Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

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.

Thursday, April 17th, 2014

Drones on Demand—The Personal Drone Service of the Future

Don’t listen to all the naysayers who say that drones are bad and stuff, because drones are awesome—and they’re awesome because they’ll become our slaves who will do what we command of them, like carrying out important tasks such as taking a selfie…..and stalking your ex-girlfriend.

Thursday, April 17th, 2014

I Thought I’d Had Enough Of Upworthy Headlines, But This Parody Headline Generator Changed Everything

Like a lot of people, you were probably caught up in the hype and ended up liking Upworthy on Facebook. Several months later their ceaseless fart of clickbait headlines that lead through to insubstantial articles made from the written equivalent of hot air, are now the bane of our newsfeeds.

Thursday, April 17th, 2014

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence

The recent episode of the PBS Off Book series looks at those dastardly machines that’ll rise up and overthrow us so that we have to send someone back in time to impregnate a woman from the 80s who will eventually give birth to our savior and then who knows what’ll happen. We’ll have to wait [...]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2014

Honest Trailers – The Wolf of Wall Street

The most sweary film in the history of sweary films gets the honest treatment from the guys over at Screen Junkies—and they happily revel in the fact that it has a lot of x-rated language in it, along with x-rated scenes of debauchery and Jonah Hill’s schlong. Which people really didn’t need to see.

Wednesday, April 16th, 2014

Automated Video Game Cheat Machine Made From Lego

Those free to play app games can be highly addictive—the sort of thing that consumes your life and makes sure your wife leaves you and you end up in squalor. But this clever guy has figured out a way to avoid such a terrible fate, by creating a machine from Lego and Arduino which plays [...]