Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Friday, April 25th, 2014

How Big is the Ocean?

The ocean’s pretty big, but how big would you say it is? Like, mega big or giantly hugely big? TedTalks come to the rescue as Scott Gass explains just how massive it is. For instance it takes up 71% of the Earth, houses 99% of the biosphere, and contains some of Earth’s grandest geological features. [...]

Thursday, April 24th, 2014

Chalk Warfare 3.0

Chalk Warfare is by special effects channel SoKrispyMedia and shows epic, running gun battles unfolding where the fighters use chalk to draw and create their weapons to pound their enemy with. So, say they wanted an AK-47 to blast their opponent with, they just have to draw it and there it is.

Thursday, April 24th, 2014

UNICEF PSA About Poop in India is Bizarre

Using characters that look like Mii avatars and roping in the talents of Life of Pi composer Shri, UNICEF have created a very strange public service announcement to persuade Indians to take their poo to the loo—after a guy wakes up from a night’s sleep he’s greeted by a giant turd, which proceeds to chase [...]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014

NBC AnchorMan Brian Williams Raps “Gin and Juice”

Brian Williams doesn’t immediately strike you as the kind of guy to be sipping on some gin and juice while his mind is on his money and his money on his mind—but he is in the mind of Jimmy Fallon, who remixed various newcasts of Williams on his Tonight Show to make it sound like [...]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014

Avril Lavigne’s New Music Video is a Real Test of Stamina

The warning’s in the song title really. Anything called “Hello Kitty” was always going to be pure ear-bleed for anyone over the age of 13, but it’s not just the music that will teach you how to hate, the video itself is all kinds of terrible (so terrible in fact, it looks like Vevo have [...]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014

Tour the World Through Song With: Playing For Change’s ‘Clandestino’

Manu Chao is just one musician to feature in this collaborative track, which starts off in Morocco and then proceeds to tour the world as different instruments are brought into the mix until the song builds into a “Global Roots Reggae-Latin jam”— whatever one of those is. But it doesn’t matter, because it sounds great.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014

‘O Canada’ by KRNFX f Maiko Watson

National anthems are never that great, and Canada’s “O Canada” isn’t exactly an earth-shattering tune, lets just say it’s not going to trouble the iTunes charts any time soon. That is until it gets an awesome facelift by beatboxer KRNFX who’s transformed it into something that could find it’s way onto people’s summer playlists. Add [...]

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014

SpongeBob Shows Us Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ Through the Ages

SpongeBob Squarepants seems like the sort of sea sponge that would be into Daft Punk, so he’s the perfect host to take you on a tour of the French electronic music duo’s mega-hit Get Lucky through the ages – And it’s going to be a wild, wild ride!

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014

Everything Wrong With The Matrix In 12 Minutes Or Less

The Matrix is, without doubt, one of the greatest movies ever made—and I will fight anyone in bullet time who says otherwise. But that doesn’t mean to say it hasn’t got its flaws and inconsistencies which CinemaSins are happy to point out in 12 minutes or less—and they point out 85 of these crimes against [...]

Sunday, April 20th, 2014

One Long Long Night in the 212 Room

Call it an art film, call it a fashion film, call it whatever you damn well want, but you’ll find yourself gripped over the next few minutes of your life — gripped by its deft use of lighting and the precise and inventive angles of the camera and the craftmanship with which it’s been [...]

Saturday, April 19th, 2014

How to Make a Sick Mountain Bike Edit

Yo bro! That was a sick edit dude! These are the words you might hear if you too knew how to make a sick mountain bike edit. An edit that would spread over the internet like wild viral fire and show off your friend’s mountain bike skills and your own sick, sick editing badassness.