everyday is halloween to this acrobatic nyc rickshaw spiderman
30 10 2009Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: acrobatics, nyc, rickshaw, spiderman
Categories : acrobatics
trick or tre…*facepunch*
29 10 2009
Happy Halloween, Trashcan Monster! This year I think I’m going to dress up like the black kid and just instantly react to any movement around me with a punch in the face. Wife reaches for tv remote: boom, facepunch. Co-worker pushes a button on the elevator: ka-powey. Bird flys a little too close: unhesitating Shoryuken to the beak.
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Tags: ktfo, punch, reflexes, speed
Categories : speed, violence
just a typical day in the office at cirque du soleil
23 10 2009
I want to make a highlight video of my time at work and get it all edited together with a bangin’ soundtrack. It would probably look a lot like this except instead of magically floating, and spinning, and flying through the air, I’d be making copies, getting coffee, and blowing people’s minds with my sick powerpoint skillz.
via Geekologie
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Tags: acrobatics, Cirque du Soleil, Dralion, Oli Lemieux, trampoline
Categories : acrobatics
go philadelphia!
22 10 2009
This grainy clip contains all that is great about Philadelphia: passionate sports fans, boozy swearing, rampaging in the streets, screaming white trash, and drivers who don’t give a f@#&. Seriously, it has everything but the cheesesteaks and Rocky. I love this town and I can’t wait for the World Series!
They might as well just keep the lampposts on Broad Street greased so they don’t have to do it twice when they beat the Yankees.
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Tags: baseball, national league champs, philadelphia, phillies fans, sports
Categories : bloopers, sports
the birds
21 10 2009I once came very close to careening off a country highway because this was happening overhead and I couldn’t keep my eyes on the road.
Via TYWKIWDBI aka “Things You Wouldn’t Know if We Didn’t Blog Incessantly,” a fascinating site. Add it to your daily reads if it’s not already there.
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Tags: bird watching, birds, nature, starlings
Categories : nature
can i make another “in soviet russia…” joke?
20 10 2009Is that allowed? Do I lean on this old standby a little too much whenever I post something about Russia?
Perhaps I do. I will play this one straight: In Soviet Russia AHHHH MURDER-BUS! RUNNNN!
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Tags: narrow escape
Categories : bloopers, violence
over the top with mattias schlitte
19 10 2009Yes, this video is 8 minutes long. No, you don’t have to watch it all, but you do have to watch the insanity that is on full display between 1:00 and 1:20.
How is that even possible!?!? That skinny dude has a single gorilla meathook! My theory: he got rooked in one of those cruel ”Monkey’s Paw” type of wish making scams. I first became aware of this strangely unbalanced dude via UniqueDaily.com where they had a picture of him and I said “Fake! Totally shopped!” I never would have believed that such a thing was possible had I not found the video evidence.
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Tags: arm wrestling, feats of strength
Categories : feats of strength
it’s hockey season
16 10 2009Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: hockey, trick shot
Categories : sports
theme o’ the day: wiggly people in convenience stores
15 10 2009First the awesome CGI version, with incredible dancing coming from uncredited performers (David Elsewhere maybe?):
via The Ministry of Manipulation
Now the non-CGI “in real life” version, with incredible hilarity coming debilitating drug abuse:
via too many places to credit
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Tags: dance, futureshock, hip-hop
Categories : dance
ulhs 2009
14 10 2009The Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown has always been my favorite dance event, and I was super bummed to miss it again this year, but God bless the Internet for allowing me to live vicariously through other people’s uploaded clips. My favorite video to emerge so far is this overhead shot of the Blues division — just lots of funky stuff going on here that I dig, especially Todd & Alice (2nd couple).
Everyone who was there keeps saying that the vibe was unreal and I can totally believe it – New Orleans is a magical city. So much music, so much culture, so much history, and beauty and art and funk and alcohol – the magical glue that binds it all together. That city is freaking awesome even without ULHS. It’s probably a good thing I couldn’t make the trip. My head would have asploded.
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Tags: Alice Mei, Annie Trudeau, Blues, lindy hop, peter strom, ramona staffeld, Thomaz Blacharz, todd yannacone, ULHS 2009
Categories : dance, lindy hop