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I like this. Buy a red chair. Go on adventures.

I found this video on Facebook, on a page that shares highly compressed videos that have been “borrowed” without credit, so I was curious about where it came from. The video was cropped top and bottom with the text “life is short” added in the top border. The video ends in a rather unsatisfying way and I hoped there would be more to it.

A search on YouTube didn’t return any good results, but searching for a screenshot of the “final” frame did. I found a couple of websites talking about it, here and here. Unfortunately the videos embedded in both sites were not working but knowing it was an Ikea video helped me find it on Vimeo, which I have embedded above. It’s been sitting there since 2013. Hopefully it’ll last another few years.

The original video stops a few seconds before the end, leaving the viewer wondering what happened to our adventurer. I can see now he was going on more adventures!

Robin

Mork calling Orson, come in Orson!

This video gave me goosebumps. It’s my first time seeing Jamie Costa as Robin Williams and I swear it’s like seeing a young Robin again.

The nostalgia effect of Jamie’s costume and seeing the red space suit, brings me back to the 80s when I watched reruns of Mork and Mindy on TV. Amazing.

Thanks Cesar for sharing the video.

Damn it, I hate when links rot. The post I published on the day Robin died has a couple of links and a video which are no longer available. One link is behind a paywall, the other I’ve restored via archive.org but I have no idea what video I shared that day.

Edit: the video of Jamie Costa has been removed so I added a screenshot from this deepfake video.