Kid plays the Star Wars Cantina song on a harp:

 
 
 
Iron Man vs. Bruce Lee:
 

Here is an engaging little video employing the tilt-shift effect to create the illusion of miniaturization:

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Courtesy of BoingBoing.net; video credit goes to Keith Loutit. Be sure to read his comments about the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service, here.

I thought Friday was done, but then I stumbled upon this:

Let’s just pick the mother of all funk chords, let’s pick a ninth chord

The youtube mash-up has blossomed into art, and I think I like it.
Youtube link

More here

This one’s another copout, and it’s not actually youtube, and there’s probably a bunch of other caveats* I should make but if your familiarity with current internet memes is lacking** and you haven’t heard the ruckus about Sita Sings the Blues, then I hereby pass on to you the “greatest breakup story ever told:”

Sita Sings the Blues

Click on the Watch It link for viewing options. I downloaded the 4 GB ultra-spanky high-def version and it was worth the wait.

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* One more caveat, it’s like an hour and 20 minutes or so but it’s really really really worth the investment of your time.

** A polite way to say you’ve been living under a rock

Technology is wasted on us:

Youtube: technology is wasted on us

Ping pong celebration:

Youtube: ping pong celebration
 
 
Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something (and quite possibly the death of Friday Youtubery because, well, what can follow that?)

Here’s an interesting little video demonstrating the Thatcher Effect:

Video link: the Thatcher Effect
Courtesy of forgetomori

Here’s a link to 20 weird TV interviews

Today’s youtubery is kind of a copout. It’s just a compilation of people crashing, and possibly becoming injured as a result. The sound is loud and annoying and I thought the clip funny with the sound muted but totally obnoxious with sound on. Apparently the editor has a bunch of other crash compilations if this is your cup of tea in which your boat floats.

youtube video link

EDIT: Ok I have a second, and slightly better video: A killer goose, on the loose, goosing a doggy.

youtube video link: Man and dog attacked by goose

Apparently there is a site for mashing up youtube videos. Click here to view the goose attack with a lovely acoustic guitar soundtrack.

I remember being bitten by a mean ol’ big white goose at Heather Farm (known as “Heather Farms” to us local yokels, don’t ask me why) when I was young. I was quite surprised at how painful a goose bite is.

I have seen/heard William Shatner’s spoken word interpretation of Rocket Man, but I did not know that he did the same with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. And someone made a video for the intertubes.

Google video link
Also here, with appropriate comment: This is the video that should have been made for the song that should never have been recorded.

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Little kids annoy the crap out of me, and normally this kind of video might be something I’d used after swallowing poison to induce vomiting, but I think it’s actually kind of funny.
Kittens, inspired by kittens.

Youtube link: kittens, inspired by kittens

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Here is a Trader Joe’s commercial, done by someone who seems to have a love/hate relationship with the store.

Youtube link: Trader Joe’s commercial

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Here is Orff’s Carmina Burana with alternate lyrics:

Youtube link: Carmina Burana

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Finally, Her Morning Elegance, a well-imagined stop-motion music video. I love the way she walks, so springy and happy.

Youtube link: Her Morning Elegance
Some notes about the video from Oren’s MySpace page:

• The video was shot all stills – roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera, hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie.
• It took 4 weeks before shooting to create an animated computer generated storyboard for the video, with 3d dummies for the characters.
• It took only 2 days of shooting for the live actors on set to re-create the 3.5 minutes computer sequence, frame by frame.
• Some of the bed sheets used in the video were taken from Oren’s own bedroom and are now considered collectors items, worth at the moment not very much and therefore used as bed sheets.
• Each of the wonderfully talented people above have worked on the video for a fraction of their normal rates (except Oren who worked for his normal rate of zero).

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And that’s all for today.

I saw this on Speeders Fight Back a few weeks ago and finally got around to finding it on teh intarwebsz. This guy is a real nutjob and the last bit is well-deserved.

Bonus: He has his own listing on the Florida Department of Corrections.

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Completely unrelated is a series of Star Trek: TNG edits that I found through Dinosaur Comics. Each of these gems is under 1:30 and there is a sort of story arc, or at least a set of related themes. You may find them asinine or, like me, completely hilarious. My coworkers were like “WTF this dude is all wonky” as I watched them. Link.

I think my favorites are the Data artwork episodes, particularly episode 10 (though you should really see episode 8 first).