Friday 12 December 2014

Wednesday 10 December 2014

The World's Most Boring TV Show... And Why It's Addictive #SlowTV

I was lucky enough to see part of this live 5.5 day ferry voyage along the coast of Norway when in Oslo last year, and I wondered what I was watching. For the 30 mins or so I was glued to it in my hotel room, I saw a load of people run out of their house, and start waving. In the background, you could see someone else sat on a sofa, with his back to the camera watching the show on his TV, too lazy to get up and simply waving, so not to disrupt the action. The action, that he was part of. I went out for the evening, came back hours later, switched on the TV, and watched again as the ship sailed in open seas, with nothing to look at, and the occasional song. Great stuff.

Yes, this is a TED talk, but a good one. I hope someone in the UK has the balls to do something similar, I think it'll also be a ratings winner.

By the way, pretty impressive conference centre Arendal!

If you'd like to experience 4 hours of the show, then you are in luck;

The Landing : 20min Short Sci Fi Film For Lunchtime #WedsLunchShortFilm

This is a good little watch whilst you are having your lunch at work with your headphones on, and under 20mins with a great little twist. No spoilers, but "A man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960"

THE LANDING - Short Film from Perception Pictures on Vimeo.

Monday 8 December 2014

Malvern Police's Take On John Lewis Ad #MeanwhileInMalvern #Monty

Often wondered what the Police do in the town where I was born, Malvern. Well, they watch Hot Fuzz (apt) and make parody videos. Good work.

On the other hand, Malvern Fire Brigade have no time for such trivial things, as the Malvern Gazette reports, under the headlines Fire in grill pan in Malvern "FIREFIGHTERS were called to a house in Worcester Road, Malvern, at about 3.20am this morning after a grill pan caught fire. The small fire caused smoke logging in the ground floor of the building". Yes, that's it.

HT to MBS

Elton John Falls Backwards Off Chair

And then makes an Elton John song related gag afterwards. You know someone will have been fired for this.

HT to B3ta

Wednesday 3 December 2014

2014's Biggest Hits Mashed Into One New Song : DJ Earworm's Mashup "United State of Pop 2014 (Do What You Wanna Do)"

So this is very very good. No really, and you can actually buy it. Bit of a headache for royalties.

Featuring:

A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera - Say Something

Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem

Bastille - Pompeii

Dj Snake & Lil Jon - Turn Down For What

Hozier - Take Me to Church

Idina Menzel - Let It Go

Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - Fancy

Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora - Black Widow

Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz - Talk Dirty

Jeremih feat. YG - Don't Tell 'Em

Jessie J feat. Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang

John Legend - All Of Me

Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse

Lorde - Team

Magic! - Rude

Maroon 5 - Animals

Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass

Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong

One Direction - Story of My Life

Passenger - Let Her Go

Pharrell Williams - Happy

Pitbull feat. Ke$ha - Timber

Sam Smith - stay with me

Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

Tove Lo - Habits

HT to Twisted Sifter

Monday 1 December 2014

Star Wars : Trailer Parody Round Up

A new era for Star Wars, not only with "The Force Awakens" and J. J. Abrams directing, but now the temptation for YouTube parodies of the official teaser trailer.

This is the inspired George Lucas version, showing what Star Wars VII would look like with him in the chair;

This is the Lego version, someone was busy on Friday;

Then there's the Lens Flare version, taking a pop at J. J. Abrams's love of this effect (See Star Trek compilation for further evidence);

Here's an idea, using footage from the original trilogy, a shot for shot remake of the teaser trailer

Here's the Disney version;

The Michael Bay version;

The SpaceBalls version;

And another Lego version, this one is a little darker;

I just hope the new film isn't a huge let down and as shit as Phantom Menace was.

Here's the trailer for Phantom Menace, "Every Generation Has A Legend" (presume this isn't Jar Jar Binks)

Attack Of The Clones;

Revenge Of The Sith, which is pretty much a 3 minute version of the film #Spoilers ;

A New Hope, which looks very dated and features a crappy voice over;

Empire Strikes Back, with another crappy voice over;

Return Of The Jedi, with a less crappy voice over, but piss poor quality, I'm assuming LucasFilm didn't keep the original, but sent someone along with an 80's video camera.