Tag: YouTube
YouTube Hits: Jesus Punch Kung-fu!
Remember Monkey? Add a sachet of Jesus, a dollop of really cringe-worthy subtitling, and 250kg of radical kung-fu moves to the mixture, bake it for 36 seconds in YouTube, and voila! Jesus Punch Kung-fu!
Nigella is scribbling….
Opinion: Why I am giving up YouTube for Lent
Ashley Norris writes…
In case you hadn’t noticed, this week was the start of what Christians called Lent. For those of you who dozed off during RE let me remind you it is a period of days in which the faithful deprive themselves of worldly pleasures in order to bring themselves closer to the almighty.
Back in the day folks would swap the temptations of alcohol, sex and the odd pillage for a more cerebral life of bible study and quiet contemplation. It sounds fine but not a lot of fun. I for one would have certainly missed the pillaging. Then more recently people started giving up things like chocolate and coffee. Again this is very sensible except for they risk an earlier than expected rendezvous with their maker following a cocoa bean and caffeine fuelled frenzy on Easter Sunday.
Now the Archbishop of Canterbury has weighed in with a call for people to give up squandering the earth’s resources for Lent. By this he means turning off lights when they are not needed, not driving to the shops when you can get the bus and generally reducing carbon emissions. It is all good stuff, but in my book it is not nearly the equivalent of a spot of a self-flagellation, which as you probably know was very popular during Lent. Besides shouldn’t we be doing that all year ’round?
So ignoring Rowan Williams I am going to go for the jugular and do something almost as painful as a few lashes on the back – I am going to give up YouTube….
Chinese couple suing subway operator over CCTV kiss leaked onto YouTube
An amorous Chinese couple captured on film by CCTV as they hugged and kissed on a subway platform is planning to sue the operator for the subsequent leak of the footage onto YouTube and other video sharing sites.
The three-minute video allegedly contained “a mocking voice” in the background, with the couple said to be “extremely embarrassed”. It had reportedly been viewed over 15,000 times in the first two days after it was uploaded.
“Now every time I walk into a metro station I feel uncomfortable,” the unwitting male video star said.
The 10 YouTube videos we're STILL not bored of
Some YouTube videos stay with you long after the first viewing. Sometimes because they have scarred and terrified you, other times because the sheer stupidity on display has lowered the bar further than previously thought possible.
Here are the 10 YouTube classics we go back to time and time again, for endless free entertainment – and have even considered trying to work out how to save to our computer just in case YouTube ever breaks or closes, such is their ‘national treasure’ status.
1. Carol Vorderman spelling out MILF on Countdown. Could literally watch this on a loop 24-hours-a day without any other form of stimulation whatsoever. Would pay to watch a three-hour loop of it at the cinema. Would buy an HD Blu-ray loop of it. And it’d still be hilarious in 2012. She doesn’t even understand, the poor thing…
Early Christmas present for us all, Perez Hilton's been suspended on YouTube!
‘Sleb gossip blogger, and all round idiot, Perez Hilton has been suspended by YouTube.
No, it’s not due to his ridiculous hair, or his even more ridiculous choice of video content – it’s due to him posting ‘a very critical video about their practices.” What on earth could the self-touted ‘Queen Of All Media’ criticise about YouTube, to get his account suspended?!
According to a video he posted on a new YouTube account just a few hours ago, it’s due to a video he uploaded on…
Opinion: Vodafone gives us an early Christmas pressie and unwraps Social Networking on the move
Jonathan Weinberg writes… I saw a quick demonstration of this yesterday and it certainly looks like being a brilliant idea that I hope other mobile networks follow. With Internet prices dropping like stones across all the mobile firms thanks to bundled ‘unlimited’ data and use of social networking growing by the millions in the blink of an eye, it makes sense to match up the two.
Vodafone has designed a downloadable application that sits on your handset connecting you to Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and Bebo. Nothing majorly new there, because you can surf them at present and many have their own download applications too like the excellent Facebook program for Blackberrys…
BBC launches classic Parkinson clips on YouTube
I never liked Michael Parkinson. He flounders when interviewing women, promotes rubbish MOR-lite singers, and thinks Billy Connolly is seventeen times funnier than anyone else in the viewing public. There, I’ve said it. Sorry mum.
Yamelo – the school disco guide to YouTube music videos
It’s another fashionable YouTube video-mining operations (we should probably call it a “mash up” but we’re way too old for those sorts of youth phrases).
The novelty of Yamelo is the way it sorts music by year and lets you browse artists easily, so if you fancy working away today to a soundtrack of 1991 rave anthems…
LG Video Media Talent Award: Latest entries
If you have ambitions to be a Web 2.0 star presenter or editor, there's still time to get your entry in for the LG Video Media Talent Award, which is offering six-month intern posts at Shiny Media to a pair of competition winners.
Nasty YouTube comments putting off big-name brands?
You people and your nasty, anonymous internet comments are RUINING IT FOR EVERYONE, according to the the web-thinkers over at Digital Media Wire.
Citing this seemingly innocent example created and stuck on the web by Google, it’s easy to see why. The comments, as comments are inclined to do, have descended into…
