Entries from December 2012

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Grind

If you’re in the mood for some booty to be shaken in your face then you’ve come to the right video. It’s a nod and playful look at the Jamaican dancehall phenomenon of shaking your thang as suggestively as possible, so sit back and be mesmerized by the movement of buttocks grinding in slow-mo.

Monday, December 17th, 2012

Bad Behavior Online: Bullying, Trolling & Free Speech

If there’s one place where you’re bound to experience the worst human culture has to offer, it’s the interland. Trolls, keyboard warriors, spite, hatred, and inhumanity can all surface behind the mask of anonymity. The always great PBS Off Book series looks at how, if at all, should the internet be regulated to stop online [...]

Monday, December 17th, 2012

Key & Peele: Bling Benzy & Da Struggle

Gentleman rapper versus king of bling go mano-to-mano in this video that shows two different sides of the hip-hop coin. So Bling Benzy and Da Struggle duke it out in this spoof video, which sees Da Struggle pitting his conscientious rhyming against the bitches and guns culture of Mr Benzy.

Sunday, December 16th, 2012

12.21.12 End of the World? #FailFix

So as we enter the final week of our existence and the countdown begins to the end of the world, lets take a moment to reflect on what advantages the Mayan prophecy has presented us with. Sure there might be erupting volcanoes and rivers of lava blocking our escape from the marauding zombies intent on [...]

Sunday, December 16th, 2012

Filmography 2012

With some fine editing skills YouTuber Genrocks takes a look back at the year in movies, event though you may not have seen half these movies, or any of them, you’ll still enjoy this 7 minutes of footage. It’s a nice reminder of why we watch films in the first place and should inspire you [...]

Friday, December 14th, 2012

Forever Alone Meets Michelle Jenneke

She won over the hearts and trousers of men the world over when she did that little jiggle in Barcelona earlier in the year. And, just when you thought you’d never see her doing that dance again, she turns up in this video as the perfect imaginary girlfriend for Forever Alone, all the while doing [...]

Friday, December 14th, 2012

Take a Tour of the ISS

Departing space station commander Sunita Williams gives a tour of the International Space Station just before she heads off back to earth. She takes us round the station’s modules and research facilities giving a running narrative as she goes, giving us some insight of what they’ve been doing on this orbital outpost. Oh, and there’s [...]

Friday, December 14th, 2012

Top 5 Best Game Trailers from VGA 2012

Every industry has its equivalent of the Oscars and so it goes that video games have the Video Game Awards (real original title there). So, naturally, publishers use it as a platform to showcase their latest games by showing off their trailers. With each year the bar rises and the quality has reached something on [...]

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises Trailer 3: IN LEGO

The Dark Knight Rises was cool, but it wasn’t Lego, was it? Thankfully that’s been rectified in this fan made trailer that swaps real actors with Lego figures. So now you can rest safely at night, at peace with the world knowing that finally someone has done the decent thing and Lego-fied the trailer for [...]

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

Mario Warfare – Part 1

It’s Mario, but not as you know it. The cutesy world conjured up by Shigeru Miyamoto is traded for guns and slow-mo fight scenes, the sort of thing you might expect if John Woo decided to make a Mario movie. There’s no jumping on heads to kill the enemy here, it’s all about the bullets. [...]

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

Bill Hicks – Revelations (Complete Concert)

“By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising…kill yourself.” Good old Bill Hicks, a very funny man who certainly knew how to spit vitriol at the world around him and lament the idiocy of those in power. It only makes you sorry he’s not around now to stand on stage and preach [...]