Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

Muppets Most Wanted – Outrage

The new Muppets movie is coming to a screen relatively near you in March, but before then comes this hilarious trailer which perfectly mocks internet outrage, as fans of the show become enraged and incensed (and spout nonsense) at why the show hasn’t been nominated best picture for realz and a few hundred other awards [...]

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

Lorde – (Hopkins) Royals Parody – Molly Dworsky

Meet Molly Dworsky, she graduated from a Hopkins, MN high school 10 years ago and in this video parody she laments at life in the real world and how it mocks her, so she longs for those carefree days back in high school when no one had mortgages or babies or saggy breasts—and all this [...]

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

Google Glass For Fitness – Race Yourself

Welcome to the future, and you might want to look away now if you enjoy sitting down, because the future looks to be quite energetic—the good news though, exercise is about to get a lot more fun, with wearable tech able to merge digital and physical realities it means we’ll be living in an augmented [...]

Monday, January 13th, 2014

The Wolf of Wall Street: F’ing Short Version

So, allegedly, The Wolf of Wall Street (Leonardo DiCaprio just got a Golden Globe for his performance) has 522 instances of the word “f#ck” which makes it the film (non-documentary) which has the most “f#cks” in the history of cinema—quite an achievement for Mr Scorsese there and the screenwriters, probably made their job a little [...]

Sunday, January 12th, 2014

Midday Traffic Time Collapsed and Reorganized by Color

Using footage shot from the Washington Street bridge above State Route 163 in San Diego, filmmaker and artist Cy Kuckenbaker reveals the color palette and color preferences of contemporary San Diego drivers in addition to traffic patterns and volumes, by reordering and reorganizing the passing cars by color in 4 minutes of footage that he [...]

Saturday, January 11th, 2014

Everything is a Remix Case Study: The iPhone

There is no originality in any creative endeavour, everything is just copied or “inspired” by something else: this idea has been the basis for Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix series, which looked at how films and TV and music regurgitate ideas and images. But it doesn’t stop there, in his latest video Kirby shows [...]

Friday, January 10th, 2014

One Man’s Journey to Work on the Coldest day in Chicago

This is Tyler Langford, he moved from sunny and warm Georgia to Chicago just in time for the Polar Vortex to make his journey to work a challenge of frozen obstacles and delayed trains—and this is his hilarious experience of trying, and succeeding eventually, to get from his home to the office while dealing with [...]

Friday, January 10th, 2014

Belharra Reef Meets Winter Storm Hercules

It takes a brave person to take on this wave, just watching the sheer magnitude of it on this video is brave enough for most of us—with howling offshore winds and the face of the wave standing at least 60 feet tall, surfer with balls the size of a blue whale Jamie Mitchell takes on [...]

Wednesday, January 8th, 2014

Snoop Lion – Get Away ft. Angela Hunte (prod. Major Lazer)

Whether you’re down with Snoop changing his name, yet again, and going all reggae on us or not, everyone loves an old school video game music video homage—this one features Major Lazer and Snoop Lion battling enemies like flying robots and speakers with eyeballs in this Megaman/Pokémon style shoot ‘em up. It’s just a shame [...]

Wednesday, January 8th, 2014

GRAVITY “From Script to Screen” Making-Of Featurette

If you’ve seen Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity then you probably left it wondering how the hell they filmed all those scenes in space with the camera floating around in simulated weightlessness—and it turns out the real genius behind the FX is the incredible “light box” technology, which enabled them to shoot the film so it looked [...]

Tuesday, January 7th, 2014

THE NFL : A Bad Lip Reading

If you’ve ever wondered what the NFL players and coaches are saying to each other on the side lines, then you’re about to get quite a shock. Because according to this lip reading “expert”, they’re talking about all kinds of weird stuff like burning an old man and Scooby snacks—the sort of language that could [...]