February 2012
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Top 10 Nearly Extinct Household Items →
If you scoot down to number one, we used to have one of these as well, and I’d totally forgotten about it.
Carry on.
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WatchA thirty-degree wash.
Transcription:
“You’ll have to excuse my, er, slightly odd pose, however according to the back of the detergent, I’m helping save the planet by washing at thirty degrees.
“Don’t know how much more I can take of this. The planet… planet just might have to suffer.
“Carry on.”
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WatchHip to be square.
This isn’t a trick. The hip flask has a small opening and I really did have trouble pouring it out.
The music is Nina Simone’s Feeling Good.
Carry on.
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WatchTaken as read.
I started reading a book by someone called Argos. I presume he must be Greek. It’s a very experimental work, light on plot but making heavy use of objects. I’ll give it a few more pages before I decide on it for sure.
The background music is Kirsty McColl’s Fifteen Minutes.
Carry on.
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WatchThe last straw.
Transcription:
“Hi there, I’m Lady Gav Gav. I’ve been staring at this carton of orange juice for about an hour now but it’s not doing anything. I thought something would have happened by now.
“It’s just… it says, ‘concentrate,’ on the side, so I am. Oh well, we’ll give it a few more minutes, I think.
“Carry on,...
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WatchClean and clear.
Transcription:
“Hi there, er, due to some scheduled maintenance today, there’s going to be no video blog. Er, I just need to do a bit of cleaning, okay? Just don’t, don’t mind me, just keep, keep doing as you’re doing. Okay?
“Carry on.”
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How Japan has rebuilt itself. →
If this was the UK, the authorities would still be arguing over whose responsibility it was to clean up.
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WatchTwenty-eight days later. (Original video)
Exactly four weeks after I posted this sunny video postcard from my garden, it began snowing.
The figure in orange is our postman, and the background music is Heaven For The Weather by The Streets, a good track from an otherwise awful album.
Carry on.
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WatchGas boiler sings Katy Perry track. (Original video)
I originally intended for this just to be the boiler lights switching on once and off with Katy Perry’s Hot & Cold in the background. Instead, I spent Saturday afternoon animating them so that they, “sing,” the track.
Carry on.
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One unread message displaying yet inbox is empty.
When I go to my blog page (http://www.tumblr.com/blog/knaw), the menu on the right persistently shows Messages - 1, yet when I click on the button or the envelope icon at the top, there are none to read.
Is there a second inbox somewhere that I should be checking? How do I get rid of this phantom message?
Carry on.
EDIT: Thanks for all of the answers. It’s good to know that I’m not...
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WatchYou’re on notice. (Original video)
I’m not sure whether Bob Dylan fans will consider this sacrilege but I’ve made a parody of Subterranean Homesick Blues using a stack of handwritten one-liners that I’ve had knocking about for a few years.
Since all the words are on the screen, there is no transcription, but I do apologise for covering some of the letters with my...
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WatchPushing the envelope. (Original video)
Transcription:
“Hot on the heel of the New York book in the last entry, it seems to be raining pr… parcels at the moment. So this one’s been sent to me by my mum, and I genuinely don’t know what is in it, it could be anything. It’s a fairly flat package, it’s not a DVD anyway, but let’s find out.
“Ah-ha-ha,...
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January 2012
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WatchOpen sesame. (Original video)
Transcription:
“I recently began a subscription to GQ magazine and as a welcome gift, they give you a house-brick. Ha-ha, well not quite, but let’s see what’s inside it.
“Now, you can’t see it in shot just now but on the front, the Post Office - for some reason - have written, ‘S-N-L,’ on the front, twenty-sixth of...
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WatchTalking the talk with @Adrienne65. (Original video)
I realise that I’ve used the word, “vernacular,” twice in this video, depleting my quota for the next six months.
Transcription:
“On seeing a recent entry, one of my regular correspondents said to me that I sound, ‘Rather posh for a Dundonian,” Dundonian being the vernacular for a resident of Dundee,...
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WatchLife begins at forty. (Original video)
Transcription:
“I went out tonight to get some new trousers and I got two black pairs. This one is a plain black and this is a stripy black.
“However, you’ll notice that the waist size is forty. Now, however much weight I seem to lose from going to the gym. I can just never get my waist size down, and frankly I just don’t know...
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WatchChinese Burns Night. (Original video)
Transcription:
“The twenty-third of January was Chinese New Year and the twenty-fifth of January will be Burns Night.
“So tonight, the twenty-fourth, we’ve decided to combine the two and have a Chinese Burns Night.
“Don’t try this at home, kids. Now, if you’ll excuse me.
“Carry on.”
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WatchDeath of a salesman. (Original video)
I don’t know why the camcorder cut off so abruptly midway through because I left it running for the whole message. Anyway, you still get the general idea.
Transcription:
“[Answering machine] One new message. Message one. Today, three seventeen pm.”
“[Telemarketer] … not yet received their refund on a mis-sold payment...
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WatchI like it. (Original video)
A parody of the Aldi comparison adverts, this time with clothes-pegs.
Transcription:
“I like these clothes-pegs. And I like these clothes-pegs.
“But I don’t really mind which I use. Lady Gav Gav does all the washing round here.”
Carry on.
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WatchPanic! (Original video)
Transcription:
“O-M-G, I am just up out of bed and I read in the paper that there’s a serial killer on the loose in the area.
“So it’s not the sort of thing I want to read at this time of the morning, but serial killer or not, I could murder a bowl of cornflakes.
“Carry on, you weirdos.”
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WatchIt’s oh so quiet. (Original video)
This video has no speech, and you’ll see why when you watch it, but turn up your speakers for the jazz accompaniment.
Carry on.
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WatchThe high lights. (Original video)
This is one of my Christmas presents, a shower head that lights up in different colours while the water’s running.
There is no speech, so no transcription, but the background music is Traffic Light by The Ting Tings. I was tempted to use Bernard Herrmann’s theme from Psycho.
Carry on.
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WatchYou spin me round. (Original video)
I had to wash a few clothes on Saturday, and here is me putting them into the machine. There is no music, and the only speech is my perennial tag-line.
Carry on.
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WatchA video postcard. (Original video)
Saturday 7 January was the first sunny day that we’d had in Dundee for several weeks. Inspired by the old Pathé travelogues, I brought out my camcorder to capture the moment.
There is no speech or music, just the sounds that you hear from my back garden.
Carry on.
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WatchHere comes the judge. (Original video)
Transcription:
“Hiya, can’t stop very long. Going to tape Judge Judy.
“Just, er… oh good, I haven’t missed too much. Okay, got to rush, see you when I’ve got more time.
“Carry on.”
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When you ride this bike, it plays music from the LPs attached to its wheels.
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On our 2011 edition of the “I Wrote a Novel, Now What?” page, we list a number of free contests and writing challenges that you can enter this year. One of them is the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, which is fast approaching!
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WatchUpper case and lower case. (Original video)
There is no speech in this short, but the background music is the theme from the old Channel 4 comedy Drop The Dead Donkey.
Carry on.
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WatchOh the irony. (Original video)
I recorded this on Christmas Eve at the Erskine Bridge Hotel. After I’d stopped the camera, I found that the iron wasn’t actually hot enough.
Transcription:
“So, just doing a bit of ironing for Christmas Day. I think I’m going to wear my Taylor & Wright shirt with epaulettes on, and my black tie with, er, white squares on it.
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WatchToday is a gift, that’s why they call it the present. (Original video)
Because I was going away for Christmas 2011 and it would have been impractical to take my presents, I opened them on 23rd December. The full video is over twenty minutes long, so here is just a clip from it.
My girlfriend is to my left-hand-side but did not want to appear in it or be heard, as much as I encouraged her.
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December 2011
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WatchQuick and dirty. (Original video, recorded 2011-12-30)
Transcription:
“See you next year. Carry on.”
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WatchThe age of Aquarius. (Original video, recorded 2011-12-14)
Transcription:
“Hi there, you weirdos. I haven’t been around, no, I’ve been preparing for Christmas. I’m, like, totally psyched for this year.
“One thing people keep asking me, tho’. They say, ‘Lady Gav Gav? Is that all your own hair?’ I say, ‘Well yes, it is, don’t be silly....
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WatchTake off your scarf and jacket. (Original video, recorded 2011-12-14)
It’s freezing outside these days, so I’m taking precautions, mainly by dressing up as a cross between Darth Vader and an eskimo.
The music is Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black, and there is no speech apart from my usual tagline.
Carry on.
Why Is The Middle Finger Offensive?
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On MSNBC this morning, Chuck Todd was caught on camera flipping the bird. What is it that makes that gesture offensive? Here’s a little background.
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WatchNew Year’s Eve music help required. (Original video, recorded 2011-12-15)
Transcription:
“[Gavin] I’ll be pre-recording a New Year’s Eve show for hospital radio and I need your help. What sort of songs do you expect to hear at a New Year’s Eve party? Apart from this one, of course…”
“[Dougie McLean, Auld Lang Syne] Should auld...
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WatchT-winning. (Original video, recorded 2011-12-14)
Transcription:
“As you already know, I won the NaNoWriMo competition this year, er, beating the fifty thousand words by quite a substantial margin. But I’ve gone a couple of stages further.
“First one is the Winner’s Circle T-shirt, which is… you’ve still got to buy it but it’s only available to those...
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WatchLet’s go shooldering. (Original video, recorded 2011-12-07)
Transcription:
“I think after such crazes as planking and horsemanning, it’s about time we came up with something new.
“Well, I propose shooldering. A shoe on your shoulder then you snap a picture and post it to your preferred social network. Shooldering.
“So share it, reblog it, let’s get this...
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