Oh man, this is like catnip to me! It's like an upvote on steroids!

I will have to take some time to think about this before I make picks.

What is your favorite sift out of your submissions?

What is your favorite sift out of everyone else's submissions?

My favorite posted:

http://videosift.com/video/Dead-Squirrel-Little-Girl-and-a-Video-Camera

I must have gone back and watched this 12 times. It has everything --
family drama (mom cursing under her breath),
a dad being cool and loving and calm,
dad's sweet zoom shot on his wife's breasts -- how great is that? he still sees her as his wife and not just as "mom"
that little girl just so totally and joyfully oblivious to what adults are seeing with adult eyes....

And for @AdrianBlack, some delicious death.

I LOVE IT.

I'm really not sure what my favorite personal sift would be, I can't think of a specific one. I do really like this one though:
http://videosift.com/video/Anti-Piracy-Ad-from-The-IT-Crowd

As far as my all time favorite, it would have to be this one hands down:
http://videosift.com/video/Whose-Line-Is-It-Anyway-Clip-Featuring-Richard-Simmons

I've watched it many times and still laugh every time.

This is REALLY hard. No I mean this is REALLY REALLY fucking hard. Picking JUST TWO?!@?!?

What is your favorite sift out of your submissions?
The last minute of http://videosift.com/video/Closing-speech-from-Attenboroughs-Life-of-Mammals

What is your favorite sift out of everyone else's submissions?
Maybe this http://videosift.com/video/Magician-astounds-Stephen-Fry-causes-him-to-say-bad-word

*quality

Awarding xxovercastxx with one star point for this contribution to VideoSift - declared quality by berticus.

I really really like this one: http://videosift.com/video/Voices-from-the-Field

Sometimes I watch it to be happy that there are differences made by better people than me.

Edit: And this I really like, because without the sift I wouldn't have seen it: http://videosift.com/video/Mongrel-Nation-Eddie-Izzard-on-Old-English-and-Old-England

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)

This is a very hard question. There's so much to like. Right now, I would say my favourite submissions are these two. It could have been different if you had asked me another day, though.

My own:

Someone else's:

this has been my favorite for years and one of the reasons i started submitting videos myself.
ladydeath posted this:(its dead but i posted a replacement)




as for my own favorite submission:

I know we're only looking for our one favorite sift but I've been making this shortlist for a while now.http://videosift.com/playlists/Sagemind/Sagemind-Favorites

I tried to pick just one off that list for ya, but couldn't do it.
I'm also surprised how very little Star Wars is on this list.

My favourite is actually an unsifted of mine:
http://videosift.com/video/Big-Fat-Fiasco
combined with this:
http://videosift.com/video/Sugar-The-Bitter-Truth
Which makes for 2.5 hours of sciency goodness!

Favourite that someone else has sifted:
http://videosift.com/video/Children-Full-of-Life-Moving-documentary-about-kids-and-the
tied with it's opposite:
http://videosift.com/video/Anybody-s-Son-Will-Do

Depends on if I want to feel good about humanity or not.

Mine:

Love this mental song, posted by @deathcow:

I have come back to post my favorite that someone else has posted:

http://videosift.com/video/March-of-the-Emperors

I figure if I keep coming back to watch it over a period of almost FIVE YEARS... well, that must be my favorite.

Most of my sifts are things that I genuinely enjoy, though I do have some that I sifted only because I knew they'd do well. As such, I had a hell of a time picking a favorite.

I ultimately went with

but not without strongly considering http://videosift.com/video/How-to-kick-the-shit-out-of-somebody, http://videosift.com/video/Hadoken, http://videosift.com/video/How-TV-Ruined-Your-Life-Episode-4-Love, and http://videosift.com/video/Incredible-Drummer-vs-Beatbox

Picking from the videos of others didn't seem like it would be much easier, but once I came across http://videosift.com/video/researching-happiness-for-72-years-and-what-do-they-find it was a no-brainer (click through and read the article for the full effect). That video was posted during an extremely difficult time in my life when I felt like I had nothing left and it gave me a glint of hope that I should keep on going.

Runners-up include http://videosift.com/video/The-Boy-With-the-Incredible-Brain-Daniel-Tammet, http://videosift.com/video/The-Fibonnaci-Sequence-in-Tools-Lateralus, and http://videosift.com/video/Jackie-Chan-vs-Benny-The-Jet-Urquidez

mine: http://videosift.com/video/What-is-the-purpose-of-life
others: http://videosift.com/video/COMPLETELY-not-safe-for-work-standup-comic-Jim-Jeffries

Favorites of mine: http://videosift.com/video/Road-Rage-1 (which was also my first sift) and http://videosift.com/video/Building-Implosion-I-think-they-were-a-little-too-close
Others: http://videosift.com/video/I-Guess-Youll-Do and http://comedy.videosift.com/video/This-Kid-Wants-Someone-To-Play-Football-With-Him

My favorite sift of another person is http://videosift.com/video/Nuit-Blanche