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Celine Dion singing a cover version of
Celine Dion singing a cover version of AC/DC’s You Shook Me All Night Long. Sadly, what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas. (via bitterpill)
Totally crazy video of cars sliding around
Totally crazy video of cars sliding around on an icy Portland Street. The soundtrack in my head is playing The Blue Danube when I watch this. (via bb)
Cute little pixelated Albert Einstein video from eBoy.
Cute little pixelated Albert Einstein video from eBoy.
Doin’ the robot has never looked so
Doin’ the robot has never looked so good in this video for Uniqlo. (via wider angle)
This three minute scene from Fawlty Towers
This three minute scene from Fawlty Towers is just about my favorite bit of television ever. (via cyn-c)
Video of the World Freehand Circle Drawing
Video of the World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion. I read somewhere recently that everyone seems to have a talent like this, something a little odd that they can do better than most people. I can spit watermelon seeds a great distance (I’ve won two contests!). What can you do?
Smashing Telly is aggregating good televsion shows
Smashing Telly is aggregating good televsion shows that are available on the web. Bottom line: you can watch television at work!
Music video for the Softlightes song Heart
Music video for the Softlightes song Heart Made of Sound features handmade typography, Post-It Notes, and stop-motion animation. See also: the opening credits for Napoleon Dynamite, Stefan Sagmeister, and Michel Gondry. (via buzzfeed)
Time-lapse video of Picasso making a painting,
Time-lapse video of Picasso making a painting, from start to finish. Tinselman has more info on the video.
Ikea instructions for making Dick in the Box
Last Saturday, Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg collaborated on a music video for a new holiday gift idea: Dick in the Box. If you haven’t seen the video yet, go now and then come back…it’s pretty funny and you won’t understand the rest of this if you haven’t seen it. So go!
You back? So, my favorite part of the song is the instructions and yesterday while we were alternating between watching the video like 50 times and assembling some IKEA furniture for the office, I had the obvious idea. Ikea instructions for making Dick in a Box:
More Dick in a Box: Mr. and Mrs. Potatohead version, Line Rider version, some guy dancing in his living room with a box fastened to his crotch with a belt version, and a this is either brilliant or completely stupid (DURRR! DURRR!) video response.
Awesome. Director Michel Gondry recently posted a
Awesome. Director Michel Gondry recently posted a YouTube video where he is pictured solving a Rubik’s Cube with his feet. A few days later, this response debunks Gondry’s effort as a stunt. When I read the title, I half-expected the person to claim that Gondry had used CGI to fake the solving, but that wasn’t likely because Gondry doesn’t like to use special effects in his films. The actual answer is decided low-tech and clever, just like his movies. BTW, here’s someone solving the Cube with one hand in 20 seconds. (via cf)
Update: Regarding the CGI, then again…. (thx, oscar)
The kids stayed up past their bedtime
The kids stayed up past their bedtime watching a chainsaw murder movie, so their parents got even by waking them up creatively.
The WSJ has some background on Lasse
The WSJ has some background on Lasse Gjertsen’s excellent Amateur video.
Top 50 music videos of 2006. Includes inline video
Top 50 music videos of 2006. Includes inline video so you can watch them all. (via waxy)
Using a geometric shape called a Reuleaux
Using a geometric shape called a Reuleaux triangle, it’s possible to drill square holes. Click through for all the exciting math!
Update: A video of a Reuleaux triangle rotating in a square. (thx, will)
Update: More on the Reuleaux triangle at MathWorld. (thx, nevan)
Update: The Reuleaux triangle is also the basis for the Wankel engine.. (thx, brian & adam)
Video of things you can’t do when
Video of things you can’t do when you’re not in a pool. (thx, tana)
This is exactly how my day goes everyday. (thx, dianne)
This is exactly how my day goes everyday. (thx, dianne)
Ben Saunders points up towards the two
Ben Saunders points up towards the two craziest people in the world, Francois Bon and Antoine Montant, and their speedflying videos, in which videos they half-ski half-parachute down a rocky mountain. “Undoubtedly the most hardcore thing I’ve seen for a long time.”
Human beatbox Lasse Gjertsen has taken his
Human beatbox Lasse Gjertsen has taken his skills to the next level. His new video, Amateur, is a clever bit of video sampling: Gjertsen builds an entire song out of tiny video soundbytes of him playing the drums and piano. It’s hard to explain, just watch the damn thing. Cameron says the video “feels like what DJ Shadow would produce if he made videos”.
Grand Theft Mario = Super Mario Bros + Grand Theft Auto.
Grand Theft Mario = Super Mario Bros + Grand Theft Auto.
Video of artist Stephen Wiltshire drawing a
Video of artist Stephen Wiltshire drawing a huge panorama of Rome entirely from memory. (via nickbaum)
Update: Video of Withshire drawing Tokyo from memory. (thx, eric)
Students, enter Apple’s Insomnia Film Festival, where
Students, enter Apple’s Insomnia Film Festival, where you’ll have 24 hours to make a 3-minute film. (thx, undulattice)
NHL ‘94
A confession: I just spent a little while watching NHL ‘94 highlight videos on YouTube and consider it time well spent. After all, it is one of the greatest video games ever made. I noticed quite a few of the featured goals in this video were what my little cadre of gamers in college referred to as “cheater” goals where you go across the goal and slapshot hard to the far side. We outlawed them because it was a guaranteed goal and made playing a whole lot less fun. The goal I didn’t notice so much of was the “rock the cradle” goal, a beautiful goal and my bread and butter as an NHL ‘94 player. It happens on the break where you dribble the puck very quickly back and forth from left to right and, when it works, juke the goalie completely. The best part is that after much practice, you can do it with even the slowest players in the game against the best goalies.
Update: Some crazy souls have made a multiplayer version of NHL ‘94 that works over the internet. You just login to a server, find an opponent, and away you go. There are even leagues!
Clay Davis: Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit. This is right up
Clay Davis: Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit. This is right up there with Khaaan! (thx, david)
Painting and painting and repainting art works
Painting and painting and repainting art works on a wall for a week. (Make your own timelapse movies with Gawker.)
Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion. (thx, meg)
Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion. (thx, meg)
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