July 29, 2009
They say that when you love something you should set it free, eventually, but first you should spend 45 minutes meticulously drawing it while videotaping yourself, and then post a sped up copy of that video to YouTube. Speed drawing (which actually is just regular drawing that's sped up, so it should be called Speed Videos of Drawing, but I'm not the mayor of Meme Town) can be done either by hand, or on the computer (which is sometimes called speed painting), and it can deal with any subject, but it is best if the speed drawing is of someone or something famous, so that the end result is more impressive. To a point! Because at the same time, depending on your choice, the end result may be more technically impressive but it is also often more technically HUH? People choose to "speed draw" the weirdest stuff*.
After the jump, the 15 best speed drawing videos of all time. These are in scientific order, as determined by Licensed Scientists.
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June 23, 2009
Oh man, you know who loves a good dance party? EVERYONE! Dance parties are the best, duh. It's strange what with the overwhelming universal enthusiasm for dance parties that this meme isn't even bigger, but it turns out that if you sync up basically any song with the final scene from A Charlie Brown Christmas you're looking at an instant animated dance party. Off the hook! (In 2009!) Very niiiiice! (I've got to get these super-funny, super-relevant Borat references in while I still can! After Jüly 10 it'll be "very gaaaaaay!")
After the jump, the Top 5 Peanuts Dance Party Mash-Ups!
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Tags: Charles Schulz | Dance Offs | Mash-Ups | Peanuts
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June 12, 2009
Marlon Brando was one of the greatest actors who ever lived. Ah-no-duh! He seethed with a tempestuous anger and bristled with an animal sexuality, is what someone would say if they were pretentious and wanted to sound smart when they described him.
Dude was also so crazy eventually!
As we all know, late in his life, Marlon Brando, with nothing left to prove, no mountains left to climb, a Legend among Men, went on an all butter diet and moved to a private Tahitian island called Tetiaroa where he primarily talked to himself and got sunburned his dick (one assumes). The actor was legendary for his mood swings, his political outbursts, his being 300 pounds, and his phoning it in on the few movies in which he did decide to act.
And so what! We should all be so lucky to peak by the time we're 30 and spend the rest of our lives as fat wastrels, succumbing to the pleasures of the flesh on our own private island! The question is, who's next? Which of our current stable of Hollywood stars has what it takes to have a complete fucking melt down and turn what was a once noble career into a late night monologue joke?
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Tags: Future | Marlon Brando | National Failures
latest by sarah
May 27, 2009
Man, I drove a rental car this weekend, you guys. That's right, A RENTAL CAR. Ballin'. Driving is great. It's weird that no one ever drives and everyone in America is so insistent on walking and riding bikes all the time. Everyone. Anyway, out on the open road, the power of an iron horse carrying you swiftly through the black forest (that's what I call the highway, because I'm an idiot, and also no I don't), you're reminded of all the pleasures that accompany the automobile life. One of them being the pleasure of watching someone who doesn't know how to parallel park trying to. Lots Of Love.
And did you know that it is an international pleasure? While I was looking at these videos (after the jump), it's funny how they are from all over the world. The international language isn't music or love, it's making fun of people who fundamentally cannot do something that you think is easy!
After the jump, the five best worst parallel parking videos from around the world. WILKOMEN! (That is a foreign word I know.)
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Tags: Cars | Idiocracy
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March 24, 2009
Yahoo! has released a list this week of the 100 Movies To See Before You Die. According to whom? Yahoo! Oh, sure. If there's one thing that I think of when I think of Yahoo!, it's EXPERTISE.
No, David Blaine.
I'm not even sure I know what a list of movies you should see before you die even means. I love movies as much as the next guy who loves movies a lot, but I get kind of grumpy if I go see a movie on a really nice day because who wants to sit in the dark when there's frisbee golf to be played? I'm sure as hell not going to sit around watching this shit if I'm about to die. I'LL BE IN THE STREETS! MAKING LOVE! Obviously, I'm sure they mean it in a more playful sense. This list is not actually intended only for people who have been medically diagnosed with a fatal disease. But even if this is just a list of the most essential movies, what the fuck is Titanic doing on there? And anyone who says that you absolutely must see Blazing Saddles before you die should go kill themselves. This list is junk! Sure, there's lots of good movies on here, but throw 100 darts at the wall and one of them is bound to hit the board. It's called probability science.
Fuck you, Yahoo! We're making our own list. After the jump, the complete Yahoo! List of 100 Movies to See Before You Die According to Yahoo! Then, in the comments, the Videogum List of 100 Movies to See Before You Die, Because Shut Up, Yahoo!
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Tags: Death | The Videogum List Of 100 Movies To See Before You Die
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March 11, 2009
Well, here's a movie they're making. From Variety (via FilmDrunk):
Danny DeVito is set to direct "Crazy Eddie," a pic based on the life of consumer electronics king Eddie Antar.
Antar was a pioneer in discount consumer electronics, and Crazy Eddie's grew to 43 stores, fueled by TV ads in which a frenzied pitchman promised prices that were "In-sa-a-a-a-a-ane!" Antar took the company public and briefly became a Wall Street sensation.
He'd been skimming money and falsifying inventory to inflate stock value. Losing control of his company in a hostile takeover, Antar went on the lam after the new owners uncovered his financial shenanigans and the SEC charged him with stock fraud. He fled to Israel -- where he'd deposited millions of dollars -- only to be extradited three years later. He ultimately served a prison term that ended in 1999 and was ordered to pay $150 million in fines.
Fair enough, I guess. We've got to make a movie out of something while we wait for the next thrilling, super-good adaptation of Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series (Golden Compass 2: Full Sentient Polar Bear Throttle, or whatever). But if Crazy Eddie is getting his own movie, then there are a lot of other local commercial stars who deserve the Hollywood treatment. 8 other local commercial stars. Here is a scientific list of all of them that is missing absolutely nothing and is definitely complete, no doubt about it.
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December 31, 2008
Best of 2008
(This week, we're highlighting some of our favorite Videogum posts / video-related moments of 2008. So that's why things look different, and are old, this week. And Happy Almost New Year!)
Originally posted on Videogum on June 10, 2008:
The Star Wars kid has gotten a lot of shit over the years, mainly because he's not a professional. He simply didn't have the training necessary to pull off that fight sequence. On the other hand, there are lots of professionals who do have the training and simply lack the means to wield it. I'm talking about people like Aragorn, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Westley. If somehow you could only put a lightsaber in these fearsome warriors hands...Ugh, blogging. What am I even talking about? Let's just be ourselves, you guys. I found a bunch of clips on YouTube where people took fight sequences from other movies and overlaid lightsabers on top of them using magic, and they are hilarious, and you're gonna love it.
After the the jump, the 10 best lightsaber mash-ups.
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Tags: Lightsabers | Mash Ups | Star Wars
December 24, 2008
Earlier today, we brought you a list of The Worst People of 2008, because we speak truth to power, if you can really consider Brody Jenner powerful (you cannot consider Brody Jenner powerful). So we wanted to take an equally meaningful look at some of our favorite people of the past year. A lot of times we are so busy searching the internet for the latest videos of rednecks driving ATVs into swimming pools that we forget to show our appreciation for the wonderfully talented people who produce so many great things that we genuinely love.
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