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Some Holiday Music for Today

Jason Bean — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:21:51 +0000

Stumbled across this video this morning as we were looking for a commercial release of this holiday song. If anyone knows of someone that’s produced this on an album and released it.

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Elfyourself IS BACK!

Jason Bean — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:02:00 +0000

One of our most active posts ever was one where we introduced a website developed by OfficeMax called ElfYourself.com. Millions of people have visited the site and brought plenty of holiday cheer to the Internet.

Now the ElfYourself website is back and it’s powered by that folks at JibJab.com who know a thing or two about making funny, custom videos for sharing around the web.

The ElfYourself website and JibJab allow you to upload your own photos to their servers and mash them up against canned video sequences where they replace the face on the characters with your face and the faces of your friends.

They’ve also improved the editing capabilities after you upload your photos so you can really tweak and tune your image and adjust it as necessary. One of the more challenging tasks was getting the mouth movement right, and JibJab has improved how you can control that animation as it appears on your video card.

The ElfYourself website has also proven you’re really not paying attention these days if you’re not integrated into Facebook somehow. Now you can login via Facebook, grab photos from your Facebook albums and of course post your videos straight to your Facebook wall too.

When you make your own ElfYourself video, be sure and post a link to it in our comments section so we can all enjoy your handiwork.

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Straight No Chaser – "Stand By Me"

Jason Bean — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:35:00 +0000

One of my favorite new groups over the past year or so is called "Straight No Chaser". They’re a men’s a capella group that got together while attending Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Here’s a video of them performing one of my favorite songs, "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King.

This clip is from their performance in New York City that will be airing in a variety of markets on the local PBS station.

Straight No Chaser also just released their 2nd Christmas album titled "Christmas Cheers".

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Modern Family – Fizbo Clown at Gas Station

Jason Bean — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:12:00 +0000

One of my new favorite shows this season is Modern Family on ABC. I wasn’t expecting to like the show at first, but the characters they’ve built the stories around are absolutely perfect!

Here’s a scene from this past week’s episode where one of the characters plays a clown for his nephew’s birthday party. In this scene he deals a little clown intimidation to a jerk at a gas station.

If you want to see more great scenes like that, just watch Modern Family on ABC on Wednesday nights.

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TROOPS! – Ride Along With the Imperial Forces

Jason Bean — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:46:21 +0000

A friend of mine just flashed me back over a decade ago when he mentioned this video. These guys took the "COPS" TV show them and recreated it with with STAR WARS stormtroopers.

This was one of those videos I waited for about 5 hours to download back in the mid-90’s when I first heard about it. It was hilarious then, but just shows how far along we’ve come with video on the web.

Hat tip to prebynski for sharing and reminding me

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CardFunk Delivers More Christmas Cheer

Jason Bean — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:12:42 +0000

Not too long ago I wrote about the CardFunk website and all the cool and animated cards you can create and customize to send to friends. They’ve just updated their content and now have more Christmas cards to get your CardFunk groove on.

If you’re not familiar with what happens, you upload a picture of yourself and some friends and embed their images on some dancing, animated characters on the card. They usually dance and sing and it’s all around a good time to be had by all.

When you watch these cards, you can’t help but bring a little smile to yourself because let’s face it. Anything dancing, dressed up in Christmas cheer and a face that looks like you or your friends has got to be funny! If you disagree, well Bah-Humbug to YOU Mr. Scrooge!

One of its latest cards is Christmas With The Stars. Appropriately imitating and spoofing Hollywood icons and legends, this animated card allows you to transform you and your friends into dancing celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Bob Marley.

Another is the techno-inspired Dancing Christmas Toys. This card is set up in a Santa’s workshop where familiar entertainment figures are showcased and spoofed. The user will get the chance to be Captain Jack Sparrow, Betty Boop, Wonder Woman, Spiderman or Anakin Skywalker after uploading his/her photo.

Last one is the Wild West Christmas. Having the Great Plains as a backdrop, the user can have a lot fun having his/her headshot placed on dancing cowboy or cowgirl to the tune of a very funky music.

How can you go wrong with a line-up like that? So go on! Get moving and start bringing some holiday cheer to your friends! It’s all waiting to be uncovered and delivered at CardFunk.com

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How’d They Do That? – Freebord Tetris Video

Jason Bean — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:03:00 +0000

A few months ago I shared a post about a group of 36 skateboarders in San Francisco that created a pretty cool video. They used Freebords to make a video of what appeared to be a Tetris game as they skated downhill.

Here’s a video showing how they did it.

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The Fabulous Firecracker Jump Rope Team

Jason Bean — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:22:00 +0000

I’ll bet you’ve not seen girls jump-roping like this before in your life. They’re doing more than just jumping and spinning the rope multiple times on one jump. These girls are fantastic!

Thanks to my friend William Lehman over at Decloned for sharing the video on his blog. I’ve never heard of the Firecrackers before, but not I’m checking out their schedule so I can go see them perform at another event for half-time.

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Warehouse Taken Down with Forklift

Jason Bean — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:16:30 +0000

Let’s hope your Monday starts a little bit better than this today. It’s always tough to get your week started, but hopefully this little video will give you some perspective that your day can’t start off this badly.

Hat tip to Eric Clark on twitter for sharing this video.

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The Turtleman – Noodling for Snappers

Jason Bean — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:30:00 +0000

My wife just shared this video with me. I grew up in Kentucky and love my home state. There are some very eccentric country folk living in the Bluegrass state though.

Now noodling, the sport of catching catfish by sticking your hand and arm into a hole and letting them bite it, is one thing. But noodling for snapping turtles is something completely different. I’ve been fishing and seen a snapping turtle break a broom stick like a twig. You can believe these suckers he’s catching would take a chunk out of whatever they wanted that they could reach.

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