Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Anchorman and the Thrift Shop

It’s an unlikely pairing but that doesn’t mean somebody shouldn’t make it so. And make it so they did. So we get the awesome win of Anchorman teamed with the awesome win of the “Thrift Shop” song to give you your dose of internet for the day. If there was some jazz flute thrown in [...]

Friday, April 12th, 2013

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In Nicolas Devaux’s short animation we get some insight into what giraffes get up to when no humans are around and they get free run of an empty swimming pool. Which means lots of acrobatics as they take to the high board and dive in with the grace that only a CG giraffe could. It’s [...]

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Real life Jedi! (Insane office escape: Star Wars edition)

If you haven’t watched the awesome Biting Elbows video, this is a homage to that but done with everyone’s favorite sci-fi franchise that went off the boil. A Jedi warrior has to defeat 20 Siths to get to the Sith Lord and whoop his ass too. And for good measure, Jar Jar Binks gets shot [...]

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Google Street View Hyperlapse

Forget about exploring Google Street View at a snail’s pace, this online tool turns it into a supersonic highway. Meaning you can create stunning hyperlapse videos using Google Street View imagery—it’s like taking a cinematic rocket ride at 200 mph (or 60 fps to be precise) and can be done all from the comfort of [...]

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Beardyman Presents the Beardytron_5000 mkII

It’s taken Beardyman six long, hard years to get this to you. He has concocted a new system that’s the most complex and fully featured live-production system ever devised. According to what he says in the YouTube description anyway. It’s a real-time production system that lets him produce tracks as long as it takes to [...]

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

Bitcoin Explained

If you’re confused about the decentralized digital currency that is Bitcoin, then this handy animation will set your straight. In just 3 and a half minutes of staring at a screen you’ll save yourself the effort of having to read long articles or trawl through a Wikipedia page to try and get a grasp on [...]

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

Vin Diesel on Helium

With his Fast & Furious films you’d expect Vin to be very familiar with Nitrous Oxide (NOS), but what about helium? It won’t make your car go faster but it will speed up your vocal chords – What could be funnier than a big muscle head with a silly high-pitched voice? Not a lot, so [...]

Monday, April 8th, 2013

Deadpool vs WonderCon 2013

This video pretty much shows you that by dressing up as Deadpool you can get away with doing whatever the hell you like at WonderCon. Try it next year and post the results to YouTube. Because this guy just goes around doing whatever he feels like, getting spanked by Catwoman, fighting over heroes, and everybody [...]

Monday, April 8th, 2013

Epic Backwards Prank In Times Square

So what would you think if you came across 2,000 people going backwards through Times Square? Would it freak you the hell out? No doubt it would. And that’s exactly what happens in this prank from Improv Everywhere who stupefy tourists ambling around this commercial intersection in Midtown Manhattan, giving them a moment of WTFness!?

Sunday, April 7th, 2013

Ghost Dog – The Way Of The Samurai: 1999 (Full Movie)

Forest Whitaker is GHOST DOG! He keeps pigeons and kills people for money and practices the ancient code of the way of the samurai. This film did more than any other to shift units of Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s recorded sayings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai. If you watched this film and didn’t go out and [...]

Saturday, April 6th, 2013

Liam Neeson’s Threatening Quote from Taken

Here’s Liam Neeson on The Graham Norton Show, doing that seriously scary quote from his film “Taken” which he’s quite partial to leaving on people’s answering machines. But better than that, a fan of his asks him to record it as a voicemail greeting and being a decent chap, he obliges. Which just goes to [...]