomplished.
I would say they are approximately on the level of Captain Disillusion, which would easily count as very accomplished.
All their work is very lack lustre.
They made a video glorifying killing dogs and I was absolutely done with them.
they do make some videos which are very edgy, i guess. the bowling animation videos come to mind, where they try to be as edgy as possible. imagine a bowling ball with plane wings slamming into two towers, as an example.
but i never got the impression that they're actually disrespectful or problematic.
I suppose you're referring to this video? https://youtu.be/y3RIHnK0_NE?feature=shared&t=180
I don't see how it's glorifying killing dogs. The CGI robot is given the task of killing a CGI robotic dog, and it refuses the task and runs away with it.
Someone casually doing amazing feats of technical and artistic craft, while making each video a self contained story and having throwaway jokes that are deeper and more complex than the average YouTubers entire career.
He also did a crossover episode with Adam Savage the Mythbusters dude as they are apparently mutual fans.
https://youtube.com/@bobbyfingers?si=kVZmlP13EqFiO9OO
Probably best to start at the beginning and go in without any research that might spoil surprises. Another reason to start at the beginning is that the current video is him narrating an erotic ebook that he wrote as side quest during a previous video.
To his credit, preparing for the shooting Ronaldinho allegedly managed to do that twice in a row for real.
I was wondering if I had gone insane or if there is some bug with HN.
Not complaining about this being a dupe at all.
For the record, I have nothing against you reposting it, but I am weirded out when the timestamps don't match my memory.
That time stamp effect is probably the second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool). Those submissions get their time stamp mangled because it‘s easier for the ranking algorithm.
Beckham actually did hit the trash cans in practice kicks; this happened on a public beach and there were plenty of fans hanging around watching it happen.
That being said, it would have required an alteration of the laws of physics to land a soccer ball in the trash can as the diameter of the opening of most beach trash cans of that style in the LA area is smaller than the diameter of a soccer ball. (There are several styles of trash cans on LA area beaches. Several of them have capped/shielded openings; some of their are just uncapped basic cylinders, and others are cylinders with lids and narrow openings. The purpose of the caps/narrow openings is to limit the ability of wildlife like seagulls from getting at the trash. Generally, the uncapped basic trash cans are limited to more popular beaches where the trash cans will be emptied daily.)
Those who actually watched Beckham play (in Europe, or even during his retirement era in Los Angeles) knew what he was capable of[1], and that's why the general public was willing to believe this ad could have been true when it was released: because Beckham could easily have hit a target that big and that far away, and it wasn't much of a stretch to believe he could land a ball inside a trashcan with practice.
[1] Beckham was a free kick specialist, and is regarded as the best free kicker of all time. The movie "Bend It Like Beckham" derives its title from his legendary skill.