I love finding people who have crazy talents online. As a current diver and ex-gymnast, people who can control their bodies like the people you will find below always astound me. Enjoy these three very different types of gymnastics:
This one is my most recent discovery in this category. HOW DOES SHE DO THAT?!
One of my favorite categories of video that I discovered this summer are videos that get your adrenaline pumping. Many of these are made possible by the GoPro camera which is pretty sweet. I did a warrior dash (a 5k race with military style obstacles strewn throughout) and saw a guy with one of them strapped to his chest! Maybe it'll be on youtube one day. In the meantime, here are some of the crazy heart stopping videos:
This one is incredible. It's actually a trailer! If you like it maybe the movie is something to check out in the future. I also love the soundtrack:
This one is similarly crazy. I love how these cameras put you RIGHT in the athletes shoes. Or skiis in this case:
This one is just unbelievable. To imagine choreographing something like this so precisely blows my mind every time:
Along the same lines, another type of video that I love are videos of people doing things you know you could never do. Next post soon to come!
This is also a cool blog post about creative advertisements. I love ads like this (well, as far as loving ads goes) because they're fun and pretty brilliant.
Oh, and one more note about creativity. 30 Rock. It's brilliant. I absolutely love Tina Fey's sense of humor. This show has me in stitches whenever I watch it. If you're already a fan, you may appreciate this clip from another hilarious show:
Blogging is weird. There was a small period of time when I followed blogs written by my friends, but they were shortly replaced by more popular and far more addicting websites like Facebook or Stumbleupon. Not to hate on blogging. It certainly isn't the only odd phenomenon on the internet. Hey, I used to think Twitter was one of the most ridiculous ideas ever, and now it's probably my #1 web addiction. What changed? I figured out how to use it to best suit me. I hope to use this blog in the same way.
I realized this summer how often I have conversations that lead someone to pull out a computer and look something up. While sometimes this is purely for informational purposes, it is much more common for someone to mention a link or video they saw and then want to share it. Twitter has become my way to share, record, and chronicle the videos and links that interest me. Why blog? Well, it's an assignment for a class I'm taking called New Media Technologies. That was the initial push. In thinking of how I could use this blog for the same purposes as my Twitter, while making it different enough that people will want to look at both, I realized that blog posts don't have the same length restrictions that tweets do. Therefore, I will use this blog to elaborate on the fun videos and articles that I post.
One of these internet enhanced conversations that I've recently had lead a bunch of friends and I to watch my favorite episode of a hilarious Youtube series called Drunk History. Here it is:
I absolutely love all of these, but this is my favorite. Hilarious AND informative. Plus, I can't help but be blown away by how well done they are. Kudos actors, I can't imagine how many times you listened to the audio from the original video.
