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best wedding video EVER.

whitney — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:28:55 +0000

some people stay together for the sake of the kids; these guys better stay together for the sake of all the viewers they’re bound to get. unless they can put together a divorce video that’s equally awesome!

Lauren + JP from Matt Odom on Vimeo.

dancing with himself

whitney — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:54:03 +0000

i love videos of people dancing like lunatics, particularly when they’re the only one enjoying themself, like this guy:

other classics:

man attacked by bees to the tune of macarena

guy starts dance party to the tune of unstoppable

world’s happiest DJ to the tune of memories

the new dance craze sweeping brazil

whitney — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:18:15 +0000

gentlemen: i strongly urge that you use protection before engaging in this dance with your lady. might i suggest a hockey mask or a football helmet? thanks to surra de bunda, i’m predicting a dramatic rise in whiplash cases and the number of noses being broken on tailbones.

librarians do gaga, while i gag.

whitney — Mon, 31 May 2010 03:09:57 +0000

despite what everyone else on the internet is all agog about, i don’t think this video is cute at ALL. having lived in seattle for four years, i still can’t figure out why everyone looks so fucking androgynous and asexual there all the time. i’m embarrassed to say that even i did while i lived there. there’s something about the overcast skies that makes all women want to cut their hair choppy and wear clunky shoes and makes men spines and vocal chords melt into gelatinous muck. i don’t get it.

everyone in this video has the collective sex appeal of the piece of cauliflower i dropped between my stove and the counter three weeks ago, which i cannot reach and just shrivels and festers more and more everyday, not even snacked upon by rodents.

a very talented adolescent

whitney — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:10:15 +0000

while some teenagers simultaneously practiced their math, balancing and spatial reasoning skills, i was more interested in practicing my french kissing skills on doorknobs.

i always say, it’s good for youth to have hobbies.

Plastic Bag: “Starring” Werner Herzog

whitney — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:00:20 +0000

“Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures through the environmentally barren remains of America as it searches for its maker.” Video by Ramin Bahrani.

There really is little more calming than watching a plastic bag flutter in the wind.

In my dreams, i never completely fly; instead i just glide like this plastic bag, never really getting terribly high above the ground. So whenever i see a plastic bag gliding on the street it always feels vaguely surreal, like i’m seeing myself in a dream.

U 2? or TMI?

baby who cried, wolf who beyed

whitney — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:07:22 +0000

this is amazing! parents: baby got the croup? baby just a crybaby? get a wolf! it will shut your baby up fast!

“have an outcome, but invest in the process.”

whitney — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:53:03 +0000

“passion exists inside you, it does not exist in the job…but if you do find a way to ignite where you are, then you will find that the external world rearranges itself to accommodate the new person that you are becoming.”

columbia professor srikumar rao (author of Are You Ready to Succeed?) speaks about the folly of conditional gratification and the on-site happiness generators we all have inside our bodies. i think rao at times overemphasizes happiness and simplifies its achievement, particularly concerning the neurological significance of happiness, but for the most part i though this was a refreshing and even inspiring approach to re-structuring “mental models” of happiness.

trolololol guy doesn’t understand internet

whitney — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:20:01 +0000

i admire his enthusiasm, but eduard khil of trolololol fame really doesn’t understand the brevity of internet memes. next week we’ll all be like, “trolololol who???”

RAAAAAAAAGE

whitney — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:11:41 +0000

in reporter school there’s a class called “suppressing the urge to angrily throw your notes during a live broadcast 101″ but volunteer news reporter Gordon Boyd learned reporting the urban way, on the rough streets of knoxville, represent!