>> ^kulpims:
Roman, 34, from Slovenia, ...

How's your cousin Nico doing? Haha, I crack myself up.

Seriously: Michael, 26, from Toronto. I have a BA in political science, and a bit over a year ago I graduated from film school, and have since been struggling (unsuccessfully) to make it in the film industry. I recently decided that it's probably about time to give up on that and go to law school, so I'll probably be doing that in September 2009 unless some miracle happens and I manage to get a feature made. When I'm not wasting time on videosift, I'm wasting time going to the movies or playing video games. And that's pretty much all there is to me, as sad as that is.

Roman, 34, from Slovenia, I currently work as an event organiser and do some other stuff it's best not to mention in public. I'd like to say I'm an outdoors freak but I'd be lying. I do love to go biking up in the hills near by. I also like weed, sci-fi, naked supermodels, trippy music, weird movies, pizza and beer.

the instruments are of Balkan origin. Croatian, to be exact, although these folk music instruments are also known and used in Serbia and parts of Slovenia

some of the scenes were shot in my country on Soca river
here's some more shots of the impressive wooden bridge they built on set near Bovec

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I would love to check out Slovenia. I might take you up on that.

>> ^kulpims:
btw, if any of you ever comes to slovenia, do let me know and i'll show you around. cheers!

>> ^kronosposeidon:
>> ^Bleedingsnowman:
I don't like LA.

LA is cool, its traffic ain't.
>> ^critttter:
My transportation fantasy is a dedicated bike lane next to the shoulder of federal highways. Sure, there would be a danger element, and the air would be crappy, but how amazing would that be?

When I have fantasies, it ain't about transportation.
>> ^kulpims:
awful traffic. i don't own a car since i smashed my last one two years ago - some asshole came straight at me doing 130km/h and i (well, both of us) was extremely lucky to get way with just a concusion and some bruises cause the car was a total wreck. now i just ride my mountain bike and laugh at fools going 30 during rush hour...

Slovenia has traffic jams? I thought there were only like 6 people there, and Latka Gravas already emigrated.
>> ^Crosswords:
My transportation fantasy are teleporters that run off cake flour and only emit cup cakes as exhaust.

I got nothing, except "Bravo!"


Jesus. How long did it take you to cut and paste all these quotes? I mean, I love the sift, but damn, get a job, KP. ;-P

>> ^Bleedingsnowman:
I don't like LA.

LA is cool, its traffic ain't.

>> ^critttter:
My transportation fantasy is a dedicated bike lane next to the shoulder of federal highways. Sure, there would be a danger element, and the air would be crappy, but how amazing would that be?

When I have fantasies, it ain't about transportation.

>> ^kulpims:
awful traffic. i don't own a car since i smashed my last one two years ago - some asshole came straight at me doing 130km/h and i (well, both of us) was extremely lucky to get way with just a concusion and some bruises cause the car was a total wreck. now i just ride my mountain bike and laugh at fools going 30 during rush hour...

Slovenia has traffic jams? I thought there were only like 6 people there, and Latka Gravas already emigrated.

>> ^Crosswords:
My transportation fantasy are teleporters that run off cake flour and only emit cup cakes as exhaust.

I got nothing, except "Bravo!"

slovenia is the most beautiful (and clean) country I've ever visited. it's a truly beautiful country.

thank you all. it's almost exactly one year from now that i started posting to the sift and it has become an addiction, i must admit. but that's ok since i truely don't have a life to speak of and far too much free time. you can usualy find me lurking somewhere in the unsifted waters ("first!") and i enjoy long documentaries, stand-up comedy, all sorts of geeky and spacy, choggie's exotic musical selection (big thanks for the new jazz channel), fedquip's and netrunner's political posts and sometimes, when i'm really stoned (which is most of the time), i'll even upvote farting cats. sometimes i can also be a real asshole but i found out early on that you're quite a forgiving bunch, so thanks for puting up with me and my slovenian cheese. long live the sift!
btw, if any of you ever comes to slovenia, do let me know and i'll show you around. cheers!

This just in: Eastern Europe ftw, gradually taking over the Sift!

Cheers and may your siftin' streak continue!

P.S. On behalf of all Latvians I apologize for kicking Slovenia's ass at IIHC the other day. On the other hand-it was all refs fault! Anyways, if I go to Slovenia this summer, which is a slight possibility, I'll let you know

>> ^dag:
Congratalunis. I always find group avatar photos pictures interesting because I unconsciously want to associate you with one of the faces. are you more Riker, Picard or background Warf?

All of them, we think (with a little bit of Borg on the side)

edit: actually, my15minutes once posted this picture of me, taken from my Facebook account. if you ever come anywhere close to Slovenia, call me up - you can by me a beer, yes you can!

It might help with quality, or it might not. I think if VS users start looking for videos at Scrape Up to post, it will make this place more like the other aggregators because it will tend to homogenize all the aggregator sites. I think it's bad enough as it is when certain sifters treat their queues as RSS feeds from Digg

Think about it: If the people at I-Am-Bored and Milk And Cookies start going to Scrape Up to upload videos we've already sifted here, and then we have people here grabbing videos from those sites via Scrape Up, and then the Diggers and Stumblers start marking a lot of the videos at Scrape Up, then the content will start to become more uniform at all those sites, including ours. And to me, brothers and sisters, that would make this place boring.

Now one could argue that even without Scrape Up there's a lot of 'cross-pollination' going on already, and I wouldn't disagree with that. I've already seen a number of our popular videos suddenly get front-paged at I-Am-Bored and College Humor, for example. However I see Scrape Up significantly accelerating that process, especially as it grows in popularity.

Now I am not TOO concerned, because this place has enough members who've found their own little niche in which they post videos that are well outside the mainstream. However, even if a few of those obscure videos start getting picked up by the other sites, then I think VS might lose the biggest edge it has always had: Its IMMENSE variety. How many other sites have Dr. Who getting Rick-rolled, Stephen Colbert, Manila's City of Garbage, the history of the string bikini, and beautiful Slovenian caves, all on the front page at the same time? But if even one or two of those got front-paged at other sites because they conveniently found them at Scrape Up, then I think it decreases our competitive edge.

Of course everything I just wrote could be the ether talking and not me.
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Fess up, dag: Are you attempting to out-Digg Digg Video?

That was a suprise. Im from Slovenia, and i didnt expect to see Magnifico on Videosift. Go Magnifico, go!!

Ah.

In reply to this comment by kulpims:
I just thought knowing a couple of slovenian swear words would come in handy if you ever come to my country

In reply to this comment by ant:
Uh, what?

In reply to this comment by kulpims:
Slovenia, presentation of
part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuG8v1IUL-8
part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga7lXSRWSX4

Uh, what?

In reply to this comment by kulpims:
Slovenia, presentation of
part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuG8v1IUL-8
part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga7lXSRWSX4