Alan Becker created this animation its called Animator Vs Animation. This is a great example of the fun you can have with flash videos. Click on play, don’t move your mouse and check it out.

animator_vs__animation_by_alanbecker

Then there is Animator Vs. Animation II.
Even better!

Cool stuff!

Take a break and watch this quite scary commercial for the chainsaw brand Stihl 2. It’s funny but little bit weird.

This is a take off on them Jason movies from the 80’s.  In this version of Friday the 13th.  I have never seen this commercial on tv and it runs over a minute, so I’m not sure if it ever actually aired, but it does make a saw lover laugh.

So, you think Kilts are not manly? You better watch this first!

We love how he says ‘Craaap”

There is just something sick and wrong with these “girls”.

You can click on these photos to enlarge. But I warn, ya, you won’t like them .

Maybe this is why I don’t exercise!

Don’t know about you, but the commercials are a large part of watching the Super Bowl!

We love to see what new commercials that come out on the Super Bowl. But, what commercials will be the best? You can place your vote on these sites and watch what others choose.

Here is where you can vote on your favorite commercials.

1 Watch and vote for your favorite commercials from the Super Bowl on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/superbowl

The Wall Street Journal posted an article on what they think is were the best and worst ad campaigns of 2007. But what were the best and worst TV commercials of 2007?

Here is some of the ones we voted on.

Best Commercials of 2007:

Eye of the Beholder
The online video, which cost less than $150,000 to create, takes aim at the definition of beauty. The spot shows an average-looking woman being transformed into a billboard supermodel with the help of lots of makeup, lighting and airbrushing. “No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted,” reads the screen.
One of the best examples of a company using the Web for advertising. The ad, which was posted on YouTube last year, has been viewed more than 24 million times on the video-sharing site, and it has had about 4.6 million views at www.campaignforrealbeauty.com. Moreover, ordinary people have created their own films spoofing the ad.

Drummer in a Hair Band
Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bar
Cadbury Schweppes PLC launched a TV ad in the United Kingdom featuring a gorilla playing the drums as Phil Collins’s 1981 hit “In the Air Tonight” blares in the background. The ad ends with a shot of the candy bar and its slogan: “A glass and a half full of joy.”
After the agency placed the ad on the Web, the spot has become a global sensation, garnering seven million downloads. More than 200 people have posted their reworked versions of the gorilla ad on sites such as YouTube, and fan clubs have sprouted up on social-networking site Facebook. Cadbury has credited the spot with lifting sales of the candy bar.

Also included in this is a Fabia Car commercial and the Sony Bravia Commercial as honorable mentions.

K-Fed, Insurance Salesman
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
A Super Bowl ad starring Kevin Federline, Britney Spears’s ex-husband and wannabe rapper, working in a fast-food chain. The spot, which looks like a rap video, shows Mr. Federline, wearing a baseball cap and wireless headset rapping. As the camera pulls back, Mr. Federline is seen working the drive-through window. “Life comes at you fast. Be ready with a Nationwide annuity and you could be guaranteed income for life,” a voiceover says.
Big-game ads are typically about glitzy ads oozing with special effects, but this spot became a PR sensation because of its use of an in-the-news celebrity. The clever ad move dominated a week’s worth of pre-game media coverage from segments on “Entertainment Tonight” to “Good Morning America.” The spot generated 3,584 news stories, which the company, a unit of Nationwide Financial Services Inc., estimates to be worth $23.3 million in free publicity.

The Human Stain
The TV commercial shows a man interviewing for a job who is repeatedly interrupted by a talking stain on his shirt.
The consumer-product titan has tried for years to add some fun to its often staid advertising that for decades had largely been based on showing product demonstrations. This ad won a Silver Lion Award at the annual International Advertising Festival in Cannes, France. It is one of the ad world’s top honors and an accolade that rarely goes to soap.

Worst Tv Commercials of 2007:

Metal Meltdown
A quirky Super Bowl commercial showed a despondent robot jumping off a bridge in a dream sequence after it made a mistake on a Detroit assembly line.
The spot drew fire from a suicide-prevention group, and the car maker was forced to re-edit the spot to remove the suicide scene. In addition, some consumers complained that they felt the ad was insensitive to auto workers who had lost their jobs as a result of automation. GM declined to comment.

Kiss It Goodbye
The ad showed two mechanics eating the same candy bar at the same time — in what was a bizarre spin on the famous scene from “Lady and the Tramp,” where two dogs simultaneously eat a strand of spaghetti. After the men reach the middle of the candy bar and lock lips, they rip out clumps of their chest hair in a desperate attempt to “do something manly.”
Mars pulled the ad after the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation condemned the ad as antigay. “Feedback from our target consumers was positive, and many media commentators ranked the commercial among their top 10 best,” said Alice Nathanson, a spokeswoman for Mars. “We know that humor is highly subjective and understand that some people may have found the ad offensive. That was never our intent.”

What do you think? Have you seen better or worse TV Commercials than these in 2007? Let us know, send us a link and we will post it!

As usual we were hopping around the internet and came to a site I had never seen before. They have quite a few videos that you won’t see on YouTube or other places.

No, I am not talking about Porn or adult videos, just videos that I thought were funny and that I would like to share with my friends.

The place I found was funnyjunk.com they have quite a few funny and interesting videos.

I came across this video and thought that it would be nice to send it and share it with my friends and also to save to my computer and my Sansa. Unfortunately they don’t have anything to allow me to download the video into some kind of Windows type format.

After a little research, I found a way to do just what I want and with very little effort.

The first thing I needed to do was download the video to my computer. I did this using a site called ClipNabber. This site allows you to paste the URL of the site that has a video you want and then you can download it into your computer.

It’s very simple to make this happen. All you have to do is, once you see a video you want, go to ClipNabber and paste into the site the webpage of the video you want.

In my case it was http://www.funnyjunk.com/movies/1152/Floating+Cigarette+Trick/ Once you have pasted the address in, you just click on “Nab Video” and the site will give you the download link to the video. Simply “Right Click” and “Save As” and you now have the video on your computer.

The only problem with this is that most videos you download from sites are what’s called an FLV file or a Flash Video. Most computers and Windows Media Player, will not play a FLV file. To do this you need to convert it to something Windows likes more, like an AVI or WMV file.

But no biggie, all we need is a FLV Converter. A program to convert the FLV file into an AVI. As a bonus it would be nice if it was free. Welp, we came across this one, the Free FLV Converter

The Free FLV Converter, not only does this but you can search youTube, dailyMotion, google, metacafe videos without opening your browser and you can even watch the videos using the built-in video player.

The software can convert the videos to Avi (xvid, DivX), Ipod, Iphone, 3GP and Psp format (MPEG4 and H.264).

Also as a bonus, this software can also convert all your videos (divx, xvid, mpeg, dvd, avi) to FLV video (Flash video) with an automatic HTML page creation. You will only have to place the files on your website to share your videos with the entire world.

So, once installed I simply ran the Free FLV Converter and converted my Cigarette video into a new AVI file. Now I can send this video to anyone I wish and they can watch it without having to go to a specific website and I can put this on my Sansa if I wish.

You can also convert your new AVI file to just about any other video format, just grab the audio and other things using MediaCoder. But we will save that info for next time.

You can’t make some of this stuff up.

Police say a man went on a bizarre rampage overnight that began on a homeowner’s rooftop and ended with officers using nearly every tool in the book short of lethal force.
The incident began when a homeowner found a man on his roof trying to start a fire, using his shirt.
The man became irate when confronted and began hurling roof tiles at police and firefighters, hitting two officers and a fire truck, according to reports.

Authorities responded by hitting him with water from a fire hose, rubber bullets and a Taser.

After being hit with the Taser he fell off the second-story roof.

Then he got up and started to flee.

A police dog caught up with him and bit him on the leg.

The unidentified man is now hospitalized and recovering from his injuries.

The only thing he missed was saying… “Don’t tase me Bro!”

Here is uncut video from the event.

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