though it’s been several days since his death, i wanted to give a post saying farewell to the very very funny harvey korman who died on may 29th, 2008. thank you mr. korman for your work and for continuing to make me laugh and laugh! yes, there was the very funny carol burnett show and numerous other characters that you played so well (well, except maybe the cooking show host on the star wars christmas special). but for me nothing compares to the insanity of Hedly Lamar from Blazing Saddles! so good! also, there’s a great & in depth interview with harvey korman on youtube (in 3 parts). you will be missed, mr. korman! rest in peace!
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for no reason, weezer’s new video for their song pork and beans is an dense cornucopia of internet themes, memes, viral marketing shots, one hit wonders & blunders, forwarded emails, and dare i say mashup of online clips and fan videos. i spy some gi joe, diet coke VS mentos, dramatic chipmunk + where’s your head at, yet another lightsaber duel, that incredibly brainy south carollina’s miss teen usa, and that clumsy karate guy to name a few. there’s a whole lot going on. just when you were ready to forget these things too - jeez! the vision & concept for the pork & beans video came from the video director mathew cullen over at motion theory. good stuff!
The Power of Now written by eckhart tolle is a very wonderful, powerful, and transformational book. books find you in strange ways. i am grateful that eckhart tolle wrote it and grateful to my father and then my friend mike murnane for introducing me to it. without the messages and insights gathered from that book, i do not know where i would be right now. i imagine less aware, less awake, less alive, less loving, less caring, more reactive, more negative, and more afraid to be who i am. open up and begin reading The Power of Now at any point in the book and you will get some great insight, simplicity, and wisdom, as well as pathways to peace, stillness, and understanding. i found this is also true of eckhart tolle’s second book A New Earth. soundstrue has a great interview with eckhart tolle and also has several great videos of eckhart tolle lectures and speeches. i’ve posted two of those videos below. one is titled Not Reacting to Content and the other is Your Pain Body is Very Seductive. i feel that the consciousness of human beings on our planet is changing. it has to in order for our world to survive. thank you very much eckhart tolle for putting you thoughts and ideas out into the world and for your work and insight!
Not Reacting to Content
Your Pain Body is Very Seductive
neato! this slow motion vid clip totally makes me wanna slap someones face! oy! i had no idea getting slapped could look so cool. squaaaash!!! thanks jamie!
this is how i’m feeling right now: my loony bun is fine benny lava. yeah, you know it. i hope your sunday is half as awesome as this video clip and it’s phonics based subtitles! just keep dancing …
it’s friday, and this weekend you may be heading out on a lukewarm to semi-hot date. need advice? no problem! that funny fella dan clark is here to help you with the conceptual art that is dating. first, please watch and learn with dan clark’s 10 reasons not to take drugs on a date.
next, to make sure you arrive okay, here’s 10 ways not to arrive for a date …
good advice!! last but not least, & this is very important: 10 things you should not say after sex.
so maybe you’re going out to a club this weekend. yeah? need some awesome moves? really awesome? then you got ‘em! here’s the official freshness on rave dancing from sweden called stampa med leroy. double yeah! at 1:42 i find hurt & myself rather upset that leroy is revealing my signature move titled ‘wash the laundry.’ dag-nabbit! i recommend letting the video fully load and then skipping right to 4:23 for the sweet sweet dessert that is leroy’s ultimate rave dance showcase demo! it’s quite a feast. good stuff. now go dancing!
interesting + amazing + creepy + fascinating + ‘it’s coming to get me’ new footage of boston dynamic’s big dog pack mule robot traversing through the woods and snow. while it looks like two actors in leotards performing an elaborate mummenschanz show, it’s not. it’s a robot, built to walk & deliver supplies, and it can’t fall down. in fact, i can hear it approaching right now … yikes … gotta go!
thank you mojito’s in north beach for bringing the lovely & soulful alice russell to the bay area! giantmonster especially thanks alice russell & mike simmonds for 1) a really amazing show at mojito’s in north beach on march 10th & 11th, and 2) getting a ticket-less me into the sold out show for free! thank you thank you! if you haven’t heard alice russell sing, check out alice russell’s myspace page to get a listen to her music. previously with tru thoughts recordings. video of alice russell singing to know this below.
more links:
Alice Russell - All Over Now
Alice Russell - High On The Hook (live)
Alice Russell - Hurry On
great time lapse video footage of fog covering san francisco. the video was shot in HD on february 8th, 2008 and filmed from across the bay in sausilito. warning: gratuitous amounts of fog - this could be classified as fog porn. for a bit less fog, hd-sf.com has this really great night-to-day-to-night time lapse footage of san francisco for your viewing pleasure.
it’s friday, and giantmonster would like to ask do you know where your rick astley is?
performed in the main concourse at grand central station in new york city, the skit frozen at grand central by improv everywhere has been so successful and inspiring that the performance is now spawning copies around the world. there is the great trafalgar square freeze in london, freeze on grafton street in dublin, ireland, and the san francisco freeze to name just three. but there are many many more freeze events listed on the improve everywhere website & definitely worth checking out. video of the original grand central freeze plus a few more are posted below. so great! & speaking of freeeeze …
Frozen at Grand Central - january 31st, 2008
The Great Trafalgar Square Freeze - february 16th, 2008
SF Freeze - february 23rd, 2008
taking the art of dining to new and savory heights comes this clip from a japanese game show with pointers on the proper way to eat marshmellows. can it be done any other way? i don’t think so. side note: with the competing teams in this video wearing red and blue outfits, i can’t help think of US politics and that someday this is how our elections will be decided. awesome! thanks jamie for the clip!
really liking the video for the song ‘ding’ by the german reggae/dancehall band seeed. it features some really nice stop motion animation. honestly, what is not to like about a red hairy ape in a top hat drinking & dancing at a club?
david hasselhoff. eating a hamburger. visibly drunk. being filmed by one of his children. wearing blue jeans. and no t-shirt. sound kinda weird - like a crazy dream? well, it is weird and it’s definitely not a dream. and yes, of course, there is video (this is the full video, sans commentary). other vids here and here too. oddly enough, this performance by david hasselhoff is considered sober. crazy. so yes, it’s friday, and no fancy black trans-am can save you now. i blame garthe knight.
wow. the 2007 san francsico pillow fight held on february 14th was a total feather inhaling blast! for those of you too busy to have fun (meaning: why you gotta go and miss the pillow fight?) the giantmonster staff went to great efforts to over-document the event. please take a look at our flickr set titled pillow fight san francsico 2007 containing no less than 304 photos (yikes). even eeyore got in on the pillow fighting action. so much fun! and there’s video too (posted below). other sites for great pillow-fight recaps: laughing squid, somegirlwitha, the pillow fight club sf flickr pool, & meshmagazine to name a few.
and, oh yes, the pillow fightin’ videos …
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 1 (00:51)
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 2 (01:10)
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 3 (00:25)
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 4 (00:34 - posted above)
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 5 (00:30)
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 6 (00:31)
youtube keeps and giving. for some nonsensical joy, witness the tiniest lil’ breakdancer with the whitest teeth & widest smile bust several moves in this youtube vid titled little superstar. special! i like the rag-tag group of crime fighters in the background, obviously led by the large lounging fella with the dope casio tape deck. enjoy! & thanks derek for the link!
hella bollywood be up in this piece, yo! it’s a little dance routine called solla solla enna perumai. the time has come to shelve your inihibitions, oil up your chest (ever so slightly), and dust off your gold lamme high heel boots. from a 1981 movie called Ellam Inba Mayam … it’s just totally, absolutely rad. (thanks brad & thanks cari!)
sent in from brad, a link titled “dogs floating in space.” it could have meant anything really. but this time it actually meant ‘dogs floating in space’. or more specifically, a new video titled ‘birds’ from the lovely creatives at pleix. the birds video is funny to watch. something about the slo-motion over building electro rock equates with sexy doggie models in 1980’s nagel print setting (now with lasers!). reminds me a bit of the brilliant the aphex twin video ‘windowlicker‘ (windowlicker link NSFW, but soo worth it). oh, & check out the other films at pleix. many good things in there.
a link sent in from my friend leigh, there’s a brand new history lesson about america’s first president, george washington. not just that old ‘i cannot tell a lie/chop down the cherry tree’ bullshit. no. this was important stuff. like how he rode a crystal horse, grew to 12 stories tall, invented cocaine. lots of stuff. just watch brad neely’s animation below and learn …
science time! from eepybird comes the The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments. a series of beautiful scientific tests that combines 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos (the freshmaker) mints. the results are lovely and messy. and there’s lots of other videos to watch of experiments (or is it experi-mints?) from eepybird as well. well done lads - well done!
Experiment #6
Experiment #137
it’s friday! and it seems to be summer too. time to head down to the lake and get some fishing in! but if you want to actually catch fish, leave this guy at home. please enjoy the fish-less fishing adventures on how not to fish with these bill dance fishing bloopers. he actually says ‘dag-gummit!’ awesome!
bob ross, master painter, simply rules. you will see and you will know. i loved his show the joy of painting. watch this great youtube video of bob ross doing his thing. so cool! the sound of his creamy, friendly voice … so … soothing … i am lulled into a calm tranquil world of happy beautiful birch trees. and owls. enjoy!
UPDATE:
bummer! video pulled due to copyright violation filed by Bob Ross inc. darn.
warning: clowns are heading into nursing homes to feed upon entertain the elderly. send help now! what? don’t believe me? well, thanks to wmfu’s beware the blog there’s proof. bear witness to the end of sanity and watch clown ministry video 1 and then, yes, clown ministry video 2. i’ll let the dialogue from the video speak for itself:
when you’re ready to launch out into the unknown, possibly the best place to begin is in a nursing home, or a care center for the elderly. one reason is simply this: the elderly really receive you quite well. i think it’s because they already know how vulnerable they are. they’re lonely, and longing for touch. so as clowns we take seriously what jesus said in matthew 25 …
also, halfway through the first video, there’s some very good advice on the “clown clustering” phenomenon:
when you enter the nursing home, do not stand there with your group in a large cluster of clowns. clowns can look rather intimidating if you see a lot of them in one place.
so true. so very, very true. i remember a traffic-stopping clown party on geary and 23rd ave in SF about 3 years ago. dozens of country clowns and hillbilly clowns. there was a pie fight too. soo scary.
this was sent to my by derek a long, long while back. for anyone who loves bad movies (really bad) there’s the good badmovies.org website. so much love and goodness has gone into this site. archiving and chronicling all the bad cheesy shitty movies your mind has tried to block out. or won’t block out - can’t block out. seriously. 
they’ve got video clips and sound bytes too! i have to recommend the review for the buddha fist - classic kung-fu cinema. don’t miss the buddha fist video clip either! then there’s the star wars holiday special (still better than episode 1), matango: attack of the mushroom people, xanadu, 
the rowdy roddy piper visual opus hell comes to frogtown, santa claus conquers the martians (peep the movie clip of the lameness), raiders of wu tang (more kung-fu!), and lots more. wow. painful. perhaps brutal. but worth a visit i say. and, i’m not sure, but did someone say C.H.U.D.?
g-rated folsom street sillyness on the horizon again from a japanese game show with this clip titled hard gay man, or better pronounced “hharr-dhu gaahhy mehhn.” that’s right. leather clad in your face pelvic thrusting does seem to keep the kids from crying. & i’m sure by the title of this post alone i’ll get a lot more traffic then normal. special!
looking for a little rectum probing in your music video lineup? who isn’t! how about some testicle grabbing? bong humor? or just great direction, style, and motion graphics? then look no further! Loh Tsui Kweh Commune is a wacky lil’ rock group from Taiwan that i’ve never heard of before. so how do i know they are wacky? because i saw this super rad but crazy video packed with all the aforementioned treats - plus a catchy beat! that crappy old MTV would never have the guts to play something like this. that’s why you should watch it, keeping in mind that it’s not safe for work. and it’s a 40 meg download. dooo it!