Another round of avatars for your perusal, with a few notes on each queue. Thanks everybody for your votes and encouragement!
Surgery Sift
This queue was inspired by Snoozedoctor, who encouraged me to “go medical” after the sleep sift. There were some very interesting comment threads in some of them, and spurred some other interesting posts.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Laparoscopic-Surgery-Surgery-Through-a-Single-Incision
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Origins-of-Antiseptic-Surgery-Lord-Lister
http://www.videosift.com/video/Medical-Maverics-Self-experimentation-and-Anesthesia
http://www.videosift.com/video/Worlds-First-Partial-Face-Transplant
http://www.videosift.com/video/Transplanting-the-Human-Head
Sleep
Dreams and sleep have challenged our understanding for all time, and it never seems that we get enough of either. All time easiest avatar, just turned down the lights and closed my eyes.
http://www.videosift.com/video/John-Lennon-How-do-you-Sleep
http://www.videosift.com/video/Secrets-of-Sleep-Dream-Telepathy
http://www.videosift.com/video/American-Dream-from-Tribute-American-1924
http://www.videosift.com/video/Anderson-Cooper-Visits-s-Sleep-Clinic
http://www.videosift.com/video/Living-With-Cataplexy-and-Narcolepsy-BBC-Short
WSFT RadioSift
A radio queue on a video site? I had my doubts, but was happy with what I dug out of the Siftmines.
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Beginning-of-Commercial-Radio
http://www.videosift.com/video/Black-Shadows-excerpt-from-Radio-Parade-1935-In-Color
http://www.videosift.com/video/Radio-Caroline-Offshore-Pirate-Radio-UK
http://www.videosift.com/video/Radio-Follies-1935
http://www.videosift.com/video/Walter-Cronkite-on-Amateur-Radio
http://www.videosift.com/video/Radio-Hams-1939
http://www.videosift.com/video/WKRP-in-Cincinatti-Pink-Floyds-Dogs
Sift Patrol
This was probably one of the hardest to put together, because it’s so difficult to find anything other than videos that (A)depicted police officers as evil oppressors of the people or (2) mawkish, maudlin tributes to heroes. Tried to focus on their daily challenges and as usual something oldey for Swampgirl’s Vintage Channel.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Booked-for-Safekeeping-Police-Training-Film-1960
http://www.videosift.com/video/Cop-Saves-Womans-Dog-with-Doggy-CPR
http://www.videosift.com/video/This-is-why-they-made-Tasers
http://www.videosift.com/video/British-Policeman-Narrowly-Escapes-Suspects-Knife
http://www.videosift.com/video/Starchase-Suspect-Vehicle-Tracking-Device
http://www.videosift.com/video/Police-Video-Tip-of-the-Week-Traffic-Stop-Training-Video
http://www.videosift.com/video/Automated-License-Plate-Recognition-System-ALPR
Love and Sex
Kept this one pretty loose, so to speak. Anything with “love” in the title qualified. Still, really couldn’t find what I was looking for. Such is love.
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Beatles-Real-Love
http://www.videosift.com/video/William-Gibson-on-Love-and-Sex-1967
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Science-of-Love-Lesbian-Interest-Short-film
http://www.videosift.com/video/Matchmaking-with-DNA
http://www.videosift.com/video/SLUT-Easy-to-Love
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sex-and-Love-in-the-Bible-History-Channel
http://www.videosift.com/video/Experiment-Love-and-Danger\
Black and White
Inspired by a friend who has black and white parents, a look at race, the game of chess, and a little photography
http://www.videosift.com/video/Look-to-the-cookie-Elaine-Look-to-the-cookie-005
http://www.videosift.com/video/Janis-Ian-Black-White
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Human-Stain-Coleman-and-his-Mother
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ebony-Ivory-Music-Video
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-White-The-Black
http://www.videosift.com/video/WeeGee-Tribute-to-Arthur-Fellig
Cryptids and Cryptozoology
This was great fun. Just because you’ve never caught one, doesn’t mean they don’t exist! These mythical creatures can never be disproven, that’s their beauty!
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Search-for-Nessie
http://www.videosift.com/video/Arthur-C-Clarke-Monsters-of-the-Deep
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Mystery-of-the-Mothman
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Mysterious-Rods-Phenomena
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Jersey-Devil-Weird-NJ
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-C-Clarkes-Mysterious-World-CryptoZoology
http://www.videosift.com/video/Christian-Cryptozoology
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Twelve-Pack-of-Bigfoot-footage
http://www.videosift.com/video/Chupacabra-Caught-and-Analyzed
HotRods!
One last look at the wonderful world of big-bore internal combustion before everyone switches to whisper quiet hybrid eco whatsits. Vroom!
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ingenuity-in-Action
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hot-Rod-Heart
http://www.videosift.com/video/1927-Volvo-HotRod
http://schmawy.videosift.com/video/Hot-Rodding-is-Dead
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pinstripers-in-Actions
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ed-Big-Daddy-Roth-interviews-Von-Dutch
previously...
http://blog.videosift.com/schmawy/The-Many-Faces-of-Serious-Cat
Thanks again everybody!
Surgery Sift
This queue was inspired by Snoozedoctor, who encouraged me to “go medical” after the sleep sift. There were some very interesting comment threads in some of them, and spurred some other interesting posts.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Laparoscopic-Surgery-Surgery-Through-a-Single-Incision
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Origins-of-Antiseptic-Surgery-Lord-Lister
http://www.videosift.com/video/Medical-Maverics-Self-experimentation-and-Anesthesia
http://www.videosift.com/video/Worlds-First-Partial-Face-Transplant
http://www.videosift.com/video/Transplanting-the-Human-Head
Sleep
Dreams and sleep have challenged our understanding for all time, and it never seems that we get enough of either. All time easiest avatar, just turned down the lights and closed my eyes.
http://www.videosift.com/video/John-Lennon-How-do-you-Sleep
http://www.videosift.com/video/Secrets-of-Sleep-Dream-Telepathy
http://www.videosift.com/video/American-Dream-from-Tribute-American-1924
http://www.videosift.com/video/Anderson-Cooper-Visits-s-Sleep-Clinic
http://www.videosift.com/video/Living-With-Cataplexy-and-Narcolepsy-BBC-Short
WSFT RadioSift
A radio queue on a video site? I had my doubts, but was happy with what I dug out of the Siftmines.
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Beginning-of-Commercial-Radio
http://www.videosift.com/video/Black-Shadows-excerpt-from-Radio-Parade-1935-In-Color
http://www.videosift.com/video/Radio-Caroline-Offshore-Pirate-Radio-UK
http://www.videosift.com/video/Radio-Follies-1935
http://www.videosift.com/video/Walter-Cronkite-on-Amateur-Radio
http://www.videosift.com/video/Radio-Hams-1939
http://www.videosift.com/video/WKRP-in-Cincinatti-Pink-Floyds-Dogs
Sift Patrol
This was probably one of the hardest to put together, because it’s so difficult to find anything other than videos that (A)depicted police officers as evil oppressors of the people or (2) mawkish, maudlin tributes to heroes. Tried to focus on their daily challenges and as usual something oldey for Swampgirl’s Vintage Channel.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Booked-for-Safekeeping-Police-Training-Film-1960
http://www.videosift.com/video/Cop-Saves-Womans-Dog-with-Doggy-CPR
http://www.videosift.com/video/This-is-why-they-made-Tasers
http://www.videosift.com/video/British-Policeman-Narrowly-Escapes-Suspects-Knife
http://www.videosift.com/video/Starchase-Suspect-Vehicle-Tracking-Device
http://www.videosift.com/video/Police-Video-Tip-of-the-Week-Traffic-Stop-Training-Video
http://www.videosift.com/video/Automated-License-Plate-Recognition-System-ALPR
Love and Sex
Kept this one pretty loose, so to speak. Anything with “love” in the title qualified. Still, really couldn’t find what I was looking for. Such is love.
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Beatles-Real-Love
http://www.videosift.com/video/William-Gibson-on-Love-and-Sex-1967
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Science-of-Love-Lesbian-Interest-Short-film
http://www.videosift.com/video/Matchmaking-with-DNA
http://www.videosift.com/video/SLUT-Easy-to-Love
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sex-and-Love-in-the-Bible-History-Channel
http://www.videosift.com/video/Experiment-Love-and-Danger\
Black and White
Inspired by a friend who has black and white parents, a look at race, the game of chess, and a little photography
http://www.videosift.com/video/Look-to-the-cookie-Elaine-Look-to-the-cookie-005
http://www.videosift.com/video/Janis-Ian-Black-White
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Human-Stain-Coleman-and-his-Mother
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ebony-Ivory-Music-Video
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-White-The-Black
http://www.videosift.com/video/WeeGee-Tribute-to-Arthur-Fellig
Cryptids and Cryptozoology
This was great fun. Just because you’ve never caught one, doesn’t mean they don’t exist! These mythical creatures can never be disproven, that’s their beauty!
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Search-for-Nessie
http://www.videosift.com/video/Arthur-C-Clarke-Monsters-of-the-Deep
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Mystery-of-the-Mothman
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Mysterious-Rods-Phenomena
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Jersey-Devil-Weird-NJ
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-C-Clarkes-Mysterious-World-CryptoZoology
http://www.videosift.com/video/Christian-Cryptozoology
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Twelve-Pack-of-Bigfoot-footage
http://www.videosift.com/video/Chupacabra-Caught-and-Analyzed
HotRods!
One last look at the wonderful world of big-bore internal combustion before everyone switches to whisper quiet hybrid eco whatsits. Vroom!
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ingenuity-in-Action
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hot-Rod-Heart
http://www.videosift.com/video/1927-Volvo-HotRod
http://schmawy.videosift.com/video/Hot-Rodding-is-Dead
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pinstripers-in-Actions
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ed-Big-Daddy-Roth-interviews-Von-Dutch
previously...
http://blog.videosift.com/schmawy/The-Many-Faces-of-Serious-Cat
Thanks again everybody!
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Ones I'd like to see in the future:
Rastacat
kingkongcat
rip van kitty
where the wild cats are
How about a dog-themed Serious Cat? Oh yeah, try to work that one out, Mr. Smarty Cat.
Yeah, Sam would volunteer
keep themcoming, serious cat is...serious business
I want to see robot cat for engineering channel.
Or a Borg cat for the Sci-Fi!
Einstein Cat.
That is all I am saying...
*Soldier Cat
*Chef Cat
Castume ideas:
-Unserious Cat
-Cyborg Cat
-Surreal Cat
-Catzilla
-Jazz Cat
reddit
Roger that, dageridoo.
Thanks again, you lovely Sifters. If you'll notice there is one that is conspicuously missing.
Okay, I give. Which one? And don't be coy, or else I'll rip your Godard skull off, chemise down your neck, fusil you in your eye socket, and then crème fraîches all over your buté.
EDIT: WTF is ^that? Oh, I get it: Godard lucky760 and his word filters. Using French, mon ami!? How seditious!
EDIT over the EDIT : Can you explain me how "Godard" could stand for "F**kin'" ? The first thing that Godard means to me is the name of a famous French film-maker. In another hand, "godard" should also be a very old slang word based on the old french word for "dildo" ... which is kinda closer from the initial meaning ...
BTW, your comment is absolutely NSFW for anybody who is as twisted enough to understand those french word meaning in their respective contexts ...
Super-secret decoder key (Ladies, please avert your gaze):
Godard = God damn
chemise = shit
fusil = fuck
crème fraîches = cream (ejaculate)
buté = butt
You're right; I'm a bad bad guy.
Best avatars ever! Next, I want to see a fly fishing feline. An angling avatar. Maybe a cat-fish motif of some kind? Don't forget to make sure your puss is speyed. That's reel important.