Sunday, June 14, 2015

Let it roll




Owls rather graphically reenact one of life's well-known axioms.


"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door." -- Charles Dickens


Friday, June 12, 2015

Office, space




The classic movie "Alien" remade with an office stapler delivers the same nearly unbearable tension as the original.


"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact." -- Elon Musk


Saturday, June 6, 2015

Positive ID




Perhaps one of the more touching commercials I've seen in a while. What does the cat say? (Thanks Bomser)

And some famous fictional and historical lives, from Darth Vader to Jesus, depicted through minimalist pictogram flowcharts.


"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men that died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived." -- George S. Patton


Friday, June 5, 2015

Digital dancing




Drunken wedding video shows impressive finger dancing skills, aided by the camera stability control. Either that or it's an effusive toast in ASL.


"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Sunday, May 31, 2015

Corn or vinyl?




Ever wonder what a tortilla sounds like when spun on a record player. Who'd have thought it?


"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." -- Groucho Marx


Saturday, May 30, 2015

Attention get




The slogan "Keep [My City] Weird" might have originated in Austin, but those folks in Texas got nothing on Portland, as witnessed by this bizarre bagpiping ball balancer.

And some good gifs as Mad Men meets modern age digital advertising in this well-done Tumblr.


"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of." -- John Stuart Mill


Sunday, May 24, 2015

Writeous




Seb Lester knocks out some freehand corporate logos that bear uncanny resemblance to the originals. (More at his Instagram.)

And use that power wisely... self-publishing mishaps yield horrendous ebook cover designs (and in some cases, plots).


"I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art." -- Willem de Kooning


Friday, May 22, 2015

Ledge end




Video of an insane lunatic doing some parkour jumps across building ledges is 15 seconds of spine tingling. Featured comment: "He's very brave. I wouldn't be caught dead in cutoff jean shorts."

And what must be a popular Japanese game show features two women, a cockroach, and a clear plastic tube. Up to you to make your stomach turn with just one click.


"Always do what you are afraid to do." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Sunday, May 17, 2015

'Nam flashback




You will not laugh. You will not cry. Two popular alterations to a Full Metal Jacket scene combined in a liquidy form.

And a quick quiz... can you name the presidents for every applicable letter in the alphabet in under a minute?


"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." -- Orson Welles


Friday, May 15, 2015

Firewater




This "epic" battle between firehose vs. flamethrower reminds of comic book characters facing off with power streams or whatever. Just a few silly string cans away from real-life rochambeaux.


"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that." -- George Carlin


Monday, May 11, 2015

Eleventh plague




Hilarious-ish and true short animation mocks humanity's near universal addiction to smartphones.

Or just embrace it and send (presumably) unwanted goat messages to other people's phones.


"I invented the cordless extension cord." -- Steven Wright

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Dog gets beat




Passive pooch plays percussion to White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army". (And does a fine job of it.)


"Where words fail, music speaks." -- Hans Christian Andersen


Friday, May 8, 2015

Gravi-tea




Is this man pouring tea, pulling taffy, or just testing the boundaries of street vendor physics?


"If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever." -- David Letterman


Sunday, May 3, 2015

Nailed it




Intramedullary nails are quite the workout to work out, and the removal is more than a little off-putting. These doctors should spend more time at the batting cages than the golf course.

And a Tumblr of not just facts, but ultrafacts.


"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." -- Henny Youngman

Friday, May 1, 2015

Do unto others




Short-fused monkey takes no guff from his antagonist and delivers swift and merciless jumpkick-to-the-face justice. Almost seemed like they had a long-running beef...

Type in your age and find out what David Bowie was doing at the same time.


"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance." -- Thomas Huxley


Thursday, April 30, 2015

Musical tubes




Bach's Prelude No. 1, boomwhacker-style, doesn't quite have the orchestra's typical fluid precision. Maybe a tubular version of the William Tell Overture is more your speed.


"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again." -- W. E. B. Du Bois

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The stuff of dreams




What does schadenfreude sound like? Poor, poor zillionaire pop-star backers... all the high hopes, yet Tidal is getting its proverbial @ss kicked by Spotify and other streaming services. But you can help for just pennies a day.


"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal." – Don Shula


Sunday, April 26, 2015

Jockey shorts




It's not the Super Bowl halftime show, but rider Blake Shinn had a small wardrobe malfunction in the first race.

And this guy asked the Internet to photoshop the Eiffel Tower under his finger. The Internet responded just as you would expect.


"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson