Trying something new (for the Vimeo Weekend Project): 5×5, using five five-second clips with natural sound. Pretty much straight from the DSLR, no editing.

Short video of a chicken and goats at the MN State Fair 2011

This was filmed/put together weeks ago, but I sort of forgot about it.
A young red squirrel barks for unknown reasons in my backyard.

Bumble bees quickly scramble over flowers, with the natural sound of airplanes overhead. (~2,000 meters from MSP.)

Short clip of a cheerful muskrat swimming around, chowing down on vegetation as it goes. (Very Pac-Man!)

A goose builds a nest beside a trail at a nature center. Obviously, this isn’t a good idea—but you try telling a goose that.

Short, shaky video of the blizzard happening outside my front door, and a miserable squirrel trying to find his way home. (He does, don’t worry!) Taken around 3PM CST on December 11, 2010 — total Minneapolis snowfall was around 14.6″ [Source].

In a video on YouTube lasting just over a minute in length with nearly 4.2 million views, a Himalayan cat named Shirobu reclines at a table. (The Japanese title translates into “Dandyism,” according to Google Translate.) His large furry body is propped up with pillows. We never actually see Shirobu partake in any of the Japanese food or drink arranged in front of him, although he appears to chew on something small at the beginning of the video. Instead he grooms himself, pausing only to look around the room blankly for a couple seconds.

A school of tadpoles chilling along the edge of the water. Judging from their abundance on land nearby, these are most likely to be future American toads.

Here’s an unlikely hip-hop music video which begins with Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Jamie Foxx, and Ron Howard showing up together at a party. Samuel L. Jackson is already there, chilling with a young woman whose boobs are hanging out. The party is off the hook, there’s even a man wearing a giant panda head. At one point, Ron Howard raises up his champagne glass in unison with the others, while dollar bills flutter down from the ceiling.