YouTube’s Off the Air… What Do the Hancuffs Mean?!


Home Purchasing Club is a new web-only video series by cast members of Saturday Night Live, The Groundlings, Napoleon Dynamite, The Drew Carey Show and Office Space. Spoofing ridiculous home shopping network segments, HPC just launched its first episode as part of VH1’s V-Spot player on and will premiere new episodes on the site every…
Techcrunch discovers that Google Video may be moving into the adult video arena. Yipes. “People watching Google Video closely noticed a change this week in the upload area – the restrictions on uploading “pornographic or obscene” material is now just a restriction on “obscene” material. They’ve also added a “mature and adult” category to the…
First a disclaimer. I don’t take any spiffs to mention a company or product on this Blog. I’m a former journalist, and I only cover something if I find it interesting myself or for my largely anonymous readers. I’ve gotten some e-mails from folks asking if this is my day job, so I’ve updated my…
Oh damn this is cool. Bobby McFerrin turns the entire stage into a keyboard, and the audience into his pipes. It’s a fascinating demonstration of our brains in action. Well, not your brain and my brain. We’re just receiving the encoded video. But Bobby’s and the audience. Not the doctors on the stage either. They…
“There’s something about reading your own quote in print that makes you believe your own BS,” said Kevin Nalts on his blog today. A recent article in StreamingMedia quoted a few of my observations on production quality and how important it is in web video popularity and views: “…We’re still at a point where production value…
Pay attention now, online-video and advertising peeps. This lil’ blog post is going to be on the final exam. It might even spawn a trade article and a new business. Search engine marketing (SEM) is big business today, with agencies charging retainers to help websites rank high on search engines (increasing qualified traffic) and help manage paid advertising….
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ahhh its horrible no idea hope its fixed
The hands with the writing on the fingers was used in “The Blues Brothers”, “Fight Club” and “Cape Fear”. Perhaps the heiroglyphics means that the blues brother (the two YouTube founders) find themselves in a fight club (copyright infringement battle) that they cape fear (would rather avoid the cigar-smoking, laughing man in the movie theater).
That’s from the Russel Crowe movie “Master and Commander”. It says on the knuckles: HOLD FAST
It means to not break, etc.
Woah. Deep. Thanks, MrOrange.
The writing-on-hands was also featured in Master and Commander. I think that’s where the picture is from.