These are crazy. Some details about the “Look Around You” TV show here.
The aesthetic is almost perfect.
Tag: youtube
Slow Mo Guys make super slow mo even more fun
You’ve all spent hours watching slow motion videos online right? Didn’t you know that’s pretty much what the Internet was invented for?
Here you go.
This is probably my favourite.
Some new Mumford & Sons
Replete with oblique references to Christianity. Beautiful. Looking forward to a new album sometime in the next decade.
There are a couple more new songs floating around YouTube too – and by “new” I mean “not on the first album”…
The Petebox: Human beatbox looping thing
This is clever, and one of my favourite songs. Thanks largely to Fight Club.
Here’s his version of Nirvana’s Lithium.
He promises more regular videos here – and the fun on this one starts about a minute in.
Double Rainbow for a Choir
This post is mostly for Simone – because she likes to teach her choir songs from YouTube – so what better than a choir, on YouTube, singing a YouTube classic. YouTube style.
That is of course a choral arrangement of this song.
No news is good news
When you add up all those awkward television moments when a 24 hour news channel is using the same content as a network’s new program without some of the commercial breaks and other prerecorded bulletins you get some funny video. At least that’s what I think is going on here.
Weird musical promise: I ain’t going to pee the bed tonight
This kid is determined not to wet the bed tonight. Apparently, this Kelly family, was big in Germany.
Another one from Izaac.
How to inspire a movie scene
Izaac, who knows more about Pixar than anybody else I know, sent me this little story that warmed the cockles of my heart.
In Toy Story 3 there’s this great scene where Mr Potato Head’s parts get put on a tortilla. And he sways around everywhere. He can’t stand up. It’s funny.
Funnier still is this little story that the animator of that scene tells on his blog:
The animation supes took me into a room to tell me the news ‘We are giving you Mr. Tortilla-Head’ Its one of those moments where your really happy then really nervous. How was I going to animate that thing? Sure it plays funny in boards, but to bring it to life! The Supes knew it was going to be a challenge, being the great leaders they are said ‘these are your last shots, take all the time you need!’ I kept telling myself, you’ll be happy you animated this once it over.
I sure was – although they were extremely hard shots to pull off, I’m really proud to part of that character. There was a small team of us, 3 animators helping each other. Showing each other what works, what didn’t. Some reference that really inpired us was Drunk Guy Buying Beer. I wonder if this guy knows he was in a movie?
Drunk Guy Buying Beer is an hilarious little clip on YouTube that made me laugh. So here you go, this is how you inspire a movie scene:
My Life in Albums: 1998: Discovering JJJ
So my dalliance with crappy pop and boy bands didn’t last all that long. I graduated to crappy Australian guitar angst driven teenage rebellion just a year later. Actually, the move was probably happening earlier than that.
Regurgitator’s Black Bugs, Spiderbait’s Calypso, Massive Attack’s Teardrop, and Custard’s Music is Crap were all on my radar around the same time (1997-98).
But for me, 1998 is the year of The Living End. Heroes to a generation of Australians. Now an incredibly tight live act replete with double bass. Well. They’ve always had a double bass. They haven’t always been that tight live though. Judging by the clips I sorted through on YouTube (the official film clip for this song has had embedding disabled by request).
I think I scored the Living End’s debut album with a CD voucher I won at school, or maybe it was a birthday present. I remember hanging out in my room listening to it while reading Redwall, by Brian Jacques. Those were the days.
Words can’t express just how excited I was to be hanging with the cool kids, musically speaking, when I discovered the Living End. Though my frenemy, Sam Conway (who tried to put out the Olympic Torch with a fire extinguisher) made it clear to me that the cool kids had moved on from the Living End about the time I discovered them. In hindsight there was probably some causation there, not just correlation. Better yet. The Living End could be turned up to 11. Which was especially useful when my family decided to pull up stumps and move to Brisbane.
Other notables from the year included this little number by Grinspoon.
Though, for a while, I had merged Green Day and Grinspoon, in my head, and was adamant that I really liked the band Greenspoon.
And of course, there was the Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony. Performed here with Coldplay, because, well, that’s kind of cool.
Please think twice before posting Christian parody songs on YouTube
This is awful. Don’t these children have parents…
Via Christian Nightmares.
“What you going to do with atheists? All those pagan atheists?
I’m going to set them free. Make them Christians just like me”
I hope they don’t think this song is part of that process.
But it could be worse.
I’m happy for you to believe that the earth is 6,000 years old, and that dinosaurs died in the flood, I like the Bible too. And I think taking it seriously is important. But please. Please. Please. Don’t take a song like this, and turn it into a song like that. Just awful. If people think your cause is ridiculous
Explosive Art: There’s something very cool about art with bombs
This is amazing. The creation at 2:06 is just mind blowing. And wall blowing.
Teaching life lessons by the power of embarrassment…
This guy didn’t do so well in an exam. So his mum dressed him up with a cardboard sheet that tells of his bad grades and says “honk if I need an education”… and now this is on YouTube. Way to go lady.
A year of beard
There’s nothing all that special about taking a photo of yourself every day for a year as you grow facial hair (unless you’re like me and can’t really grow anything but fuzz). But turning it into a stop motion adventure is something new and exciting.