If The Moon Orbited The Earth At The Same Distance As The ISS..

the world's Surfers would be in paradise, imagine the height of the daily tides, sadly missing from this film.

Car Park

Love everything about this. Remember the singing Christmas Hedgehogs? Same people, Birdbox Studios.

Found on YouTube

Oops

A cartoon cliche; find yourself stuck underwater on the bed of a lake, maybe chained to something? Simply pull out the plug and bingo, all the water disappears. Maybe it was something that influenced these engineers? What happens if we drill a little hole into the bed of a lake, above a massive salt mine? Hmmm..

Not to be confused with natural sinkholes, and nature's attempts to help Darwin Awards nominees; Would you stand here and carry on filming?

Or sit calmly in a boat when this is happening?

Nah, nor me.

The Solar System - Our Home In Space

Lovely minimalistic look at the solar system, not sure how accurate it is, but simple is best. Warning: It gets a bit grim after about 6mins, not wishing to ruin the ending, but everyone dies..

Found on i09.com

Beyond Nature - Iceland Timelapse

*wow*

BEYOND NATURE Iceland Timelapse from aprilgarden on Vimeo.

Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre Has Gone Missing - Help Find Him

Highlighted by his deputy's appearance on Newsnight, it seems infact that Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre has actually gone missing. Help find him by using this map.

Found on b3ta, thanks for the image Jez.

#mydadhatedbritain *updated*

Fantastic responses on Twitter, as documented by The Guardian "One morning in 1994, my Dad had a croissant for breakfast #mydadhatedBritain" and if you haven't seen Alastair Campbell rip into the Daily Mail's deputy editor on Newsnight yet, do, it was superb. Alastair is petitioning for Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre to with him or a professional broadcaster regarding his papers conduct over Milliband Snr, click on the link to sign it, it will be fantastic television. For the record, #MyDadHatesTheDailyMail

Huffington Post's Mehdi Hasan on Question Time gets one of the shows best reactions from both the studio audience and those at home with this reply;

It's a story that just won't go away. Dave must be furious that this has overshadowed his party conference speech.

Will It "Go Viral" : Steady Feathers - The Most Extreme Camera Ever

In advertising, "Virals" are mildly amusing or interesting pieces of content generated by marketeers, that are intended for people to share with their friends, and thus get some sort of brand message across to the viewer. Those Santander adverts do not fit into any of the above categories.

At some uncertified point, this spreading leads the content to be termed "Viral", or as some say it has "Gone Viral" - by the way, the spreading is usually helped by a large dose of advertising to help it along the way.

Once it has "Gone Viral" this can be added to a press release, and sent to a contagious group of online publications, who will simply paste the copy word for word, rip the video from YouTube, stick on their own advertising at the front, and host it as a news story. Unless, of course, it's obviously an advert (doh), but even then, the clever marketeers can get around this by adding another angle to the story, take this story "Leaked Samsung Commercial "Goes Viral" After Being Derided For Having 'The World's Worst Actors'" (Warning, it's in the Daily Mail)

However, Marketeers have to tread very carefully, as revealing their video to infact be an advert in disguise too early, will result in most savvy viewers switching off pretty much straight away, and those contagious online publications spotting something fishy. Daily Mail again.

Sometimes, brands are too cool for viewers to switch off, the message is blatant, the branding is all over the place - see anything by Red Bull, other than the bloke jumping to earth from space balloon.

In this video you'll notice the phone and camera don't appear until right at the end, the punchline / pay off / reveal. (Clever see, they've tricked us - it IS an ad for something, I thought it was REAL). Even though it has been posted on LG's official Mobile YouTube channel (there's a clue) most people infact will watch the video elsewhere. (Yes, like on this blog).

So, has Steady Feathers, uploaded 5 days ago by LG "Gone Viral" yet?

**Believe it or not, in the last 12 years I myself have been involved in making such videos, the first being the "Stop Bob" getting to No. 1 campaign, in which we had the cartoon characters from The Supermen Lovers video "Starlight" knocking over and killing Bob The Builder, burying him with Scoop the JCB. It was a flash video, made by Jim at Infinite Wheel and spread via Email as no social networks existed. After two days, the BBC kindly asked us to stop it. Unfortunately, Bob The Builder still went to No.1, and the now classic summer smash hit "Starlight" rested at No.2 - thanks The Record Buying Public. Others led to Sonny J getting played on Radio One and signed (it wasn't a rare Michael Jackson song) and the then 12th most discussed video of all time on YouTube, a Global Warning (made for Ministry of Sound) Usually, the best "viral" videos are user generated, have no advertising spend (this is termed "Organic") and no real gain for views, people genuinely share them because they liked them (that's ok) and think their friends will like them too (also ok - it's why I started this blog to be honest, to keep the stuff I like best.