Tuesday 14 June 2011

Science, what is it all about? - An Ali G rap

Lion really wants to eat this baby at the zoo

Monday 13 June 2011

80s Flashback Battle: Tiffany vs. Debbie Gibson

After seeing Debbie Gibson's cameo in Katy Perry's latest music video I was feeling nostalgic for the 80s and was reminiscing on the supposed rivalry between Debbie and Tiffany.


I was always a Tiffany fan myself but what about the rest of you? Here's a couple of videos to remind you of them in their heyday.





Of course the two girls have now grown up

as their respective Playboy shoots demonstrate

and all that rivalry is now behind them right? Perhaps not. Here they get physical in a fight scene from Mega Python vs Gatoroid that gets pretty hot and heavy (sNSFW wrestling while covered in food)



Debbie and Tiffany seem to have made up in time for this performance of Don't Stop Believin' (sadly Debbie's singing isn't at it's best)

Katy Perry's 'Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)' is all about the cameos

Check out the folks Katy has appearing in this thing:

  • Rebecca Black (legally required to appear in all videos with Friday in the title)
  • Darren Criss & Kevin McHale (Blaine & Artie from Glee)
  • All 3 Hanson brothers
  • 80's sexpot Debbie Gibson
  • 80s saxpot Kenny G
and
  • Corey freakin' Feldman!


YouTube-ian Rhapsody: A compilation of YouTube's finest



Via: Viral Viral Videos

"Watsky.. Meet Eugene.. Now make magic.."

That is currently one of the top rated comments on this amazing video of Watsky dropping some knowledge on 15th annual Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam Finals. (I know, a 7 minute poem? But trust me, it's epic!)



The comment also contained a link pointing us to Eugene, and he's not bad either.

Sunday 12 June 2011

Comedian Patrick Melton (@pmelt) dealing with a heckler

Patrick Melton is one of the funniest American comedians you've never heard of and the host of the hilarious Nobody Likes Onions podcast/internet radio show.

His material is often offensive but always funny and a great deal of it revolves around race. Most people can tell that he isn't a bigot that hates minorities, and that the humour is ironic and sending up the stereotypes that racists throw around.

Most people... but clearly not this woman at one of his shows.

NSFW language - but funny as hell

Lady Gaga performing an amazing piano set at Roma Europride 2011

Take 10 minutes to listen to something beautiful. I was in tears by the end.

Sunday 29 May 2011

What song are you listening to?

Here's what the people of New York had to say when asked what song they were listening to.

Shaun of the 'Dead Island'

Shaun of the Dead gets the Dead Island treatment.

How the hell did Bruno Mars get Spock in his video?

It's an alternative video for his Lazy Song and it stars Leonard Nimoy as you've never seen him before.

A truly epic (and possibly record breaking) lip dub from the citizens of Grand Rapids, Michigan

After a Newsweek story described the city as "dying", 5,000 people took part in this monumental lip dub to prove them wrong. I think they did a fine job of it.

New Zealander Jed Mildon lands the world's first BMX triple backflip

Shocking backstage footage from Lady Gaga's recent Saturday Night Live appearance (NSFW)

What would you do if you saw this happening in a restaurant?

I thought this was going to be negative and sleazy but it actually turned out to be uplifting and reassuring. Donovan's beautiful words brought me to tears.

Kids play fighting brought to life

Not looking forward to the final Harry potter film? Perhaps this will change your mind



Via: Philip DeFranco

Mummy cat gives sleepy kitten a hug

There's nothing the internet likes more than cute kitty videos and this latest one is overwhelmingly cute.

Tuesday 24 May 2011

One day a robot will attempt to do 'The Robot' better than a human, these twins will be there to defeat it


Via: Break

Meet the people of Walmart (WARNING: They're pretty freaky)



Via: Mashable

"Stop... are there Muppets in this movie?"

First trailer for the new Muppets movie coming out later this year:

Epic Meal Time destroys you childhood memories

Saturday Night Live goes Gaga (with a little help from Justin Timberlake)

Justin Timberlake has become a regular on the set of SNL but this time he brought a friend along to join in the fun. Here are some of JT and Gaga's finest moments.

First up, Mr Timberlake joins Andy Samberg and Miss Gaga for an intimate musical moment:



Sometimes the guests just simply outclass the in house talent, and with moves like this there was little doubt about it:



Gaga and Justin go head-to-head in this game show based skit:



The Mother Monster has an album to plug so of course there were some live performances:





No Gaga in this one but Jimmy Fallon joins Justin for a skit:

Thursday 19 May 2011

Walmart's new advert accused of aggressively targeting fans of bouncing booties and bad hip-hop

NSFW levels of ass-shakin'


My favourite YouTube comment on the video:
"To all the young black women out there stay in school unless you wanna end in some stupid ass nigggas ghetto budget video singing about walmart."

If you've read this far without realising this isn't a Walmart advert you need to seek professional help

Here's that cat based hip-hop joint you've been desperately waiting for

"If you're not paying for it, you're the product being sold"

A quick look at some of the things people have been saying online recently:

Jedi can be such dicks

NSFW language

One band's epic 'low budget' music video

Also, how badass a name is Red Fang?

Net Neutrality: A globally important issue that you might not even be aware of

Australia's Hungry Beast explains:

Monday 16 May 2011

Disney's Cinderella did not predict the Royal Wedding!

The first time I saw the picture claiming that the wedding in Cinderella was spookily similar to the Royal Wedding I said "I bet that's been photoshopped". I was right but still see people posting the fake image to their Facebook wall each day. Please stop doing so now.


Via: reddit

Climate scientists are pissed at not being heard, so here's some of them rapping

I wish I was a climate scientist.

(NSFW language)

Tuesday 10 May 2011

The 6 girls you'll date in college

There are people out there who don't know who the Fab Four are

...sad times.

What if Obama had announced Bin Laden's death through the medium of rap?

It would have been infinitely more awesome of course!

Pomplamoose give us their cover of the Angry Birds Theme

I'm adding one of these to my Zombie Apocalypse survival kit

I love me some lib dub!

Here's one from the UK athletics department... no this UK is the University of Kentucky

Bruno Mars - Lazy Song: The perfect soundtrack for a day off

I only just watched this video even though it's been doing the rounds for awhile. If you haven't done so yet, take a few minutes and brighten up your day.



And while you're here, check out Bruno's collaboration with Ziggy Marley below:

Monday 9 May 2011

Meet the man who can turn his head through 180 degrees (like a owl).

A owl? A owl!

This video contains scenes of a freakishly flexible man... you have been warned.

A trick shot video with a difference

I guess he's on one of those Ultimate Frisbee scholarships?

"Is dat the karate?"

Admit it, we've all been guilty of stereotyping others, but how many of us have used it to our advantage?

What the Finns need to know about Portugal

I'm not entirely sure why they need to know all this, but I think it has something to do with the current economic climate.

How did kids react to the news of Osama Bin Laden's death?

The 'Kids React' series of YouTube videos usually features a group of kids being shown popular YouTube videos. In this episode they were instead shown President Obama's recent address.

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion

I just think it looks freaking cool!

Wait... did The Lonely Island just make Michael Bolton look like a badass?

Yes. Yes they fucking well did.

Don't flick the switch!

Special delivery from the Epic Meal Time boys

WARNING: Contains cookery scenes of a disturbing nature.

Friday 6 May 2011

Balloons: The best thing MTV have done in years

I miss the MTV of the good old days...

"USA" Chant on NYC Subway FAIL

It would not have been my first choice of location...

Fancy getting a really annoying (yet inescapably catchy) tune stuck in your head?

Well here's two of them for you:



A Lady Gaga cover, brought to us by... Lady Gaga?

While Lady isn't adverse to remixing her own tracks this isn't her performing a cover of herself. Instead, it's an acoustic cover of Judas (the video of which I shared yesterday) performed by drewby1xo.



This is the second time I've come across a cover after Gaga linked to them herself (you can read about the previous one here). It's nice to see an artist embracing the 2.0 approach to their music.

Economic policy decisions should always be decided by rap battles

The first video in this series appeared in one of my posts back in February 2010. As I was pretty much the only person to read it, here it is again:



Over a year later, these two economic titans are back again for a second round:



Note: I've studied just enough economics to know that I don't really understand it...
and neither does anyone else.

Drunk old men raving it up in a field

I know nothing about this video so don't bother asking me what's going on...

The world's greatest ice cream man will put a smile on your face

Thursday 5 May 2011

Amazing Ohio Stadium Basketball Shot



Of course they didn't show us the 80 attempts they made previously.

You can't send a message to your 16 year old self, so take this chance to do it for someone else

This made me smile. And laugh. And cry.

It then made me want to share it with as many people as possible, and ask you to do the same.



Most of you will have already made the comparison with Baz Luhrmann's Everyone's free (to wear sunscreen). Here's a chance to hear it again, and for those of you who haven't heard it before... listen closely to some of the best advice you'll ever be given.

Lady Gaga presents 'Judas' (Sons of Anarchy meets Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet)

I don't pretend to understand what I'm seeing here, but I do know I like it:



More Lady Gaga posts

Is it just me that finds geeky cover songs awesome?

Here's a D&D parody of 'Like a G6':



Of course it reminded me of this:



Via: Daniel Soh on Facebook (but not really)

Sunday 1 May 2011

"First of May, first of May, outdoor f*cking starts today" (NSFW)

It's May 1st which means it's time to celebrate one of Jonathan Coulton's finest creations and I give you a choice as to how best to do so. The first video below is a recording of the song with the lyrics displayed in karaoke style, the second is a burlesque routine performed to the track. Before you all go rushing off to look at the redhead taking off her clothes, the opening few lines of the song are missing and the audio isn't as good.

So pick which one you prefer or go wild and choose both (it should be obvious that both are NSFW).



Mary Cyn: First of May from Emma Story on Vimeo.

Disclaimer: Legally I can't encourage you to perform any naughty acts in public which might get you in trouble, but if you do end up having to explain yourself to an officer of the law feel free to show them this post.

Saturday 30 April 2011

Immortals - A film so bad it makes Clash of the Titans look good?

From the producers of 300 comes this steaming pile of terribleness:



Please note that unlike the director or writers of 300, the producers had nothing to do with the artistic creation of 300, they just got the money together and arranged the twice daily Spartan chest waxing. Seeing "From the producers of" on the marketing materials of a forthcoming film is not a good sign

'Click Here' - A superbly geeky anniversary present



In the YouTube comments, Sean reveals that Lisa wasn't too happy about him clearing all her icons from the desktop, but liked it anyway.

Why you should jailbreak your iPhone

If you are unfortunate enough to be lumbered with an iPhone (instead of one of the many far superior Android devices on the market) here is a video illuminating some of the benefits of jailbreaking it.

Disclaimer: There is a small risk that in ridding yourself of the tyranny of Apple's woeful operating system, you might turn your overpriced phone into an overpriced brick. I take no responsibility if this happens but I will find it highly entertaining.

Michael Scott's departure from The Office is hard to take (that's what she said!)

Steve Carell's final performance as lovably incompetent office manage Michael Scott has been broadcast. For those of you who missed it you can see the whole episode (featuring Will Ferrell) at the bottom of the page, but before you do...

Here is a farewell compilation made up of clips of Michael uttering his favourite phrase (which scientists are busy trying to teach to computers):




"Goodbye, Michael"

Son of Epic Meal Time

The Epic Meal Time phenomenon is taking over the internetz. It's a simple premise whereby they film themselves taking a meal and making it EPIC. Here's their most recent offering:

NSFW language and a sickening amount / concoction of food


It's even inspired this awesome parody featuring a 10 year old "Sauce Boss" and his younger sister:



Via: The Daily What

Rasta Professor


Via: Know Your Meme

The sex-ed class from hell (A short film inspired by the work of H. P. Lovecraft)

How can I possibly find the words to do justice to this exquisite piece of work? I'll just say it is hilariously disturbing and leave it at that.



Via: Daniel Soh on Facebook

Friday 29 April 2011

How My Mind Works - a quick peek behind the curtain of my blog

This is mainly an excuse to show you a string of videos that I thought were cool, under the pretext of explaining how I hop around on YouTube and make my seemingly random selections for posting on the blog.

First up is a video I saw while watching a livestream by zekkyou:



Apparently it's based on an American advert. After finding it I had a quick look at the other videos on the channel (MissAlissa15) with this being the first to catch my eye:



To me, that is a great, quirky YouTube video and a clear sign that this is a channel of quality. A fact supported by these further offerings:





Of course, having watched that last one I had to go compare it to the original:



Every time I hear this song I of course think of the masterpiece that is Grosse Pointe Blank and so went looking for a video of it to share with you. The trailer is terrible and full of spoilers so I figured this was a better example to use:



Finally, I couldn't resist sharing this epic interview fail featuring John Cusack:



Now you have an idea as to how I find these strange, weird and wonderful videos to share with you. Normally I would have only shared one or two of these but for every video that makes it to the blog, there arre three, four or even more that lead me there.

Listen up, Watsky has some words for you

YouTube superstar Philip DeFranco has launched a new project in which he highlights some of the amazing people that can be found on YouTube. The first installment happens to be an interview with George 'pale kid raps fast' Watsky, someone who I've covered several times on here.



Via: Philip DeFranco

BONUS: Here's a video of his I thought I had posted but was actually languishing in my drafts pile.

Is this where Aussie vs. Kiwi rivalry is headed?

If so, I know who my money will be on...



Via: Dave Emerton on Facebook

Would any father think of a short, fat, moustachioed plumber as good enough for his little Princess?

This will be the final Portal post, I promise...

Just to round of this morning's set of Portal related videos, here is a hilarious video of Simon from The Yogscast attempting to play through Portal 2.

Am I the only one obsessed with the 'Still Alive' song?

Written by Jonathan Coulton, the song plays during the end credits of the popular video game Portal. It's funny, beautiful and amazing. Here it is set to some well crafted kinetic typography:

Weebl and Bob are laughing with Portals

This made me laugh more than I had expected to.

Can someone whip me up an image of the Golden Girls as Jedis?

I stumbled across this story after a sudden spike in views on my Betty White as you've never seen her before post. It has always been a popular post (nude pictures of ageing female comedians always will be) but I was curious why today should have seen such a spike in traffic.

After a quick look at what people had entered in the Google search box I was intrigued to find they mostly consisted of just 3 words...

Betty    White    lightsaber

Sticking them back into Google myself I was quickly led to this request that was posted on reddit:
Can someone whip up an image of the Golden Girls as Jedi ghosts looking over the last surviving member, Ms. White. Thanks, for being a friend.
Putting aside the absence of a question mark, it was a genius thing to request and has given rise to several great photos already, a few of which can be seen below.




Via: blastr

MGMT + Lady Gaga = Epic Weezer performance

Weezer combine two great songs and turn them into something just a bit more special

Thursday 28 April 2011

Song selection, the key to any successful roadtrip

YouTube stars Rhett & Link are currently on a road trip across America and as we all know, driving without music is hellish. Luckily the two have an extensive knowledge of appropriate songs and the angelic voices necessary to do them justice.



You can watch their adventure so far using the playlist below:

Should bands use other people's videos for their songs?

R.E.M. recently unveiled the video for their new single Every Day Is Yours To Win which is comprised of footage from the videos various YouTube users. I watched about half of it before getting bored and searching for this instead:



Not only is Feeder's 'Just a Day' so much better than Michael Stipe's dreary whining, the video is great to watch as well.

Arachnophobic? You might want to skip this video

I was minding my own business, enjoying a rather informative article on The 7 Most Impressive Examples of Animal Architecture, when this happened:



I'm entitled to sue for the near heart attack and what I presume will be an eternity of sleepless nights, right?

The final Harry Potter film's first trailer has arrived

Love it or loathe it, the Harry Potter film franchise is coming to an end. Here is the first trailer for the final gripping instalment.

Via: HeyUGuys

Thursday 21 April 2011

Digger operator's got talent



Via: Break

UPDATE: The tragedy of the greatest music video the world will never see

Earlier I posted about Lady Gaga refusing to let Weird Al parody her song and thus deprive us of possibly the greatest music video of all time. A shrewd piece of PR damage control has suddenly turned it all around.


You can read about on Al's blog but the short version seems to be:
  • Al post song on YouTube and writes blog entry
  • Internet watches/reads and starts kicking up a fuss
  • Gaga's PR monsters release a statement saying their Mother Monster knew nothing about this
  • Manager takes blame saying that it was him saying no and Gaga never knew
  • Gaga gives green like to song
  • Video know has a lot to live up to

Wednesday 20 April 2011

Chart showing the chances of an Atheist believing in God


Source: I Love Charts

The tragedy of the greatest music video the world will never see

Weird Al Yankovic has been making parody songs since 1976, some of his finest work being 1999's Amish Paradise and 2006's White & Nerdy. He is currently working on his new album and thought he had the perfect song to be the lead single and music video for it, a parody of Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' called 'I Perform This Way'.

Sadly, Lady Gaga doesn't feel the same way. Al refers to it as the 'Gaga Saga' on his blog with the short version being:
I wrote and recorded what I thought was going to be the first single off of my new album: a parody of “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga called “Perform This Way.” But after hearing it, Lady Gaga decided not to give me permission to release the song, so… it won’t be coming out commercially anytime in the near future. Sorry.

So we have the song that he has stuck on YouTube, and the knowledge that the video that would have accompanied the persona portrayed in the lyrics would have been epic. I think this will turn out to be a major PR misstep for Gaga as the internet spreads the story.



Via: Mashable

Tuesday 19 April 2011

Monday 18 April 2011

Sunday 17 April 2011

Spike Jonze Presents: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma

Stunning.

This Polish gymnast is 'flipping' amazing

This video of Foo Fighters performing their new album in full is epic

A band that is clearly putting making the fans happy ahead of anti-piracy methods, the Foos first made the album available to stream on Facebook and now have released them performing it in HD on YouTube.

28 Days Later x King Kong = Rise of The Planet of the Apes

If you saw Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes', you have my sympathies. I was so let down by what I thought was going to be an amazing film. Now the franchise is being rebooted with the story of how the Apes took over and in the trailer below it looks like an epic tale of a zombie ape apocalypse.



Via: Ray William Johnson on Facebook

Saturday 16 April 2011

People get up to some strange stuff in Apple stores

I don't know who started the 'dancing and lip syncing to a song whilst recording and uploading it to YouTube using one of the computers in the Apple store without permission' (or Apple dance for short) genre of YouTube videos, but this is one of the funniest I've seen.

Want to see a bunch of kids terrified by a dinosaur?

I had a feeling you might.

Here's that bluegrass cover of the Mario Bros. theme you've been waiting for

Don't pretend that you haven't.

Zach Galifianakis is one badass mother... farmer?

Check him out in this quirky video for Kanye West's 'Can't Tell Me Nothing'.



Via: James Juby on Facebook

The new live action Mortal Kombat series is here!

Some of you may remember the Mortal Kombat: Rebirth video that appeared out of nowhere last year. Was it the trailer for a new film? A piece of clever viral marketing for a new game? Actually it was a pitch from the director to Warner Bros. to make a new live action series.

Fast forward several months and the first of 10 webisodes (web + episodes) has debuted on the Machinima YouTube channel. It features Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine from Star Trek), Tahmoh Penikett (Karl "Helo" Agathon from Battlestar Galactica) and Michael Jai White (Spawn, Exit Wounds & Black Dynamite).

Don't say I never give you anything... FINISH HIM!!!

Richard Dawkins lusts after shrew-like things

This made me chuckle.



Via: Rowan Brown on Facebook

47 years of Doctor Who in 6 minutes

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Friday 15 April 2011

30 years of Tom Cruise

Hard to believe that Mr. Cruise has been making movies for longer than I've been alive but he most certainly has. Here is a showreel containing some of his greatest moments in movies.


Via: HeyUGuys

Thursday 14 April 2011

Wednesday 13 April 2011

Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Ke$ha sing the same love song... sort of

Yes. Yes that is Sarah from Chuck.

Kid joins the Dark Side at Disneyland

Apparently there's a Jedi Academy at Disneyland (who knew?) and as part of it kids are asked to fight Darth Vader. I'm guessing it doesn't normally go like this...



Via: Nick Turk on Facebook

Tuesday 12 April 2011

Monday 11 April 2011

One of the greatest moments in the history of motion pictures

A scantily clad Salma Hayek table dancing whilst draped in a giant snake in From Dusk till Dawn. Obviously NSFW

A movie montage of various 'Killer Kids'

Some of these are pretty gory so put down that sandwich before watching.



Via: urlesque

David Beckham sell his soul to Pepsi

Here's this video of David Beckham supposedly just having a little kick about during a break in filming the latest Diet Pepsi commercial:



It makes me sad. Why would a footballer as talented as Beckham agree to this CGI'd rubbish? I hope he got paid a truckload of money from it because it's bound to have damaged his brand credibility.

Also, how bad does your performance have to be for David Beckham to out act you Mr. Overenthusiastic-Guy-Behind-Camera?

Ever wonder why drunk Americans are always holding red plastic cups?

Let Molly explain all.

Sunday 10 April 2011

Tim Minchin's Storm the Animated Movie

I posted a video for Tim Minchin's 'Storm' previously but below is the officially commissioned animated accompaniment. It adds another dimension to this wonderful piece of work.