All week long debate raged in the Crikey bunker over whether we should make this a Video of the Day…
YouTube Classic
Video of the Day: Babies eating lemons
If you ever needed an excuse for having a baby, watching its face when eating a lemon for the first time is a pretty good one.
From the projects to YouTube to the music charts
Every so often a YouTube video becomes more than just a quick giggle and actually makes money. This video — a comical interview with the brother of a sexual assault victim, turned into a song (seriously) — has been racing up the iTunes charts.
David now much richer after dentist: “Is this real life?”
Being a YouTube star can pay some serious dough. David After Dentist, the hilarious video of a drugged 7 year old, has net David’s family more than US$100,000 and enabled David’s dad to quit his job.
Video of the Day: OK Go play a fancy Mouse Trap
Band OK Go — they of the famous dancing treadmill video clip — are back with a new clip, again using the one long continuous shot that demands the “how did they do that?” question.
The crowd has spoken: what Boyle and Werbeloff have in common
Australia’s chk-chk-boom girl and Britain’s frumpy singing sensation Susan Boyle are two bookends of the same phenomenon, argues Miranda Devine.
Video of the Day: Advanced cat yodelling
The Can Can never sounded so full of humiliated cat.
How did we get so much stuff?
The Story of Stuff is about the effects of human consumption. The video, created by a university lecturer and former Greenpeace employee in 2007, has been viewed over six million times.
Moms on the Net
Ride the wave of information called… THE INTERNET.
Political snippets: Who’s this Gough bloke?
Malcolm Turnbull and company are wasting their energy trying to conjure up the bad old days of the long gone Whitlam Government as a way of attacking the big spending plans of the Rudd one.
Remember when…
Oldie but a goodie. Natalie Imbruglia’s hit song Torn. With mime.
