^*dark
.. all videos can be channeled.
Except *fear.

Adding post to channels (Dark) - requested by burdturgler.

We need a time and time zone for the deadline.

>> ^dotdude:
We need a time and time zone for the deadline.

To be honest, I'm not going to follow it to the minute myself, but this is done. Monday, 10.00 GMT.


>> ^blankfist:

Yeah, I'm sorry, buddy, I did think of this one (since you sifted it some time ago), but like burdy said, it goes into *dark for sure, and it might even be appropriate to assign *art to it as well, as campiondelmondo and schmawy did to your post. And as if that wasn't enough...

So the race is still on. By the way, I will also be participating (that doesn't mean somebody else can't claim the prize if they find a proper video, though).

Also, to up the ante, the award is now AT LEAST 1 *quality and 2 *promotes (or 2 *qualities and 1 *promote).

*edit* ha ha, I'm such a n00b, the self-promote was unintentional

Self promoting this Sift Talk post - promote requested by original submitter EDD.

Anything that doesn't fit into any channels is bound to be placed in WTF... otherwise, I'd try this one again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj7YnIvyA6o

edit: Fuck it, I'll try it again anyway.

^Nice find I'd place that one in Shortfilms and maybe Femme as well though. But yeah, definitely WTF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpBComsngQ

^very nice kulpims

Well, at first I thought we might have just had an early winner. But what about Spacy ("Clouds and beyond"), Wtf and Wildwestshow though? Geek and Happy might also apply, no? I'm not saying I'm definitely 'disqualifying' it though, at least not yet, I need input from somebody else.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Watching-Paint-Dry

I think we have a winner - amazing find, BTE As soon as someone else confirms that this doesn't fit into any of the channels, I'm officially declaring you the victor. Personally, I just sat through the whole 10:04 and went over the whole Channels' list again - and I have to say that I can't nit pick on anything here. Great sift to link to in response to a comment/bad sift, too!

Aww come on, what about this: http://www.videosift.com/video/Self-Indulgent-Woman-Smokes-and-Drinks-for-Your-Amusement
Honorable mention?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hkbROe6YUY

^Engineering? Damn, I'm such a killjoy...

I submit that any video with pretences of being about nothing at all can at least be classified as *art.

Adding post to channels (Art) - requested by Ornthoron.

ok, how about this one: http://www.videosift.com/video/lord-of-the-rings

We don't have a boring tag yet, so... And the only channel I'd consider it to fit into would be *nature, but only because he's outside. If it fits into the nature channel, then every other video with people outside would fit as well.

Here's my entry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO4bZ7O1cqc

It's not funny so it doesn't go in comedy.
He's not doing anything unusual, just shopping at a Walgreen's pharmacy so it's not wtf.
It doesn't make you happy.
It's not dark.
There are no kids or cats and dogs or anything cute.
It's not geeky and no engineering is happening.
There's no music.
He's not in Asia or Britain or Canada or Down Under and there's no animation.
It's not packed with action.
It's not about the brain.
No comics, commercials, cooking, nor cult.
He tells the truth so it can't go in lies...

So yeah. Without a *fatguys or *beards channel, I think this could be a wiener.

>> ^lucky760:
Here's my entry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO4bZ7O1cqc
It's not funny so it doesn't go in comedy.
He's not doing anything unusual, just shopping at a Walgreen's pharmacy so it's not wtf.
It doesn't make you happy.
It's not dark.
There are no kids or cats and dogs or anything cute.
It's not geeky and no engineering is happening.
There's no music.
He's not in Asia or Britain or Canada or Down Under and there's no animation.
It's not packed with action.
It's not about the brain.
No comics, commercials, cooking, nor cult.
He tells the truth so it can't go in lies...
So yeah. Without a fatguys or beards channel, I think this could be a wiener.

it's viral

or this

>> ^Ornthoron:
I submit that any video with pretences of being about nothing at all can at least be classified as art.


He's right, you know. If this and this can both be called art, than anything can. I voted for them both based on their bizarreness and absurdity, not for their "artistic" merits. Andy Warhol also made a film called Sleep, which was nothing more than a 5 hour film of his friend John Giorno sleeping. Art.

So really, anything that doesn't fit into a channel could be labeled "Art," and how could you prove him or her wrong for doing so?

Having said that, here's my submission:



Capital A
Capital R
Capital T

It has to be art, because it's in French. And it's from Vimeo.

^Kids.

>> ^lucky760:
Here's my entry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO4bZ7O1cqc


He's looking for drugs.
It's terrible.
He said he wouldn't stop the camera, and there were two obvious edit points, so lies.

I think inflatablevagina is in the lead with the vid of the guy flexing. Maybe it's actionpack (Ball-flexin'), maybe it's 1sttube (there's a title graphic), and if brief counts, then it's definitely that.

The spit video is femme, teens, and possibly sexuality, terrible, eia, etc.

The guy filming himself mowing the lawn is terrible, and if you look it up, it's british and comedy/philosophy as well.

I'm trying to imagine a video that shouldn't be in any channel, and not coming up with anything I couldn't apply a channel to.

Seems that there should be some way to exploit our lack of *health channel, but most videos on that also qualify for animation, howto, money, politics, science, geek etc.

What really makes this challenge so difficult is everyone's willingness to completely misapply channel assignments.

I'm constantly amazed at how many people, sift veterans even, don't know what the cult channel is for, among others.

>> ^blankfist:
^Kids.


Kids channel is supposed to be for anything suitable for kids, isn't it?

Looking over what's actually in the channel, it's as much about videos with kids, instead of for kids. I'm using it as if it's "with kids", though I'm not sure I've ever had a video in there.

I'm hoping there's no audio here...

This is really awful:

My entry

Should the paint drying one not go into comedy? It's a prank after all

So, is there a winner?

I did announce a winner, even though most people seemed to miss it - it was BTE with the http://www.videosift.com/video/Watching-Paint-Dry. Remember that I said in the very beginning that this was a race against time - whoever does it first, gets the reward. Anyway, he's now been awarded the promised promotes and qualities. But I think I'll award some people with extra promotes/qualities all the same, because I amassed some power points during my absence (which was unintentional btw - sorry for that all the same).