Drop the Bomb

I just started to get hooked on this new website called Drop the Bomb. It's kind of like Post Secret, but anyone can post their secrets without having to have them "chosen." (With post secret you may send in your postcard with secret, but it may not be published online). Call me wierd, but I get a kick out of reading everyone's secrets. haha, I guess thats MY secret, I like to go online and read other people's secrets.

Russian Jumper

This is just a cool video of a Russian guy "urban jumping." He's pretty talented, and I think he might actually be on a commercial right now--for what, I can't remember.

Wiki-How

I am a pretty big fan of Wikipedia in general so the Wiki-Hows are no different. Granted, there are a lot of random ones, but I have also found some helpful ones. However, there are sometimes the downright wierd ones that I just fail to see the point of. For example, I daily check my Google homepage to see what the new "How to of the Day" has been posted. Recently, there was one entitled "How-to-make-a-sideways-room." As was expected, there were indeed instructions on how to turn an empty room into a sideways one, with furniture attached to the sides walls and ceilings. While the article was at first interesting, the more I thought about it, the more I realized how pointless such a room would be. First off, you have to spend at least 2 days constructing it. Then, after its built, you were supposed to "show it off to your friends." Really, how much fun can you get out of that? And afterwards, what are you supposed to do with the room? It can't really be used. It just sits there wasting space and furniture. It just seems ridiculous to me.

YouTube Awards

CNN.com just published an article about the very first YouTube Video Awards. YouTube picked nominees and invited YouTube users to vote on their favorites for a number of categories including "Most Creative," and "Best Musician." Here's the link of where to vote. I for one am definitely going to vote, and I think the awards are a great way for YouTube users to come together and recognize certain videos.

Whitney Houston: Crazy?

This is just a hilarious video to me. I don't know which one is crazier. On the one hand Talk Soup is milking Houston's insanity, but Bobby Brown is just as nuts. It just goes to show you what a life of drugs can do to you.

Moose Takes Out Helicopter

I was just amazed by this story. A moose was tranquilized in Alaska, but instead of going down it charged a helicopter, maiming itself in the propellers. Pretty crazy stuff.

Come Into My World

Ok, so first off, the amazing thing about this video is that it is all shot in one take. Kylie is walking around a street corner in Paris. As she walks around, there are many things going on in the background (which is key). Once she makes one loop, she begins to walk around the same corner again only in a different path, interacting with the "previous Kylie" before her. So, for instance, whereas the first Kylie drops her dry cleaning, the second Kylie (or the second loop) picks the dry cleaning up. In the background, the people are also replicating themselves. Every time Kylie reaches the "starting point" of her journey, she "re-loops herself" and thus adds another Kylie into the scene. When Gondry mapped this out, he had to be sure that NO ONE, from Kylie, to all the background characters, could ever be in the same place as anyone who previously came before them. (If they crossed the same space, they would essentially be crossing through each other which would not be physically possible). This is a really complicated video and I am amazed how Gondry pulled it off. If you like it and still have questions, let me know and I can clarify. Really pay attention to the background, there is a lot of stories going on.