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Interview with Sam of Evaporating Water YouTube Video

By on January 19, 2011 in FP, Local Profiles, People

As you know a local Yellowknifer has gone viral on YouTube because of her video of her throwing boiling water into cold Yellowknife air. Her video on YouTube is about to pass 1 million views.

I was able to email Samantha this morning and ask her some questions about the video:

What is the story behind why you made the video?

A couple of friends from Australia were visiting me in Yellowknife over Christmas in December 2009.  I had heard about this experiment from a friend and had wanted to try it out.  I knew it would be “cool”, so I had them record the experiment to get their reaction so we’d have something to share to our friends.

How long and have many views did the video have before it started to go viral?

A couple of friends from Australia were visiting me in Yellowknife over Christmas in December 2009. I posted this video just after their visit on You Tube and, until now, it only had about 25,000 hits.

How long did it take to go viral?

In the past five days it has skyrocketed to currently 850,000 views on You Tube alone!  I’m blown away at how this has picked up worldwide and gone viral. Everyday I receive hundreds of comments on the video, messages, tweets, retweets and hear of websites and blogs it’s been embedded on. It’s been featured everywhere…it’s just amazing.

You said it first went viral in India, any idea why?

My thoughts on India is it was embedded on a website there and gas just taken off. They’ve been really active about tweeting it etc.
The top ten countries where this has been viewed in the last week have been India, United States, Pakistan, Canada, UK, United Arab Emirates, Sweden, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.

Now that your one video has become viral, do you plan on making any others?

I am actually looking forward to creating a few video responses and keep this buzz going.  Science is a wonderful world…now that I have their attention, imagine how they would react to seeing Aurora images, or the northern lights dancing in the sky!

The video is almost at 1 million views and has been featured on blogs all over, how does this make you feel?

I can’t believe it’s about to hit one million! I’m really excited about this and  will be adding this to my resume for sure!  I couldn’t have done it without the help of my Aussie friend Kristen though. As she would say “that’s amazing!”

Any other comments?

To solve the debate on whether it’s evaporating or freezing, it’s called the Mpemba Effect (where hot water freezes faster than cold). When the water vapors freeze, it turns into ice crystals and “evaporates” because of the dry air we have in the north. If the air was more humid, it would stay in the air longer.  The same effect happens behind airplanes (contrails or condensation trails).  It’s a cool trick and I hope people try it at home.

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UPDATED Evaporating Water goes Viral

By on January 17, 2011 in FP, Online, Video

UPDATE 2: I just published an interview with Samantha, the creator of the video and you can read that by clicking here.

UPDATE: For whatever reason the video has gone completely nuts and is certifiably viral. Since yesterday when it only had 60,000 views, it is now up to 490,000. Half a million views of a locally made YouTube video. Earlier today it was featured on the popular tech blog Gizmodo.

On January 1, 2010, Samantha Stuart posted a video on YouTube of herself throwing boiled water into the cold, frigid, Yellowknife air. When she does so the water instantly evaporates.

The video which has been online for a little over a year, today went viral on Twitter, with a large amount of people tweeting about it. It has now surpassed the 60,000 view mark of YouTube. This just goes to show that Yellowknife and the north has something interesting to offer.

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Mercer’s Yellowknife

By on March 12, 2010 in History, Video

There is just something about Rick Mercer that will make you laugh, and no it isn’t his towering height of 3 feet. His openness to say what is on his mind is what we often need to cheer us up.

I stumbled upon this video today from when Mercer visited Yellowknife 5 years ago. Watching it made me think “My, Yellowknife has changed”. There are several things throughout the video I’m sure you’ll notice that are different in 2010. We no longer have an abundance of Caribou or Japanese, the Snowcastle has grown and the weather is a wee bit warmer. Whether it is less or more the one thing that hasn’t changed it Yellowknife as a community, we continue to have an upbeat spirit. We have continues festivals and events happening. This is part of the reason I love Yellowknife.

I think everyone show take a look at Mr. Mercer’s video and have a laugh as we begin the weekend.

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Ice Bloggers NWT | Ep.1: Worst Christmas

By on January 31, 2010 in City, Video

I don’t know if many remember, but when some of the bloggers saw the trailer for Ice Pilots NWT we thought it would be funny to make a parody video. Once our trailer was out and so were the first few episodes of Ice Pilots NWT, we got together again to film the first episode of Ice Bloggers NWT. If you follow the show you will be able to see what lines we used. Most of the our first episode is just a parody of a couple Ice Pilots episodes.

It was good fun make as well as interesting… We plan on making more but don’t know when. As you can tell this episode was filmed before Christmas but I only got around to getting it out now.

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Formal Introduction to Video

By on October 22, 2009 in Video

Here at YkOnline we are going MultiMedia. From text, to audio and now to video. Stay tuned for videos from around Yellowknife about Yellowknife. Let me know what you think of this new venture? Do you like video? How often would you like to see videos? Let me know below.

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