I first watched Dancer in the Dark about ten years ago when I was working in Brunei. It is such a powerful movie that it has remained etched in my memory as one of the best movies I have ever watched. Forget about Hollywood. This is a movie in a class of its own. I have been trying a get ...
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Ai Weiwei Does Gangnam Style His Way – The Grass Mud Horse (Cao Ni Ma) Style
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has officially hopped on the Gangnam Style bandwagon with his version titled Grass Mud Horse Style, a jibe aimed at China’s communist regime The video clip, posted on October 24 to Chinese sites such as “Tudou”, features the hefty 55-year-old artist showing off his moves with a cohort of associates in his Beijing courtyard studio ...
Read More »Magician Rich Ferguson’s Halloween Prank
In the spirit of Halloween, magician Rich Ferguson took to the streets of San Luis Obispo, California, determined to scare the living daylights out of unsuspecting public with his head-drop prank. Upon seeing his head-drop trick, unsuspecting onlookers screamed, gawked, and, in a few cases, ran away in terror. Ferguson is no newbie when it comes to pranks. He’s been ...
Read More »Ramon Bruin’s Anamorphic 3D Drawings
A 31-year-old Netherlands-based artist is creating startlingly realistic 3D illustrations that appear as if they are coming right off the paper all with the help of a pencil and a vivid imagination. Ramon Bruin developed the technique he calls anamorphosis through his experiments in airbrushing, a style he studied at the Airbrush Academie in Lelystad, Netherlands, and promotes through his ...
Read More »Is Gnesa Agnes The Worst Singer In History?
If you think Rebecca Black‘s “Friday, Friday” was atrocious, wait till you listen to Gnesa Agnes. YouTube wannabe Gnesa is seriously challenging Rebecca Black for the title of “Worst Singer In History” with her rendition of “Wilder” that features chorus “la la la la laaaaahhhh” Basically anyone with functioning ears would rank Rebecca way above Gnesa. But what the heck? ...
Read More »Is Alma Deutscher The Next Mozart?
Alma Deutscher is just seven but music lovers are already comparing her to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Surrey schoolgirl can play piano and violin beautifully and has even composed an opera.She has her own YouTube channel to showcase her talents and actor Stephen Fry is among her growing legion of admirers. Fry has twitted about Alma: ‘Simply mind-blowing: Alma Deutscher ...
Read More »You Need to Toughen Up A Bit
One-minute video clip entitled You Need to Toughen Up A Bit featuring four-year-old Delilah O’Donoghue reprimanding her two-year-old brother Gabriel has gone viral on YouTube, attracting more than a million views since it was uploaded to YouTube on October 9. The clip shows Gabriel receiving the dressing down from his sister after he found himself in hot water with their ...
Read More »Hilarious Video Of Twins Having A Pasta Nap
After a long morning of playing in the pool and building sand castles on the beach, 22-month-old twins, MJ and AJ, battled hard to stay awake to finish their spaghetti lunch which they were really enjoying. It was a match between Sleep v.s. Tasty Spaghetti……..and Sleep won! The video of the twins ‘falling asleep while eating’ uploaded to YouTube by ...
Read More »Dito Von Tease’s World Of Ditology
A 33-year-old Italian artist from Bologna in central Italy, working under the pseudonym Dito Von Tease, has created amazing portraits using his fingers as a blank canvas. The graphic artist and illustrator said he uses only his “happy hand” and Photoshop to create his finger portraits. Dito is Italian for finger and the artist’s pseudonymis a play on burlesque dancer ...
Read More »It’s A Perfect Split, A Super Split, A Spotless Split Or Whatever You May Want To Call It
A bizarre stretch-tastic trend is sweeping through China where flocks of ladies have taken to the Chinese microblogging site Weibo to show off their version of a “perfect split” or “spotless split.” Interest in the stretchy meme was sparked by a college girl when she posted this photo of her doing the splits in a dorm room on Weibo:
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