This rivals the cat piano for best instrument. Apparently these were used during the silent film era for music and sound effects.
Trashed Idea – Fotoplayer
Animation – Shanghai Batman
Holy crap. It’s Batman set in Champloo’s setting with animation like Avatar and Afro Samurai. How does something this awesome exist and how is Cartoon Network responsible?
Your Aww for the day – Bulldog vs Sleep
Going down for the count.
Mash Up – Baby Got Back Cinema Edition
Thanks to Brit for the find. Turn on captions for Movie titles. This is the by-product of our unemployment issues.
Your WTF for the day – Little Baby’s Ice Cream
What is happening in this commercial? Why is it called Little Baby’s Ice Cream? It’s not little babies. It’s Little Baby’s. Who’s baby?! These two commercials are actual ads for a shop in PA.
Role Model – 1981 Olympic Athlete Paul Hunt
It takes a whole lotta courage and a whole lotta balls to do what this guy does. How he managed to fit all of it into that unitard is beyond me.
Role Model – Krispy Kreme
This is pretty terrible for many reasons. Good luck getting through it.
Coming to an end
Trashed Ideas will be closing shop June 6th. Mainly because I’m too cheap to renew web-hosting, and also because while I do catch an awesome video that I share every now and then, the traffic has been dying down and and I don’t put as much time into this as I would like in order to maintain it. So I will be posting a ton these next few days, a lot of back-logged awesome. Hopefully you get to see it, otherwise you can catch it on FB.
Viral – Spandy Andy
I want to believe this is just a one-time stunt but he calls himself Spandy Andy so I highly doubt it. Curious to see what a white guy who can dance in a sparkly speedo looks like? No? Well 3 million views means some people are curious.
Your WTF for the day – Condom experiments
I can’t believe what I just saw. Seriously. This is not NSFW, meaning you can watch it whenever. And it gets absurd. Just watch. Thanks to Dani for the find.
Tasty Jams – Pictures of your @#!% (NSFW)
Rachel Bloom is responsible for the @#$^ Me, Ray Bradbury video I posted some time ago. This heartbreaking song is about breaking up. And also very NSFW.
Stop Motion – Fresh Guacamole
Apparently Showtime does shorts? This wonderful stop-motion short takes every day items (grenades are definitely for every day use) and creates a deceptively delicious looking guacamole.
Tasty Jams – Ukulele cover of Shaft
What is about ukuleles that are just so awesome? I don’t know. But this cover of Shaft is quite excellent. My favorite part is the when the camera pans to the only black guy in the audience of about 500 people.
Commercial – New Dell Campaign
Dell’s new ad campaign follows the vein of psuedo-intellectuals using technology to create amazing things, much like this. Just give it a little time to get in. Probably NSFW.
Clayton Sotos – Visual Innovators from Visual Innovators on Vimeo.
Role Model – George Takei’s Happy Dance
George Takei is awesome. Normally I wouldn’t make you listen to LMAO for any reason but I mean come on. It’s George Takei doing a happy dance. Plus, he’s sexy and he knows it.
Rant – Best Rant of 2012
This man was upset about being harassed by a police officer for using colorful language in a park. I’m not condoning what he did but his rant to Mark Sidrine (spelling?), the arresting officer, is inspiring and surprisingly safe for work.
Role Models – Sleepy Man Banjo Boys
Hopefully every knows the Dueling Banjos song and doesn’t immediately associate it to a purty mouth but even if you do you will still enjoy this video. These three boys (the 3rd doesn’t come in frame until well into the video) make up the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys and are more talented than you. I promise.