Best Videos 2010

Getting this topic back on track...

It's amazing how the second guy got both doors to stay open after he came in.

This one is probably worth going to the HD version on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA

*jawdrop*

For the people who thought this video of a Clio being pushed along sideways by a truck was a fake:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/10162158.stm

I'm pleased sanity has prevailed and he's managed to keep his licence.

I still think the lorry video is fake.

Here's a neat Iron Man spoof. IRON BABY

One word.... Beardyman.

Who needs the speed of Chrome when you have the speed of Opera?

That ending was great!

For Rush fans, this blew me away:

You guys have probably seen this, but for all the iPhone 4 madness . . .

EDIT: NSFW- Language

Heh, I got a chuckle out of that one when I saw it. The craziness around it since then has been nuts. I can't believe the stupidity of Best Buy to can this guy over it. Nobody knew the guy who created this worked for Best Buy until they tried to fire him.

Both of these are NSFW for language.

This one has blown up in the last week:


And I love the Auto-Tune the News guys:


My current favorite of their vids is Turtles:


I highly recommend checking out more of their videos. Not only do they capture hilarious (and sometimes unsettling) moments of talking heads on TV, but they're also pretty talented musicians.

I'd give them some talent points if they weren't using any vocoder-based software like Auto-Tune. That stuff is just plain annoying. It was annoying when Cher did it in the late 90's and it's still annoying today.

That said, I'm all for talking heads and musical parody.

At least someone in the younger generation is watching the news!

I hadn't seen the rainbow one- nice!

Well, I disagree with you in this case. I don't listen to music with auto-tune like this, but to use it for this purpose I think is perfect.

Cher and the like use it to affect their singing voice. These guys are using it to turn people who aren't singing into people who are. I don't see any other way they could do it, so it's fine with me. Plus, they tend to sing their own parts without the vocoder, and they actually have decent voices (as you can tell from the end of the Double Rainbow Song).


Yeah, it sounds like they watch an unhealthy amount of C-SPAN.

Auto-tune is also the only way Jamie Foxx can sing, but that doesn't make it OK.

So all they need to do now is invent a box that can make him act as well and he'll be all set.

Maybe it's just early in the morning (or late at night) but I just about sneezed my drink over my laptop at that one :-)

Yet another NMA News CGI segment

Those are always hilarious and amazing.

Have you seen the one where Justin Beiber gets syphilis and then later beaten to death in the street with musical instruments? Bizarre!

Certainly my favourite video from 2010...

http://vimeo.com/13510833

Wow! Nice.

I was traveling with friends in 1989 and we went to the Oldtimer Grand Prix at Nurburgring. We took our rental gutless Golf diesel with four on board and luggage around the Nordschleife. The carousel is a wild ride at any speed.

Did you notice that the video was shot with an iPhone 4?

tanstaafl.

It's quite jerky, is that the iphone, or just the hosting site?

Looked fine to me (using the HTML5 video player and HD feed)

Depends what you mean by jerky. Some of the in car footage has that typical tearing that you get on cheap sensors with fast motion.

But no, generally the video should be silky smooth.

You must have had a great time! I'm jealous.
The video is well done, as well.

I'll have to figure out here why it ain't smooth.

Thanks!

Because Flash is garbage.

Try it again using Chrome or Safari, and turn on HTML5 video mode. (Firefox supports HTML5 video now; I'm not sure why Vimeo doesn't enable that option for it.)

Firefox does not support HTML5 video when encoded with H.264. Only OGG Theora, or soon Google WebM. Vimeo only uses H.264 in their HTML5 player.

It certainly was an amazing day, we were taking it fairly slowly, there were people lapping twice as fast as us. Only 4 of the 150 cars ended up in the barriers...

...which apparently is much better than average, the usually quoted figure is that 10% of cars entering the track contact the barriers at some point

Some people just like to have the full experience.

I can tell by the branches in the background that there was some photoshop magic used in that vid...

Shocker... low budget music video uses not-quite seamless vfx work. Do you poop on everything?

? I was making a "joke." It actually looked pretty good.

Star Wars trilogy in verse in 4 minutes

Abso-frickin-lootly NSFW
Abso-frickin-lootly Hilarious

F*** me, Ray Bradbury

Catchy tune

Clearly, this is NSFW (and sorry, but THIS is what I call a catchy tune):

Haha! Nice.

iPad + Eye of the Tiger:

Apple need to use a segment of that, or a recreation, in one of their new commercials. Brilliant.

For anyone else who needed a good laugh today.

Does the BBS embed them without the fullscreen ability or is that something you chose when grabbing the embed code?

I just used the BBS's own video embed feature (little icon that looks like a monitor on the composition page.) Looks to me like the BBS might setup the links to embed that way, which is sub-optimal. If any of the admins are reading (I no longer have the keys to the kingdom) maybe they can tweak that?

I seem to recall a coach telling me that there was no penalty for tipping a hurdle, and that you could do just what that guy was doing.

It's just that going over is generally faster.

My blackberry is not working.

There's no "theoretically" about it. Back when I was in high school track, I used to train using hurdles (I ran steeplechase). Hitting hurdles, even just clipping them with your heel, throws off your stride. It wasn't so much a problem with the non-weighted hurdles -- a light breeze was enough to blow them over, sometimes.

Opened this link with the sound turned down, saw the first 5 seconds of the video portion only, and giggled because I think I get the setup already. It's a "dead parrot sketch" parody, right?

Putting in the headphones and listening now...

Yup. Only some of it, but yes, including the bit about bangin' it on the counter. :-)

It combines Dead Parrot and Fork Handles

Dead Parrot I knew, but Fork Handles was a new one for me. Divided by a common language.

My new favourite track of 2010: Abigail's Song.

NOTE: The above link is a major spoiler if you have not already watched Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol (2010) from the BBC.

Wow!