The lyrics to this are quite cute:
"I want to be in your profile picture, I want to be a permanent fixture on your wall, you're so beautiful..."
I really loved these - for everyone who likes watching films in one minute and one take:
Kill Bill 1 and 2:
Forrest Gump:
From director Will who you can find on YouTube.
There'll be quotes aplenty from that not-entirely-safe-for-work video! "I'm sorry, but Ireland is gay" - so begins the ad for GCN's 21st birthday in Tripod - tickets €10, going fast - on February 19. I found this over on Climaxxx, Chewy Chewerson's newly revived blog. Go on over and say hello.
The Lyre bird does Seinfeld. Pretty funny, eh?
Except, when I went to research the bird and saw the original video that it's based on, from BBC Worldwide, I could hardly believe it. Impersonating the Kookaburra, the calls of twenty different species, car alarms, camera shutters, chainsaws.
The most elaborate, complex and beautiful birdsong in the world is from a bird that is very remarkable in many ways.
You have to see it to believe it. It's not April 1 yet, is it?
Love the woman at the end "I was in a bad mood when I come 'ere, I'm in a good one now."
Don't know what they're talking about? Check this out.
Damien shot this video of Ben talking to a roomful of teenagers who have never had to deal with dial-up connections, MSN Cam lags, IRC, slow download speeds and not being able to google/facebook someone to find out who they really are.
So you're in London on the way to wherever you're going at 11am on Thursday morning, you're in Liverpool Street Station and suddenly this happens...
It's definitely worth seeing the high quality version.
It's the new T-mobile ad, with slogan Life's for Sharing.
How the hell did they do this? How did they get it done? Irish advertisers, the gauntlet has been thrown down to you. Heuston Station next, perhaps?
*EDIT* - the last line of the post has the most up-to-date version of things.
He finally admitted it. Matt Harding, geek hero, cewebrity and inspiration to many who loved his dancing videos, visited the WhereTheHellIsMatt.com website and, indeed, reposted his videos on their own blogs came clean recently and admitted that the doubting YouTube commenters were right, and that he is, in fact, a fake.
He is in fact an actor whose previous biggest accomplishment was playing a corpse on CSI: Miami. He is terrified of flying and has never left the US. He was hired by New York based viral ad agency Buzz!Brain to feature in the project, on the basis of his "affably horrible dancing ability".
The project, as this video shows, involved a huge amount of photoshopping, green screens and an army of animatronic puppets (including one called Larry) to maintain the secrecy necessary to create the illusion. He revealed how he almost drowned during the non-gravity scene, which was really filmed in a hollowed out Boeing 727 in an Olympic swimming pool. He also showed the budget, which, though expensive he feels was worth it, and features the costs of the puppets ($8,000,000), secrecy bribes ($2.5m) and robot uprising insurance for $1m.
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At the Entertainment Gathering (EG) conference in Monterey, California where he revealed the hoax, the actor playing Harding comments on how the original video, which Time Magazine has named the best viral video of 2008, inspired so many comments, that people had
"a profound joy of feeling connected to the whole world by watching this simple act of uncoordinated, unselfconscious silliness shared by everyone"that he wished the video had been real. "It wouldn't solve anything or change anything" said Harding, "Our problems are still our problems, but maybe there's some value in being reminded of the really basic stuff we have in common." And so invited the audience up to dance with him at the end of his talk.
It's links to videos like this that make the Innocent Drinks newsletter I get every week all the more sweet. Or tastier. Or some other food related term. Anyways, you can find out more here.
Genius of Mentos to sponsor the event, where more than a hundred divers competed in the world splash diving championships in Nuremberg, Germany.
Now that's something I'd give a go. How about you?
