Newport State of Mind

This fantastic video has been doing the rounds around Youtube. Spoofing Jay Z and alicia Keys music video Empire State of Mind.

Shear brilliance!

How big?

I know I've covered this subject with a series of pics a while ago, but someone has put an animation together showing the relative sizes of planets and stars.

A-Mazing! How bloody big? lol

Just too awesome for words

I came across this fantastic clip of a 1970's Soviet Union lounge singer. I was sure it was a spoof, but I am assured it is not!

Lyrics? Who needs them! Bask in the beige glow and awesomeness of "I am very glad, because I'm finally back home";)

The Known Universe

A fantastic short film showing just how small our little planet is in the grand scheme of things!

The Evolution of Technology

A cool as fuck advert from Germany.

Moon crash

This is the last footage from the Japanese probe Kaguya before it was purposefully crashed into the Moons surface.

Cool!

Minority Report

My mate Terry showed me this clip on Youtube. The future is here. Watch and drool lol

RIP Michael Jackson

Today showed the death of the King of Pop. The international outpouring of grief and the shear volume of press generated shows that he was still one of most famous men in the whole world.

A troubled man who is living proof that pushy parents and life in the public eye is a most unhealthy thing sometimes. Yet was undoubtedly one the greatest performers ever. I'm conflicted as some of the stories surrounding him are most uncomfortable, yet he wrote Thriller. The hands down greatest music video ever made. He sold a quarter of a billion albums in his albums, and permiated the public conscience in a way few performers ever do. His impact on popular culture cannot be underestimated as can be demonstrated by the below video.

RIP Michael Jackson.

The Benny Hillifier aka The Coolest Thing On The Internet

Presenting the "Benny Hillifier" lol

http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/speedup.php?id=kWfFfPMLXdU

Diva

You may have heard that Batman actor Christian Bale has recently been slammed after a recording of him completely losing with his DP (Director of Photography) after the man was caught fiddling with lights during Bales most emotional scene in the new Terminator movie.

He absolutely tears the guy a new one, while the director of the film McG (yes, thats his name!) just meekly says he didn't see anything. I am in 2 minds about this. Film sets are very highly emotional places, and the niceties of life are not always followed. But Bale did not show a good side by shouting this guy out in front of the whole crew. Still its a storm in a teacup, or should have been until someone leaked the whole thing onto the internet, and as such it has become news everywhere.

And when you're famous and get into trouble, there is always someone out there ready to make it even worse! I give you the dance remix of Bale shouting out the DP. Sheer genius!!!!!!

An Engineers Guide To Cats

Please watch and enjoy. Then discuss how Corporal Cuddling and Cat Yodeling can be brought to the world. ;)

Porn

We don't have enough porn on this blog, in my opinion.

;)

Adrenalin redux

Once upon a time, I used to do white knuckle sports whenever I could. But I haven't had a chance recently - and I'm missing it! Had the odd roller coaster last year, but nothing to scare me to death since Africa in 2005.





My very good friend Craig is out in New Zealand, and if I wasn't so bloody skint I would go out and visit him in Queenstown, the home of the bungy jump. Apparently, they're still inventing crazy shit to jump off, or be thrown out of. I heard there is some crazy jump with a jetpack on your back that you can do, and it accelerates as you're falling. Now that sounds fun!!!





So to make myself feel better, and remind that I am not a total big girls blouse nowadays, I am posting my various photos and clips of me trying to kill myself :) And although you could argue that all of last year was one huge roller coaster lol, I want to do something exciting soon!

Zamzar.com

Ever wished you could get your own copies of clips or music from Youtube?

Well this website will do that for you. Its a file conversion site. You paste your URL into the zamzar website, put in an email address. Then they will convert it to whatever file type you like, and email you link to pick up your newly converted file from Zamzar again.

So if you just want the audio from a Youtube clip, then you set it to MP3 or whatever other audio file you want. If you want a copy of the youtube clip, then set it to AVI or MP4.

Its great fun! I've been converting converting all sorts of rare clips into AVI's. And I've also got hold of a couple of ultra rare dance tunes in MP3.

But I'm most happy I've got the music video for the Annie Lennox song Little Bird. I only watched this video for the first time a few weeks ago and was blown away by it. I've tried to find a copy online, but it turns out this video is rarer than rocking horse shit! So this grainy copy on Youtube is the only place I have ever come across it - until now! Grainy or not, this is my new favourite music video ever! lol.

Large Impact Simulation

I watched last night one of the best clips I have ever seen on Youtube. I don't know if it was because I was a wee bit tipsy lol, or because the clip uses the music of the brillaint Great Gig In The Sky, written by Richard Wright of Pink Floyd who sadly died yesterday, but I was left stunned by watching it.

Either way this clip, created by the Discovery Channel, is a stunning piece of animation, set to incredibly evokative music, and is both beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

I hope you enjoy this half as much as I did.

Sarah Palin for President?

I don't usually post about politics, let alone foreign politics - but I think most of us realise that the current US political elections will define America for the next 4 plus years, and therefore will influence politics right across the plant.

I find the business with Sarah Palin, the new Republican Vice President nominee absolutely amazing, and a trifle scary. It is an amazing stroke of political genuis from the McCain camp. But what she stands for, and what some other Republicans hope for her destiny frankly scares me.

"At the time, it seemed like Sarah Palin was McCain's attempt to gather votes from disaffected Clinton supporters, and in that regard she was an insult of the highest degree, the notion that Clinton supporters would be so stupid as to vote for any woman, regardless of her neanderthal policies. Since then, partly though the courtesy of some of my readers here, I've learned that the purpose of nominating Palin was not primarily to lure Clintonites but to energize the Republican base, the evangelicals and fundamentalists, the anti-choice, anti-science, anti-compassion hard-liners whose only argument with Bush/Cheney is that they didn't pursue their agenda strongly enough.

I now understand that, to a liberal, Sarah Palin is a crippling nightmare because she stands an excellent chance of becoming president, but to the Republican base, she's an electrifying dream -- because she stands an excellent chance of becoming president. McCain isn't "throwing the base a bone" by nominating one of them to a powerless office, he's extending hope to the base, who strongly disliked him before but will now come out and vote for him in droves in the hope that McCain will, in fact, die and office and give them the president they really want. To the majority of the country, McCain's message is "You better hope I stay alive in office," but his message to "the crazies" (Rove's term, not mine) is "Hey, you never know, I'm an old, old man."" Todd Alcott blog

Anyway, the good folk on the American TV show Saturday Night Live have done a sketch on this weeks show that beautifully eloquates my feelings on Mrs Palin. Performed by comediennes Aimie Pohler and the brilliant Tina Fey (star of the hilarious comedy show 30 Rock which is recomended by me too).

Take it away ladies!

Edit: Youtube keep taking the video down as fast as people keep putting it up. I have posted 2 different clips of this, and both have kaput! Try Youtube and see if someones posted. I'm looking for another version of this. I'm not going to be defeated by NBC! lol

Edit: Lets see how long this one lasts!

Its a Bollywood Thriller

This needs to be shared. That is all.

Where the hell is Matt again?

You may have come across Matt Harding before. He did a video of himself dancing a little dance in various countries around the world. He posted it on Youtube and became and internet celebrity because of it. Someone sponsored him and he made another video, this time visiting many more countries. Check out his earlier videos at www.wherethehellismatt.com

He's made another one. And its fantastic lol. Gawd bless him!


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

TV Dinner

Genius

I often post interesting or amusing things on here that I find on the internet. But only if they are interesting or amusing! No second rate tat here!

But every now and again, they are just plain genius. I was sent this Youtube clip through Facebook. I get sent a lot of crap, but it was a trusted source (thanks Jon), so I watched it.

Sheer genius, even if the creator obviously has too much time on his hands! lol