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OKGOs Chevy Super Bowl ad

Tod — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:05:26 +0000

Every time i think OKGO can’t possibly outdo themselves they put out something like this:

Music Video of the Day: For their latest music video-slash-Chevy Super Bowl ad, OK Go drove down a two-mile stretch of desert lined with 1,000 instruments in a Chevy Sonic fitted with retractable pneumatic arms to perform a very complicated version of “Needing/Getting” that took four months to prep and four days to shoot.

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Friday Five: 1/13/12

Tod — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:32:53 +0000

Page Turner Rube Goldberg machine

A nicely executed and intricate machine for turning the morning paper.

Slander by Trash Talk

An animated video for a punk band I’ve never heard of directed and animated by Jim Dirschberger the same guy who worked on Bob’s Burgers.

Dreamer/Dubstep

I’ve posted stuff by this guy before. Ignore all the set up and outro, this guy has some awesome dance moves… and on the Great Wall of China at that. Sweet!

Shit NOBODY Says

Ok. The “Shit _____ Says” phenomenon was overplayed almost immediately, but this pretty much seals the deal. Funniest on I’ve seen since the original.

Spidey vs. the Yeti

I loved these as a kid, and they were some of my first comics I ever owned. There are a ton more of these in related videos.

TMBG tackles the big issues

Tod — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:48:46 +0000

Jonah has loved his Here Comes Science DVD since he was tiny. We had Here Come the ABCs and Here Come the 123s, but he was never as into them. The music is weirder and the animation is not quite as good (though maybe that’s why Corey and I didn’t like them as much and why we didn’t watch them as often).

Jonah happened to find ABCs and 123s in a box we were unpacking and put it on. The songs have grown on me and I was pretty blown away by the first two songs off the numbers album. The first, Zeros, is short but introduces children to the concept of zero. A number that means so much, but means nothing at all.

Zeros

And the second song on the video is about 1 and how there’s only one everything. And that if you thought of anything else that wasn’t included, then it also had to be included in the 1 everything that exists. Pretty high philosophy for a 3-4 year old if you ask me.

One Everything

TMBG manages to cover the concepts of everything and nothing, on and off, 0 and 1, in the first 4 minutes and makes it entertaining and intriguing to children and entertaining to adults. They certainly got my gears turning.

#musicmonday: Kalle Mattson – Thick As Thieves

Tod — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:59:04 +0000

Kalle Mattson – Thick As Thieves

A fun little ditty with an awesome stop-motion history of the world.

Friday Five 11/25/11

Tod — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:00:34 +0000

Misfits – She Session A 1977 Original (feat. Peanuts)

Collin’s Lab: Atari Punk Console

OK. This thing sounds awesome. I wish I had the circuit-tech bendy skills to make something like this.

Icy Brinicle reaches down to freeze fleeing starfish

Nature is soooo cool. It’s like the icy hand of god reaching down to smite Spongebob and Patrick.

Anderson Cooper has never seen Redi-Whip before

Is this because he was a rich kid growing up or because he’s spent too much time in Rwanda? Either way he gets very excited about it.

Kitten Wrestling

No one ever went to prison for THIS, Michael Vick!

#musicmonday Blue Foundation – Eyes on Fire

Tod — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:54:24 +0000

Blue Foundation – Eyes on Fire

So apparently, this is the hit single from that new Twilight movie or something, but it just came up on my Pandora and I thought it was pretty good, which is the exact opposite of my opinion about Twilight things in that I think it is pretty NOT good.

Lyrics
I’ll seek you out,
Flay you alive
One more word and you won’t survive
And I’m not scared of your stolen power
I see right through you any hour

I won’t soothe your pain
I won’t ease your strain
You’ll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain

I’m taking it slow
Feeding my flame
Shuffling the cards of your game
And just in time
In the right place
Suddenly I will play my ace

I won’t soothe your pain
I won’t ease your strain
You’ll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain

Eyes on fire
Your spine is ablaze
Felling any foe with my gaze

And just in time
In the right place
Steadily emerging with grace

Felling any foe with my gaze
Steadily emerging with grace
Felling any foe with my gaze
Steadily emerging with grace

#MusicMonday – Pursuit of Happiness – Kid Cudi (feat. Ratatat))

Tod — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:22:33 +0000

Pursuit of Happiness – Kid Cudi (feat. MGMT)

Lyrics

Crush a bit, little bit, roll it up, take a hit
Feelin’ lit feelin’ light, 2 am summer night.
I don’t care, hand on the wheel, drivin drunk, I’m doin’ my thang
Rollin the Midwest side and out livin’ my life getting’ out dreams
People told me slow my roll I’m screaming out fuck that
Imma do just what I want lookin’ ahead no turnin’ back
if I fall if I die know I lived it till the fullest
if I fall if I die know I lived and missed some bullets

CHORUS
I’m on the pursuit of happiness and I know everything that shine ain’t always gonna be gold
I’ll be fine once I get it, I’ll be good. x2

VERSE 2:

Tell me what you know about dreamin’ dreamin’
you don’t really know about nothin’ nothin’
tell me what you know about them night terrors every night
5 am, cold sweats wakin’ up to the skies
tell me what you know about dreams, dreams
tell me what you know about night terrors, nothin’
you don’t really care about the trials of tomorrow
rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

CHORUS:

I’m on the pursuit of happiness and I know everything that shines ain’t always gonna be gold
I’ll be fine once I get it, I’ll be good

CHORUS:

I’m on the pursuit of happiness. I know everything that shines ain’t always gold

http://www.elyricsworld.com/pursuit_of_happiness_lyrics_kid_cudi.html

I’ll be fine once I get it, I’ll be good. x2

CHORUS:

I’m on the pursuit of happiness and I know everything that shines ain’t always gonna be gold, hey
I’ll be fine once I get it, yeah, I’ll be good

I’m on the pursuit of happiness
And I know everything that shines ain’t always gonna be gold, hey
I’ll be fine once I get it, yeah
I’ll be good

Pursuit of happiness, yeah
I don’t get it, I’ll be good

Friday Five: 10/7/11

Tod — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:00:05 +0000

Alice in Wonderland Sound Tests

Look how serious those animators were.

1000 piece stick bomb

over and over in a variety of speeds and directions. Wheee!

Pikachu Short by Pen Ward

From the makers of Adventure Time. Covering up farts with Pikachu!

Vespa in a Skate Park

Aside from all the posturing, this video is really neat!

The Best Invention

Hey! Faak Uuuuuu!

Friday Five: 9/30/11

Tod — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:51:48 +0000

31 Jokes for NERDS!!!

Some good ones in here.

Slinky Drop

Excellent example of Newtonian physics at work here. Still neat to watch in the slo-mo.

This guy owns at the robot

Awesome dance routine to a dubstep remix of Pumped Up Kicks. This guy looks like liquid and the song is sweet too.

Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling

Sad to see so many people getting hauled off in stretchers after throwing themselves down a hill for a wheel of cheese. Looks like fin though.

An interview with Bina48

What a weird uncanny valley this thing lives in. Why can’t we send stuff like this into outerspace?

Friday Five: 9/23/11

Tod — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:16:47 +0000

Hello and welcome back to the Friday Five! You’d think I’d have a bunch of stuff stock piled, but I only got reconnected to the internet last week and now that I’m working from home, I spend a lot less time dicking around on the internet. I’ll settle into a new groove though. In the mean time, here’s 4 videos to keep you entertained.

Tape Generations

Tape Generations from johan rijpma on Vimeo.

Lots of rolls of tape in this one. Nice in-camera trick and execution of concept.

Pink Floyd’s the Wall by Mariachi

Off-genre covers has become a running theme it seems.

What it’s like to fly over the earth

Put this on full screen and pretend you’re silver surfer.

Mad tea serving skills

Full respect for someone who is awesome at his job!

Animated alphabet

The Alphabet 2 from n9ve on Vimeo.

D is for demolition