It’s almost five years to the day when Kevin Pietersen pretty much single handedly regained the Ashes for the England cricket team. Well, it wasn’t really that clear cut, but it’s certainly one of the most memorable innings by an England player in recent times.
What better time to dig an appropriate video from the Illarterate archives? Well, this is the number one video for the term ‘Kevin Pietersen’ on YouTube (and number two on Google Video Search for the same term), so I guess it’s notable enough for a post here.
Best to enjoy it while it lasts, because every day in every way it is getting closer to being removed for copyright infringement. Fingers crossed.
As you might have read in the title, some rather enterprising person has translated my Uncyclopedia Poo Lit Surprise-winning article Age of Umpires into the Polish language. I’m kind of honoured, but at the same time nobody knows I wrote the thing. Excellente!
Excerpt:
Gracz zaczyna na stadionie w Wigan w District League, a jego celem jest awansowanie w krykietowej…
Cricket’s oldest and most illustrious contest – The Ashes – comes to a conclusion next week, so I suppose this is as good a time as any to resume work on my England’s One Man Army YouTube channel. I started the project over a year ago when I was experimenting with and fine tuning my (still rather basic) video editing skills, but have somewhat abandoned it since.
Well, abandoned is a bit strong, as I have changed computer systems twice in the last year, forcing me to archive all my recorded footage.
One of the most popular videos (28,000+ views) is this collection of run outs:
While we’re on the subject of YouTube, I quite like these new channel designs from an aesthetic and accessibility point of view. Yes, they aren’t perfect but do provide a smoother way of browsing videos. Still, after Wikia’s New Monaco, anything would be preferable. Click that link at your own peril… yeuch.
More videos on varying subjects to come, with a bit of luck.
A couple of years ago, I experimented with video game editing quite a bit, partly to try and get a bit better at cutting and splicing in general.
What with my recent photography at Hindley Cricket Club, I felt it appropriate to repost a video made with Brian Lara Cricket ’99 (PSX) from February 2007. I worked with a 30-second limit to try and communicate a rather prominent element of the game – edges.
The vid’s been knocking around YouTube for a couple of years and has managed to garner around 5,000 views, which isn’t that bad I would have thought.
Howzat for a blast from the past? Browsing YouTube and some of my old vids, I’ve been thinking it might be good to have a selection posted on the blog periodically, mostly to remind me to get off my butt and do more video editing.
