Daily Drop: Glass Paperweight

[ranger19]

Somewhat entertaining, but did you guys seriously put a 31 second ad in front of a 90 second video? No way that's worth my time.. and I can't see how anyone can stand for it.

What ad? Oh thats right, I have ad-block on... silly me, I don't see any ads because of it =p

Wait.. what? I have adblock on too! But mine is the one for Chrome.. maybe it's not as functional as a firefox equivalent yet?

Sure it will break, but will it blend???
I usually tab over to Cracked or Facebook or something until the ad is over.

I figured someone was going to say this, but it's the principal of the thing. I can switch tabs, but I still get the noise pollution ("unleash our spicy side!" *cringe*) and as much as I love the escapist, ads taking up 30% the time of my desired content is ridiculous.

 

[randomsix]

Fantastic music.

Was it made specifically for this, or found somewhere?

 

[tl333s]

Is this seriously a new series? I love it!

 

[camazotz]

The point is: glass people shouldn't fall from high places. That said, this looks to be another fun diversion, kudos!

 

[CoreKrogoth]

Somehow it being dropped by Paul in what I have to assume is his favorite costume just makes it that much more enjoyable.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Down with the paperwight empire! Long live the electronic documents!

 

[Milo Windby]

Somewhat entertaining, but did you guys seriously put a 31 second ad in front of a 90 second video? No way that's worth my time.. and I can't see how anyone can stand for it.

What ad? Oh thats right, I have ad-block on... silly me, I don't see any ads because of it =p

Wait.. what? I have adblock on too! But mine is the one for Chrome.. maybe it's not as functional as a firefox equivalent yet?

Perhaps, I have never really seen any ads in the videos here on the Escapist. Using "ABP" for Firefox.


I figured someone was going to say this, but it's the principal of the thing. I can switch tabs, but I still get the noise pollution ("unleash our spicy side!" *cringe*) and as much as I love the escapist, ads taking up 30% the time of my desired content is ridiculous.[/quote]

 

[Rawker]

who needs all the mental stimulating devil juju? I like to watch people drop stuff.

 

[Blydden]

Intriguing 90 second display. That paperweight was gaudy anyway.

 

[AceAngel]

Everyone complaining to the point of this video: Please shut your bloody trap and let the show be. We have TimeWarp and people watch that show in droves, I don't see the harm in having an internet version for free...

Honestly, the IQ of some blokes here.

 

[Impluse_101]

Honestly... guys; I know your direction is "let's just feel the site up with press released and video clips", but every day breaking something else? And THAT'S IT?
Please - give some actual CONTENT. Remember content?

You mean like the four feature-length articles we run in each weekly edition of the magazine? Or the columns from folks like Shamus Young, Ben Croshaw, Bob Chipman, Dr. Mark Kline, and JP Sherman that get published every day? Perhaps one of our original web comics? That kind of content?

Yep, thats a Susan Arendt burn. Congratulations, need a icy hot pack for that?

 

[SensibleCrout]

Awesome music (nicely in sync with the lamps turning on).
Checking if gravity still works can be fun.
What camera are you using? Which digital recorders offer that kind of fps? Do you interpolate frames in post production?

These paperweights are quite difficult to make and despite their ugliness used to be rather expensive. Still well worth destroying if you ask me.

You absolutely need to drop a Slinky and a well shaken bottle of beer. Too bad I just threw away 5 old hard disks. If you remove the lid before dropping them, the platters should shatter which would look interesting.

And how about a balloon with a handful of big nails in it? Or something on fire?

 

[Spartigus68k]

A slowmo rewind during the credits would be cool

 

[AdmiralMemo]

It's like stuff blowing up in the Matrix!

Ahaha. I love this. The spiritual successor to Will It Blend.

Yeah! Awesome!

This is really cool. I want to request a computer monitor... you know, the old gigantic type.

You absolutely need to drop a Slinky and a well shaken bottle of beer. Too bad I just threw away 5 old hard disks. If you remove the lid before dropping them, the platters should shatter which would look interesting.

And how about a balloon with a handful of big nails in it? Or something on fire?

The whole thing is done, so requests are pointless. They rented for a week and dropped stuff constantly. Only editing takes up the time, so they get 1 out per day.

Honestly... guys; I know your direction is "let's just feel the site up with press released and video clips", but every day breaking something else? And THAT'S IT?
Please - give some actual CONTENT. Remember content?

You mean like the four feature-length articles we run in each weekly edition of the magazine? Or the columns from folks like Shamus Young, Ben Croshaw, Bob Chipman, Dr. Mark Kline, and JP Sherman that get published every day? Perhaps one of our original web comics? That kind of content?

+1247! You're the best, Susan! :-D

 

[TheKwertyeweyoppe]

all of a sudden i feel enlightened

 

[duchaked]

that was cool

lotsa rude comments tho :/

 

[Hashime]

It would be cooler if the total energy of the system was larger, you know what that means.

 

[AvsJoe]

I've got to say it: This is Paul's greatest performance that I have seen on the Escapist. He should win an award for this clip!

 

[Graham_LRR]

We've already shot the first batch of episodes, so I'm afraid we can't fulfill requests anytime soon, but let me assure you all of two things:
1) A lot of the requests I've seen, we thought of too, so look for them in the future!
2) If we see one we haven't done, we're writing it down for next time

Thanks for the kind words, all!

 

[MaxFan]

Have we really become this dumb? Even a site for nerds is so dumb we have "ooh let's watch this get destroyed in super-slow-mo!" Ugh.