Category Archives: YouTube

Brad Pitt by Robert Wilson

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A still of this video was used (much to the subject’s apparent dismay) as the cover of the December, 2006 Vanity Fair. I think the difference between this and a typical cover shoot is pretty clear, and it’s really very surprising that Pitt didn’t reserve some rights as a condition of posing, but he didn’t and his agent let him pose anyway so I suppose he’s got no legal right to complain. I would, however, say he’s got a moral right to complain: is this on the cover because it’s a great piece of art, or because it’s Brad Fucking Pitt, in soaking wet tighty whities, holding a gun? At least there’s one aspect of this work that’s unambiguous: the commercialization. And I, of course, am adding the Brad Pitt tag to it, not the Robert Wilson one.

Still. Cool. I just wish there were a way that YouTube could display it as it was meant to be: as a continuous loop.

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hamsterdance: the gay porn version!

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As soon as you see the gem sweater, you know it’s gonna get weird. 

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Kids!

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A sweet, funny little video about the birth of the now-famous YouTube the goat. Hope you’re not eating Ethiopian tonight…

I was gonna post some Larry Birkenhead/Howard K. Stern slashporn, but this is just too cute not to toss on the blog immediately.

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Forrest Whitaker’s Oscar Speech

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Thank god for YouTube; they reduced a possible four hours of marketing-saturated, passive boredom and bitchily self-indulgent fashion criticism into five minutes of clicking through “Forrest Whitaker” search results and two minutes of the most inspiring Hollywood speech of the last twenty years.

Sorry for the dickwad blathering right over the most important line; it seems that Oscar is a very controlling sort and has sent most of the video captures to the great bit bucket in the sky, where no doubt Lucy and Ricky are enjoying the bit where Helen Mirren performed “Borat” at this very moment.


Alas, YouTube is TheirTube and they have had this video killed. Found another for now.
The transcript still works, though!

Transcript over the jump

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Mooseball!!!

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See, North Americans love soccer too! We just play it differently.

The funniest thing about this video is the way the moose gets so pissed off when the ball gets caught in a shrub. You just know that as he stomped away he was cursing that shrub and muttering moorosely.
via Defamer, the Hollywood Gossip site. And no, I don’t know why they went with this when they could have posted Helen Mirren reading lines from Borat, but oh well.

Webjunk, from whence Defamer stole it, has helpfully provided a translation of the anguished dog’s commentary.

“You are ruining my life. Stop it stop it!!! Why? This is all I have. Oh sh*t, dude you are stepping on my tail. Oh – that’s better. Hey Moose, stop. Please, that has my scent on it. Make him stop, I will never leave it outside again. Kill me. Kill me. Why?”

That said, we are huge dog lovers (no, we are not Korean) and we find this hilarious. Is it because the pain is so real?

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