Episode 141: “I was polishing the brass in the master bedroom”

Can you manage to figure out what’s going on in this video?

Episode 140: “Put down the remote”

I tried to stay up for the Emmys last night. On a “normal” weekend I wouldn’t have any trouble with this, but I had just gotten home from the 48 hour CharityHack where I had only slept a couple of hours. About two thirds in I gave up; I was too tired, plus the live stream was becoming increasingly flakier by the minute, it was a pain to watch it. I think at certain moment it was so bad, I got every other sentence.

Anyhow, I did get to see two cool sequences from Neil Patrick Harris as host. The first was the opening number which had a couple of great lines in it:

The second was a Dr Horrible clip:

I already had heard there would be something Dr Horrible related, but I was hoping for a bit more than this (at least a bit more singing).

As for the actual awards, there were a couple of great surprises and a couple of disappointing choices. I loved that Kristen Chenoweth won for her role as Olive in Pushing Daisies, and her acceptance speech was so adorable! Why did Pushing Daisies have to be cancelled?

Then Supporting Actor In A Comedy. Of course, I was rooting for Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), but I also would have been fine with either of the 30 Rock guys winning it (Tracy Morgan and Jack McBrayer). But who ended up wining it? Jon Cryer. Seriously? Two and a Half Men hasn’t been funny for ages.

Another surprise was Supporting Actor in a Drama. I was completely expecting William Shatner to win again, or John Slattery from Mad Men. But it went (deservingly I think) to Michael Emerson for his creepy portrayal of Ben in Lost.

Most of the other stuff was pretty predictable. Mad Men won Best Drama, 30 Rock won Best Comedy. Glenn Close won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (for Damages), Bryan Cranston won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (for Breaking Bad, for the second time in a row now, maybe I should start watching this). All kind of to be expected. To see the complete list of winner, check out Emmy Awards Winners 2009.

Episode 138: “I learned my history from drinking all night in a downtown bar”

This clip is cute! It’s for the single “I Got Opinions” from Greg Johnson, and features the work of eight different illustrators.

Via Candlelight Stories

Episode 137: “Watchmen”

I came across this video a couple of weeks while researching the Watchmen graffiti on the Southbank. While that looked pretty cool, this video is just amazing:

[Watch on MissGeeky]

It seems a bit of a shame though that they cover each painting with black paint; such a waste of time and art!

Episode 136: “I would like you for my own”

I got to see (500) Days of Summer last Monday, and I think it’s amazing. A real review will be coming soon (I promise), but in short it’s one of the sweetest and most beautiful movies I’ve seen.

This video kind of serves as a promo for the movie, because it stars both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, and is directed by Marc Webb (the director of 500 Days). In reality though it’s the music video for “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?”, by Zooey Deschanel’s band She & Him. It’s a bit slow at the start, but is stay with cause it gets pretty cool:

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Besides that, there’s a clip from the movie where Summer and Tom talk about being Sid and Nancy. If you haven’t seen it, check it out:

I love the clip, but the cool thing of that is that for Cinemash (swedes but then semi-professional) they played Sid and Nancy.

Via Firstshowing.net

Episode 135: “Putting money back into people’s pockets”

I’m not really sure what to think of this campaign from TalkTalk:

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Episode 134: “It’s shiinny! So pwetty!”

Twitter followers of mine might have noticed me tweeting last week that I was offered a Flip Video for the weekend to record a swede. It was for a Cisco competition (plus screening with Urban Screen) that was held yesterday evening, but I’ll write more about that entire event later. For now I’d just like to show the swede we made:

[Watch on MissGeeky]

I know it’s a bit silly, but it was great fun making it, and isn’t that the point of a swede? Making these type of “movies” though makes me only realize more how difficult it is to create an actual full-blown movie. There is just so much you have to consider while filming!

So anybody up for helping out on another one?

Episode 133: “Grab your mouse and stroke the keys”

I saw this video yesterday afternoon when it came out, but since then this song has been in my head the entire time!

[Watch on MissGeeky]

It’s written and performed by Felicia Day, featuring the rest of the cast of The Guild. Besides that it’s directed by Jed Whedon (brother of), who also wrote the music. If you still haven’t seen The Guild, go and watch it; it’s hilarious!

Episode 133: “You are always near”

I’m sure I’m not alone in this, but you get those evenings when you start spiraling down the YouTube hole. You know what I mean: you watch one video, then another, then one more and before you know it you’ve “wasted” an hour watching cats attempt to sing. Anyhow via the Guardian blog, I came across sand artist Kseniya Simonov (pronounced as Xenia), who won the Ukrainian version of Britain’s/America’s Got Talent. The videos of her are just amazing; it’s not just painting a picture in sand, but actually telling a complete story through it:

If I’m right, the following two videos are what she did during the final:

After a couple more of her videos (having spent already 45 minutes on them), I discover that (of course) she’s not the only sand artist out there. Here’s one from Ilana Yahav:

And another. With penguins and butterflies!

I’ll stop with the overload of videos now, but if you’ve got a couple of hours to kill, just search YouTube for ‘sand art’. There are loads more like these posted here.

Via the Guardian

Episode 132: “Storm Shadow’s taking out the trash”

I still want to see G.I. Joe, even though most reviews I’ve seen have been pretty negative. Anyhow I really liked this Funny or Die video about the private lives of G.I. Joe and Cobra:

The video features quite a lot of familiar faces: Laz Alonso as Doc, Alexis Bledel as Lady Jaye, Billy Crudup as Zartan, Zach Galifiankais as Snow Job, Tony Hale as Dr. Mindbender, Vinnie Jones as Destro, Joey Kern as Tomax, Joey Kern as Xamot, Chuck Liddell as Gung Ho, Julianne Moore as Scarlett, Henry Rollins as Duke, Alan Tudyk as Shipwreck, Olivia Wilde as The Baroness.

Via Blogomatic3000