Sunday, 6 September 2009

YouTube - WORST MUSIC VIDEO EVER!!!!!!!!

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Zlad! Electronic-supersonic! is a music video which assaults the eyes, ears and sensibiities.

Irresistible!

You can find out more about Zlad! and his origins at Wikipedia's entry on Molvanîa but you will have to dig... I won't do all the hard work for you. Being reminded of Molvanîa I had to order a secondhand copy of the Jetlag Travel Guide – I'm looking forward to it.

Friday, 21 August 2009

Lee Unkrich’s Twitter 5,000 Follower Cake Promise | Pixar Fanboy

Lee Unkrich is currently directing Toy Story 3 at Pixar. Read his IMDB page. If you make a promise to smash a cake into your face if you get 5000 Twitter followers - you had better be willing to eat your words!

See Lee. See the cake. See the face hit the cake...
Lee Unkrich’s Twitter 5,000 Follower Cake Promise @ Pixar Fanboy

Do NOT Press This Button Again

Ever wondered what that Emergency Button does at the filling station?

Ever really wanted to press it and find out?

Pop over to Today's Big Fail and watch the video. It will save you a lot of hassle.

Wednesday, 19 August 2009

New Answer to "What's a Greek Urn?"

Over at wimp.com we have a video of what may be the quickest potter, ever.

In the 1960s, BBC TV would save us from too much stimulation by forcing an intermission between programmes, accompanied by black and white short films which were tedious but strangely compeling. My favourite showed a potter at work at his wheel. That guy would probably take 10 minutes to produce a generic pot. Greece's Nikos Ploumakis (video) makes a handsome Grecian vase in under two minutes by hand on the potter's wheel.

I'd buy one – I love artisanal pottery.

Monday, 17 August 2009

You've Probably Never Heard of California's Third Largest City

"California City" - is the city that never was. What if they built a city and nobody came?

Pop over to DivineCaroline for more...

The truth is out there.

Jill and Kevin's Last Dance! Nooooooo!

IT'S A BITTER LITTLE TREAT, this video. Do you remember Jill and Kevin's wedding dance? Well, it looks like it's all over in Divorce Court No.5.



Just kidding youse guys! It didn't take long for this parody to appear though: the original (below) was only posted 1 month ago. You can read the full story and help fight violence at jkweddingdancevideo.com.



Via divinecaroline.com

Say It In Six Words, Now!

HAD IDEA, MADE A GREAT BOOK

In 2006, Smith Magazine ran a contest on Twitter for the best Six word memoir. This idea apparently originated with Ernest Hemingway according to this anecdote (snopes.com):
More than thirty years ago, at the beginning of my career, I had lunch with a well-established newspaper syndicator who told me the following story:
Ernest Hemingway was lunching at the Algonquin, sitting at the famous "round table" with several writers, claiming he could write a six-word-long short story. The other writers balked. Hemingway told them to ante up ten dollars each. If he was wrong, he would match it; if he was right, he would keep the pot. He quickly wrote six words on a napkin and passed it around. The words were: "For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn." Papa won the bet: His short story was complete. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end!

The Vimeo page has a pleasant video of some of their best famous and not so famous submissions.

Here's an invitation to add your own Six Word Memoirs by commenting on this post.
Did you spot mine (the tagline)?