Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Wednesday, April 16th, 2014

Aubrey Plaza Delves into the Dark Side of Ring Pops

The Parks & Recreation actor Aubrey Plaza looks into the dastardly side of Ring Pop, those popular fruit flavored lollipops that look like a giant diamond ring. Popular in the 1980s and 90s, the video reveals that, while they may seem like innocent fun, they were harboring darkness. Oh the darkness!

Wednesday, April 16th, 2014

Edith Widder: How We Found the Giant Squid

The giant squid, a majestic and beautiful creature – or as a monster? it’s long captured the imaginations of people, since way back when we were kids and saw the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea film with Kirk Douglas, and James Mason as Captain Nemo—OK, sure, it might’ve interested a few people before then too.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2014

Stand Up Comedian Chris Turner’s Amazing Freestyle Rap

Chris Turner may look like he’s a nerd who couldn’t rap for shit, but just wait until you see him in action. Taking suggestions from the crowd for subjects to use—the more unfunny they are the better—he then proceeds to make a rap from these disparate elements.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2014

Learn Some Smooth Moves With the A-Z of Dance

Do you know your Memphis Jookin from your East Coast Swing? Of course you don’t, but you’ll be a lot wiser of what moves you’re unable to bust on the dancefloor after watching this A to Z of dance from director Jacob Sutton, who’s captured some of the best dancers in the world shaking their [...]

Monday, April 14th, 2014

What DJs Do These Days (Spoiler: It’s a Lot of Button Pushing)

DJs have to train very hard these days—and they have to train one particular part of their anatomy, which is their index fingers. Their fingers have to be at the top of their game, at an absolute Olympian level of competitiveness and physical fitness so that when they finally get their overpriced asses in the [...]

Monday, April 14th, 2014

50 Cent Dubbed Over Jehovah’s Witnesses Telling Deaf People To Stop Fapping

Do deaf people masturbate too much? It’s probably not something you think about that often, but Jehovah’s Witnesses do nothing but think about it. Mainly because they are selfless individuals whose sole purpose in life (and beyond) is to help others stop touching themselves. So they brought out a video using sign language (lots of [...]

Sunday, April 13th, 2014

Aphex Twin – Come to Daddy

It might not be throwback Thursday or New Music Monday, but screw all that, because here’s a blast from the past from the unholy alliance of Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham, that is probably one of the creepiest videos to ever have existed—and even though it’s now getting on a bit at nearly 20 years [...]

Saturday, April 12th, 2014

Hilarious DVD Commentary From Mock Horror Sitcom Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace

Way back in 2004 there used to be funny stuff on terrestrial television—sounds bizarre right? But it was true, and proof of that is this ace sitcom which starred Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry. The show was set in a hospital in Essex, UK which is built over the Gates of Hell, and [...]

Saturday, April 12th, 2014

‘What I Likes’ | Pogo

It’s Saturday morning, so time for a little rewind in time a bit to the summer of last year when Pogo worked his remix magic on Mary Poppins, a childhood classic that you’ll no doubt have very fond memories of — the only way you wouldn’t is if somebody wiped memories from your mind. And [...]

Friday, April 11th, 2014

Thai Life Insurance Commercial Celebrates Anonymous Everyday Heroes

You don’t expect to be getting life-lessons from a commercial, but this Thai advert about life insurance is inspirational and delivers a message we’d all do well to heed more in our daily lives. It follows an unsung hero as the people less fortunate than him that he helps on a daily basis.

Friday, April 11th, 2014

PostHuman (Animated Short)

If you’re a fan of the Battlestar Galatica remake, then you’ll be pleased to know that Tricia Helfer, aka Cylon Number Six, does one of the voices, and being a sci-fi geek you’ll also be intrigued by the premise of this short film, set in a world of espionage, assassins, and crazy super science, it [...]