Overview Video: https://youtu.be/YRoQZGaxVK0 Ironically, even after completing the research and video portion of this project, I still made a lot of mistakes worthy of the title "ignorant penguin enthusiast". I additionally did not succeed in invoking the sense that I am simply learning about penguins - many parts of the video had the narrative that... Continue Reading →
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The Rhetoric of Ancient Egypt (citations)
This script isn't fully accurate to the video - I tend to improvise while recording and editing. But here's how my messy script looks! Thought I'd just give the raw thing. Let me know if you have any questions! Note: The in-text citations that have decimal points are all from [1]. They represent sections within... Continue Reading →
I Tried Filming My Own Animal Videos (citations)
Video: https://youtu.be/3WtD_DyrgiI [1] Pet Ownership Statistics in Canada for 2024 | Made in CA [2] (1)Bibi fell in love with this song and even danced to it ššš. hope yo... | bird | TikTok [3] Crazy boy how I love you : r/AnimalsBeingDerps (reddit.com) [4] Wildlife Feeding Regulation By-law | City of Vancouver [5] The... Continue Reading →
A Bird With 132 Names
Video: https://youtu.be/yjdiCzd8ZMA Full Script with Citations This bird has 132 common names! Really? Are you sure about that? Whereās your source? Anyways, there are a couple of facts many websites repeat: the northern flicker eats 5000 ants, they have weak bills, they are monogamous⦠almost all of them have like⦠no source nor nuance. But... Continue Reading →
How Linnaeus described animals…
Full video: https://youtube.com/shorts/IhzgwBdCBgw?feature=share Script Linnaeus is controversial for his descriptions of the āvarietiesā of humans, Wild Men - H. FeriāWild boys found, in 1719, in the PyreneesāAmerican - H. AmericaniāRemarkably erectāEuropeans - H. EuropaeiāGoverned by fixed lawsāAsiatic - H. AsiaticiāGoverned by opinionsāAfrican - H. AfriāCareless dispositionsāMonsters - H. MonstrosiāBy peculiarity of climateāVarieties of humans, according... Continue Reading →
Seagulls eat starfishes??
I think I'll make a follow up video on this sometime. First, I want to get more videos of seagulls scavenging for all sorts of things! Full video: https://youtu.be/YEIoSOwtfAA Full script Can seagulls eat starfishes? I mean, Iāve seen them try to do it. Look at that, what is happening?? Oh my god! I searched... Continue Reading →
Attempting to learn about Birds (Script, Comments, & Sources)
A very elaborate and stubborn video (link: https://youtu.be/ulI6MWxF_f4), forced to completion to avoid a constant repeat, but it's finally done... There are a lot of things I'd like to change, but just like with any single video - there's always next time! Next time I'll make it shorter, next time I won't accidentally edit the... Continue Reading →
The annoying push for prescriptive principles in art
"Jettisoning blandly rational appeals, Dickens hoped that fictionāor, I will argue, an enchanted mode of readingāwould be key to social progress, twenty thousand times more powerful than facts. In other words, Dickens believed he could enchant readers into a consideration of ethics." [1] Plourde 271 The consumption of art welcomes a variety of techniques, all... Continue Reading →
Impressions of the other worldly, or isekai
"For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel. Did you not say that you wished to see Elf-magic?" -... Continue Reading →
A brief expression of wonder
"Why do you always have to be so indecisive? I asked myself as I slapped my temple. And I really slapped it hard, so much so that for a second, the whole world before me appeared all wobbly. It was there that I finally made certain what it was that I was meant to do.... Continue Reading →