Immortal Dog

Crisp editing and peppy pacing made this pleasantly bizarre (and somewhat profane, slightly gory) clip enjoyable. Viewer discretion is advised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-qkNEampEA


"What would I do if I had only six months to live? I'd type faster." - Isaac Asimov

Super Sprayer

Marvel at the creation of a distant world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY1Lr-yGtd8


"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists." - Don Marquis

A fling at the alley

One shot for glory.
http://www.break.com/index/over-the-barstool-bowling-trick-shot.html


"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard

Angry Preacher

He's called "Spirit of Truth". Holier than thou? I'm not so sure. The interview on the Howard Stern may be more enlightening. By the way, the good Reverend swears quite a bit. (Thanks Joe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhy0_jkOXCo


"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer

Hasty judgment

YA tale of minivans and Things, this time a Volkswagen image commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3oEPZ27J90


"One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck." - Carl Zuckmayer

STOP

Site lives up to its domain name with this hilarious photo.
http://iamhilarious.com/stop/


"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency." - Eugene McCarthy

Sharp light bulbs

Check out You Are Not So Smart, a website that uses research to shoot down classic (mis)conceptions and show that people on the whole are self-deluded.

And Stuff No One Told Me, illustrations of life lessons that would have done this guy some good.


"Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know." - Daniel J. Boorstin


Finally, in that same vein...be careful not to get typecast:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/

My Baby Is Black

Hiludicrous 1960s TV spot for what apparently is a real "exploitation film".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-zVlB4mvA


"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

Running on Empty

Imagine LA without cars...? Ross Ching can.
http://vimeo.com/11986171


"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus

Which arts and witch crafts

Heartwarming short of a stay-at-home death metal dad's attempt to keep his daughter entertained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZGa40Hl4zI



"An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it." - James A. Michener

Starchy Night

Japanese apparel maker Onward Kashiyama had staffers arrange 2,700 polo shirts in 24 colors into a portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TheS1fnpnZ8



"It is better to live rich than to die rich." - Samuel Johnson

X-Ray Pin-up Calendar

Creative promotion from a medical supply company has models (though there's no way to know for sure) baring it all and then some.
http://www.ufunk.net/en/humour/eizo-pin-up-calendar-2010-le-nu-plus-quintegral/


And other alternative attempts not really in the same vein, 20 Homemade Things That Shouldn’t Be Home-Made.


"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality." - David Allan Coe

The Bushmobile

Is this an example of "green energy"?
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1937229


And check out this Russian truck built Ford tough and then some.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-vyoIQGwnY



"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile." - Bob Edwards

Death metal "What a Wonderful World"

Louis Armstrong might not be rolling over in his grave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItUk-5FI0Ek


"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody." - Benjamin Franklin
"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content." - Louis L'Amour

True Reverse Perspective

Surreal proof-of-concept animation to illustrate a world where the visual rules are inverted -- close objects are small and far objects are big.
http://vimeo.com/12518619


"It is better to travel well than to arrive." - Buddha

Besmirch and replace

Liblr takes the Twitter stream and replaces one word with another -- your choice -- all in the name of sophomoric amusement.
http://liblr.com/

Or create and tweet cryptic missives with this Twitter ransom note generator: http://abbandunne.com/ransom/


"I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant'." - Unknown

Jimmy Dean sausage complaint call

A classic from the annals of 1-800-customer-service. (Some profanity in there, but then again who wouldn't get this worked up over sausage.) RIP, JD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4RNb3tt0LM



"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on." - Robert Bloch

Grammar Girl

Errers caught in the wild.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/grammargirl/pool/


"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge." - Mark Twain