Brand spanking

The world's most generic brand ad corrals the worst of today's tech TV spot cliches in one convenient place.

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." - George Orwell

Morph Simpson

Observe as a human model gets turned into a creepy and unnerving real-life Marge Simpson in about a minute.

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." - Virginia Woolf

But now am found

"I'm just 1 of the 12 lip balms that you own & don't use," exclaims an entry in Little Lost Project, a Tumblr that tells the stories of the little objects that we lose all the time.

And a fairly engaging tool for visualizing cultural production across various disciplines throughout history.

"Art is never finished, only abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci

Seasoning

Pop-culture references from The Office, by year, on demand, if you plug in The Office Time Machine.

"Most people have to talk so they won't hear." - May Sarton

Out of tune

Classical music interrupted by trombonist sneezing makes for classic performance.

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Berthold Auerbach

Keep it clean

Clever and nicely done little animation from Rushes shows some novel ways of dealing with litter.

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins

Deer me later

Funny fake-news from the world of social media mass-migration in which The Onion describes the next teen fad fleeing from Facebook.

"There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information — gets very dangerous." - Edward de Bono

Fare whether

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Comedian cabbie takes his pet/prop on a reptilian ride-along in New York City. Passengers react in predictable NY style.

"A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running." - Groucho Marx

Moves

Website models involuntarily pump up the jam and get spun around. Maybe I'm just a cynic, but seems like it could be a stealth viral ad for an apparel company.

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." - Japanese Proverb

Suspend disbelief

Didn't know that a broken fire hydrant spews enough water to lift the back end of a compact car off the ground, but that's the story reported by NBC's San Diego affiliate.

"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it." - Lao Tzu

Fate accompli

Voluminous compilation of close calls starkly illustrates how we're always just a breath away, and often oblivious.

"Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him." - Groucho Marx

Lyin' in winter

Wintery sci-fi futuristic deathmatch in space called Project Skyborn packs the spirit and thrills of a Hollywood blockbuster into a few-minutes long indie short.

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come." - Robert H. Schuller

'Snow way

Kamikaze skier launches off a massive cliff and flies down the mountain during a run at the Swatch Freeride World Tour in France.

"It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport." - Fridtjof Nansen

Tweets of pareidolia

They're everywhere, my uncle has told me, and you'll get no argument from Faces in Things, an expressive Twitter feed that leaves only a little to the imagination.

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face." - William Shakespeare

Alley oop

Suffer the portrait mode for this impressive golf trick shot (or editing job).

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." - Charles Dickens

Have a blast

Old but still impactful clip from "The Amazing Race" of contestant suffering ignominious injury via melon malfunction.

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali

Too much monkey business

Budget CGI highlights My Nature Documentary, a Jack Handey story originally published in the New Yorker about a screenwriter poring over his African safari script.

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway

A little nuts

Onboard camera proves that this squirrel stealing a plane footage has to be real, no? Action starts after about a minute or so.

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

Excommunication

Gibberish with perfect diction in a non-existent foreign language pretty well simulates the experience for me.

"England and America are two countries separated by the same language." - George Bernard Shaw

Battle of MIDIway

Helpless dot-matrix printer is forced to rock the tunes, probably paving the way for the sequel, Rise of the Machines.

"Hell is full of musical amateurs." - George Bernard Shaw

Black Benny

Who'da thought — black metal + "Yakety Sax" make for unexpectedly amusing bedfellows.


And some Benny Hill-ified ravers look just a little back-in-time.

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton

Optical protrusion

Not only terrifying, this giant eyeball rendered in your browser is also adjustable via slider controls.

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." - Carl Sagan

Domestic flap

Adorable flying squirrel-like pet comes when you call it. I wish my dogs listened this well.

"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination." - Immanuel Kant