Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

This YouTube Haikus Compilation is All That’s Great About YouTube

This is the internet at its inexplicable best, with YouTube clips segued together to form a stream of weirdness that doesn’t make much sense, but doesn’t really need to. Just lose yourself to it and be grateful that this kind of thing exists. But don’t get caught watching it, because you’ll have trouble explaining it [...]

Monday, March 2nd, 2015

Things Get Ultra Weird in the ‘The Fesh Pince of Blair 2′

If you always thought 90 sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was good but needed to be a lot more WTF, then you’ll be pleased by this video, which skewers things into Twilight Zone weirdness, by cutting up the dialogue and scenes into a stream of internet consciousness.

Monday, March 2nd, 2015

Artist Creates Fictional Town Entirely From Miniatures

You’ve probably never heard of the town Elgin Park, and that’s because it isn’t a real town—instead it’s a creation by artist Michael Paul Smith, who composed it entirely of miniatures. It’s an idealised 1950s utopia which Smith created all himself using various materials.

Sunday, March 1st, 2015

JohnnyExpress: Animated Short That’s Worthy of Pixar

Kyungmin Woo’s hilarious short animation JohnnyExpress centers around a delivery man, the universe’s “greatest deliveryman”, who attempts to deliver something to a very small customer living on a tiny planet—the planet being so small means he can’t quite find the recipient, and as he searches in vain for them, plenty of cartoon chaos unfolds as [...]

Friday, February 27th, 2015

Celebrate YouTube’s 10th Anniversary With This ‘Best-of’ Supercut

YouTube celebrates its 10th birthday this year, and to honor that and the fact that we’ve all wasted hours of our lives staring at videos that are hosted on it, Luc Bergeron (aka Zapatou), segues together 198 off some of the best and most memorable viral videos from that time period.

Thursday, February 26th, 2015

If Disney Cartoons Were Historically Accurate

Disney cartoons are not known for their historical accuracy, the horrors of history just don’t fit so well when you’re trying to make a joyful narrative that lends itself to young minds—without terrifying them. But Cracked have decided to add some truth to those Disney fairytales, which means the princess gets to sing and dance [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

Will Fake Eyes On a Bike Helmet Scare Magpies? No, But The Results Are Hilarious

This is Amber, from Amber and Billo’s, a pair of radio hosts from Australia—they had the bright idea of sending Amber out on her bike to test a range of techniques for scaring magpies, which involved branches and drawing a pair of fake eyes on the back of Amber’s helmet.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

Watch a 3.5 Minute Music Vid Which Took Only 5 Seconds to Shoot

This music video only took 5 seconds to film, yet it’s three and a half minutes long—wut? 80 extras were lined up on a road in an industrial zone in France while a car drove by at 30 mph and filmed them doing different things, like lighting a BBQ barbecue grill or playing cymbals or [...]

Monday, February 23rd, 2015

Envoy—Sci-fi Short About a Young Boy and a Deadly Alien

David Weinstein’s 9 minute short film is a bit of a love-letter to the classic action-adventure and sci-fi movies that were released in the 1980s and 1990s, and if you were a fan of those movies then there’s plenty of references and influences to spot and keep and eye out for.

Saturday, February 21st, 2015

Short Film Made Entirely From Instagram Pictures

Art director Thomas Jullien decided to make a crowdsourced film using the seemingly endless supply of photos being uploaded to Instagram. The stop-motion short uses 852 pictures from 852 Instagram accounts to take viewers across the globe on bikes, planes, trains and automobiles set the tune of The Black Keys. Plus some sunsets, obviously.

Thursday, February 19th, 2015

Street Fighter: Xtremely Cute Edition Will Make You Puke Rainbows

There’s no Ryu versus Blanka here, instead it’s cute babies versus dogs or two koalas kissing, in the most adorable beat ‘em imaginable—so that means no hadoukens to lay waste to your opponents and you could barely even call what’s going on fighting, more like hugging and general kindness.