Monday, January 31, 2011

Awesome Parody: TLC Station Promo



Love this. Funny how some of these sound like pretty good shows. At least for TLC.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Awesome Tech: WeSC puts RFID in shoes

This sounded like one of those "so what" ideas when I first head it. But, after watching this video, there's a lot of potential here.

RFID in shoes from Hampus Lemhag on Vimeo.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Awesome Video: Dennis Coffey Gets Detroit to Say "F**k You."

Dennis Coffey -- the older white guy in glasses -- put together this video of an instrumental version of Cee-Lo's "Fuck You."

About Dennis:

As a member of the Funk Brothers studio band, Coffey played on dozens of recordings for Motown Records, and introduced the wah-wah guitar sound to Motown record producer Norman Whitfield's recordings, the most notable of which is Cloud Nine by Temptations. He also played on Edwin Starr's "S.O.S. (Stop Her on Sight)," The Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing", and Freda Payne's "Band of Gold".

In 1971, Coffey recorded "Scorpio" which was a million selling instrumental single that peaked at #6 on the Billboard pop chart. Coffey performed "Scorpio" on the television show Soul Train, the first white artist appear on the show.

"Fuck You"



"Scorpio"

Awesome Site: fedex cup - golfing school of business

Adding golf to a business service resulted in a collection of funny videos. Well worth checking out. Click here to take a lesson.



Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Awesome Site: storming juno

great interactive extension of history tv's telling of the canadian influence on d-day. click here to visit the site

Awesome Site: nike - better world

hats off to nike for implementing the green initiatives highlighted on this site and to w+k for the great use of html5. thanks again moses for this one. click here to check it out


Awesome Video: john groban sings kanye tweets

thanks moses for this one

Awesome Talent: the man with the golden voice

amazing how much our eyes can shape our judgement. UPDATE: reportedly the cleveland cavaliers and other media outlets have offered williams a job. we wish him the best of luck. click here or here for more on the story

Awesome Trailer: jr - women are heroes

We featured the work of photographer JR a while back, but here is the trailer to his film debuting this month. And for more about JR, click here for his interview with TED.