testing embedding youtube

I have been mystified by how all these people manage to embed youtube movies into their LJ posts. I think I may have cracked it by looking at somebody's page source code. And (duh) realising that youtube gives you the actual code to paste in.

So here is my test embedment: The Kiss from Century Hotel. David Hewlett kisses some other man of no interest beyond the fact that he's a MAN and there's a KISS. Also, you see the BUM (note icon).

The KISS happens towards the end, as does
The BUM in all its glory (being slapped! and not wobbling!).

However, hm, this movie seems to be crappy and not play properly. Never mind, it still serves as an embedment test.

ETA: Hurrah! It worked! I meant to paste the code in here cos it's liek roolly sexy but I've forgotten the angle bracket wot u type in to avoid the code simply coding and well, appearing. Can anyone remember? I think isiscolo posted it...?

rec to the zoetrope's multimedia thing

Everyone's been reccing zoetrope's Missed the Saturday Dance, and now I'm jumping on that bandwagon. Because it is an amazing piece of multimedia wonderfulness. Totally inventive, quite original, deliciously clever with canon, fanon and history.

Here's what I feedbacked, by way of reccing:

I am amazingly impressed. When I realised it wasn't going to be a fic I can print out and read in bed (which is how I consume most of my fics) I was wary at first. Where to find the time? But before I knew it, I was hooked. What I loved best was the texture of the artwork. The 'historical' effects, the atmosphere of times past. Wonderfully inventive interweaving of footage and artefacts with canon and fanon. In fact, I got so lost in the video, audio and letters and photos that I didn't spend much time on the story at all. I scanned each page in quick time and went to click on the 'next' button. I have to say, for me the story is the artwork. The experimental aspect is so satisfying to me that the reading aspect didn't quite seem to fit in with the experience of the other things, so I just decided to set it free. It would be interesting to know how you conceived of this: whether you had the story ready and then invented the experimental multimedia things around it, or if the story grew with the multimedia things (in which case: why have a text-based story at all?).

This is absolutely wonderful and awesome stuff, and I'll be listening to the two wireless audios often again, especially audio 2! omg, the potential of having only the voices and not the images... The use of Rodney's speech to whatsername in 'Duet' is genius!