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See also: A man who has uploaded 6,300 videos and counting of him doing nothing but smoking pipes and grumbling unintelligible streams of broken English that are conveniently transcribed in the descriptions: https://www.youtube.com/user/SMOKERSOFCIGARSPIPES/

YouTube is full of bizarre channels.

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I looked at his channel, and it is mostly what you described with one exception - every few months he seems to post some variation of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnvX3NvE5j8

Maybe it's just me, but it takes him from simply being an internet crazy to something very human and makes me a little bit sad.

Thanks for posting that, it was moving in a strange way.

See also Gluse which is a man riding elevators in various buildings.

http://youtube.com/user/gluse

(I am not mocking him. I admire the ability to create so many videos about a focussed topic.)

I bet his viewers would be willing to pitch together some money and get him some sort of steadycam rig; the random video I clicked on was very hard to watch.

YouTube actually offer to fix videos that the algos find to be shaky; I wonder if they are choosing not to run the fix or if it's failing (the vid I viewed has some really fast transient wobble that doesn't seem like normal camera shake).

The youtube video stabilization makes for wobbly video. I take video inside of race cars, and they're unwatchable if you use the youtube stabilization. They turn out much more watchable without it.

The spatial warping that happens is also very disorienting sometimes.

I've only used it once, for hand wobble correction (it did quite well), perhaps higher frequencies break the algo used.

I bet there are some days where the video is steadier because he is in a better mood. After all, I'm sure he has his ups and downs.

Never thought a video about lifts would make me laugh, but this one did. "This a project?" "No, I actually do elevator reviews"

Dover Traction Elevator At 302 N Second Street (W…: http://youtu.be/SUnJt3LaFRo

The elevator community is actually huge with hundreds if not thousands of channels like that.

At a former work place, we were gathering data about where entrances, lifts, passageways were in different transit stations. These videos (or someone on the same kick) helped us get an inside view of many of these stations.

I was going to make a poor taste joke about people with ASD diagnoses being on watchlists.

But then I remembered Gary McKinnon.

Certainly is. During uni I did some work in a bar in a hotel, and one day the manager came in and said he'd been googling the name of the hotel and found a video on youtube. It was a video of a toilet in one of the rooms being flushed, and the dude who uploaded it had thousands of videos of toilets all around the world being flushed. Nothing else, just a single flush of the toilet.

This is his second account. A while back his first account "ConradsCigars" or something like that was posted on somethingawful and it got quite popular. At the time it was implied that these were some sort of smoking fetish videos. He didn't like the attention and deleted them all. Looks like he's going strong again now.

He has 1,751 subscribers, this is something to think about.

I'm more surprised by the fact that there aren't more.

You would think the Internet would have gone ballistic over this discovery, but no one has yet to pick him up.

This is his second or more account. It blew up a number of years ago and he deleted everything.

People think Weird Twitter is weird, but it's no competition for Weird YouTube.

Brilliant. Andy Warhol recorded 8 hours long movie of his friend sleeping. In the youtube era he would make even greater fame than he managed in his time.

Thank you so much for introducing me to that channel. The Internet never fails to surprise me with how strange it can be.

Check out 'alantutorial' if you're into bizarre yt/web things.

Wtf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1lgmEDCfq8&list=UU0JSXBqfEM...

alantutorial is an alternate reality "game" starring a fictional character named "alan", made by Alan Resnick[1]. It seems all those videos are narrating a story!!! Now, I need to see them all :)

[1]http://tutorialheads.wikia.com/wiki/Alantutorial

Thanks guys for sharing these pearls. I though I have seen "everything" but yep, I'm so pleased to be so wrong.

Real life Hodor :)

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