heh heh, spoco - I was just rambling. There is the one Reggie vid with a lot of votes, but three others that died in the queue, and three hanging out in pqueues. Yes, the Keller Williams vid is mine, but I specifically didn't link it because I didn't want to seem like I was pimping my own vids. I wasn't saying this didn't deserve all the votes, just that I often can't figure out what makes the sift happy. Maybe I'll just have to go promote some of those Reggie Watts vids to see if I can find out.

>> ^jonny:
Ok, the guy is good, but why does some random dude on a corner hit #1, and Reggie Watts and Keller Williams can barely get out of the queue?

An even larger issue: with the internet and music creation technology and direct-to-listener performances the world is now awash with SO MANY really outstanding musical artists that they've become a dime a dozen.

>> ^jonny:
Ok, the guy is good, but why does some random dude on a corner hit #1, and Reggie Watts and Keller Williams can barely get out of the queue? I'll never understand the whims of VideoSift.


OK, let's see, there are quite a few Reggie Watts vids on here, including http://www.videosift.com/video/Reggie-Watts-Out-Of-Control-Stunning-No-Editing-Involved which has almost 100 votes, so it's not like he isn't appreciated here.

And I see Keller has one sift by... oh, you... and while he is entertaining enough and talented... it's not as stand outish as a guy using nothing but his voice and an effects box.

But then also, hmm, this is better, musically, to my ears, I just enjoy this tune over and above the skill of the looping etc... and it's out in the street, so you get that real feel of immediacy... and we haven't heard of him, so you have this unknown blowing us away. Just seeing someone of this talent busking is always amazing, and makes you want to upvote for

That's why it is the way it is, and I think the sift has voted well here... I have watched this song at least 4 or 5 times now, and I won't be watching either the Reggie or Keller ones again as they just don't catch me.

Ok, the guy is good, but why does some random dude on a corner hit #1, and Reggie Watts and Keller Williams can barely get out of the queue? I'll never understand the whims of VideoSift.

Related: http://www.videosift.com/video/Reggie-Watts-Out-Of-Control-Stunning-No-Editing-Involved

I declare you attention deficient. Its a form of Time Impotency a disability where ones mind is conditioned by the fast paced IT world into believing 5 minutes is too long for anything to be entertaining. The good news is that it is reversible!

In reply to this comment by Norsuelefantti:
I'm going to be a dick and claim that this is *longish.

Way to go MINK!

These are a few of my personal favs:

http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Whitney-Brown-on-everything-in-the-world
http://www.videosift.com/video/Reggie-Watts-Beatbox-looping-and-comedy-at-the-same-time
http://www.videosift.com/video/Dan-Dennett-Ants-terrorism-and-the-awesome-power-of-meme

Keep up the great sifting! and commenting (= no rubbish)!

Upvote for the Reggie Watts cameo.

and people said reggie watts wasn't funny!

I could have done without the comedy. I guess if that's what I want I could just watch the other Reggie Watts video on here though.

Re: loopers
The songs on Bird's latest Fingerlings collection are great.

And Reggie Watts cannot be stopped.

Sorry PXYZ - Deputy Dog's Reggie Watts: Out Of Control (Stunning, No Editing Involved) maybe a dead link - but it has another 7 days to be replaced. Technically, that makes this a duplicate Sift until it is (the correct Sift-etiquette is to private profile message with a live link to replace it with, or alternatively cheekily wait until the originals *discarded!)