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Friday Five: 2/3/12

Tod — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:51:29 +0000

Wanna Know How I Made This Dress

An insane piece of improvised audio written & performed by Katie Crown. Designs by Julia Vickerman.

10 Misconceptions Rundown

I hope this clears everything up.

Shit Blowing up in Microwaves

Yeah, this is a commercial but shite blowing up in microwaves looks awesome.

Apple Scotland

Siri has problems understanding the local dialect. I don’t think there’s a better accent for scathing strings of profanity than Scottish.

Run For Your Lives 5K Zombie Run

Run For Your Lives 2011 from Alexander Turoff on Vimeo.

This seems like great fun. Could be improved with paintball guns and more aggressive zombies. Or maybe some hallucinogenics.

Friday Five: 12/29/11

Tod — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:31:33 +0000

The ensemble “Birch” – “Pryalitsa” (google translated)

A hypnotic Russian folk dance with a wonderful color palette and a song as catchy as Trololo. In parts it doesn’t look like their legs are moving and the ladies are strapped to skateboards. Sort of the opposite of the Rockettes. There’s an “in Soviet Russia…” joke there somewhere but I’m too lazy to make it.

Three Cubes Colliding

Three Cubes Colliding from Jimandtonic on Vimeo.

This is a really cool 3-D printed art project. Some neat shifting focus shots in the beginning but the real money is at the 2:00 mark where they actually get the thing floating.

One bag’s journey through Delta

Follow a bag with 6 cameras through the mysterious black flaps at Delta Airlines.

Don Cherry’s Piano Desk

Nice execution of a simple concept. I only with there was a sustained note from the piano when the OTHER announcer pounds his fist on the desk. A duet!

Time-lapse Christmas Crowd

X-Mas Zoo from Ben Lean on Vimeo.

By Ben Lean filmed in Distillery District and Eaton Centre, Toronto Ontario. I love time-lapse stuff and this guy seems to have a bunch of it. Check out South Meadows from related videos too.

Friday Five: 12/23/11

Tod — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:41:13 +0000

Tutting?

Apparently it’s a thing? Sort of the robot dance for your fingers. There’s full body tutting as well. They make it look easy.

Bill Hicks on marijuana’s effect on evolution

I pretty much agree with everything this guy’s saying. I don’t know much about Bill Hicks, but I eager to look up some more. I’ve heard he was a big influence on Louis CK.

TPiR Cliffhanger Theme

My favorite. You know you know it! Yo dee oh dee Oh dee oh dee OH dee oh dee doooh OH dee oh dee doooh OH dee oh dee doooooooh

Old man shufflin’

Some old-timer got over-dubbed. Hilarity ensues. Reminds me of the Six Flags promo of the old man on the bus.

Drunk History Christmas Edition

Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Jim Carrey act out Twas the Night Before Christmas read by a very drunk historian.

Friday Five: 10/21/11

Tod — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:00:28 +0000

20 Best 5-second films Part 2

Hilarious! Watch Part 1 here too!

Quantum Levitation

Ok. You got that part… now give me my hoverboard!

360 degree FPS simulator that actually shoots you

Ouch!

Tour of flooded abandoned Paris

5:46 am from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.

Beautiful

Crazy duck crossing traffic

Ohhh…. OOOOHHHH…. EEEEESH…. I can’t watch!

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 7/29/11

Tod — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:35:25 +0000

2-D photography Rube Goldberg Machine

Amazing Police Motorcycle skills

Credit where credit is due!

The Barfing Cup!

With hilarious sound effects.

Carol Burnett and friends Bloopers and Bust ups

I grew up watching this show.

Flash Gordon Cartoon Intro

We’ve been watching the ’67 Spider-man cartoons on Netflix recently and it reminded me of watching the Flash Gordon cartoon with my dad as a kid. I think it came on super early and the weird creatures scared me (I can’t have been more than 5 or 6 when it originally aired), but I still remember being really into it.

Friday Five 7/22/11

Tod — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:16:43 +0000

1970s NASA video about colonizing space

This is so real deal it’s awesome. That opening soundtrack and graphic is what irony-laden bands are striving for these days.

Kittens on DJ equipment

I want to believe this is real. Looks like this would be a lot harder to fake than actually letting some kittens go hog-wild on your equipment. They’re pretty good though.

Dubstep Mime – Dr P Big Boss

Weird lipsync with stock digital effect and the craziest teeth ever seen in a music video. This guy looks like he should be on Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.

Speed pipe-smoking competition

Put this in your pipe and smoke it.

Creepy Scene from David Lynch’s Lost Highway

I’ve never seen this movie, nor have I seen much of David Lynch’s filmography, but this scene was indeed instantly chilling especially for what is essentially just a three minute conversation. Now I must track down and watch this movie before I hear anything else about it since the time-limit to not expect spoilers has long since expired.

Friday Five: 7/8/11

Tod — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:20:24 +0000

Seagull steals video camera

Did this guy have his camera stuffed inside a churro?

Beautiful solstice lantern festival

just watch.

Fluttershy sings Pinkie Pie’s song: Reggie Watts’ “Fuck Shit Stack.”

Fuckshit is magic!

Two Ugly Dogs on Swings

Enough said.

Bite the Bag!

Forget planking, there’s a new game in town sweeping America! Bite the bag! Pick up the bag with your teeth while standing on one foot. You get three tries. If you fall; you’re out! Wheeeee!

Friday Five: 6/10/11

Tod — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:00:29 +0000

Arcade Dominator

This guy pwns the arcade like WHOA!

SMACKA SPIDEY (sNSFW?)

Dick smackin’ to the spider-man theme.

50 State stereotypes in 2 minutes

Fun and offensive and so so true!

Robot juggler

Robots make another job obsolete.

Physics presentation involving PONIES!

For all you Bronies out there. If you want to get an A+ on your physics presentation then it’s a good idea to involve ponies! ponies ponies ponies!

Friday Five: 6/3/11

Tod — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:41:30 +0000

Face morphing optical illusion

Stare at the red dot. While it’s moving, the changes in the face are hardly perceptible. When it stops, you can see a whole range of changes taking place.

Well excuse me princess

why was link’s catch phrase “Well, excuuuuse ME, princess!”

Extreme sheep herding

I wanted to write this off as bad CGI, but watching the process throughout the video makes me believe they actually did this. Is this what androids dream of?

The cultural policy of piracy

The Baby Bullet

infomercial gone wrong with this horrifying re-edit. it’s a bit long, but it’s so scary you won’t be able to turn away.