TOP 5 TV Interviews

#5 - Funny Surfer Dude

A surfer describes the waves with some awesome sound-effects:

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#4 - Psycho Dog Man

An Australian man recounts a story of some neighborhood dogs that tried to attack him, with an included re-enactment:

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#3 - Grape Stomp Lady

An unfortunate, yet hilarious mishap during a live news report. I love how the anchors back at the station are trying not to laugh. "I can't breathe!"

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#2 - Backin' Up Lady

A lady tells the story of what she did when some guys (one with a black hoodie, one with a white hoodie) tried to rob the convenience store. "He shot the rubber!"

Some guys took the video and made a music video about it. It's pretty catchy, so be careful because it might get stuck in your head after watching it!"

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#1 - Bed Intruder

A guy talks about the dude that tried to rape his sister and gives him a stern warning:

Another music video was made of this one. Also very likely to get stuck in your head. I can't watch the original video anymore without hearing the song in my head!

TOP 5 Stop Motion Music Videos

You all knew it was coming! With so many music videos readily available on YouTube, its hard not to include at least a few whenever I do a video TOP 5. Same idea as last time, but these are all music videos. Some are done surprisingly well, even with a low budget. Enjoy the TOP 5 stop motion music videos!

#5 - "You Came Out" by We Have Band

Alright I'll be the first to admit that this movie is a little creepy... But I thought it was such an interesting idea that I had to include it!

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#4 - "Odd Socks" by Grand Pocket Orchestra

Each frame in this video has paper cut-outs that move along with the video. A pretty neat idea.

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#3 - "End Love" by OK Go

This video literally shows how long it can to make a stop motion video. Since it is outside you are able to see the sunlight and watch as the shadows grow and it turns to night into day and back into night. Oh, and gotta love the goose!

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#2 - "Her Morning Elegance" by Oren Lavie

A catchy tune in a bedroom scene (not THAT kind of bedroom scene you dirty boy!) They put a lot of everyday bedroom objects to good use!

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#1 - "Strawberry Swing" by Coldplay

This video is AMAZING. At first I was like oh that is some cool CGI, yadda yadda yadda. But then I saw the end. Just wait; you'll see...

TOP 5 Stop Motion Shorts

I recently watched all of the Wallace and Gromit videos again, and it just hit me how much time is spent doing each and every frame of a stop motion video. I remember I once tried to make a stop motion movie with LEGOs, but gave up after just a few frames... Keeping the camera steady, being careful to not bump something, and trying to make everything move fluidly was just too much to handle. I read in an interview from Nick Park (creator of Wallace and Gromit) that said they typically can record about 30 frames a day in full production. 30 frames. That is 1 second of film recorded each day! And that isn't even including rework when something doesn't look quite right! Now hopefully we can all have a greater appreciation for stop motion pictures, and with that I give you the TOP 5 stop motion shorts:

#5 - "Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles"

A video some BYU students made for a film festival. Their website claims that everything is real - no CG effects!

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#4 - "T-SHIRT WAR!!"

These guys had over 200 shirts made to make this video!

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#3 - "The PEN Story"

This is a story [advertisement] of a guy's life as seen through a moving sequence of pictures. They actually borrowed [stole] the idea from here, but I actually liked the look of this video better.

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#2 - "DEADLINE"

A stop motion video made with post-it notes. This one must've to taken forever!

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#1 - Western Spaghetti

I don't know what it is about this video, but it is just charming and makes me smile. For some reason I especially like the part with the butter... I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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TOP 5 Worst Music Videos - Part 2 - American

We've all seen bad music videos. Maybe some kids made their own "music video" at home of a Queen song and it turned out pretty bad, but that's nothing compared to this. In a 2-part series I present to you the TOP 5 worst music videos. I judged these based off of music quality, choreography, special effects, and overall attitude (you'll see). All are hugely popular in their country of origin - none of these are just amateur singer's videos. Most are pretty hard to watch, and after a few seconds you'll just want to turn them off. I DARE YOU to watch them all the way through - WARNING: It's painful!

#5 - "America, We Stand As One" by Dennis Madalone

A patriotic guy who took it a little too far.

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#4 - "Little Wings" by Mark Gormley

This is how I'd imagine Ned Flanders would look and sing in real life.

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#3 - "Hooked on a Feeling " by David Hasselhoff

I don't understand how he could make a video like this and still end up famous.

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#2 - "Losing You" by Jan Terri

A Miss Piggy look-alike doesn't care much about her song.

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#1 - "Why Must I Cry" by Reh Dogg

Why Reh Dogg? Why must you make us all cry? I'll just say thank goodness for shadows. Officially the worst video ever.

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Ugh. Just terrible. I think the American music videos were far worse than the foreign videos. I mean at least the other countries tried to make it good... I hope you enjoyed these as much as I did. Although extremely hard to watch, they were pretty funny at the same time. Leave your name if you were able to watch them all the way through, and be sure to leave a link to the worst American music video that you've ever seen!

TOP 5 Worst Music Videos - Part 1 - Foreign

We've all seen bad music videos. Maybe some kids made their own "music video" at home of a Queen song and it turned out pretty bad, but that's nothing compared to this. In a 2-part series I present to you the TOP 5 worst music videos. I judged these based off of music quality, choreography, special effects, and overall attitude (you'll see). All are hugely popular in their country of origin - none of these are just amateur singer's videos. Most are pretty hard to watch, and after a few seconds you'll just want to turn them off. I DARE YOU to watch them all the way through - WARNING: It's painful!

#5 - "I Wanna Love You Tender" by Armi ja Danny

A 70's band from Finland.

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#4 - "Novi God" by Steklovata

Extremely popular boy band from Russia.

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#3 - "Tunak Tunak Tun" by Daler Mehndi

The Brittney Spears of India.

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#2 - "Aiin No Uta" by Mini Moni

The Spice Girls of Japan.

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#1 - "Chaccaron Maccaron" by El Chombo

He's from Panama. No Comment.

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I hope you enjoyed these as much as I did. Although extremely hard to watch, they were pretty funny at the same time. Leave your name if you were able to watch them all the way through, and be sure to leave a link to the worst foreign music video that you've ever seen! Stay tuned for part 2...

P.S. Thanks to Landon for finding "Chaccaron Maccaron" for me!

TOP 5 Barats & Bereta

For those of you that haven't had a chance to experience a Barats & Bareta video, I hope that my TOP 5 favorites will give you a good look into some of their funniest work. Find out more at www.baratsandbereta.com


#5 - "Superhero Dunks"

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#4 - "Just Wonderful"

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#3 - "The Other Son"

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#2 - "Cubicle Wars 2006"

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#1 - "Mother's Day"

TOP 5 Feel-Good Videos

This first category consists of videos that give you that tingly feeling, deep down inside, that just leave you feeling happy. I had a few different videos in mind when I created this list, but these were my top picks:

#5 - "National Anthem at Fenway Park"
This video was shot during "Disability Day at Fenway Park", where they had a special needs individual sing our National Anthem.



#4 - "Paul Potts on 'Britain's Got Talent'"
Many of you have probably already seen this video, but I was surprised by how it made me feel. Maybe I'd like opera? I'm still too scared to try it out. But if it always makes you feel like this then I probably could enjoy it.




#3 - "Christian the Lion"
A really cool story, although the video does a horrible job at explaining the story. If you want to find out more about the story search Google here. P.S. the music is really cheesy.



#2 - "Where the Hell is Matt?"
I don't know what it is about this video that gets me, but there is something just about it that I enjoy. Maybe it is just its simplicity, or there might even be a subliminal message, but I think I could watch it forever...



#1 - "CAN"
This man deserves to be father of the century! I don't think anyone can watch this movie without feeling some kind of emotion and spirit.