tropfest winner 2011

the winner of a short film festival held in sydney every year

symmetry.

brought to you by the amazing site everynone, a filmmaking team located in new york.
what i love about this video is each little moment where you make the connection yourself, like between cookies and milk, art gallery and student art, lightbulb and sunlight. seriously, just watch it. there's too many to list.
just beautiful filmography

this. is. epic!

BRILLIANCE!

a simple mirror. or is it?

oh man, imagine the fun you could have with this.

italian homework vs. improv everywhere

guess who won? so instead of doing my aforementioned italian homework that's been freaking me out, i spent a good chunk of my evening watching youtube videos of improv everywhere. i've been a huge fan for a long time, but i just think is hilarious because the people who are improv-ing are so nonchalant to the attention they're attracting.



i want to try it here in sydney - who's with me?

Friday!

How could I not post this on a Friday?



This is the best version I've seen of Rebecca Black's Friday


(if you haven't heard of it, it's a song that went viral, due to poor lyrics and over-auto-tuned vocals - unfortunately the original has been removed from youtube)



Have a lovely weekend :)

Theo Jansen.

The first time I watched this video, I got to 0:17 and started shrieking, it's walking it's walking!

Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor who creates these amazing skeleton things out of plastic yellow tubing, that walk. by. themselves, powered by the wind! on the beach (and detect things to avoid, like water)!

AMAZING work!

I know this post contains terrible grammar but I wanted to articulate the amazing-ness of the work. I know, shame on me for ignoring basic English rules. But I can't help it!

the water

this is such a lovely, beautiful song.
brooke fraser is an amazing singer who has such a wonderful voice

flash mobs

I know I know, I've been posting a lot of videos, but that's because I keep finding videos I want to share!
I recently took part in a flash mob dance, which was absolutely amazing and I really want to do another one soon! But in the meantime, I've found some really awesome ones!

Is this not an awesome dance, done to a wonderful song?


This one is absolutely wonderful, I love GLEE and I love the mix of songs too!


And here is a flash mob with a difference

mellow

the start may be deceiving, but once it starts this song is just a beautiful, mellow song to chill to.
by an absolutely wonderful band.
fell in love with their sound when they did 5 years time, and now they've released another 2 albums!

Absolutely breathtaking.

A beautiful, magical animation by Ryan Woodward.
I can't stop watching it.


found via lunch bag art

my wish is to be this cool when i grow up

pancreas

theyre an important organ that we can't forget.
and some people even write songs about them!






weird al is just brilliant. he can mimic so many different music styles and his lyrics are hilarious!

Oooh oooh oooh ee-oooh oooh oooh
Ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh-oooh oooh
Oooooh

I'm always thinkin' 'bout it
I don't know what I'd do without it
I love, I really love
My pancreas

My spleen just doesn't matter
Don't really care about my bladder
But I don't leave home without
My pancreas

My pancreas is always
There for me
Ahh-oooh




and it goes on

flight of the conchords.

and this is another video that popped up in a lecture.



gotta love flight of the conchord's, they never cease to make me laugh :)

eurovision love

this is absolutely amazingly made!
the best part is the first 5 minutes and 20seconds.

music crazy!

i've put up a few music videos lately but i just couldn't resist this happy little tune.
they're just so happy the entire time!

guaranteed to put a smile on my (and hopefully your) face on this *cough* wonderful monday morning!

this delightful song is 'daylight' by matt and kim

rediscovery of the sims

and in particular SIMLISH music videos!

i loooove it!
just listen to this: three different versions of the 'hot n cold'..

firstly, i cannot embed the video so please follow the link to see the official katy perry version

and then listen to this one



and then this one




LOVE!

awkward much?

so when i was away on my wonderful bus trip, i made some great friends, including those who also love singing loudly on long trips.

we were listening to this song and singing it at the same time. i guess it might have been a little awkward?

avenue q

and thanks to the last post, i was reminded of this truly wonderful song




because of the line

"don'cha feel all warm and cosy watching people out in the rain?

you BET!

that's schadenfreude*, people talking pleasure in your pain."



i was absolutely thrilled to go and see this wonderful musical, avenue q, when it was here in sydney last year. i've known the songs for about, i don't know, 6 years and was looking forward to the chance to see it in america sometime, so when it came here i jumped for joy!

it was absolutely hilarious and i'm sure the people i went with thought the same, especially as i was able to sing along to every single song and truly improve their experience of the whole thing *cough*

i'm an avenue q nerd!

*wikipedia it


stay tuned for more songs

mutemath

i adore this band.
they make some amazing music.

but the video that caught my attention when i found it and caused me to listen to their music was this one..



enjoy


p.s. there's also a making of somewhere on the net
p.p.s. at one point they also did the video live, but i can't find it anymore. but how is it possible?