Youtube Recommendations

[Maladict]

The Hamburg miniature railroad diorama Miniatur Wunderland sets a world record - Model train plays classical hits on 2,840 wine glasses

https://youtu.be/aBNHmUT3GPg

Article: https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2021/0408/1208569-germany-model-train-music/

I was there two years ago, it's so cool 

[Josquius]

If you've never seen it this Stephen fry series from a few years ago where he meets leading homophobes of the world is rather great.

https://youtu.be/WODLiNaY4aU

[Liep]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFwxKHX6ID4

Restored video of 1906 Copenhagen. Goddamn idyllic to see people just walk freely about with no car in sight. Also lots of fish and cabbage of course. 11/10 would vote for a car free Copenhagen.

[Syt]

One of the more interesting  reaction channels I've seen recently is Doug Helvering's; he's a classical composer, mostly reacting to heavy metal, but also other things.

Here's his video of reacting to Yngwie Malmsteen's Icarus' Dream Suite, Op. 4 performance with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra.

https://youtu.be/xVTNnFAHvHw

[viper37]

Leo has surpassed himself once again!
He's got to be the coolest Norwegian of all
The final countdown - Metal cover

[Syt]

Noah Gervais has published two new videos

A look at the Star Wars FPS games from Dark Forces to Jedi Academy: https://youtu.be/MMAYCB3b7rY
I thought it was fine but I found it a fair bit blander than some of his other videos and series examinations.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 Vs. Joseph Campbell: https://youtu.be/OI2iOB8ydGo

This is a focused retrospective and critique of both of the older Knights of the Old Republic CRPGs from Bioware and Obsidian. It looks to how they interface with the Monomyth template as originally laid down in 1949 by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With a Thousand Faces, one game conforming exactly to it and the next game violently rejecting the entire premise. It also discusses how Campbell's monomyth influenced the philosophies of the Jedi and Sith more than George Lucas might care to admit. Spoilers throughout.

I'm watching this one right now. He is aware that the monomyth while still widely used in pop culture, has been reassessed and lost some influence among theorists in recent years.

[Syt]

Leo has surpassed himself once again!
He's got to be the coolest Norwegian of all
The final countdown - Metal cover

I like Leo's work, but his covers can be a bit hit and miss for me. This one doesn't do it for me.

I think the best metal cover of the song is by Dispatched: https://youtu.be/A8gc6vulshI
The funniest one, obviously, is by the Excrementory Grindfuckers: https://youtu.be/vz2xMyZ5rP0

[grumbler]

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 Vs. Joseph Campbell: https://youtu.be/OI2iOB8ydGo

This is a focused retrospective and critique of both of the older Knights of the Old Republic CRPGs from Bioware and Obsidian. It looks to how they interface with the Monomyth template as originally laid down in 1949 by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With a Thousand Faces, one game conforming exactly to it and the next game violently rejecting the entire premise. It also discusses how Campbell's monomyth influenced the philosophies of the Jedi and Sith more than George Lucas might care to admit. Spoilers throughout.

I'm watching this one right now. He is aware that the monomyth while still widely used in pop culture, has been reassessed and lost some influence among theorists in recent years.

George Lucas had Campbell staying at his house during the writing of Star Wars and always acknowledged his own debt to the monomyth.

I'm not sure who the "theorists" are that have lost interest in the monomyth.  It was never accepted as the only way to describe myths (and I'm not sure Campbell actually believed that himself; he was always referring to a specific type of myth), but I don't think that the objections to it are any more popular now than in the past.

I think that the objections to Campbell come more from his appearance in The Power of Myth than in his writings.

[Syt]

I possibly misstated. Still, an interesting exercise in the video to map the games to Campbell's Hero's Journey from his Hero With a Thousand Faces.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrsEpxj2KKc

Sarah Silverman fans should get a kick of this.  Great impressions of her parents.

[Admiral Yi]

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

Bill Burr's Philly Rant

[Threviel]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g

French cooking academy, some french expatriate in Australia cooking French food in a pedagogical appetizing manner.

The best goddamn cooking channel I've found.

Anyone know of any similar for italian food?

[The Larch]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g

French cooking academy, some french expatriate in Australia cooking French food in a pedagogical appetizing manner.

The best goddamn cooking channel I've found.

Anyone know of any similar for italian food?

It's not exactly the same thing, but there's a magazine and associated youtube channel called "Italia Squisita" that shows famous Italian cooks from both traditional and modern restaurants teaching how to make their recipes in a quite understandable way. It is in Italian but there are English subtitles.

They have plenty of different formats, and sometimes they'll put in the same video the "traditional" and the "modern" way of doing a famous Italian recipe, or how different chefs do the recipe, and I think it's good to see that Italian cooks are not as fundamentalist on the "proper" way of doing a certain recipe or as opposed to innovation as they might seem, although they also play a bit with that stereotype in certain videos, and most of the times the cooler recipes are the ones where you have a really old cook saying stuff like "this is the way we've done X in our restaurant since my grandparents' time".

Small selection of videos:

Cacio e pepe, traditional & modern versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQUblKCkOg

Fettucini Alfredo, as explained by the cook of the restaurant where the dish was created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9HCxfIREo

Three versions of carbonara, traditional, contemporary and modern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elq1UYbJ-JQ

[Syt]

Robert Picardo is making some weird videos these days: https://youtu.be/zAUGfMyzFYY

[Threviel]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g

French cooking academy, some french expatriate in Australia cooking French food in a pedagogical appetizing manner.

The best goddamn cooking channel I've found.

Anyone know of any similar for italian food?

It's not exactly the same thing, but there's a magazine and associated youtube channel called "Italia Squisita" that shows famous Italian cooks from both traditional and modern restaurants teaching how to make their recipes in a quite understandable way. It is in Italian but there are English subtitles.

They have plenty of different formats, and sometimes they'll put in the same video the "traditional" and the "modern" way of doing a famous Italian recipe, or how different chefs do the recipe, and I think it's good to see that Italian cooks are not as fundamentalist on the "proper" way of doing a certain recipe or as opposed to innovation as they might seem, although they also play a bit with that stereotype in certain videos, and most of the times the cooler recipes are the ones where you have a really old cook saying stuff like "this is the way we've done X in our restaurant since my grandparents' time".

Small selection of videos:

Cacio e pepe, traditional & modern versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQUblKCkOg

Fettucini Alfredo, as explained by the cook of the restaurant where the dish was created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9HCxfIREo

Three versions of carbonara, traditional, contemporary and modern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elq1UYbJ-JQ

Thanks! I love the small comments that the chef making Alfredo makes. "Just fold in the eggs exactly as at home", "simple machine that can be bought in any super market".

You don't happen to know a good one for Spanish food?

That channel's got 10 different videos on how to do pizza at home. My kid is going to love pizza Fridays a few weeks ahead.