This little gem comes courtesy of Elie El Khoury.

At 11 o’clock on Thursday 15 January around 350 people broke into a choreographed dance routine in London’s Liverpool Street Station for the shooting of a new advertising campaign by T-Mobile based on the them Life’s For Sharing.

The event was covered by the Daily Mail in London if you want to read all about it. Also, Nik Rawlinson, the editor of MacUser magazine, happened to catch the prelude.
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In case I haven’t mentioned it. I want to be Danny Macaskill. I kid you not. This man is a complete bad ass on a bicycle. In fact, before I saw this video I thought most of this stuff was impossible. I wouldn’t even believe it now, except that I don’t think the state of computer generated graphics is quite as good as all this.

Anyway, check it out as Danny does some of the most wicked bike stunts you’ve ever seen. And of course if anyone has seen more like this let me know!
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Now, I don’t know about her throwing arm, but the Ball Girl at this major league game literally came out of left field and up the wall to catch this fly ball. It would have been a spectacular catch if any professional had made it, but it was absolutely unbelievable that this cute little girl snagged it!

I guarantee there is no way that I could have caught it, and I’m betting very, very few of you guys might have either. Enjoy!
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Every once in a while I come across a video that you just know took a lot of time to actually set up and produce, like all those Rube Goldeberg videos I post all the time. Well, here is another one along the same lines.

These guys in Japan took what looks to be a bunch of beer or wine bottles, and filled them with different amounts of fluid to create a different pitch when tapped. They then spaced them out properly, attached a couple of mallets to a radio controlled car, and voila! You drive the car between the bottles and get the theme song from Super Mario Brothers!

Amazing.
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You know, each morning when I wake up and go to get dressed I’m like, “Man, this whole getting dressed thing sure is boring. I wish there were a way to spice things up a bit!” Well, if you’re like me, have I got the answer for your daily hum-drums!

How about this? Next time you need to put your jeans on, have a couple of buddies hold them, climb up onto the second floor and jump down into them! Don’t worry about any potential bodily harm from this methodology… surely the pants will protect you!
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Karen R. passed this little gem to me the other day, and she came into my office at work and was like… “you have to check out the extreme sheep herding!” I was like, “WTF?” But she was like, “just open the link I sent you.”

So, without having any idea of what the heck to expect, I blindly did as I was told, and was then rewarded for my faith with the following amazing video of… sheep herding. Enjoy!
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Dear Lord. Let Christmas 2009 come early this year so that I can watch the new Star Trek movie (Even the Web site rocks!!!!!). It looks like it is going to be the best Star Trek I’ve ever seen. And believe me… being the huge geek that I am, I’ve seen them ALL.

I just can’t even believe how AWESOME this movie looks like it is going to be! I mean, it’s my favorite movie of all time already and I’ve only see the Trailers! This is bad… because if they are setting me up for a huge disappointment I’m going to have to go Klingon on some people’s asses!!!!

Check it! We’ve got the young bad ass versions of Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Chekov, Scotty… you name it! They’re all bad to the bone! I’m absolutely giddy.
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This is an absolutely amazing piece of music which was created using only the sounds from Windows. It just doesn’t need any further introduction. Enjoy!

You know, there are an awful lot of things that we can be worrying about now days. Take the economy for example. Today, the market made a nearly 7% recovery in one day! But I’m worried that it will make a 4% dive during the week just to even things out.

But you know who isn’t worrying about things? Dolphins. Yep. They just swim around all day and eat fish, and play games. And just to prove it to you, here is a nice relaxing video of a dolphin playing with bubbles. You can thank me later…
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I was sitting around being lazy, and taking my sweet time to do it mind you, when I decided to check out some folks who do things a little quicker than me. In fact, I decided to find the fastest people I could, who were doing just about anything that people actually do fast!

So, we’ve got everything from talking to shooting to playing musical instruments! And I guarantee that no one out there reading this can beat these people at their game. Well, if you can let me know and I’ll come video you doing it! I’d love to be there with the records are broken.
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I’ve seen come cool things in life, but I must admit I’ve never seen a “convertible” house before.

A couple in England, who had never built a house before, decided to move out to the country and use their imagination and capital to build one of the most unique houses on the planet. The top instruction to their architect was, “we are prepared to be radical”.

The brief was simple: to build a house to retire to in order to grow food, entertain and enjoy the East Anglia landscape. The outcome was as unconventional as they come. A structure that has the ability to vary or connect the overall building’s composition and character according to season, weather or simply a desire to delight. Wallpaper* took a trip to the site to capture the physical phenomenon in the only medium that serves it justice – film.

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This one doesn’t really require much more introduction than the author’s (Ettubrute) description:

On my night time flight back to SF from Amsterdam, I noticed that the lights from cities were making the clouds glow. Really spectacular and ethereal – it was really seeing the impact of urban environments from a different perspective. Each glow or squiggle represents one town or city!

Luckily the flight was half empty, so I was able to set up an improvised stabilizer mound made up of my bags, pillows, and blankets for my camera to sit on.

We were around the midwest at the beginning of the clip, and there were fewer cities once we hit the rockies. the bridge at the end is the san mateo bridge.

Technique: 1600iso; beginning – 1 (30sec) exposure / 45secs; end – 1 (4sec) exposure / 10 secs; total elapsed time: around 3 hours?

Equipment used: Nikon D300 (interval shooting mode), Tokina 12-24mm.

Music: Bloc Party – Signs

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