Sunday, May 03, 2015
22 Years of David Letterman's Late Show Guests
David Letterman is retiring later this month after 22 years of The Late Show on CBS. The show put together this tribute to Dave’s most memorable moments with his some of his guests. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Mini Bruce Lee
Ryuji Imai is a real Bruce Lee fan. He has the moves from his movies memorized, and can recreate them with his nunchaku. And Ryuji is only five years old! In this video, he recreates a fight scene from the 1972 film Game of Death. He doesn’t even have to see the movie to know what’s coming next. (via Viral Viral Videos)
Kung Fu Avengers: Civil War
Watch Captain America fight Iron Man Hong Kong style! If Captain America: Civil War had been a poorly-dubbed martial arts film, it would have looked like this. (via Neatorama)
Councilman Forgets to Turn His Mic Off
City Council meetings are usually pretty dry affairs, and even more so when it’s not your town. This is an exception. During a council meeting in georgetown, Texas, a councilman leaves to relieve himself in the men’s room. But he forgot to turn off the microphone he was wearing. Rachael Jonrowe tries to make her point while he’s gone, but cannot contain herself when the bathroom audio starts. (via Daily Picks and Flicks)
Saturday, May 02, 2015
All Trailers are the Same
Every action movie trailer follows the same formula in the past twenty years or so. The formula is so established that I’m often a bit confused as to whether this is a new trailer or something I’ve seen before. Red Letter Media lays out the formula.
Establishing shot of a city.
Bwaaaaaam! (often the sound familiar from Inception)
Mysterious, cryptic, and vague lines.
Make your characters look cool.
Build up to silence, then BAM!
Action Montage!
And don’t forget the powerful and/or inspiring monologue.
End montage with another cut to quiet.
Eh, throw in a laser shooting into the sky. Why not?
Title. (finally)
Clever and/or funny end tag before release date.
Each trope is illustrated with more examples than you can shake a stick at, if you were so inclined. (via Boing Boing)
Cat Protects Computer Mouse
Keep your hands off the mouse! Thet’s MY mouse! You got me to be a mouser, didn’t you? (via Daily Picks and Flicks)
Manager Manual Intro
Many folks don’t realize that Kentucky has a football team. Yes, we do, even though they don’t get much press compared with the basketball players. Here, the football team’s managers open their “how to” manual with a parody of the Full House sitcom intro. (via Uproxx)
Cockatoo Loves Elvis
One of these birds is an Elvis fan. The other is not, Can you figure out which one is which? (via Neatorama)
Friday, May 01, 2015
Weird Al Unboxing his Grammy
Weird Al Yankovic finally received his engraved 2015 Grammy Award, so he took the opportunity to parody all those unboxing videos while he opened it. This is actually Weird Al’s fourth Grammy: he won one each in 1984, 1988, and 2004, too. (via Viral Viral Videos)
Korean Toilet with Options
A British man tries out a hi-tech toilet in Korea that offers several bidet functions. The video is SFW while the audio is priceless. He’s fortunate the buttons are labeled in English -possibly at a tourist hotel. Jeremy had a great comment at YouTube:
The ones I found in Seoul were never in English and the last thing in the world you want is a surprise enema.(via Daily Picks and Flicks)
I once hit all the buttons and the thing started blasting water out the toilet and against the opposite wall, I couldn't figure out how to shut it off so I just ran away haha, good thing their washrooms usually have a drain in the floor.
Bohemian Rhapsody by Vine
How many ways can you do "Bohemian Rhapsody?" In this collaborative project, Cody the Payne rounded up 59 different Vine users, who each contributed a six-second clip of the song. Individually, they are cute, but together they made an entire music video. Some try to emulate the original video, some illustrate the lyrics, some lip sync, and a few even play instruments. Then there are those who just did something interesting and artful. Is this the beginning of a new collaborative trend? I hope so; projects like this can be a lot of fun! (via Buzzfeed)
Miss Cellania's Links
In Photos: How To Be A Good Storyteller. Ami Vitale didn’t get to be a National Geographic photographer by just being in the right place at the right time. (via Marilyn Terrell)
27 Unintentionally Hilarious Movies That Are So Bad They’re Great. Based on suggestions by readers.
10 Scientific Breakthroughs We Literally Couldn't Live Without. It says “literally,” so your iPhone isn’t here.
An Amazing Photo Series Reveals What Aging Superheroes Would Look Like In Retirement. Photographer Martin Beck imagines them old, unemployed, and sometimes completely broke.
The Evolution of the 22 Greatest Aliens in Star Wars. Learn about them so you don’t have to refer to them as “the red one” or “the green one.”
The birth of the weather forecast. Invented in the 1860s, it took decades to gain trust.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron and the Inevitable Onset of Superhero Fatigue. A review speculates that Marvel is just phoning it in now.
34 TV shows to watch in 2015. See? We’ve already whittled the hundreds of offerings on all those channels down to a manageable list.
7 Things You Should Know About The Kentucky Derby. Because it’s tomorrow.
Supermarket
A young man was walking through a supermarket to pick up a few things when he noticed an old lady following him around. Thinking nothing of it, he ignored her and continued on. Finally he went to the checkout line, but she got in front of him."Pardon me," she said, "I'm sorry if my staring at you has made you feel uncomfortable. It's just that you look just like my son, who just died recently."
"I'm very sorry," replied the young man, "is there anything I can do for you?"
"Yes," she said, "As I'm leaving, can you say 'Good bye, Mother!' ? It would make me feel so much better."
"Sure," answered the young man.
As the old woman was leaving, he called out, "Goodbye, Mother!"
As he stepped up to the checkout counter, he saw that his total was $127.50.
"How can that be?" he asked, "I only purchased a few things!"
"Your mother said that you would pay for her," said the clerk.
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