Magnet Videos, How Do They Work?

August 16, 2014

(It’s nearly time for another round of Secondhand SCIENCE, but there’s still time to see last Sunday’s scintillating take on sublimation.

Okay, technically there’s always time to see it, assuming the internet continues to exist and the checks to my bandwidth provider don’t bounce. Still.

Also, if such things interest you, my contributions for Apartments.com are in full swing. If you love renting, or Boston, or both, or neither, you should totally check it out.)

“Like how everyone finishes New Years’ resolutions before the calendar rolls again, or how we always poop between grande burritos.”

This week’s check-in is a little on the late side, because I wanted to include a link to the video of our sketch comedy group Always on Deck’s performance at the Magnet Theater in New York last month.

That’s because we have another show coming up next weekend, and it seemed like a good idea to wrap up everything to do with the last set before making another trip. Like how everyone finishes New Years’ resolutions before the calendar rolls again, or how we always poop between grande burritos.

The analogies, they can be uncomfortably appropriate.

At any rate, I managed to find some software to finagle the original video file. And then I spent a bunch of brain cells learning how to perform said finagling. And a bit of time uploading copies in various formats to six different places before remembering that YouTube is a thing that exists to make interwebbing easier for vidiots like me.

But most importantly, I resisted the urge to add transition effects with star wipes. It was close. But you’re welcome.

Anyway, here’s the video. A few of us went and got rather silly in Manhattan on July 6th, and we’re looking forward to doing it again — where “it” is still silly, but entirely new material — on August 24th. Come see. I promise I won’t star wipe you.

Unless you really ask me nicely.