One of the best ads I’ve seen in forever. Love the Bilbo Baggins song, and the fact Nimoy is rocking some kind of Snape hairdo.
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A short film full of win
This is insanely well done.
I salute you, filmmaker peoples with remote-control car collections, Michael Bay obsessions and creativity oozing out of your pores. GIVE US MORE.
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Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho
Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
Filed under The Glowing Tube
Golden eagle: the honey badger of birds
The shocking video of a giant flipping golden eagle, soaring in like some kind of pterodactyl, which I can’t even spell, to snatch a toddler — well, that thing may or may not be a total fake.
Watch it and decide.
Not fake is this long nature video of a golden eagle killing and eating MOUNTAIN GOATS.
I am not making that up. Why bother hunting rats, rabbits, purse dogs belonging to Paris Hilton, wolves, tiny humans and anything else under 33 pounds — why even mess with such trifling things when you can take out giant goats, and do so using jedi bird mastery of gravity?
We should remember three things: (1) birds are feathered dinosaurs, (2) golden eagles are like mini velicoraptors WHO CAN FLY and (3) if you have one as a pet, I am not cleaning the bird cage.
Bonus video: a rundown, with all kinds of scientific numbers and such about the golden eagle, truly the honey badger of birds. (Though in a fight, I’m putting a purple euro on the honey badger.)
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Psycho killer raccoons terrorize Olympia … and Tacoma, and Seattle
The scariest fish IN THE WORLD
The cyclops piglet with two snouts and other REAL MONSTERS
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Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho
Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
One second, every day, for one year
This is shockingly fun to watch and interesting.
Without trying to tell a story, this man tells a story.
I tip my hat to you, Mr. One Second Every Day — well done, sir. Well done.
The great thing: anybody with a smart phone can do this, and do it well.
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Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho
Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
Filed under 3 Tinseltown Tuesday, The Glowing Tube
Dogs driving cars, I kid you not
This isn’t one of those joke photos where somebody puts Spot on their lap as they’re cruising down I-5.
This is a BBC news report from New Zealand, where they’re teaching dogs to truly drive cars.
Related post: Cats who open freezers and dogs who fetch COLD BEER
Three things:
1) Anything said with a British accent is — by definition — 15,923 times more awesome.
2) It is official: New Zealand raaawks.
3) When can I hire a trained Schnauzer chauffeur from New Zealand, and does he require health benefits and a 401(k)?
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Random passages from A BOWL OF WARM MILK AND MURDER
Psycho killer raccoons terrorize Olympia … and Tacoma, and Seattle
Shapeshifting owl is seven separate flavors of awesomesauce
The scariest fish IN THE WORLD
The cyclops piglet with two snouts and other REAL MONSTERS
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Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho
Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
Simple, different and impressive
Amazing what he can do, all alone up there on stage in his bare feet with a few simple props and some music.
I tip my hat to you, sir. Well done.
Filed under 5 Random Thursday
Firefighters shoot flaming ping-pong balls from helicopter
Why? To control a forest fire.
Also, because they can. We have the technology — read the story here.
You might ask why we’re having so many forest fires lately. I think maybe because it’s 98 degrees in October and hasn’t rained in forever. But I keep hearing that global warming is some kind of communist myth, invented by Lenin and still perpetuated by him (he and Elvis are living in Manhattan, growing their sideburns and wearing black berets). So I must be wrong. Rush Limbaugh says forest fires are caused by uppity feminists and that every time a woman earns a master’s degree, God sends a lightning bolt down on some trees. OK, I AM KIDDING WITH THE POLITICS.
Also: here’s related video of firefighter peoples in Florida using not just ping pong balls and helicopters, but also airboats, aeroplanes and paintball guns.
Filed under Muffin chokers
Danish commercial makes Michael Bay look like an AMATEUR
Epic slow-motion. Soaring music. Stunned reaction shots — this commercial from Denmark has it all, and they do it better than Michael Bay without even resorting to 593 explosions.
Think of what they could have done with an explosion or seven.
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Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho
Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
Filed under The Glowing Tube
WILD HORSES by The Sundays
The Sundays are one of those sleeper bands, the kind who don’t have one or two big hits buried in a sea of mediocre songs, but smack that musical fastball into the outfield EVERY FLIPPING TIME.
Here they’re doing a cover of some song by Mick the Jagger or whoever. I’ve learned that Jagger and the Stones that Roll are four guys from Britain who, despite being older than Yoda, still run around the world, holding rock concerts and such where they actually play their own instruments and sing, the fuddy duddies, rather than lip-sync to backing tracks recorded in the studio and auto-tuned so horrifically that T-Pain vows to never again have his voice digitally altered one tiny itty bit.
Also: the lead singer of The Sundays has the voice of an angel and the face of a supermodel. That never hurts.
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SUGAR WE’RE GOING DOWN by Fall Out Boy
ELECTRIC AVENUE, as interpreted by the Red Pen of Doom
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THE KILL by 30 Seconds to Mars
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COUNTDOWN by Beyonce and some genius student in a snuggie
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Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho
Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
Filed under 2 Music Video Monday
COUNTDOWN by Beyonce and some genius student in a snuggie
OK, so it’s one thing to take (1) one of the most talented singers in the solar system and (2) a bunch of professional backup dancers, set designers, choreographers and film peoples to make (3) a great music video that probably cost more money to make than you or I will ever see, even as we tour a secret Federal Reserve money factory that creates Benjamins by the bucketful.
It is quite another thing for a whippersnapper student, with no monies, to shoot the same video on his iPhone or whatever and edit it on his computer — doing the EXACT SAME VIDEO, frame for frame, effect for effect.
This kid is such a flipping genius that his blue snuggie, just by osmosis, has earned two doctorates in Applied Awesomesauce.
For musical peoples, here are the lyrics to COUNTDOWN.
Boy!
Oh, killing me softly and I’m still falling
Still the one I need, I will always be with you
Oh, you got me all gone, don’t ever let me go
Say it real loud if you fly
If you leave me you’re out of your mind
My baby is a 10
We dressing to the 9
He pick me up we 8,
Make me feel so lucky 7
He kiss me in his 6
We be making love at 5
Still the one I do this 4
I’m tryna make us 3
From that 2
He’s still the 1
There’s ups and downs in this love
Got a lot to learn in this love
Through the good and the bad, still got love
Dedicated to the one I love, hey
Still love the way he talk, still love the way I sing
Still love the way he rock them black diamonds in that chain
Still all up on each other, ain’t a damn thing changed
My girls can’t tell me nothing, I’m gone in the brain
I’m all up under him like it’s cold, winter time
All up in the kitchen in my heels, dinner time
Do whatever that it takes, he got a winner’s mind
Give it all to him, meet him at the finish line
Me and my boo and my boo boo riding
All up in that black with his chick right beside him
Ladies, if you love your man show him you the flyest
Grind up on it, girl, show him how you ride it
Me and my boo and my boo boo riding
All up in that black with his chick right beside him
Ladies, if you love your man show him you the fliest
Grind up on it, girl, show him how you ride it
Oh, killing me softly and I’m still fallin’
Still the one I need, I will always be with you
Oh, you got me all gone, don’t ever let me go
Say it real loud if you fly
If you leave me you out of your mind
My baby is a 10
We dressing to the 9
He pick me up we 8,
Make me feel so lucky 7
He kiss me in his 6
We be making love at 5
Still the one I do this 4
I’m tryna make us 3
From that 2
He still the 1
Yup, I put it on him, it ain’t nothing that I can’t do
Yup, I buy my own, if he deserve it, buy his shit too
All up in the store, shorty, tricking if I want to
All up in the store, shorty, fly as we want to
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Damn I think I love that boy
Do anything for that boy
Boy!
Now I’ll never be the same
You and me until the end
Me and my boo and my boo boo riding
All up in that black with his chick right beside him
Ladies, if you love your man show you the flyest
Grind up on it, girl, show him how you ride it
Me and my boo and my boo lip locking
All up in the back because the chicks keep flocking
All that gossip in 10 years stop it
London speed it up, Houston rock it
Oh, killing softly and I’m still falling
Still the one I need, I will always be with you
Oh, you got me all gone, don’t ever let me go
Say it real loud if you fly,
If you leave me you’re out of your mind
My baby is a 10
We dressing to the 9
He pick me up we 8,
Make me feel so lucky 7
He kiss me in his 6
We be making love at 5
Still the one I do this 4
I’m tryna make us 3
From that 2
He still the 1
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Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho
Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
Filed under 2 Music Video Monday
