Daily Entertainment blog

Weekly video overview #3

2010-06-02T15:27:00.000-07:00

1. Lego Printer. 3 weeks of hard work payed off!

2. Ozzy Osbourne scares some of his fans in a wax museum. Got me once again convinced what a nice guy he is in daily life.

3. Tom Watt's Green Grass performed by Agathe and Joséphine. More videos of theirs are available on their Myspace page.

4. Super Sexy Abdominal Thrusts. The second video in the series.

Weekly video overview #2

2010-05-17T13:03:00.000-07:00

1. A cover of Lady Gaga's "Papparazzi" by a talented 13-year-old. Probably one of the best renditions I've ever heard on Youtube. The boy is now on his stardom track and was invited to Ellen DeGeneres Show last week.

2. Assassination attempt on Viktor Yanukovich. Close call!

3. Surprise engagement on Live Air. Russia Today's correspondent has been proposed by her colleauge from Al Jazeera during the evening news.

4. Super Sexy CPR. This video finally drove the life-saving knowledge into my head.

5. The Fake Yo-Yo Trickster. This guy managed to trick four local TV stations as of now, and will probably attempt more. More details on Deadspin.com.

Weekly video overview

2010-05-10T03:46:00.000-07:00

From this week, I'm starting a new post category: weekly video overview. The amount of viral videos appearing every week seems to be increasing, so individual posts are insufficient.

1. Monkey man. Seen this on a gif many times, but finally found the original video. This climber uses the most extreme "figure four" movement I've ever seen.

2. Dog rap. Hilarious tune from Russia.

3. Civil courage (via dirty.ru). And that's why you can walk the streets safely in China.

4. 10.000 candle illusion.

5. Latest development in sports: Walking on water (Jesus Christ!). Obviously, the video has been filmed by placing transparent Plexiglas platforms right under the water. It serves as an advertisement for Hi-Tec's waterproof sneakers.

Only in Russia

2010-05-04T17:09:00.000-07:00

A dumptruck got into a peculiar accident yesterday in Kaliningrad, Russia.

I can only imagine the driver's reaction when the car lifted off the ground. Hope he had spare trousers.

via Lepra
images (c) Klops.ru

Leonardo Da Vinci in 3D

2010-04-12T07:49:00.000-07:00

Great advertisement for Samsung LED TV's.

3 most creative ways to propose

2010-03-31T12:59:00.001-07:00

And that's how I met your mother!

via reddit
from Fundvision

A pleasant view

2010-03-19T15:20:00.000-07:00

Original panorama on Google Street View.

Enjoy your every little moment

2010-03-18T18:33:00.000-07:00

Great advertisement by Cheers Beer (Thailand)

Seen any UFOs lately?

2010-03-16T17:29:00.000-07:00

Original idea by d-fedot

How to become an expert in arts

2010-03-15T07:40:00.000-07:00

(original text in Russian by californian-bi4)

A long time ago, when I was a freshman in college, we had this art history class. The subject was really-really interesting; however the lecturer was truly shit. None of the guys in our group liked him. Every Saturday, he opened the door exactly at 7:55 AM, and closed it permanently at 8:00 AM.
Late by 1 second? Sucks for you. Here’s why.

For the entire year, he showed us slides of paintings, sculptures, mosaics and stuff. From wall scribbles of the ancient man to modern artists of the 80s. He had tons of these slides, like a thousand of them or something. And, of course, there was an exam at the end of the year.
First a couple of standard questions, then one more for each time you skipped class (!). He took out a random slide and you needed to name the author and the title, or at least the author, or at least the title. We sort of remembered how Mona Lisa and Malevich’s Square looked like, but the rest posed a serious problem. Therefore, we developed a special classification system, which worked 95% of the time, and I believe it still works as of today!

By remembering these simple rules, you can easily become the arts-expert-guy among your friends.

1. Dark background and suffering faces? That’s Titian for sure.

Exception – this young bare-assed lady with no signs of intelligence. Not too hard to remember. Venus of Urbino; there’s certainly something venereal about her.

2. Does the picture contain huge asses and even men have cellulite? Have no doubt – that’s old Rubens.

3. Do the guys in the painting look like medieval Italian fags? That’s Caravaggio, all right.

He actually painted women a couple of times. Here’s Gorgon Medusa, for example. I have no idea why she looks like Johnny Depp, though.

4. Lots of little people? Bruegel.

5. Lots of little people + tons of unexplainable crap? Meet Hieronymus Bosch. Yeah, just like that German refrigerators company.

6. Should the painting have (or seem to lack) a couple of Cupids, the author could be:

a) Boucher

b) Watteau

6. Looks great, everybody’s naked and have Schwarzenegger-like shapes. Michelangelo.

7. Balerinas? Degas! Degas? Balerinas!

8. Contrasting, sharp style? Thin, bearded faces? Señor El Greco!

And finally:

9. Everyone, even women, share resemblance to Putin? That’s Jan van Eyck.

The End.

Original text (c) californian_bi4
Painting scans taken from Smallbay.ru