What is your favorite sift out of your submissions?
Hmmmm...difficult. One of those that spring to mind is: http://videosift.com/video/Jeff-Koons-Cicciolina-Very-NSFW Just because it's so unusual and obscure, and I like the artist.

What is your favorite sift out of everyone else's submissions?
Today it's either http://videosift.com/video/Werner-Herzog-Loves-the-Amazon-Jungle or http://happy.videosift.com/video/The-Beatles-Real-Love (as I've promoted the second one at about 10 times)

Best story ever! It's what everyone wished they did in school!

In reply to this comment by EDD:
It might have been the 5th grade and we had a real shitty Math teacher at the time. It's not that she really sucked at Math (she did), it's that she was just this terrible terrible human being (more on that in a sec); she was also our class supervisor, which meant she headed all extra-curricular activities, museum trips, etc.

One of her most screwed-up and unprofessional favorite things to do in class was to wait for a hapless kid to make a mistake while solving a problem on the chalkboard. She anticipated these moments like a fucking alligator in the Amazon jungle. Every kid dreaded having to go up to the front. Whenever an unfortunate youngling made a mistake, be it just an "+" instead of a "-" in an equation, she'd stand up, and say to the class "Johnny made a mistake, class. Let's all point a finger at him, laugh and say Mistake, mistake!" - I fucking kid you not. And everybody had to do it. It's like she could only get off on little kids being humiliated.

Now, I wasn't a prodigy, but I was pretty damn smart. Especially at Math. In fact, I was already better at it than she was. I was also pretty much a poster child - almost never caused any trouble, didn't cuss, etc. As a result, there was little reason for her to have me up there after the first couple of times of going to the chalkboard and solving problems in a minute without any mistakes. Naturally, this made some of the other kids jealous of me, but that's not the point.

So one day she has me do it anyway. I get up there, start copying the equation from the textbook, and bam! I write down the wrong number. I realize my mistake after some 10 seconds and rush to the sponge to erase the incorrect integer and as soon as I start doing that, the bitch notices. Fuck.
She stands up. Takes two steps towards me. She says her infamous line to the class, some of whom are eager that the poster boy will be the recipient. They start: Mis...
Me (shouting, completely spontaneous): FUCK YOU ALL, MOTHERFUCKERS!

Nobody said a word. Hell, I was as shocked as anyone. I finished solving the problem and went back to my seat. I was never sent to the principal's office.

She never did that shit again.

It might have been the 5th grade and we had a real shitty Math teacher at the time. It's not that she really sucked at Math (she did), it's that she was just this terrible terrible human being (more on that in a sec); she was also our class supervisor, which meant she headed all extra-curricular activities, museum trips, etc.

One of her most screwed-up and unprofessional favorite things to do in class was to wait for a hapless kid to make a mistake while solving a problem on the chalkboard. She anticipated these moments like a fucking alligator in the Amazon jungle. Every kid dreaded having to go up to the front. Whenever an unfortunate youngling made a mistake, be it just an "+" instead of a "-" in an equation, she'd stand up, and say to the class "Johnny made a mistake, class. Let's all point a finger at him, laugh and say Mistake, mistake!" - I fucking kid you not. And everybody had to do it. It's like she could only get off on little kids being humiliated.

Now, I wasn't a prodigy, but I was pretty damn smart. Especially at Math. In fact, I was already better at it than she was. I was also pretty much a poster child - almost never caused any trouble, didn't cuss, etc. As a result, there was little reason for her to have me up there after the first couple of times of going to the chalkboard and solving problems in a minute without any mistakes. Naturally, this made some of the other kids jealous of me, but that's not the point.

So one day she has me do it anyway. I get up there, start copying the equation from the textbook, and bam! I write down the wrong number. I realize my mistake after some 10 seconds and rush to the sponge to erase the incorrect integer and as soon as I start doing that, the bitch notices. Fuck.
She stands up. Takes two steps towards me. She says her infamous line to the class, some of whom are eager that the poster boy will be the recipient. They start: Mis...
Me (shouting, completely spontaneous): FUCK YOU ALL, MOTHERFUCKERS!

Nobody said a word. Hell, I was as shocked as anyone. I finished solving the problem and went back to my seat. I was never sent to the principal's office.

She never did that shit again.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Ants-adapt-to-floods-create-river-raft-for-Queen
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fire-Ants-Create-Life-Boat-To-Save-the-Queen
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fireants-Build-Lifeboat-In-Amazon-Jungle-Flood
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fire-ants-form-liferaft-to-navigate-floodwaters

I wonder how many more are out there
I got these from Ant's "Ants!" playlist. Only went as far as page 4, however.

Werner Herzog talking about the lands of the Peruvian Indians:
http://wwww.videosift.com/video/Werner-Herzog-Loves-the-Amazon-Jungle

>> ^rasch187:
...but do they know how to downvote?


LOL!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Fireants-Build-Lifeboat-In-Amazon-Jungle-Flood

>> ^grinter:
Homeboy, you're in the tropics! Take that thick shirt off and you'll feel a lot better.


don't be a prole, man. they always lose.

Gee, those chased animals apparently don't save their breath..or do we hear their thoughts?

Werner Herzog sees nature as full of obscenity
http://www.videosift.com/video/Werner-Herzog-Loves-the-Amazon-Jungle
He's right

How about this for the description instead of that horrifically written thing: "The US Military working with Colombian Narco police to track and destroy a small aircraft loaded with cocaine over the Amazon Jungle. The Colombians know that if they reach the boarder 10 miles away, they will be home free."

And as for the tags: Infrared,Military,Colombia,Narco,Narc,Drugs,Cocaine,Airplane,Plane

Herzog is a fascinating character and director. I highly recommend watching Burden of Dreams which is a documentary following Herzog as he tries to direct the 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, its a fascinating portrait of a mans struggle against nature, it also gives a wonderful insight into Herzog himself.

Its one of my favorite films filled with amazing visuals of the Amazon, reflections by Herzog and his seemingly impossible trails during the production of Fitzcarraldo. I actually liked the documentary more then the final film itself. There is a clip of it on VS here.

Herzog also made the documentary Grizzly Man about a bear lover who filmed himself trying to live with bears, eventually getting himself and his girlfriend eaten by a bear.

Anyway its time to *requeue

Hack. I will never forgive you for commandeering my favorite Orb song/video...

Great job. One of my favorite sifters. I love this sift so much and this, and this and many more...

"you bring me joy"...

supernice, supergood sifter, just keeps getting better and better...

has an amazing discard section. also has the playlist (The Damned) that shows how many good videos don't make it to the front page.

some of the best rickegee:
Tom Waits fishing with a fish in his pants
South Pole timelapse
Rahmens - Suffering of Inanimate Objects
Sun Ra Arkestra - Pink Elephants on Parade
Shortwave Spy Numbers from behind the Berlin Wall
Matthias Meyer - The Black Gallery
Kids Flying in a Wind Tunnel

and of course: Werner Herzog loves the Amazon Jungle

I wonder what they are singing about... It sounds happy to me... but it could be sad too... I love it...

Oh and <ahref="http://www.videosift.com/video/Werner-Herzog-Loves-the-Amazon-Jungle">Werner Herzog for the world!!!