This is in Spanish, which I don't speak, but you can definitely get the idea. Per Tastefully Offensive:
In this funny segment from the Spanish comedy TV show El Hormiguero, Madrid, Spain-based professional skateboarder Danny Leon pranked a group of young skaters at a skate park by pretending to attempt skateboarding for the first time while disguised as an 80-year-old man.
ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include the anniversary of the Night of the Long Knives, an extremely weird Norwegian potato chip video, funny clothing tags, the winners of NOAA's weather photo contest, and North Korean propaganda videos.
1. Panorama from Times Building, New York - W. 42nd Street and 7th Avenue, up 6th Ave ending at Times Square
2. Interior N.Y. Subway, 14th St. to 42nd St. ending at the Old Grand Central Station
3. Opening of New East River Bridge, New York - Williamsburg Bridge, on the East River
4. 'Move On' - A fruit market somewhere on the lower East Side
5. At the Foot of The Flatiron, or Fuller Building on Broadway and 23rd Street, on the Broadway side near the narrow north corner.
6. Parade of "Exempt" Firemen - Washington Square Park (Greenwich Village) showing Washington Square Arch
7. Panorama of Blackwell's Island, N.Y. - Heading along the eastern shore of Blackwell's Island, known today as Roosevelt Island. Shows Lighthouse Park and the construction of the Queensboro Bridge over Roosevelt Island, with Manhattan in the far background.
8. Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River - On the Hudson River, looking toward the piers of Lower Manhattan. Shows approximately where the World Trade Center would be located many years later.
9. Old site of the New York Aquarium (which moved to Coney Island in 1957) and Battery Park.
10. Panorama of Flatiron Building - Looking south from Madison Square across Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street
11. Parade of Horses on Speedway - on the West Bank of the Harlem River, Highbridge in North Manhattan. Taken from Harlem River Drive, the footage shows the old High Bridge at 175th Street and the Washington Bridge at 181st Street
12. Lower Broadway - Looking north up Lower Broadway from Wall Street, at the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery
13. Looking along the length of 23rd Street, with the elevated EI in the background.
14. Time-lapse demolition of the Star Theatre on 13th Street and Broadway.
15. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Parade on Fifth Avenue
16. Skating on the Lake - Ice skating in Central Park
17. Dewey Arch stood at Madison Square over 5th Avenue between 25th and 24th Streets. It was demolished in 1900.
18. Automobile Parade - Downtown Manhattan on the corner of E. 27th Street and Madison Avenue, with the old Madison Square Garden in the background (now the New York Life Building). Stanford White, the building's architect, was murdered in the rooftop restaurant.
19. New York Police Parade - Parade turning into 14th Street from Broadway. In the background is Morton Hose, today the Union Square Theatre.
20. A month earlier from almost the same spot, footage shows the great blizzard that year. In the background is the statue of Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty. The statue still stands today.
21. Union Square - a fight between two newspaper sellers, likely young boys.
22. Panorama from the Tower of Brooklyn Bridge
23. Liberty Island - the island which holds the Statue of Liberty was called Bedloe's Island until 1956. The statue was erected 12 years before this footage was taken.
24. Racing At Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island. Old maps indicate that the race track was east of Ocean Avenue, between avenues X and Y.
25. Union Square, looking north-east from the corner of E 16th Street, with 33 E.17th Street Center Publishing Company in the background.
26. Mounted Police in Central Park
27. Bergen Beach near Coney Island. Shooting the Chutes was one of the first amusement rides.
28. The oldest footage of New York City ever - 11 May 1896 - Herald Square, at the intersection of Broadway, 6th Avenue and 34th Street.
ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include the battleship built in Union Square (NYC) in 1917, video of a 57-story modular skyscraper being constructed in 19 days, and a gallery of terrifying prehistoric sea monsters.
PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) — A 10-year-old mutt named Quasi Modo, whose spinal birth defects left her a bit hunchbacked, is the winner of this year's World's Ugliest Dog contest.
The pit bull-Dutch shepherd mix and her owner took the $1,500 prize Friday night, besting 25 other dogs competing in the contest that applauds imperfection, organizers said.
I dunno - choosing a deformed dog who wouldn't be ugly if it weren't for the deformation seems wrong to me. This runner-up looks like a better bet:
ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include a newly found photo of Vincent Van Gogh from 1887, a re-creation of how the Romans lifted wild animals into the Colosseum, and using lasers to burn away mental illness.
A Chinese entrepreneur who took just 19 days to build a 57-story tower says he has triggered a construction revolution. And his dreams soar far, far higher.
Steel is delivered to one of Broad Group’s six huge hangar-like factories, where it is machine-cut and welded into one of a few basic modules – a column, crossbeam or floor section. These are then loaded on to lorries and driven to the site, where they are slotted into place like Tetris pieces, and finally bolted and welded together.
The company behind the construction, Broad Sustainable Building, previously built a 30-story building in Changsha in just 15 days.
I'm not sure what weapon(s) the bats are using, actually: apparently they're from Halo (wiki) and I've never played it. If you know, please supply the information in the comments. Per youtube:
Many sounds from Halo 4 including Plasma Pistol, Bolt Shot Rifle, Fuel Rod Cannon, Carbine Rifle (zoom and shots), and Armour Abilities.
