There’s no doubting that computers are cool and all that, but can they ever be as all-out fun as running around screaming with a stick?
No, because all the Angry and Flappy Birds in the world couldn’t possibly make up for the thrill of stick running—unless maybe you have an Oculus Rift with which you can replicate stick running virtually.
The JockStrap Raiders is a fun, underdog war film centred around a group of misfits who band together to fight for queen and country.
The CG-animated short has the feel of a really enjoyable Saturday morning cartoon while nodding to classic war movies like Kelly’s Heroes—it was made by Mark Nelson as his MFA thesis project at UCLA.
Just like the models in this video we’re duped into thinking this is just another “sexy” model shoot, but it’s a little bit more than that.
Told to read the words off a placard, they models are suddenly shocked as questions like “What turns you on?” suddenly changes to: “Almost 800 mothers and 18,000 young children die each day, mostly from preventable causes.”
If you had ears back in the 1990s, then you’ll be familiar with Pulp’s anthems about the everyday, which turn the minutiae of our lives into poignant epics.
This documentary features the band talking about performing, intercut with footage from concerts and interviews with the ordinary folk of Sheffield who inspired the band’s funny and moving lyrics.
No doubt you spend many sleepless nights wondering just where the LOLCat meme originated from. No? Well who cares, because you’re about to find out.
Turns out it can be traced all the way back to the 1870s, so blame the Victorians if you’re sick of seeing pictures of cats with words shooped on them.
Oh the ironing! London writer and dullard Gary Turk’s spoken word film about the evils of social media went viral on the very platforms he choose to denounce.
Rather than it “speaking to our times” and all that bollocks, it just comes across as a bit hypocritical and overly dramatic. But take a look and decide for yourselves.
Ah, the expressive world of silence that is miming—you may think it’s the raddest thing ever, but Sue Perkins hates it.
And so she goes on to Room 101 to try and get it banished from this earth, but it doesn’t quite turn out the way she wants.
You may have seen the words “net neutrality” fly around in your feeds along with people decrying its erosion, but WTF is it?
CGP Grey details why we should all be concerned in this video—and that’s mainly because losing it would give internet providers the ability to give preferential treatment to whatever sites they wanted, while limiting access to others.
