From TED: The slam poet/tech artist/paper sculptor Rives does eight minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the... more inside

In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan managed to snag a brief interview with John Lennon in his hotel room in Toronto. Using his reel-to-reel tape recorder, Levitan asked Lennon a series of questions about... more inside

A young John Prine sings and talks about the story behind his song "Sam Stone." Funny and moving. For some background, here's a biographic blurb from the AV Club: There's an old cliché about... more inside

A strangely compelling music video in how it animates and uses paper masks. Worth a look, at least (even if the song does bug me a bit).

Bored grocer demonstrates a never before seen martial arts move. Scene from Cashback.

Johnnyboots had a video posted on the sift a few month ago, and here he show the video at the Upright Citizen's Brigade theater along with the negative comments he received. Here's the original video and the comment: http://www.videosift.com/video/Stand-up-Fred-Flintstone#comment-313587

A dynamite TED talk with one of the best formal rhetorical presentations I've seen. From TED: Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation... more inside

because someone had to make fun of daft hands: http://www.videosift.com/video/Daft-Punk-Gets-a-hand-job (NSFW due to language)

A gorgeously animated documentary/mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day.

Interview with the makers of HomeStarRunner and interview with Strong bad himself

Batman villians ruminate on their love life. By Ryan Prows and Rorschach Productions.