Crayon Physics Deluxe - Youtube
For a totally different type of computer game, watch this video of a game where the object is to draw your way out of problems with a crayon. It doesn't hurt that the music is really chilled out too.
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YouTube - Phil Dawson Crazy Field Goal
From the NFL's Cleveland Browns - Baltimore Ravens game yesterday, here's a video of a strange field goal play that I've never even heard of in a football game before.
PS. RIP BC Lions 2007
Would you believe that the best slam dunker in the world doesn't play basketball in the NBA, and isn't American. Kadour Ziani is from France and he's only 5'11, but with 56 inches of vertical he seems to fly we haven't seen since Michael Jordan at his prime. Kadour's creativity and his athleticism take his dunks to the next level. My faves are the one-armed cartwheel dunk and the dunk over the car, are completely sick.
A video of Kadour Ziani from Metacafe:
Kadour Ziani - For more amazing video clips, click here
Video from Kadouir Ziani's appearance on the Best Damn Sports Show:
Metafilter: "We gave our final concert, The Band's final concert. We called it The Last Waltz."
Thanks to YouTube, we can all watch The Band's final concert from San Francisco in 1976, filmed by Martin Scorsese. Epic live performances.
The list of tracks, with direct video links is here:
Don't Do It, Theme from The Last Waltz, Up on Cripple Creek, The Shape I'm In, Who Do You Love, It Makes No Difference, Such a Night, Helpless, Stage Fright, The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Dry Your Eyes, Coyote, Mystery Train, Mannish Boy, Further on up the Road, Evangeline, Ophelia, Caravan, Forever Young, Baby Let Me Follow You Down, and I Shall Be Released with a ton of guests.
10 Brilliant Complete Movies Online- The List Universe
The List Universe blog has 10 streaming old time movies that have had their copyright expire.
1. M 1931, Fritz Lang
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer
3. Nosferatu 1922, F.W. Murnau
4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939, Frank Capra
5. It Happened One Night 1934, Frank Capra
6. The General 1929, Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
7. Begotten 1991, E. Elias Merhige
8. The Gold Rush 1925, Charles Chaplin
9. It’s a Wonderful Life 1946, Frank Capra
10. All Quiet on the Western Front 1930, Lewis Milestone
Music from TV commercials on Squidoo
As radio continues to get stale, ironically, the best new music is showing up in commercials. It's rare that the artists get credit for the funky music that makes the commercials "cool".
Who are these artists? N.E.R.D., Flaming Lips, Matthew Dear, Wilco, Teddybears, Ok Go, MSTRKRFT, Brazilian Girls, The Helio Sequence, Yoshida Brothers, Wolfmother, Ozomatli, Goldfrapp, CocoRosie, Royksopp, Dizzy Gillespie, and The Polyphonic Spree, to name just a few of the artists featured here.
This Squidoo Lens has TONS of current and classic TV ads with great music. The clips come from YouTube and elsewhere, and have the names of the songs and the artists. For you marketing, film and design junkies, the ads that get the best music also often have some of the best visual concepts.
So, go ahead! Enjoy the commercials without the guilt!
Today's Link source: Squidoo Lens of the Day
How To Make YouTube Videos Look Great on Squidoo
If you're a YouTube submitter or a video producer of any kind, consider the top tips from Squidoo on how to make your video footage look its best online. Learn from the best.
Today's Link source: Squidoo Lens of the Day
As you might imagine, YouTube Doubler plays two YouTube videos at once.
You can discover/ create your own version of "Dark Side of Oz", or use
one of their ready-made juxtapositions.
Today's Link Source: Digg
Dark Side of the Rainbow- YouTube
There's always been that rumor that you can sync up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album with the movie The Wizard of Oz, but I'd never bothered to try it.
With the help of YouTube and the internet, it's so much easier to experience this urban legend. Today's link is a YouTube Playlist that has seven different videos from the movie, and you can watch as images from the film appear to synchronise with the music and lyrics.
Today's Link source: Linkjockey
Indian Superman Part 2 - Youtube
There's something that's obscenely great about being able to access obscure video content from anywhere in the world, whether it's cheesy singing and dancing, anime, or reports from the locations of breaking news.
Of course, when anyone teams up in Bollywood, there's bound to be entertaining song and dance productions. This video clip is no exception with Superman and Spiderman (Spiderwoman?) flying, singing, dancing and busting heads. Only on Youtube.
Today's Link source: The Youtube filter, Videosift
Talking Heads - Live in Rome 1980
One of the great all-time rock bands, Talking Heads, was captured by Italian tv playing an epic show in Rome. Featuring lead singer David Byrne, the Talking Heads are a classic New Wave band that has inspired countless other bands.
YouTube has this rare footage of this great concert in Rome from 1980, featuring the following tracks:
Psycho Killer
Stay Hungry
Cities
I Zimbra
Drugs
Take Me to the River
Crosseyed and Painless
Life During Wartime
Houses in Motion
Born under Punches
The Great Curve
All hail the YouTube!
Today's Link source: Metafilter
Dancin' Pimp
Why not feature a week of video clips from the mother of all video channels, Youtube?
Ever since I discovered him around the time of Pulp Fiction, I’ve had an affinity for Christopher Walken. First, our names are so similar; he’s Christopher Walken, I’m Christopher Walks. Secondly, he’s a really great actor with lots of unusual, juicy character roles. Thirdly, I found out that despite all the strange roles he’s played, Christopher Walken got his start in show biz as a trained dancer.
Apparently, in every film he’s in, Christopher Walken tries to incorporate a dance scene or some fancy footwork as a signature move. His dancing was profiled most recently in the Fatboy Slim video for “Weapon of Choice”.
From all of the Walken movies I’ve seen, this scene from the 1981 film Pennies from Heaven blows my mind, particularly the second half of the clip. Watch and be amazed.
Today’s Link source: Batman Returns was on TV the other day. Terrible movie.
Michael Moore's "SICKO"
Michael Moore's new movie, Sicko, is about the state of the American medical system. For whatever reason, it has been posted on Google Video before it has even been released in theatres. I'm guessing that the director may have leaked it himself. Who knows? It's been getting great reviews, so check it before it disappears.
Today's Link source: Reddit
Correction: The video has been taken down.
The Long Take- The Greatest Long Tracking Shots in Cinema
One of the ways that film directors can show their prowess with the camera is to shoot a complicated scene using just one take of the camera, and to keep it rolling for several minutes.
Daily Film Dose has complied a list of the greatest long tracking shots. The usual suspects are here, such as Touch of Evil , Raging Bull and Godard's Week End. There are also a lot of obscure, foreign and new listings too, such as: Old Boy, Children of Men, Russian Ark and I Am Cuba.
Even better, there are links for most of these movies so you can watch these awesome shots in Youtube.
Today's Link source: Metafilter
The Strangest Music Videos Of All Time
Yep, watch and vote for the strangest music videos in the history of the universe.
I hear you asking, "What kind of strange videos are we talking about here?" Well, the Genre Formerly Known As Electronica is represented by many of the top videos, including Aphex Twin, Bjork, and The Prodigy. Rockers Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, They Might Be Giants and YouTube fave, OK Go are here, as are TV celebrities David Hasselhoff and Leonard Nimoy. There are lots of other crazy videos by people you've never heard of, including Zlad, Tunak Tunak, and Klobbermeister.
Hours of YouTubing music video fun!
YouTunes: An Example Yahoo! Pipe
There are lots of nooks and crannies on the internet powerhouse, Yahoo. Their latest invention, Yahoo Pipes, is getting a lot of attention. Essentially, it lets you mash-up web-based RSS feeds (from Flickr, blogs, news sites, podcasts, Twitter, Linkjockey, YouTube, etc), and blend them, filter them, remix them, and have them cross-reference each other.
Today's link is the one that really showed me what Yahoo Pipes are all about. Nick Bradbury created a simple pipe (RSS feed) that took the Top 10 from the iTunes store, and got the music videos for them from YouTube.
There are some great write-ups about it that go into more detail, like the introduction from Tom Johnson, the one from Australia's Computerworld about how to build your own Pipe, and the Pipes Tutorial from zdnet.
I'm hoping to have a few to show off over the next week.
