If you’ve ever seen Australian rules football (AFL) then you’ll know it can be a tough game, it has the rough and tumble of American football but without any of the body protection. So you need to be a tough cookie to survive playing it. While on the other hand you have soccer, which isn’t such a tough game, but sometimes the players act like it is.
Before Zack Snyder was getting criticised for making an unpopular comic book movie featuring Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman he made a comic book movie that was a lot more favorably received. It was an adaptation of Alan Moore’s seminal series Watchmen—and it stuck very close to its source material when it came to the visuals.
You may or may not be familiar with CinemaSins web series “Everything Wrong With…” which takes a look at various popular movies and details everything, well, wrong with them—at least according to the people that make the video anyway. In this video from YouTube channel Shesellssheshells they turn the spotlight on the series itself, picking out everything wrong with “Everything Wrong With…”
Shot in a lofi style, Gou Miyagi’s board skills look effortlessly easy but that’s just the way he skates, because they’re actually very difficult, and highly inventive. Miyagi gets creative with his environment and his feet, balancing on the skateboard’s trucks as he spins around on the spot.
Alexandr Magala is a a street performer from Moldova and in this video he shows off his sword-swallowing abilities, and will probably make you wince a fair few times too. Magala was performing on Simon Cowell’s show Britain’s Got Talent and decided on this death-defying act which had the judges hiding behind their hands.
You may’ve thought that playing a drum was only good for making lots of noise and upsetting the neighbors, but one animator has used their drumkit to trigger patterns in an animation. The result is loops of abstract animation which explode upon the screen.
Sometimes, probably quite a lot, you probably find yourself on twitter looking at the trending bar and wondering why the heck something is trending. Well you’re not alone, in fact College Humor have created this great sketch featuring a parody gameshow called ‘Why is THIS Trending?!’ where contestants have to guess why something is gathering pace on twitter.
An empty water park might not be a great place for flying down flumes, but they are a great place for taking a skateboard around. Well they are if you’re an accomplished pro skater like Alex Sorgente, Milton Martinez and Jan Hoffman who shred the shit out of the crazy terrain of The Palm Dubai’s Aquaventure park.
We’ve been living through a golden age of television shows which have captured the public’s imagination and changed the face of TV drama. They’ve been endlessly discussed and dissected but video essayist Celia Gómez does it all in a very succinct way by comparing the “first and final frames” of popular shows.
Glenn may or may not have survived Negan’s bat in The Walking Dead, and if he has met his demise then he may be able to take up a career in K-Pop. Here he is featuring in a video for JY Park’s ‘Fire’ along with Conan O’Brien, after Conan filmed a special episode of his show in South Korea.
The Snoopers’ Charter is a new bill that British prime minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May have been trying to pass, which will give the UK government the power to spy on people’s online browsing history, read their text messages, and basically do what the heck they want in terms of digital surveillance. It’s being pushed through under the pretext of catching terrorists, but it’s not sitting well with the British public.
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