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

DJ Kitty

Those cat-tranqs sure do the trick. Decent visual.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQnForWPm78

And, this just in: "Killer Lizard Attacks News Reporter". Note: "attack" may be a bit of a stretch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIrq_wnNNnY


"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience." - Doug Larson

Boyz N the Ring

Gandalf takes hip-hop to Middle Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a6WO1g0yGk

And unrelated, this suitable-for-hanging "rap map" lays out the taxonomy of rapper names.


"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate." - Elbert Hubbard

Never say no to Panda

A series of Panda Cheese commercials with some ad-itude from the Middle East. Apparently false advertising, as it contains no panda milk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X21mJh6j9i4

And on the opposite end of the spectrum, some very relaxed animals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A2s70Z_LTg


"To have and not give is often worse than to steal." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach