Literally hundreds of videos a month that are found with keyword searches for “mushrooms”, “fungi” or “mycology” are posted to YouTube every month. Most are irrelevant to our interests but a few are worth checking out. Here are four that are worth more than a cursory look and they are posted at Fungal Visions. Fungal [...]
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The movie Know Your Mushrooms by Canadian producer Ron Mann does have some legitimately posted trailers on the internet—like at the official movie website. There are a few clips on YouTube but none them look all that “authorized” to me. There is this KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS Excerpt featuring Gary Lincoff, which is still up so [...]
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Four new YouTube videos have been posted at Fungal Visions, a site that collects and features videos about fungi (“Who needs viral videos when you can have fungal videos?”). These are on the BillNyeRulz channel although it is far from clear that Bill Nye has anything to do with them. I rather doubt it actually [...]
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It’s been awhile since I got around to uploading some new YouTube videos to Fungal Visions. I recently took the time to look over the most recent uploads to YouTube that had anything to do with mushrooms, fungi, or mycology. There is always a steady stream of such things. Most of them are not worth [...]
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A reader sent in a tip (thanks!) on this strangely entertaining cartoon called “Shrooms” (what other name is there for a whack mushroom cartoon?). The website is Weebl’s Stuff and the toon is described as A full length version of the Mushroom Song from 8-Bit Pwny Club since so many of you requested it. Animated [...]
Fungal Visions is a site devoted to YouTube videos about fungi. The latest addition is an awesome demonstration of how to make a realistic paper mushroom. It looks like you’ll need the right kind of paper. This paper folding video was originally spotted on a twitter post. Although the video is titled Perfect origami mushroom, [...]
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Remember the badger, mushroom, snake video? No? Hmnn. Some middle school kids I was teaching introduced it to me several years ago. I had to admit it was fairly entertaining. Might even be worth another viewing (every few years). According to a comment at YouTube “The actual lyrics are ‘magic magic magic mushroom’. Someone just [...]