Back in 2010, Youtuber max1morgan2 filmed door to door Advantage Wonder Cleaner salesman Kenny Brooks in full wisecracking, rapid-fire pitch mode.
The video went viral at the time. His hilarious monologue was even transcribed for posterity. A guest spot on Ellen seemed assured, but Kenny disappeared, prompting all manner of conspiracy theories including (subsequently disproved) rumours of his death.
To this day, no one seems to know what happened to him.
A rather beautiful celebration of crepuscular light by Japanese animator Hajime Kimura.
Footage captured during a derecho by Craig Shimala of a triple lightning strike on three of Chicago’s tallest skyscrapers: Willis Tower, Trump Tower and the John Hancock Building.
Bizarrely, Shimalo captured the same event in 2010, almost to the day.
Voice actor Bob Bergen, (the third and current voice of Porky Pig), demonstrates how to replicate the distinctive Looney Tunes stammer.
Now you try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9us_GmElUCM
A girl on the assembly line in a Chinese factory puts transformers together at tremendous speed.
The more you watch, the sadder you feel, somehow.
Bob ‘The Ad Contrarian’ Hoffman opened the 2014 ITV Spotlight Lecture last March – a debate on the failed predictions of advertising experts over the past decade, with particular focus on the social media marketing of brands, to wit:.
..there are people in our business who believe that consumers are ‘in love’ with brands. They believe consumers want to have ‘relationships’ with brands. they want to have ‘brand experiences’ and be ‘personally engaged with brands’. These people actually believe this. You go to their Twitter profile: ‘I’m passionate about brands!’ You’re what? Dude, get a fucking girlfriend.
You’ll like Bob.
In this 2011 video, Youtuber 10000vxmen’s lovebird – seemingly unhappy with her modest hindquarters, crafts her own tail feathers from paper and attaches them to improve her look.
In this graduation short by Mehdi Louala, Geoffrey Godet, Nicolas Lejeune, Céline Hermann and Simon Legrand of the all-conquering French animation school Supinfocom, a giant blue man roams the surface of an alien planet, controlled by the robot chickens in his mind.
Now that’s a premise, right there.
Mathematical propellerhead Vi Hart explores the numerical concept of infinity for your doodly delectation (including bonus reference to The Fault in our Stars by John Green, if you like that sort of thing.)
