Behold the extremely dangerous shenanigans of Japan’s Onbashira Festival.
Held every six years in Nagano, the festival involves the moving of gigantic logs over difficult terrain using thick braided ropes, manpower and, occasionally, gravity.
This year’s eye-candiful insanity was captured by filmmakers from Oh! Matsuri!
In their latest video edit, BaracksDubs has Obama perform Rihanna’s Work.
previously: Obama So Fancy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=XN_nzRR5X_w
Footage from last years’s Gold Coast 600 V8 supercar race in Surfer’s paradise, Queensland, Australia.
In what could easily be a cut scene from a first person racing game, Paul “The Dude” Morris’s onboard camera films Matt Brabham hurtling around the course behind him.
A promo for CupHead – a new side scroller from Studio MDHR (for PC and XBox One). To wit:
Inspired by cartoons of the 1930’s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional cel animation (hand drawn & hand inked!), watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings
A reverse montage of things returning from their molten state by the nice people at Let’s Melt This
Previously: The Unmelting
A rather nifty two-hand marionette created by puppeteer and designer Barnaby Dixon.
Dance, puppet-boy, dance.
An interesting musical experiment by musician Steve-san ‘Samurai Guitarist’ Onotera.
What he’s done here is perform an incredibly slow instrumental cover of Here Comes The Sun by the Beatles, taking a full half hour (appropriately, either side of dawn) to pick all the notes. He then speeds up the recording by a factor of 20, approximating the speed of the original.
The result is a strange, not unpleasing modulated violin effect.
Steve-san discusses it in more detail here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL45YOtbuy0
Cavern (1983) by New York new wave band Liquid Liquid – the song that became the backing track of White Lines (Don’t Do It) by Grandmaster Flash.
Rang Dang Digga Duh Dang Duh Dang.
