When will it all end? First of all Mila Kunis was asked to attend the Marine Corps Ball with a marine who asked her out through a YouTube video and she was coaxed into it by Justin Timberlake, who then was asked out by another marine. Now Betty White has been asked to attend the ball.
Sgt. Ray Lewis has now made his own YouTube video asking Betty as his date to the ball, which takes place in November at the Martial Arts Center for Excellence in Virginia, but he has yet to receive a response from her team. I’m going to guess she will say yes because we all know it would look bad on her if she said no.
Lewis, who has served in both Afghanistan and Iraq, posted a video to YouTube on Friday, asked the 90-year-old to be his date for the ball and also says that he’ll be performing as a rapper and promises her a good time if she decides to attend.
Last week there was rumors that Mila won’t be able to attend the ball because of scheduling conflicts but she quickly denied this and said she will definitely be attending and Timberlake also said yes to go to the ball with Corporal Kelsey De Santis.
Meanwhile both Timberlake and Kunis appeared on NBC’s ‘Today Show’ and they both spoke about all of it and said that the Marines “have a lot of balls”. They also went on to explain that there is more than one event and that they wont be attending the the same ball. Kunis said “we are attending both balls. Separately. But together…. Do you think we can combine the balls?”
What do you think about all of this? I personally think it’s all good but starting to get a bit out of hand and annoying.
Over the past weekend Mila Kunis was asked out on a date to attend the Marine Corps Ball by Sgt. Scott Moore who made a YouTube video, now her ‘Friends With Benefits’ co-star Justin Timberlake has been asked out through a YouTube.
Timberlake is the one who pushed Mila into accepting the invitation to attend the ball when he told her that she needs “to do it for your country”. Now Corporal Kelsey De Santis has made a YouTube video asking him if he will attend the ball with her.
“I’m gonna call you out and ask you to come to the Marine Corps ball with me on Nov. 12, and if you can’t go, all I have to say is, cry me a river. Hit me up.” Is what De Santis, who is currently the only woman serving at the Martial Arts Center for Excellence at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, says in her video.
I wonder if any other celebrities are going to be asked out on a date by Marines, I think it’s all good if celebrities agree to go but seriously where does it end? Like will every celebrity have to attend because let’s face it if they turn the videos down it could bring bad press.
Speaking of turning it down, it’s rumored that Mila won’t be able to attend the ball afterall because she is shooting two movies around the time the ball takes place in November so it could be impossible for her to get time off. I have a feeling she will end up attending though if only purely to save face.
Today is Friday and if you’re one of the few people who needed Rebecca Black‘s music video for her song, ‘Friday’, to kick off your weekend and let you know what day comes next then your out of luck because she has pulled the video from YouTube.
TMZ report that Rebecca’s team decided to pull the video down because of an argument they are having with ARK Music Factory, the team behind the video and song, over rights to the video and Rebecca’s image. Rebecca’s lawyer confirmed the news by saying:
“We can confirm that we submitted a Take Down Notice to YouTube as a result of the dispute we have with Ark Music regarding the ‘Friday’ video.”
Apparently earlier on in the week when people went to view the video on YouTube they were asked to pay a $2.99 video rental charge, seriously who the hell would pay to watch this shit?, but this didn’t set too well with Rebecca’s team who removed the video all together.
If your worried about not being able to kick off your weekend to this song then don’t worry you can still download it on iTunes for $0.99. I think I’ll pass on that option though and just listen to it here:
As with every disaster that happens the amount of douchebags that come out of the wood works and show themselves off for what they are – a douchebag, just like 50 Cent did with his tweets and Gilbert Gottfried also with his tweets. Because of these people Vanity Fair have come up with a list of the 5 most appalling videos that came out after the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan. Here they are:
1. Meet YouTube user tamtampamela. She believes that “God shook the country of Japan, he literally grabbed the country by the shoulders and said, ‘Hey, look, I’m here!’” [“Literally.”—Ed.] She continues, “Oh, it’s just so amazing to see how God can just answer prayers like this.”
2. Are you there, God? It’s us, VF Daily. If we could have one prayer answered, it would be to see this lady sing about Revelation 21:8 (“the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur”) to the tune of “Baa, Baa, Blacksheep,” literally. Your basic earthquake-is-a-sign-from-God response plus one orange T-shirt.
3. If Godzilla could destroy anything it’d be this video. Well, technically it would be the first video in the list, but he would get to this one, too.
4. Be sure to listen to this with your earphones on, please. “American manners,” O.K.? This lady has the following things to say about “Asians in the library”: “I swear, they’re going through their whole families, just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing—I mean, I know, O.K., that sounds horrible, like, I feel bad for all people affected by the tsunami, but if you’re gonna go call your address book, you might as well go outside because if something is wrong, you might really freak out if you’re in the library and everyone’s quiet.”
5. And now, a quick reprieve from the horrors of the four previous videos: the requisite (but brilliant) parodic defense of the library screed. “I mean, you see the thing that I just don’t get: I mean like, she said, ‘I want no one to take offense to this.’”
One word – douchebags.
source: The Most Appalling Video Responses to the Earthquake in Japan [Vanity Fair]
Cathy Cruz Marrero remembers her foot striking the base of the fountain as she held her purse and clutched the cell phone she’d been using to text.
The phone popped out of her hand and landed in the water as Cathy began her plunge into the Berkshire Mall fountain.
“I saw the water coming at me, I could see the pennies and nickels at the bottom of the fountain and then I was in it,” said Cathy, 49, a Reading resident who works in a store at the Wyomissing mall.
The fall on Jan. 12 was caught on security camera video that has brought her unwanted fame since it was posted Friday to YouTube and Facebook, where it has been viewed at least 1.6 million times. Many media outlets worldwide have shown the footage.
Cathy is mortified by the incident and both laughs and cries when she talks about it.
“My issue is I don’t think security was professional because they didn’t send anyone to check on me until 20 minutes later and I had already left,” Cathy said Wednesday in her first interview since the accident.
In the video, the voices of people laughing as they watch the security video footage can be heard.
Cathy said they are mall security personnel.
“Instead of laughing, they should have said, ‘Is she OK?’ and been down there right away to check on me,” she said.
Her attorney, James M. Polyak of Reading, said he plans to conduct an investigation into what happened.
Nobody knew it was you, until you came forward. Dumb.
Viral videos have been going on for years, they aren’t just a YouTube phenomena. So Urlesque ave come up with some of the best viral videos pre-YouTube days.
Yatta (Irrational Exuberance Edition):
The phonetic English translation that launched a thousand more.
Tunak Tunak Tun:
Is it just me or are India’s female pop stars way better looking than their male ones?
Hypothermia:
Another classic from Threebrain. To me, his animations define that era of weird, juvenile internet culture.
End of Ze World:
I feel like this video exploded viral videos in a bigger way than any before it. I distinctly remember overhearing a gaggle of sorority girls at my college saying, “But I am le tired” in the cafeteria. And I still hear “WTF, mate” from time to time.
My Anus is Bleeding:
This animated short from Don Hertzfeldt is part of a series called “Rejected.” It wasn’t born on the internet, but it was one of the first videos to build a huge cult following on the web.
Salad Fingers:
British cartoonist David Firth created this series of flash cartoons in 2004. Like Eraserhead for the net set.
Schfifty Five:
Another big hit from the Group X collective.
I’m the Juggernaut Bitch:
In 2003, My Way Entertainment released this overdub of the X-men cartoon show.
GI Joe Parodies:
Fensler Films cleverly recut and recontextualized the PSAs that accompanied the 80s G.I. Joe cartoons.
Ding Fries Are Done:
This one, like Peanut Butter Jelly Time, was eventually (unfunnily) recreated by Family Guy.
Funny enough they are all on YouTube now, check out the full list at the source.
source: 16 Viral Videos From the Age Before YouTube [Urlesque]
Three years ago Jennifer Mee made headlines as the Tampa, Fla. teen with uncontrollable hiccups. Now the 19-year old is making headlines for murder.
Over the weekend Mee, of St. Petersburg, and two other people were charged with first degree murder in the death 22-year old Shannon Griffin.
According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, Mee lured Griffin to a home where the two others robbed him and then shot him several times.
Mee and the others reportedly admitted to the crimes during questioning, CBS affiliate WFOR reports.
According to The Associated Press, she is being held without bond.
In 2007, Mee gained national attention as the girl who could not stop hiccuping; she would hiccup up to 50 times a minute for months. She tried home remedies and consulted medical specialists, a hypnotist and an acupuncturist, until the hiccups finally just stopped on their own.
Mee is no longer suffering from the hiccups, police spokesman Mike Puetz said.”
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced just one week ago, but it’s greased and ready to move, with a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday.
If people don’t speak out, US citizens could soon find themselves joining Iranians and Chinese in being blocked from accessing broad chunks of the public Internet.
COICA creates two blacklists of Internet domain names. Courts could add sites to the first list; the Attorney General would have control over the second. Internet service providers and others (everyone from Comcast to PayPal to Google AdSense) would be required to block any domains on the first list. They would also receive immunity (and presumably the good favor of the government) if they block domains on the second list.
The lists are for sites “dedicated to infringing activity,” but that’s defined very broadly — any domain name where counterfeit goods or copyrighted material are “central to the activity of the Internet site” could be blocked.
One example of what this means in practice: sites like YouTube could be censored in the US. Copyright holders like Viacom often argue copyrighted material is central to the activity of YouTube, but under current US law, YouTube is perfectly legal as long as they take down copyrighted material when they’re informed about it — which is why Viacom lost to YouTube in court.
But if COICA passes, Viacom wouldn’t even need to prove YouTube is doing anything illegal to get it shut down — as long as they can persuade the courts that enough other people are using it for copyright infringement, the whole site could be censored.
Perhaps even more disturbing: Even if Viacom couldn’t get a court to compel censorship of a YouTube or a similar site, the DOJ could put it on the second blacklist and encourage ISPs to block it even without a court order. (ISPs have ample reason to abide the will of the powerful DOJ, even if the law doesn’t formally require them to do so.)
COICA’s passage would be a tremendous blow to free speech on the Internet — and likely a first step towards much broader online censorship. Please help us fight back:
The first step is signing our petition. We’ll give you the tools to share it with your friends and call your Senator.
Say hello to Paradise016. She lives in the U.K., and she is “Queen of the Lesbians.”
This SFW video is a must-see, but be forewarned it does include the word “vagina.” Apparently, this little ditty is a response to another song called “Show Me Your Genitals.”
Yes, this is the internet in 2010. Stay classy, web. Want the lyrics to “Queen of the Lesbians” so you can sing along at home?
“Girls come and see my vagina, oh, oh, oh
Girls come and see my vagina, eh, eh, eh
Girls come and see my bum,
Girls come and see my bum,
Girls come and see my vagina, oh oh, oh
Chorus:
I am queen of the lesbians
Queen of the lesi-, lesbians
Lesbian, lesbians
I am queen of the lesbians”
She has famously given YouTube and Twitter the Royal seal of approval. Now the Queen is to establish a presence on picture-sharing website Flickr.
Up-to-the-minute images of the Queen and other members of the Royal Family will be streamed on to the new Buckingham Palace Flickr page, which goes live tomorrow.
The site will initially store 600 images of the Royals and will have 28 sections covering senior members of the Royal Family including the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and Princes William and Harry.The online photograph album will provide a unique glimpse into the life and work of the modern Monarchy and will allow Flickr users to use the photographs in blogs and other social media.
As well as recent photographs of the Royal Family at work and play, the site will include more historical material drawn from the Royal collections.
There are several intimate family photos depicting both the Queen and Prince Charles as babies and children.
Highlights include a picture of the Queen when she was just two years old, and a family portrait which shows the three-year-old Princess Elizabeth enjoying tea with her parents, the future George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
The site also includes a letter sent to the future Queen Mother by nurse Clara Knight, who looked after the young Princess Elizabeth. The letter, which was sent to accompany a photograph and which is dated March 8, 1927, reads: ‘If mummy looks into my wide open mouth with a little magnifying glass she will see my teeth. Elizabeth quite well and happy!’
The site also features a family snap of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh with a young Princess Anne and Prince Charles, taken in the grounds of Clarence House in August 1951.
The Queen even shares, officials told AP that the public could embed the photos on blogs and on social media sites.
source: The Royal family to share its memories by posting photos on Flickr [daily mail]
Ever watched the news and seen news reporters trying to do their job while in the middle of hurricane winds or any other disaster? Well it seems this isn’t all they have to deal with. Asylum.com have come up with a great list of things that happen behind a reporters back when people jump in the camera.
01. Newsflash: My Butt Was Just Pinched
This grabby Gus casually strolls through the shot and gives the reporter’s backside a little squeeze. The creepiest part, however, may be the weird old man in the background who darts out to watch and then back into hiding.
02. Off to a Bad Start
Rule number one of TV Journalism: Even if you get beer spilled on your head by rowdy football hooligans before you start speaking, the show must go on.
03. Self-Fulfilling Naked Prophecy
This reporter was asking for it when he used the phrase “streak of weather.”
04. Reporter Discusses High Winds, Gets Full Moon
In Palmdale, drive-by moonings are a grave and growing problem.
05. Thief Takes the Saying “Stealing the Mic” Literally
Reporters often worry about people grabbing the microphone away during an interview. This reporter almost gets hers stolen. The would-be thief faced a tough choice: Steal the just-released iPhone from the guy being interviewed, or the microphone from the reporter. He goes for the latter. You can’t tweet with that thing, genius.
06. Reporter Gets the Evil Eye From About 30 People
Before the summer’s volatile health-care reform rumble, town hall meetings were a place where things were discussed civilly, without Photoshopped posters of the president sporting a Hitler ‘stache and manufactured slogans being screamed. This reporter learns the hard (and awkward) way that maybe broadcasting live during a meeting isn’t a good idea.
07. In Other News: Two Old Guys Fighting
This just in! Random fight breaks out between two old guys on the street. Who knows what the reporter was originally covering, but watching an old guy take a swing, miss, and have an “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” moment is clearly more important.
08. Guy Faceplants on Stairs Behind Reporter
Karma comes quickly to this dancing d-bag. He mimics the reporter, dances and even dry humps him. However, his 15 minutes of fame makes him forget how to walk up stairs.
09. Crazy Lumberjack Guy
Segueing from a clip featuring riot cops is never easy. This reporter pulls it off with aplomb thanks to a shirtless, neck-bearded man twirling a T-shirt.
My favorite has to be the two old guys fighting, what one do you like?
source: What Goes on Behind Reporters’ Backs [Asylum]
You may not know who Calvin Harris is – if you don’t then he is a DJ/Proudcer.
Well he took to his Twitter account earlier today to launch a full explosive rant against YouTube and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for the removal of the official video for his latest single, Ready For The Weekend.
To say he isn’t happy is an understatement, he posted:
“Youtube have now removed the ORIGINAL mix and video of Ready For The Weekend, due to a ‘copyright claim’, IT’S MY F**KING SONG YOU ABSOLUTE BASTARDS. This is enough to tip me over the edge, i’m not joking. There are videos up there that other people have uploaded of the same song, and they haven’t been removed!? But mine does!”
“The BPI are the worst organisation to ever walk the earth and their setup is shambolic and their online employees are all massive retards. This is unbelievable, and it seems I am completely powerless to do anything. Sony have done nothing, the BPI have done nothing. I’m going to drive my car into the big window in the BPI’s offices on my way to the studio this morning. I’m going to hire a 4×4 for the day so i make more of an impact, and hopefully reach the online monkeys at the back of the office.”
“Then i’m going to jump out the sunroof and get busy with a frying pan. OR WOK. We already contacted them 3 DAYS AGO about the Fake Blood and High Contrast mixes and they’ve done nothing, just continued!? Ok I got a bit caught up in the heat of the moment. Sorry to employees of the BPI who aren’t massive retards. But please put my video back.”
“It’s the f**king BPI. F**K YOU ‘The BPI’ what have you ever done for anybody you useless shower of c**ts. Fantastic use of time combating piracy by removing my own videos, what a f**king revelation. F**k the Torrent sites, this is the way forward.”
He then wrote up a retraction saying “Ok I got a bit caught up in the heat of the moment. Sorry to employees of the BPI who aren’t massive retards. But please put my video back.”
You know, I agree with everything Calvin Harris said. I have uploaded stuff to YouTube before and then it got removed.
Nearly four years after the launch of YouTube, it’s startling just how much viral videos have come to resemble a highlight reel (or a gag reel) of recent history.
In 2008, the election was constantly reflected on video-sharing sites — and sometimes even influenced by such clips. But the year in viral video was not all politics; there was still plenty of room for a litter of puppies, brawling late-night hosts and a lion with an excellent memory.
Here are the year’s top 10 Web videos:
1. Tina Fey As Sarah Palin: Not only was Fey’s impression of the Alaskan governor arguably the seminal pop culture event of the year, it also represented a turning point in the paradigm between TV and the Web. More people watched Fey’s sketches on NBC.com and Hulu.com than on television.
2. The Real Palin: Though Fey’s many parodies of Sen. John McCain’s running mate set the Internet on fire, the real McCoy gave her a run for her money. Online, many were obsessed with Palin’s every move, and millions logged on to watch clips of her interview with CBS’ Katie Couric, her unfortunately positioned Thanksgiving turkey pardon and, yes, her appearance on “SNL.”
3. Christian the Lion: Easy fabrications have made us all suspicious of Internet videos, but more than 20 million have been captivated by the heartwarming (and true) story of Christian the Lion being reunited with the two men who raised him as a cub. What’s funny is that the story wasn’t new to this year (see the Daily Mail’s Web site for the full back story), but it took off when paired with Whitney Houston’s version of “I Will Always Love You.” “The Bodyguard” lives. [CLIP HERE]
4. “Yes We Can“: In all the songs and performances devoted to this year’s election, none connected quite like will.i.am’s music video. By pairing Barack Obama’s words with music, will.i.am created the most indelible campaign message of the year. [CLIP HERE]
5. “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog“: The entry of Joss Whedon (creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel” and “Firefly”) to the Internet resulted in perhaps the greatest and most substantial Web series yet. In three parts, the 43-minute film starring Neil Patrick Harris as a wannabe evildoer was distributed for free on Hulu and then for pay on iTunes (and then for free again on Hulu). [CLIPS HERE]
6. Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad: When McCain ran a campaign ad comparing Obama’s celebrity to that of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, the hotel heiress jumped right into the fray. In a video created by FunnyOrDie.com co-founder Adam McKay (the director of “Anchorman” and “Step Brothers”), Hilton — sitting poolside in a bikini — announced her mock-candidacy for the presidency. More than 8 million watched. [CLIP HERE]
7. Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel got an interesting surprise from his then-girlfriend Sarah Silverman during a show in early 2008. In the video — the name of which isn’t fit to print — Silverman ever so slightly suggested that she was sleeping with Matt Damon. Unfortunately, by July, Kimmel and Silverman really did split after five years together.[CLIP HERE] [CLIP HERE]
8. Puppy Cam: The litter is now being dispersed, but while the six Shiba Inu pups were together, they were stars on Ustream.tv‘s “Puppy Cam.” More than 4 million watched the young dogs — Autumn, Amaya, Aymui, Aki, Akoni and Ando — grow up (at least for a few weeks) and eventually find adopted homes.[CLIP HERE]
9. Frozen Grand Central: Flash mobs seem so early 2000s, but one stunt by the New York comedy troupe Improve Everywhere discovered that jokes on a bewildered public can still charm. In a video posted in late January, the group gathered 200 “agents” to — all at the same time — suddenly stand frozen in place at New York’s Grand Central Terminal for five minutes while confused travelers gawked at the strange sight. The video has been watched by more than 14 million on YouTube.[CLIP HERE]
10. Late-night Hosts Brawl: During the writers strike earlier in the year, late-night hosts were downright desperate for material. So in a mock feud over who was most influential to Mike Huckabee’s unlikely rise among Republican presidential candidates, Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert convened to settle the score. In a hysterical fight (which is still available on NBC.com), the three hosts battled to a perfect tri-knock-out. How often do three people that funny come together in a video perfect for the Web?
