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[VIDEO] Lasse Gjertsen is BACK : AMATUER

2007-01-18T11:51:00.000-08:00

The amazing Lasse Gjertsen is back....

[VIDEO] Artistic Savant Stephen Wiltshire...

2007-01-18T11:38:00.000-08:00

Stephen Wiltshire has been called the "Human Camera." In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.

[VIDEO] Save the Internet - SERIOUSLY!!! WATCH THIS!

2007-01-18T11:37:00.000-08:00

[VIDEO] BBC Planet Earth : Fresh Water

2007-01-14T22:03:00.000-08:00

Go to the fabulous SEEHERE blog for more info on the series...

[VIDEO]s of the new iPhone....

2007-01-10T19:30:00.000-08:00

9 minute all features
9 minute video

Video of a Call

Navigate Songs...

Navigate Photos on the new iPhone

Maps

iPhone TV (not great quality)

iPhone Safari web browser

iPhone SMS

iPhone email

Spinning iPhone

[VIDEO] Horizon - Making Millions the Easy Way (in Vegas) - BBC - 48 mins

2007-01-07T00:34:00.000-08:00

[VIDEO] Horizon BBC - Richard Dawkins - 45 mins

2007-01-07T00:28:00.000-08:00

Classic BBC Horizon Documentary with Richard Dawkins, BBC Northern Ireland Person of the Year...

[VIDEO] Space - Episode 4 - BBC - Are we alone? - 30 mins

2007-01-07T00:22:00.000-08:00

[VIDEO] Space - Episode 1 - BBC - Star Stuff - 30 mins

2007-01-07T00:16:00.000-08:00

[VIDEO] Space - Episode 5 - BBC - New Worlds - 30 mins

2007-01-07T00:15:00.000-08:00

[VIDEO] Space - Episode 6 - BBC - Boldly Go - 30 minds

2007-01-07T00:14:00.000-08:00

[VIDEO] Space - Episode 2 - BBC - Staying Alive - 30 mins

2007-01-07T00:13:00.000-08:00

[VIDEO] Space - Episode 3 - BBC - Black Holes - 30 mins

2007-01-07T00:11:00.000-08:00

[VIDEO] Smiths...

2007-01-07T00:04:00.000-08:00

Why always with the plant out of his arse? That and the hearing aide and the tone deaf singing really and the fact that they were the faves of the disaffected university "oh my life is crap" saddos really put me off the Smiths... So sad, I love them now...

Old Top of the Pops footage....

[VIDEO] French Metal Video

2007-01-06T23:14:00.000-08:00

All I can say is WOW! Makes me think of the old "Test Drive" game by Electronic Arts...
Super Fab....

Iloveufo
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[VIDEO] Carl Sagan Evolution

2006-10-23T20:52:00.000-07:00

THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED PEOPLE!

[LINKS] Karaoke Ice

2006-09-25T12:16:00.000-07:00

I love coincidences! Most people think they are chance but they Co-Incide they cross paths.

Yesterday I was fiddling with a broken old fisher-price record player.

I wouldn't have given it the time of day except the sound triggered a sense memory and was very pleasing to my soul.

How strange then that my journey into TED (entries below) led me to ZeFranks blog and an entry called Karaoke Ice (Karaoke is another "hobby") and even more strange that the first song listed is Hey Ya!

Enjoy...

[VIDEO] TED - ZeFrank

2006-09-25T12:04:00.000-07:00

I thoroughly enjoyed ZeFranks TED lecture from 2004 and would recommend anyone to visit his website and The Show with ZeFrank.

[VIDEO] TED - Sir Ken Robinson

2006-09-25T12:03:00.000-07:00

TED is an annual four day event in Monterey CA where more than 1000 of the thought leaders, movers and shakers get together to exchange ideas.

Sir Ken Robinson gives a 20 minute presentation where he makes a case for overhauling the education system. I am sure after watching this I will not be alone in thinking that he was talking about Waldorf education.

For more TED Talks visit their website or alternatively approach the lectures from their TEDblog where you will get a small intro to each lecture.

For more ted talks visit...

[LINKS] Create your own South Park Character

2006-09-16T19:00:00.000-07:00

This is me!

[VIDEO] Part 2 of the Ricky Gervais Infamous Microsoft UK faux training Video

2006-09-01T08:46:00.000-07:00


There are around two minutes of outtakes at the end of each video which are very funny. I can understand why Microsoft US were unhappy at the release of these videos, they probably believe that some of the language and comments might reflect badly on them. This is a major problem in the US now, no-one dare take even the slightest risk! Thank you Microsoft UK!

[VIDEO] Part 1 of the Ricky Gervais Infamous Microsoft UK Faux training Video

2006-09-01T08:11:00.000-07:00

[VIDEO] Hey Ya by Obediah Parker, Temple, AZ

2006-08-25T18:54:00.000-07:00

EX-CELL-ENT! - ObediahParker.COM

[VIDEO] Bunnies

2006-08-22T08:36:00.000-07:00

Found via the amazing CuteOverload.com

[VIDEO] Octopus changing colors

2006-08-11T12:22:00.000-07:00


There is nothing cooler than nature. How long does it take you to spot the octopus. It "inks" the diver as it tries to swim away.

[VIDEO] Jumbo Jet blowing a car over.

2006-08-11T12:17:00.000-07:00

I knew I would find it somewhere... BBC TV's Top Gear...

Short Clip

Long Clip

[VIDEO] Nate True Time Freezing Machine

2006-08-11T11:45:00.000-07:00

Nate calls it a "Backwards in Time Fountain" or a "Time Manipulation Fountain".

A combination of strobing LEDs and Flourescein Flourescent Dye make for a fantastic invention. Full instructions at cre.ations.net

[VIDEO] Jumbo Jet blowing people into the Sea

2006-08-11T10:47:00.000-07:00


I find it hard to beleive but it looks real enough!

[VIDEO] German Girl Balancing on a bike

2006-08-11T10:44:00.000-07:00


Impressive bicycle tricks by this German girl.

[VIDEO] 9 months of gestation in 20 seconds

2006-08-11T10:32:00.000-07:00


Not sure about "Stretchening" but excellently done!

[VIDEO] Treadmill Dancing

2006-08-01T14:47:00.000-07:00

OK GO - Here it goes again

[VIDEO] Gnarls Barkley

2006-08-01T13:13:00.000-07:00

Crazy

Smiley Faces

[VIDEO] Ernest Cline - Monkeys

2006-08-01T12:40:00.000-07:00

Hello, I'm back!

Ernest Cline is superb....

[VIDEO] More Karaoke Booth Fun

2006-05-30T18:59:00.000-07:00

[VIDEO] Korean Karaoke Booth

2006-05-30T18:14:00.000-07:00

Two Korean schoolgirls in a karaoke booth...

[VIDEO] Bug Out Eyes

2006-05-30T18:10:00.000-07:00

Sure I have had it before but it beggers belief!

[VIDEO] Colin Hay from Men at Work - Overkill

2006-05-30T17:48:00.000-07:00

This is a great acoustic version of the original Men at Work song "Overkill", sung by the original lead singer on "Scrubs".

Check out his MySpace page where you can play the whole song.

[VIDEO] The beauty of Lava

2006-05-28T17:22:00.000-07:00

[VIDEO] Performing Flies?

2006-05-23T21:04:00.000-07:00

[VIDEO] Three legged legs...

2006-05-23T19:44:00.000-07:00

HUMANS VIDEO, excellent.

[LINK] Shamen Mind Reader

2006-05-21T22:09:00.000-07:00

[VIDEO] "Multi Touch" Touch screen Tech

2006-05-21T22:04:00.000-07:00

For more info visit Jefferson Y. Han @ NYU.

[VIDEO] Press your Luck

2006-05-21T21:17:00.000-07:00

In 1984 an Ohio man put together an astounding run on the television game show program Press Your Luck.

He did so by ... all » memorizing the sequences by which the various prize squares lit up on the game board, allowing him to time his button presses to coincide with the lights' stopping on the most advantageous squares.

By hitting 35 such squares in a row, he was able to accumulate the largest win in the history of that show, and he did it all in under an hour.

When the effort became too fatiguing, he passed his remaining spins to another contestant rather than risk losing his accumulated winnings to a mistimed press of the plunger.

[VIDEO] Robin Williams plays SPORE

2006-05-14T19:47:00.000-07:00

Video of Robin Williams playing (And you can quote me on this) THE NEXT BIG THING (the last big thing was, in my opinion, the Ipod) - Spore!

[LINKS] Using Google maps to track murders...

2006-05-10T18:33:00.000-07:00

The New York Times has put together a fascinating Google Map of all the NYC murders from 2003 to 2005. Gory but gripping.

[VIDEO] Fedex planes avoiding storms

2006-05-10T16:54:00.000-07:00

Fedex planes avoid a thunderstorm passing over their Memphis base. Time lapse radar composite.

[VIDEO] Landing on one of Saturn's moons!

2006-05-10T16:29:00.000-07:00

The European Space Agency Huygens lander cameras catch landing on Saturn's Titan moon from various angles. AMAZING! Worth downloading and watching as large as possible.

[VIDEO] Evolution of Dance

2006-05-08T19:40:00.000-07:00

Superb! Dance through the decades...

[VIDEO] I'm a little nervous

2006-05-08T19:27:00.000-07:00

"Hi, I'd like to promote my little film festival, live tv? Sure! I am a little hungover! What nervous? Moi? Noooooo!"

[LINK] Avocadolite Farm Game

2006-05-02T14:42:00.000-07:00

For those of you who love Zoo Keeper give Avocadolite Farm a go, it is the same "swap two to line up three" idea but you have to clear all the "blue backed" squares to move on a level.

[VIDEO] The whole of "What the Bleep"!

2006-05-02T14:40:00.000-07:00

The whole movie of WHAT THE BLEEP on Google Video for free! I don't know quite how legal this is but WATCH IT WHILE YOU CAN!!!! To watch it full screen click on this link then double click to activate full screen.

[LINK] Desktop Blues

2006-04-27T10:18:00.000-07:00

This is a lot of fun for those of us who are "Musically Challenged"...

[LINK] What I SHOULD have said!

2006-04-27T08:29:00.000-07:00

Cute blog

[VIDEO] Sand Art?!

2006-04-27T08:26:00.000-07:00

How do you start doing something like this????

[VIDEO] The lost children of North Korea (LONG)

2006-04-26T21:05:00.000-07:00

As a parent I find it really difficult to watch videos like this.

This is a documentary from Discovery and at 45 minutes is long to watch on your computer but people need to know that these things go on in this world of ours, and it is OUR world. Not someone elses', not a corporations' or a governments' but OURS and we are responsible.

[VIDEO] The Infamous Double Slit Experiment...

2006-04-26T19:51:00.000-07:00

I love WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!?...

Here is a clip from the follow up, "WHAT THE BLEEP!? DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE", an extended directors cut or really an "original plus extra bits for people who didn't understand the scientific stuff"...

Put the original on your NETFLIX list and bump it to the top. It is FAB!

[LINK] Romanesco or Broccoflower

2006-04-26T19:11:00.000-07:00

The Broccoflower (a cross between a Broccoli and a Cauliflower) or is it a caucoli or a Romanesco? Whatever it is it is another example of mathematics in nature.
Now don't even get me started on this, I could go on for hours. I am convinced fractals hold the answer to the meaning of life. Ever since I first heard about them and mandelbrots and played rescue on fractalus(note:needs quicktime and no sound for first 1m20s - deliberately!) etc in the early 80's. I wont rant, just look yourself and think of all the other mathamatical objects in nature that you have never questioned before (snail shells, ferns, snowlakes, sea shells etc)...

See this mandelbrot movie...

[LINKS] Human Clock

2006-04-26T18:49:00.000-07:00

I cannot believe that I have not listed the Human Clock before...

The idea is simple, submit a photo, ideally wierd and wacky, that represents a time of the day and they will assign it to that time, it could then be one of the "picked at random" photos for that timeslot...

[VIDEO] Disney Copy and Paste

2006-04-26T07:35:00.000-07:00

An interesting Russian article translated through babelfish of course.

[LINK] Optical Illusions

2006-04-25T20:21:00.000-07:00

A fabulous blog full of optical illusions...

[VIDEO] WATCH THIS TRAILER

2006-04-25T20:06:00.000-07:00

We ARE killing the planet and it needs to STOP.

[VIDEO] Base jumping

2006-04-25T13:14:00.000-07:00

More AMAZING humans!

[VIDEO] Strange Computer Animated Music.

2006-04-25T13:11:00.000-07:00

Use Google Video for fullscreen version.

Use Google Video for fullscreen version.

A full list of Animusic on Google Video or visit www.Animusic.com.

[VIDEO] Robot Police

2006-04-25T12:58:00.000-07:00

Just the idea of it haunts me...

[VIDEO] My daughter loves this...

2006-04-25T12:54:00.000-07:00

PI TA GA RA SO U CHI

Pythagoras switch(i)!

Yes you will be sayong this by the end of this excellent Rube Goldberg video..

Videos seem to keep disappearing from google video, I had to put in another link for this one but it has those funny japanese rhythmic mathematical dancers in the middle. If you like those there are more here!

And it is funny that it disappeared shortly after this episode of google current...

also the infamous Honda advert...

[VIDEO] Juggling

2006-04-25T12:50:00.000-07:00

Chris Bliss is a comedian who can juggle, or should I say a Juggler who does a bit of comedy on the side.

I am sure I posted this ages ago but just in case...

{VIDEO] Mystic Ball, Chinlone, Cane Ball

2006-04-25T09:50:00.000-07:00

Documentary Web Site and another.

[VIDEO] The Disney Vault...

2006-04-25T09:45:00.000-07:00

Parental Warning

SNL sketch "The Disney Vault". I am astonished they got away with this...

and another that they almost didnt get away with...shown once.

[VIDEO] Indian Traffic Junction - Amazing

2006-04-25T09:38:00.000-07:00

You have to see it to believe it!

[VIDEO] Vincent by Tim Burton

2006-04-25T08:30:00.000-07:00

An excellent stop frame animation by Tim Burton from the 1980s...

[VIDEO] Everything by Lasse Gjertsen

2006-04-25T08:26:00.000-07:00

I love it when people take existing technology and do something "different" with it...

Lasse G is EXCELLENT!!!!!

Original file.

[VIDEO] Sony 100,000 balls

2006-04-24T19:22:00.000-07:00

You have to see this Sony Bravia advert...

[VIDEO] That Crazy Bear....

2006-04-24T18:58:00.000-07:00

The original...

The Sellout video

The best yet!

[VIDEO] Ping Pong Madness

2006-04-24T18:53:00.000-07:00

A little disappointed that the cups have water in them but still quite cool...

[VIDEO] Spore, the new game from the creator of SIMS

2006-04-24T18:32:00.000-07:00

Eighteen days since my last post, better make it good!

This is an excerpt from Will Wright's next game SPORE, probably the best game ever made!

Why? Well, you get to take a single cell organism from it conception in the goop right up to space colonisation. Watch the video. It is EXCELLENT.

If you do not believe me then at least start it and skip to 22 minutes and watch as his creation leaves it's home planet and explores space, then skip again to 27 minutes and watch for about two and a half minutes then skip once more to 37 minutes and watch to the end to see just how far out you can go. This should be required playing for young kids as I think it is the modern version of "Powers of 10" and will be inspirational. It is wonderful to imagine the penny dropping for young kids on Day/Night cycles of planets etc. - Wonderful.

If you love it then watch the whole thing.

[VIDEO] Tramapoline!

2006-04-06T19:49:00.000-07:00

Clever, or not...

[VIDEO] Again, football (soccer) is better!

2006-04-06T19:40:00.000-07:00

I am sure I have posted this before, or something VERY similar but...

[VIDEO] Money, get a way!

2006-04-06T19:35:00.000-07:00

[VIDEO] Mario theme on two guitars!

2006-04-06T19:31:00.000-07:00

Some people have the wierdest talents...

[VIDEO] Wall of Water

2006-04-06T19:28:00.000-07:00

Another amazing feat of human achievement!

From comments below the video this is...Mike Parsons from a DVD called Billabong Odyssey.

[VIDEO] Barilliant

2006-03-31T21:37:00.000-08:00

That could so easily have been me in a former life...Still, pretty cool!

[VIDEO] Rims....

2006-03-31T21:33:00.000-08:00

If money was no object I would have some of these, but for now I can't even afford to keep the batteries refreshed in my tireflies.

[VIDEO] Hoop Dreams

2006-03-31T21:18:00.000-08:00

Jason McElway, an autistic high school basketball team member in Rochester NY, served as the team manager and spirit coach for several years. On the final game of the season the coach let him finally put on a uniform with the rest of the team. What happened next you have to see to believe...

The link above is the best quality but here is an embedded version...

[VIDEO] Jerry Seinfelds "Comedian" Trailer

2006-03-06T20:33:00.000-08:00

Now you know what he looks like...

[VIDEO] ISUZU Gemini ADs

2006-03-06T20:25:00.000-08:00

Compilation of ISUZU Gemini ads from the 1980s

Someone has remixed it with more recent music...

[VIDEO] Hank

2006-03-06T19:47:00.000-08:00

Wouldn't normally want to promote a major organisation like Starbucks but I love this AD!

[VIDEO] Fitness Ad by Budweiser?

2006-02-28T10:40:00.000-08:00

[VIDEO] Google Current

2006-02-26T22:54:00.000-08:00

Al Gore's Current TV channel which launched recently in the US has a slot called "Google Current" where google report what is hot on the google search front and why. Here is a sample.

There are many more where that came from, just do this search.

[VIDEO] Don't fear the cowbell!

2006-02-26T22:44:00.000-08:00

Love this SNL skit...

seems to have died so...

[VIDEO] Smart Beep Ad

2006-02-26T22:23:00.000-08:00

Toilet humor time folks...

[VIDEO] Little Britain: Bitty

2006-02-26T22:07:00.000-08:00

I have found myself having a lot of discussions with people about "late" breastfeeding. I was reminded of a sketch from the "Little Britain" comedy series in England. I didn't much care for the series but it had one or two excellent sketches. Such as this one...

[VIDEO] The Shining Trailer - alternate cut

2006-02-26T20:39:00.000-08:00

An alternate trailer for "The Shining" made by an Ad agency...

[VIDEO] and I'm gonna suck ya!

2006-02-24T23:04:00.000-08:00

Marc Bolan and T.Rex were one of the best bands of the 70s, if you have never heard them or seen them then enjoy them playing Jeepster on a 1970s German pop show "MusicLaden"...

Marc recorded two guitar tracks for this song (at least) and so to reproduce the sound MusicLaden did two recordings of the performance and overlayed them, thus towards the end of the song you can see one of the Marc's stop playing! ACE!

More YouTube Bolan Videos

[VIDEO] Video Trickery

2006-02-24T21:29:00.000-08:00

Following on from the other entries (where they make over models and kids so that we all think we are imperfect) here they make over what we watch on the screen. Don't believe anything you see!!!

[VIDEO] The Wings of the Butterfly

2006-02-24T20:16:00.000-08:00

Unbelievable animated political commentary. I LOVE it.

Seven months of solo production (including 2 for the music) by the artist Benjamin Gibeaux.

Visit the main site (all in French) for more info.

His older films have a similar quality in their music and storylines but the animation is not as developed. I wait with bated breath for his next production.

Là-bas - Live in the present, appreciate all the beauty that is around you.

Terroristes - even after translating his description (using babelfish of course), I cannot understand why this is called "terrorists". Except that we are all terrorists polluting our world.

Papier Glace

PAT & TIK - produced by the artist but written and drawn by nine 12-16 year olds.

[VIDEO] Swedish Cute Robot

2006-02-24T20:13:00.000-08:00

A superb Robot from Sweden!

[VIDEO] Terrible Terry Tate - Again

2006-02-24T19:41:00.000-08:00

He has appeared before, and he appears again! Terrible Terry Tate.

[GAME] Soduko

2006-02-24T12:11:00.000-08:00

Soduko is immensly popular right now so here is an online version...
Soduko

[VIDEO] Eulogy - Parental Warning

2006-02-24T12:06:00.000-08:00

Parental Warning

John Cleese's Eulogy for Graham Chapman

[VIDEO] Isn't Nature Wonderful

2006-02-24T11:44:00.000-08:00

The fabulous Animals in Love from the Vancouver Film School.