The Web’s Best Video Clips: Videos With A Brain

Not sure what the purpose of this was…but two extremely-gifted ping-pong players decided to have a little fun at what appeared to be a real match.

Two Massachusetts buddies, Paul Cummings & Tony Fiandaca, invested two months of their lives to film and edit this mock battle, replete with super-power effects and a lot of creative energy. It’s a stop-motion extravaganza. More about them at MySpace.com/freeposterfilms.

Remember the guy who played Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future movies? Of course you do. The big dumb bully whose best line was delivered to Marty McFly: “So, why don’t you make like a tree and…get out of here?” The actor’s name is Tom Wilson, and these days, he’s doing standup comedy. [...]

A very funny piece about how Apple sells with style, while Microsoft buries their products in details no one really cares about…to the point that it has become their own sense of (sad) style. Very witty.

This kid hits the deck, but somehow recovers and correctly spells the word.

One would think that there must be a better angle for this.

Very creative, humorous look at the web of tomorrow.

Hugely popular vid has been seen by at least a couple hundred million people since it was posted in mid-2006. Lots of fun…a loosey-goosey interpretation of most of the dance crazes of the past 50 years. More info at EvolutionOfDance.com

A funny mashup of Beatles songs with traditional Irish song forms.

When I was young, we used to call these steam shovels. Like the whole Mike Mulligan thing. This barge looks like it’s powered the normal way…with a motor. But someone seems to have some extra time on his hands…so he decided to help boost propulsion. Pretty funny stuff!

Not a word is spoken, but this comedy duo overpowers with their manic creative energy.

A cute animation about finding a treadmill, and the assumption that it would certainly be better than the normal kind of running. Things generally don’t go well from that point forward.

This purportedly takes place in Utah at the home of a millionaire. I guess, if something goes wrong, he probably has insurance. Looks fun, and scary. It would be pretty wild to actually go flying instead of being snapped back, if there were a way to land on something very soft.

The word “startled” might be a bit too mild for the victims in this short collection of clips.

Le Grand Content seems fairly straight early on…but it just starts getting weirder and weirder as it goes on. Extra points for the droll voiceover.

It’s long (10+ mins). It’s not slick…i.e., whether or not it’s legit, it feels real. It’s fun with Vista’s speech recognition capabilities.
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