Conan O'Brien's 2011 Dartmouth Commencement Address

Lots of gags wrapped around a few simple but powerful life lessons in this speech by Conan.  Read Conan's speech here if you don't have the patience to watch the whole thing.

Japan's Tsunami, Up Close and Horrible

The other tsunami videos you've probably seen were long shots from cameras or tops of buildings. This one's from a hill where villagers have rushed up after the initial shock waves. Good thing they managed to get up there as the tsunami literally washes away their homes in a wave of garbage and debris.

One can only hope that this doesn't happen again.

Found via Mashable

We got Maria on Ellen!

This blows my mind:

One week ago she was an anonymous girl from Winnipeg singing a cover song on Youtube.

Today, she's on the Ellen DeGeneres show.

Next month, she'll be singing on a concert stage with Lady Gaga!

And it all began with this Twitter hashtag: #getmariaonellen

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Let's #getmariaonellen

Was intrigued by the hashtag  #getmariaonellen on Twitter yesterday and discovered ten year old Filipino-Canadian Maria Aragon.

Here she is with her cover of Lady Gaga's Born This Way:



(Incidentally, that video is now approaching 3 million views -- way, way up from just 700,000 hits yesterday afternoon.)

Could she be the next Charice?

It depends on whether more people see her -- calling Ellen DeGeneres!

The Magical Pop-Up Paper Theatre

Amazing stuff found via FastCodeDesign. I'm sure there are lessons to be learned about this, technique-wise, but for the moment, just sit back and marvel at how a papercraft theater and a projector can bring you to a magical world for a minute or two.


The Ice Book (HD) from Davy and Kristin McGuire on Vimeo.


Read this link to see how they did it.

2010 in review

Goodbye 2010 -- you were a crazy, hectic, terrifying, gratifying year. To see what I mean, check out this video courtesy of the folks at Google.



Here's hoping that 2011 will have less of the drama and more of the love.

Happy New Year everybody!

Deadlines + Post Its = Super Amazing Video

This is supposedly stop-motion. Truly???

Life in an Ad Agency: Betty Cakes

This is a cute -- for lack of a better word -- way of integrating a product into a piece of web entertainment.

The series is presented by Adobe.

Not bad at all. There's more at : http://www.daveandrick.com

Can you do better?

... because, if you can, you get the chance to win Php100,000, $10,000 and a trip to Singapore!





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Contest open to submissions from the Philippines only.