Clean your flat in sixty seconds...
I just got back from the US after Hack Day and I've been away a while and I'd forgotten what a wreck my flat had become in the build-up to Future of Web Apps. Anyway, I'd been recently introduced to the OSX time-lapse app Gawker and I sort of wondered whether making a bit of a performance out of the whole thing might be a suitable self-motivator! And it totally was! Here's the result - two hours of post-work cleaning in sixty seconds! And now with added Hoff! Why don't you have a go too? I love the idea of a whole Internet full of performance cleaning.
There's a slightly higher quality version in Quicktime of the whole thing here: Cleaning my flat in sixty seconds.
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hmm, I swear there was some subliminal messaging in there..
→ Posted by: allan at October 6, 2006 3:22 AM
Tom, that was worthy of my highest praise.
That was whedon.
→ Posted by: Christophe at October 6, 2006 3:51 AM
i spy the hoff!
→ Posted by: cal at October 6, 2006 4:20 AM
Sweet! Love all the resulting subliminal-ness.
→ Posted by: Jeff at October 6, 2006 5:53 AM
I could be dreaming, but I just saw David - The Hoff - Hasselhof in your kitchen.
→ Posted by: Marre at October 6, 2006 6:51 AM
please dont blipvert me with the Hoff, it sets off my seizures
→ Posted by: juniorbonner at October 6, 2006 8:24 AM
Cool, the Benny Hill music popped into my head while watching it :)
→ Posted by: d4rr3ll at October 6, 2006 8:24 AM
For some reason I have an urge to keep visiting http:www.plasticbag.org.
With the // missing. Must be subliminal. :-)
→ Posted by: Becky at October 6, 2006 8:27 AM
haha... excellent... love the subliminal frames snuck in there!!
→ Posted by: Steve at October 6, 2006 8:50 AM
good, but not sure about the nightrider music - I think what with the high speediness of the film you should of used something like the wonder woman theme tune!
→ Posted by: stuart at October 6, 2006 9:09 AM
"It's only bloody Hoff day!"
Oh and you have the same Microwave as me...
→ Posted by: Andrew at October 6, 2006 9:27 AM
Brilliant!! i am so going to do this myself. if nothing else it will disabuse my mum of the idea that i never clean.
→ Posted by: Suw at October 6, 2006 10:28 AM
I don't have the eyesight (or history), but I've had two friends ask me if you're rolling a joint at 1:02.
→ Posted by: catsfather at October 6, 2006 11:35 AM
Fantastic Mr C *applause*
→ Posted by: Duncan at October 6, 2006 12:08 PM
Bloody brilliant. I just watched it listening to the Wonder Woman theme and Stuart's intuition was right - it's perfect!
→ Posted by: Dave at October 6, 2006 12:24 PM
Heh, that was so much fun.
→ Posted by: Natali at October 6, 2006 12:37 PM
I am thinking about moving to London - how much does an apartment like yours cost?
→ Posted by: Todd at October 6, 2006 1:22 PM
Simply superb, although the Hoff Subliminal caused an involuntary shudder.
Glad to see I'm not the only person who cleans by sitting on the floor with a black plastic bag.
Nicely done sir!
→ Posted by: Tom Reynolds at October 6, 2006 2:28 PM
Nice one,
Was that the original or a remix of the nightrider theme? What version?
→ Posted by: Cameron Westland at October 6, 2006 7:14 PM
So inspiring! Now I just need to light a candle in respect of my hunk o' burnin' love Hasselhoff, watch more episodes of Ze, and keep more on top of plasticbag.org.
...wait. Where'd those thoughts come from?
→ Posted by: kelsey at October 6, 2006 7:53 PM
I think I love you. Lucky for you, I have a boyfriend and live on the other side of the world.
→ Posted by: steven at October 7, 2006 2:16 AM
I agree that this - all speeded-up videos in fact - needs Benny Hill music. Gawker should just slap it on there by default I reckon.
→ Posted by: Binky at October 7, 2006 10:05 AM
That was extremely fantastic.
→ Posted by: paulyg at October 7, 2006 1:31 PM
That was awesome. =)
→ Posted by: Paul Stamatiou at October 8, 2006 5:13 AM
Nice, and I love the subliminal messages. Those pesky experts say they don't work, but maybe that's just what they want you to think.
→ Posted by: Alex Reid at October 8, 2006 11:06 AM
LOL. That was awesome. And what a motivator for cleaning your place and having fun at the same time!
→ Posted by: Joey Livingston at October 10, 2006 3:50 PM
Hey Tom.
Wanna come over and clean my place? You got a fine technique.
→ Posted by: A Reader at October 15, 2006 8:07 PM
Wow, this wonderful technique could reduce furhter (after smoking, beer, etc) the time spent during sex, till it reaches the bare essential. Fabulous.
→ Posted by: Victor Ionescu at October 18, 2006 5:46 PM
I did something similar this summer. It took me three weeks, though, and I definitely wouldn't have finished cleaning if I hadn't been making a movie of it: room cleaning.
→ Posted by: rebecca at October 18, 2006 7:20 PM