I came across this video today and decided that it is without doubt the future of football. I might start a Government petition to get it included in the Olympic Games too. Even if you don’t like football and think it’s a bunch of overpaid sissies running after a bag of air, you’ll want to watch football if it was played like this. Dubbed boblefotball, it was invented by those crazy…Norwegians. Now every player can bounce and roll around like Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo whenever another player comes near them. Actually, thinking about it, we should wrap the original man of glass, Michael Owen, up in one of these the next time he steps out in a United shirt.
This is a video that will be understood by geeks and confuse the hell out of most regular folk. So the musical duo in the video below recorded themselves singing popular Christmas carols and then uploaded the videos to Youtube. Now Youtube has some automated closed caption technology which tries to understand what’s being said and show the correct words in the captions. As you can imagine the computer coded heuristic algorithms are still a long way from being perfect and famous lyrics like “let it snow, let it snow, let it snow” becomes “there is no, that is now, let us know”. Aww, bless those useless algorithms. Anyway, once the captions had been automatically generated the duo then sing the words that Youtube decided they were singing. Sound strange? It is, but it’ll put a smile on your face!
For those of you who are stuck in the 1970′s and your idea of a mob is a gang of youths rampaging around causing untold damage and intimidation then you might not get the video below. A flash mob is just a group of people who randomly decide to congregate in a certain area and do something totally unique that takes members of the public by surprise. One funny flash mob that happened in America a few years back was when about 80 people turned up to a Best Buy store dressed in khaki pants and blue t-shirts like the staff members wore.
Anyway, despite the word ‘flash’ being in there, it usually takes some planning and the dance sequence in the video below took the lady 4 weeks of planning and had to get security clearance from the railway station authorities (obviously!). The video has become a massive hit all over India and in just four short minutes a sense of united togetherness was formed as people from all backgrounds, classes, ages and religions took part. As one Indian commenter said…
After watching I had some sense of belongingness. In the video we can see old ladies happy in the station. Some children felt ecstatic. Some people just stood and watched clapping with dancers. They felt united. Even if this dance can unite us only for 4 mins, i urge to orgasnise more of this kind. At least we can sense the Humanity and feel the united India.
In the last few weeks I’ve found myself getting increasingly addicted to Fiverr.com which is having a negative impact on my social life, bank balance and relationships. If I don’t get my daily Fiverr fix then I turn in to a grumpy old man and start writing blog rants about the state of the world and how we’re all doomed (so smile and get on with it). OK, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, I was a grumpy old man well before Fiverr came along, but anyway it does mean I’ve been introduced to loads of incredible concepts like this one I’ve just found.
It’s called kinetic typography which is basically a fancy way to say the text moves…yeah, it must be an Americanism. The video below is the best example ever of kinetic typography and the song is very nearly as awesome as the video itself. Give your eyes and ears a three and half minute treat, check this out…
I read somewhere by someone very important that no personal blog is complete without at least several cute kitten videos. Aghast, I checked my own blog and realized there was not one single cute kitten video, so in order to fully round out my personal blog and ensure that it’s not mocked ever again, I present to you what could possibly be the cutest kitten in the world. All together now, “cootchi cootchi coo!”
(I’m only posting this because it’s an unwritten rule that personal blogs should have at least one cute kitten video, ok?!)
You’d never be able to do this if you planned it. A wheel breaks free from a racing car, rolls down the track, misses all the other racing cars, navigates a corner before coming to a neat stop with all its other tyre friends!
Probably the second greatest parody video ever made of a song (I’ll post the best one later). Full of irony for anyone who gets it! If you don’t get it then or don’t recognize more than a couple of people in the video then, umm, here’s a Rebecca Black parody for you instead.
Build a website, sell ad space on it, get venture capital money, get rich, meet hot women. Oh if only it was that easy!
England has produced its fair share of calamitous goalkeepers; Paul Robinson, Calamity James, Ben Foster, Scott Carson and Robert Green spring immediately to mind (which kinda sucks since these are or were all our national keepers at one time or another) and even the less well known goalkeeper, Peter Claridge who once famously managed to reduce Ridgeway’s 7-1 lead over the mighty Little Bowden to just 7-6 in fifteen minutes before he decided on a career change and became a computer geek instead.
Anyway, it turns out that Belarus are equally good at churning out naff goalkeepers as FC Torpedo Zhodino (What!? You haven’t heard of them?!) discovered when their keeper, Artem Gomelko managed to divert a 70 yard speculative shot which was going wide in to his own net. No doubt Capello will be on the phone soon to see if he’s eligible for England.
Any self respecting football fan will have seen Christiano Ronaldo’s penalty technique with the trademark stutter half way in to the run up. Well, Amir Sayoud, who plays in the Egyptian league tried to emulate Ronaldo’s party piece and it very almost worked. Except he fell over. And then saw his penalty saved. And then got booked for being stupid. Even my good friend Jeff doesn’t manage to fluff his spot kicks this badly!
Some are branding it as the worst penalty kick ever but I still think Peter Devine’s attempt remains the worst penalty ever.
Some sections of society here in India seem to have a rather cavalier attitude towards life, bordering on a reckless disregard for their own lives. More often than not it tends to be young men from the poorer communities, but I’ve also seen young men on motorbikes weaving dangerously through traffic, skipping stop signs, playing chicken with buses and trucks – the list goes on.
Whether it’s misplaced bravery or a complete lack of imagination of the consequences of their actions I don’t know. I guess parallels could be drawn with some adrenaline sports like bungie jumping or skydiving, but at least there is an element of safety with these sports although maybe there is no excuse for the absurdity of tombstoning which involves throwing oneself off a very high cliff in to water which could be deep or could have rocks below the surface, let’s just jump on in and find out, eh?!
Anyway, in the same vein of the asininity of tombstoning, a video has recently surfaced in India which shows a bunch of young lads performing death defying stunts on a commuter train in Mumbai in what has been referred to as free style train surfing. Rather alarmingly, while the media here along with the vast majority of people who watch it condemn the stupidity of youths, there is a minority that actually praise and comment how talented and skillful you must be to perform such stunts…
this guy deserve AWARD!!! we all every stunt is risky but riding on wall with urs legs with matching urs walk speed with train speed was simply OUTSTANDING THANKS for sharing video link god bless you stuntboy james bond sucks urs d**k!!!
These guys are very daring, pick them up, give trainning, give them job in police or defence. We must utilize such talent and use them for our country
I’ve never seen anyone doing anything as insane as the train surfing stunt below, but I have seen school kids who stand on the station platform and run alongside the train and jump on at the last minute, or who do a similar thing with the buses and hang precariously on to the sides just feet from certain death if they fall. And to think my mother used to get worried when I climbed trees when I was a kid!
23rd Jan 2012
james bond sucks urs d**k!!!