Archive Category: Video Clips
Dramatic Lamb
While the creator of this video says the lamb is making that face because it’s shocked, the whole thing just seems way too much like Dramatic Chipmunk minus the audio. If someone was so inclined to remix this one, it would work great with the music as well.
How Toy Story 2 Was Almost Lost Forever
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While Toy Story 2 was in production, someone at Pixar accidentally typed in a command that erased the drives on which the animation files were stored. Most of the film vanished in 20 seconds.
A whole year of work. Just…gone.
This is the story of how Pixar employees rescued the movie.
-via io9
Neon Pegasus
Feeling down today, Bronies? This one is for you: Neon Pegasus by Parry Gripp (previously on Neatorama), who said "No matter how insane or ridiculous, you must follow your dreams ..."
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] to hear something about "genetically modified salamander with a face just like George Clooney"Spread your wings Neon Pegasus
And go flying through the night
They can take your glitter
But they can't take away your sparkleAnd the thousand arm robot octopus
Will try to grab your golden reins
But your wings are strong from the battle
Over Cupcake Mountain[...]
(Yeah!
When I first saw you defeating the Gummy King's
Gluten powered armada in the darkness of space,
I knew you were no ordinary pegasus!)
Terrifying Video of the Day: Mountain Biking Down 1,000 Steps
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The Red Bull Downhill race is simple enough: get to the bottom of the steps on Monserrate in Bogotá, Colombia faster than anyone else. Also: not die. Here’s a scary video of Marcelo Gutierrez’s descent, made all the more frightening by the fact that he didn’t win because he didn’t go fast enough.
-via Gizmodo
How to Make a Pizza Zoetrope
Andrew Salmone made this .gif after building a pizza zoetrope. He shaped pepper slices to look like individual frames a dolphin in motion, baked them into the pizza, then took pictures as it spun on a turntable. So the next time that you order a pizza, ask for one with leaping dolphins.
Waking A Kid Up with Nirvana
Now this is the way to wake up a sleeping kid! Photographer Esteban Reyes and his sister woke up their 3-year-old brother with a little Nirvana:
The last time we woke him up in the car, he got so grumpy and cranky. And since he loves this kind of music we just had to try a new method. I think there are parents that can recognize this scene.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Laughing Squid
The Graduation Marriage Proposal
Most graduates go up to the podium to get their diplomas, but Sarah Cooper got something a bit more exciting: a surprise marriage proposal!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Campus Overload and Mashable
You’ve Never Heard A Music Box Like This
The Music Box is a project in New Orleans that consists of nine shacks made of reclaimed building materials. But they’re constructed to create sounds, which the group of artists, musicians, and engineers who made them call “musical architecture.”
The new instruments inside are Rube Goldberg contraptions that bring to mind the ingenuity of Southern jug bands. There’s a twisting staircase that pumps out tones from organ parts retrieved from a church flooded during Hurricane Katrina; a giant stand-up bass with a weed-whacker line for a string and a bathtub for a resonator; a tall, weather-vane–like structure hooked up to an analog synthesizer. “It reacts to rain, sunlight and wind velocity and uses those variables to modulate an ever-present, droning E major chord,” explains its inventor, Quintron, a New Orleans musician who conducts Music Box performances. The concerts attract hundreds who wait in line for a chance to sit in a small set of bleachers.
Read more about The Music Box at Smithsonian. Link -Thanks, Perrin!
Meanwhile, in Russia
In Russia, even the dogs stop and and gather to sing when they hear the national anthem! However, as a commenter said elsewhere, their accents are so thick I can’t make out the lyrics. -via I Am Bored
Applying to Join the Chinese Communist Party
If it weren’t for the English subtitles, you’d think this was an everyday pop song, possibly about family. It’s more like a love song to the Chinese Communist Party, the ultimate in this young man’s aspirations. The propaganda music video is both amusing and unnerving. -via Metafilter
The Strangest Review Of The Avengers Ever
Want to know what two googly eyed chins thought about the blockbuster movie The Avengers? They loved it, and if you have a strange sense of humor you’ll love watching them talk about The Avengers, and other weird stuff, like a pair of real life chinigans.
Spoiler alert: the chins talk about something that happens within the first ten minutes of the film, so if you’re worried about going in to see the movie without knowing anything about it don’t watch. Otherwise, enjoy the madness review!
–via Best Week Ever
60,000 Dominoes Falling Over
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FlippyCat assembled 60 walls, each consisting of 990 dominoes, and an additional field of 600 dominoes. The project took 65 hours over 8 days and some painful failures along the way. But when he finally pushed it over at 0:55, he made a beautiful cascade of color and sound.
-via Daily Caller
Welcome to Life
Sometime in the future, your consciousness may be salvaged after your body dies and stored digitally in cyberspace. What could possibly go wrong? Tom Scott speculates on the computer world called “Life.” The subtitle is “the singularity, ruined by lawyers.” Link -via Metafilter
Animated Short – Apocalypse Pizza Video
It’s good to know that if we ever find ourselves in the midst of a zombie apocalypse we’ll still be able to order out for pizza and a video!
The team behind Apocalypse Pizza Video are hoping to turn their project into a feature film, and by the look of this trailer it could be a lot of fun to watch! (NSFWish due to coarse language and humor)
–via Nerd Bastards
We’re Trekkies And We Know It
This parody of LMFAO’s “I’m Sexy and I Know It” starts a little weak and gets better as it goes. Just beam me up, Scotty! -via I Am Bored
What Kind of Sorcery is This?
This thing moves and makes all kind of crazy noise. What the heck is going on here?
Well, there are worse vibrating things he could be barking at, so at least there’s that.
Delicious Watermelon
This cat acts like he’s discovered heaven. It’s a good thing they didn’t let him near a whole watermelon! -via reddit
Ask A Grown Man Starring John Hamm
Oh Mr. Hamm, is there anything you can’t do? You’re one hell of an actor, a funny guy, and ladies across the globe start drooling at the sight of you. And now you’re handing out some much needed, and spot on, advice to the young folks.
Hollywood-if you’re looking for the next Superman, you’ve found him!
–via Reddit
Student Builds Fully Functional Portal Turret
YouTube user kss5095 decided to get creative and show his love of video games at the same time with his final project for Advanced Mechatronics at Penn State, so he built a fully functioning turret like you’d find in the video game series Portal.
The turret is so sweet that it even has a soothing voice recording, which lures you out of hiding so it can blast you with laser guided NERF missiles.
This guy has a long career ahead of him in either animatronics or engineering weapons for the military, but for now he has the ultimate home defense system at his disposal, that is once he upgrades to live rounds!
–via Geekologie
Animated Short – The Big Eating
The Brood Princess is hungry, so a few industrious little aliens hit that buffet counter known as Earth to find her the perfect meal, in episode 2 of Invageddon called “The Big Eating”.
This animated short delivers plenty of laughs, and the style reminds me of the video game series Alien Hominid, so it’s a win-win for cartoon fanatics like me!
If you enjoyed this short then head over to the StarArena YouTube page and check out the other animated mayhem they have to offer, it’s a good waste of time!
–via YouTube
Disassembled
Marvel comics characters cause inadvertent chaos in this animation by Junaid Chundrigar. -via Metafilter
Blue Busters: 1984 Ghostbusters Spoof
Back in 1984, Apple produced this video parody of the movie Ghostbusters to show at their company-wide sales meeting in Hawaii. Back then, their main competitor, IBM, was called “Big Blue,” so Apple aspired to be “Blue Busters.” Jobs and Wozniak appear briefly. -via The Daily What
Let’s Do The Twist
I’m not sure this is what Chubby Checker had in mind when he recorded his smash hit, but I’d rather watch Frenchies dancing than a bunch of teens with bouffant hairdos. Just look at them go!
Via I has A Hot Dog
Father Daughter Dance Medley Is Super Cute
Mike Hanley and his daughter Jessica decided to show the Bat Mitzvah crowd how they get down, in an adorable dance medley that covers many different genres of music.
It’s fun to watch, and genuinely heartwarming despite the fact that they clearly practiced the routine quite a few times before the show. Next stop-America’s Got Talent!
–via Stuff I Stole From The Internet
Trailer For Dragon Age The Animated Series
The video game series Dragon Age is dark fantasy at it’s finest, full of murder, intrigue, magic and, of course, dragons.
This clip from the upcoming Dragon Age animated series by Funimation looks pretty cool, but I don’t know how I feel about the cheesy spell casting sound effects, or how easy they make it look to defeat a dragon.
But if it stays dark, bloody and full of action then I’m on board.
–via Topless Robot
Take A Ghostbusters Themed Tour Of New York
The Ghostbusters tour of New York is a tribute to the classic film that showed us all we don’t need to be afraid of ghosts, or giant marshmallows for that matter.
A byproduct of Bleedingcool’s Patrick Willems relocating to the Big Apple, this fan film is as much a tribute to the city as it is a couple of geeks hamming it up on camera and re-enacting scenes from the film.
And they even have their own official tour musician, so if you’re a fan of the film you’re probably going to get a kick out of this vid. If not, expect a visit from Slimer while you sleep.
–via Nerd Bastards
Action Film with Claymation Cats
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Lee Hardcastle’s The Raid holds nothing back as trained SWAT cats force their way into a building occupied by a criminal gang. They’re adorable, in a bloodthirsty way. Content warning: violence and gore.
-via Nerdcore
Real Life Robinson Crusoe
For many of us, moving to our own private tropical island of paradise is a fantasy, but not for Brendon Grimshaw. In 1962, bought an island in the Indian Ocean for £8,000 and replanted it with 16,000 trees, grasses and then he invited a few friends ...
BBC's Simon Reeven paid him a visit: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Boing BoingHow Full Grown Trees Are Dug up and Transplanted
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It’s called a tree spade — a piece of heavy equipment previously unknown to me but apparently widely available. Here’s one in Berwick, Australia slicing into the earth several feet below the surface, then carrying then entire mass down the road.
-via Joe Carter
Treat Your Mamma Right with Gary Busey
Gary Busey tells us how to pull of the perfect Mother’s Day! He was happy to share his tips on the TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live. -via Buzzfeed
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