People Are Awesome

Clip compendium of so-said awesome people presumably doing awesome things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo0Cazxj_yc

And with a contrarian view, some more de-motivational posters:
http://www.motifake.com/


"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill

Oh-oh dominoes

"Bookmans Does Book Dominoes" is likely one of the better and more entertaining used-bookseller ads out there. Finally a use for those old books.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw5LlSKKG3M

And, Bensons for Beds tries to set some sort of mattress dominoes record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndYxBQXhNjI


"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence." - Abraham Lincoln

Bombs away

Drop a half-ton (or so) pumpkin on an old Pontiac and you get...? (Yep, it's what you expected, and still fairly entertaining.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbNKVmWj1K4

And for once, an honest shopping mall map.
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1810101


"High expectations are the key to everything." - Sam Walton

How To Carve a Pumpkin, Dirty Harry style

Impressive, but I'd like to see him do it without reloading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGH8Af9Hdb0

And also unnecessary but possibly entertaining, a blog about quote marks run amok.
http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/


"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service

Stop motion + Lite Brite = win

Creative, low-res (3 dpi?) video showing that you can work some new tricks with an old dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8cAU475dQo

And art of a different color, Mark Jenkins installs some pretty interesting stuff.
http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html


"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy

It Doesn't Do Anything

I'm not sure how to describe this simple, creative, jarringly inane piece of work that I for some reason enjoyed, but I can only assume that it doesn't do anything. (And he's got a whole bunch of 'em if you like.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d53OviDxQHs

And hold that thought... from The Journal of Irreproducible Results, the winner of the funniest graph contest, "All Theories Proven With One Graph".
http://www.jir.com/graph_contest/index.html


"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

Discovery meets the Food Network

This is what happens, time-lapse style, when food isn't properly refrigerated. (Hint: it ain't pretty.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTCdcs8gGg

And ρLªYinG ωiTh mŸ fOoD, a panoply of nutritional sculpturization.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rerinha/sets/72157610091412388/


"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln

Laurel and Hardy Dance To The Gap Band

A little mashup parody, with Laurel and Hardy dancing to the Gap Band. (Thanks Pops)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL3mHPmNKRE

And "Somebody's Watching Me" works, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaC5ohRAjmI

For reference, here's the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvuNcPx2dg


"A well developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." - William Arthur Ward

Three Years In Three Minutes

Epic time lapse filmography of the destruction of the EDF Tower and the construction of the Sequana Tower in its place. Three years of work, compressed and summarized into a three-minute video.
http://vimeo.com/15557177

And check out The World According to San Francisco, an amusing quasi-map that explains how at least some of those denizens see the rest of the world (i.e., as mostly food, beer and music).

Or see your city -- arts and crafts style -- with these ridiculously intricate hand-cut paper maps.


"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." - Henry Ford

Holy Chicken of Life and Music

As billed, "The short film “Holy Chicken of Life and Music” tells the story of the Holy Chicken a magnificent beast, worshiped and exploited, in a tale of love and regret, art and science, Life and Music."
http://vimeo.com/13781357

And for whatever you think of it, FarmVille is big. How big? This FarmVille vs. real farms infographic gives you some idea.


"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible." - David Brin

Elevator rage

It's always frustrating when you're in a hurry and you just miss the elevator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge9VfALthLI

And turn any site into a game of Asteroids...
http://erkie.github.com/


"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." -- Stephen Hawking

Smell Like A Monster

Somewhat amusing Sesame Street parody of that Old Spice ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd5dJIVjgM

And, 50 memorable viral images made possible by the interewbs in 2010.
http://thefuturebuzz.com/2010/08/02/viral-images-2010/


"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." - Alexander Hamilton

The Beard Cage

Nothing but net...? This passes bizarre and edges on toward creepy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYi24D9lHqc

Also captivating, "Nobody Is Going to Steal This Car"

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

City lights

Astounding skyscraper light show in NYC. Inanimate object? No.
http://vimeo.com/15713774

And, Flash spider.
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/


"I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side." - Steven Wright

Hands on

Refraining from bad jokes...quasi-mesmerizing performance of a Japanese glass ball juggler (aka, Contact Juggling).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtztrcGkCBw

And, let your hands create a symphony, and apparently, and save lives.
http://handsonlycpr.org/symphony/


"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men." - Captain J. A. Hadfield

Paula Deen takes 'ludes and makes food

Mesmerizing, in a way, and evokes so many emotions (or whatever those are).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1PsDyhNFBI

And, check out this stuntman on his lunch break and/or jumping out of a skyscraper while engulfed in flames.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVXHOldtEuY


"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard
work." - Peter Drucker

Tilt-Shift Van Gogh

Rumors of tilt-shift's demise have been greatly exaggerated, and they're quite effective on these Van Gogh paintings. I'd be all for a Dali version.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/hot/tilt-shift-van-gogh.htm

And, stealing is indeed the new creativity...witness, Gotham Starry Night and other parodies of Van Gogh works.
http://culturepopped.blogspot.com/2010/10/gotham-starry-night-and-other-van-gogh.html


"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified." - Aesop

Proposal

This is a geek-creative attempt, pulled off through the magic of cellphone(s). Call forwarding...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cui4vifkQJA

And way over-complicating the whole process, a Rube Goldberg Wedding Proposal Machine. I hope their marriage lasts at least as long as the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz_BQhwA-9Q


"The future you see is the future you get." - Robert G Allen

Visualizing a World Without Logos

The future of un-advertising with this sort of functional (?), sort of funny DIY video project.
http://vimeo.com/14566198

And also on the adverty front, an enjoyable gallery of clever, funny images from the dying art of print advertising, some fairly creative billboard advertisements, and back to the past with some vintage ads.


"You have to master your tools. The amateur often stays fascinated with them. The challenge is to move beyond it." - Wayne Cosshall

Peniplus

Spend a worthwhile minute watching this well-executed ad parody. The side effects at the end made it for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-3nOLTI26U

And, some creative and "curious" periodic tables, including Mad Men, breakfast cereal, and heavy metallica.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/69785


"The man who has done his best has done everything." - Charles M. Schwab

Tilt-Shift San Francisco

"San Francisco: The Miniature City", an impressive tilt-shift viddy of the City by the Bay. Definitely has its moments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er2Wa7onQcw

And for more of that erstwhile craze, here's 50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography.


"Everywhere is within walking distance, if you have the time." - Steven Wright

Thunder Busters

Aka, AC/DC vs. Ghostbusters mashup. Difficult to imagine, sure, but surely worth a look if you're curious, at least for a few seconds to get the gist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiH1wNmZTII

And, have a go at the Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator. "You'll never win." (After 191,904 simulation runs, players have won back $19,126 of that sum. Good luck with your expected 91% loss.)
http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/poker/lottery_simulator100.php


"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." - Tom Landry

Crap at my parents' house

One man's quest to catalog and exhalt the random stuff that lurks in your erstwhile home. What you expect and well done.
http://crapatmyparentshouse.com

And also from days yore, some fridge magnet magic, an online version of the appliance-based poetic creativity timesuck.
http://isnoop.net/toys/magwords.php


"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing." - Herodotus

Work For Safe Not

Caption it, "The most NSFW SFW photo ever," but be careful if you look at this at the office, despite that once you figure it out, you'll see it couldn't be more innocuous.
http://i.imgur.com/P7Qw7.jpg

And, witness one agile mouse, impressively navigating a course to find out where they moved his cheese.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txq_BogA1NM


"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anti Excuses. Anti Conventional.

That must be one frosty jack. Enjoy (?) this bev ad from the UK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khfKzUNqMdY

Also anti-something, Black Tie Beach. Nothing to see here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjzPEqhELJ8


"They are ill discoverers who think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." - Francis Bacon

Dot.

Mind-boggling ani-mini-mation film shot through a Nokia N8 phone with attached CellScope using figurines so small they were hand-painted using a microscope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD7eagLl5c4

And in somewhat the same vein, toilet paper roll art.


"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." - Robert Frost

Gimme Pizza Slow

Trippy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wusGIl3v044

Also on the culinary front, get some meal suggestions from WTF should I make for dinner. And...do people really eat that? Ten animal parts you probably didn't know were food.


"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience." - Clarence Day

Revisionist history

Behold the Youtube time machine. Pick a year between 1860 and 2010 and it'll show you videos from that year. If you worked it eight hours a day, I wonder if you could catch up...?
http://yttm.tv/

And the there's, ConquistaDora The Explorer. Destroying native culture has never been so fun-ducational.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1941782


"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day." - Bill Vaughn