World’s Strangest

(Video Link) The Impossible Lamp is a work of craft and film by Jeeves Basu. It begins with a large wax candle sitting atop a clear plastic lampshade. Basu and his team had the difficult task of melting the wax so that it would drip over the mold, but cooling it before it could drip off. [...]

Remember the I Love xkcd animated music video (inspired by the Discovery Channel promo I Love the World, drawn by animator Noam Raby and sung by Olga Nunes) posted previously on Neatorama? Well, Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle have teamed up to create the real life version of the song, titled We Love xkcd featuring the [...]

(Video Link) I can’t speak Russian, but I’ve read that this Russian-language commercial is about a man trying to report a claim to his insurance company. The employees vanish into their equipment the moment that the customer walks in the door. via reddit

(YouTube Link) In this instructional video, a safety expert at a drainage site stresses the importance of having a sturdy harness, properly attached. He demonstrates how a rope line connecting him to the guardrail will prevent an accident. You can guess what happened next. via reddit

LinkScroll down for today’s pictures & links. The Silliest Chase of All Time You know we here at DRB love a good chase in a movie, but this… this… is as atrocious as it’s royally silly. It’s also captivating in a weird way and has to be seen to be believed – taken from “Alluda Majaka” (1995), [...]

What’s a girl to do for fun after the Grammys and all of the post-Grammy parties are over? Well, if you’re Ke$ha, you round up a limo, a group of friends, some sheets and some spray paint and you go deface the Hollywood sign (maybe. We’ll get to that in a second). Even though the [...]

(Video Link) Sport Pong is an experimental game in which a pong board is projected onto a flat surface. Players use their hands and feet to move virtual pieces around the playing space, trying to score a goal against the opposing team’s wall. via DudeCraft | Official Website | Previously on Neatorama: Pong Prom

“All the sounds are the actual audio from the original video tape. No alterations has [sic] been made other than basic timeline editing. I can neither play drums nor the piano.” So ends Lasse Gjertsen’s YouTube masterpiece “Amateur,” a music video in which he creates a genuinely good song out of individual drum beats, cymbal [...]

Tonight for the Late Movies, enjoy an assortment of clips featuring Michael Jackson songs. At the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a maximum security prison in the Philippines, MJs choreographer Travis Payne showed up to teach the inmates some of the dances from THIS IS IT. The video is pretty impressive. This, of course, [...]

This week’s Late Movies is a bit more serious than usual. I’ve been really interested lately in how the ubiquity of cameras — in phones, in iPods, small enough to tuck into a shirt pocket — have changed the way we see the world. It’s removed part of the filter of “mainstream journalism” through which [...]