Posts Tagged ‘videos’

Friday Foolery #105: Time to be icked out by something else

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Are you as icked out, not to mention increasingly paranoid about traveling, by hearing about bedbugs no matter where you turn for information as I am? I don’t know when the MedlinePlus bedbugs page was launched. I’m cringing at the thought of clinical trials involving bedbugs.

Would you prefer beautiful works of art instead?

How about combining icky with the creative arts through…

Maggot Art!

Yes, watch for yourself how it is important to pick the right maggot and the right type of paint -

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Friday Foolery #98: Why I’ll Never Get Into Med School

Friday, August 20th, 2010

What, never?

No, never.

I had the honest pleasure of working with Emily Keller (of Librarians Do GaGa fame) for what will be a silent film with voiceover UW Health Sciences Library promotion video.

This is what I came up with when Janet Schnall added ‘writing a prescription’ on the spot. On the first take I forgot about the prescription entirely.

The snippet of the second take may or may not reflect my current mental health status.

This was recorded by Alison Aldrich, who was documenting the film-making process, for a class we’re teaching.

Even more exciting, we’re filming again today for a class promotion video.

Stay tuned for next Friday!

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Friday Foolery #96: Killing the 5 second rule

Friday, August 6th, 2010

I’m glad that health education videos for children (and rural health outreach programs in general) have come quite far since 1971, when Ro-Revus Talks About Worms was produced by The Malnutrition and Parasite Project of the University of South Carolina and funded by the Office of Economy Opportunity.

Key points to remember:

  1. Never use the out of doors for a bafroom. The bushes in your yard, or the dirt on your doorstep, is not a bafroom.
  2. Oh look! You can see the little baby worms inside the eggs!
  3. … If you don’t use your toilet or privy, if you use the out of doors for a bafroom, all of those eggs will get into the dirt.

I can’t even talk about the length of the dead tapeworms next to rulers in here and how racial bias is definitely present.

Now for your instructor and model student, frog and squirrel puppets:

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Friday Foolery #90: In Which I Sing on YouTube

Friday, June 25th, 2010

No, I’m still not part of the Librarian Gaga scene… yet. There may or may not be something else in the works there.

Remember The murderer is the librarian with a Mountain Dew in the antique cuckoo clock dining room?

Thanks to the incredibly hard work of the Hedgehog Librarian, I present you with a bunch of us from the Library Society of the World singing a capella at our webcams. The finger puppet monkey before me by Organization Monkey was obtained during the same shopping trip that led to these fabulous pants last year.

My voice is pitched a full octave lower than my usual soprano on the chorus line because I woke up sounding like a strangled frog that day and lost my voice outright 2 days later. It was a miracle I could do the last line without croaking. The cuckoo clock was brought home from the Black Forest region during WWII by my grandfather.

Today is also our son’s 8th birthday & I’m assuming this video will embarrass him by the time he adds on another 8 years. He already saw the video and was far more impressed that big-noggined David Rothman kicks it off (and that I’m friends with him on Facebook) than by anything I contributed to it.

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