For those of you who like sending electronic greeting cards instead of either (a) driving to the local card shop and buying a card off the rack, addressing the envelope, and mailing it; or (b) calling the person you would send a card to and have an actual conversation with them — then Web Watch has just the site for you.
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HAVE A SLOGAN is one of those funny widget-driven sites that follow in the footsteps of many a “why didn’t we think of this sooner” item.
You know that game you play in the bar where you take any common marketing phrase or famous quote and see how much funnier it can be if you were substitute one key word with “fart” or “underpants”? Let’s try it, shall we?
(Why underpants? Because a clown once told me – seriously – that there is nothing funnier to a 5-year-old child than the word “underpants”. There’s a reason why Captain Underpants is so popular with the kiddies. But we digress…)
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Kids today love music, and they love their YouTube.
So why not put the two together into a LIP DUB? It’s a better group activity than Rock Band or Guitar Hero, and can even result in some kids getting grades if they do this as a special project in the classroom (as seen in the amazing backwards video below).
What is a Lip Dub? It’s a homemade music video done as a single tracking shot through a school, office, mall, or other environment. All the participants are dancing around the camera into and out of the shot, and the main person on screen is lip-syncing the song. There are no rules – more than one person can sing any part of the song, and random costumes are encouraged. The term “Lip Dub” itself is traced to Jakob Lodwick, founder of the Vimeo video service.
If you get your office together to create a lip dub, you can even submit your production to OFFICE LIP DUB.
We won’t get into the details surrounding the hows and whys behind some of these lip dub videos, but you can click through to the stories behind the stories for full details. Let’s just say that some of these folks may have too much time on their hands, but they’re making stuff that’s wildly creative and entertaining.
The bigger question for these students is going to be whether making lip dubs and posting them to YouTube and other video sharing services is legal or not.
Jakob Lodwick’s Vimeo openly solicits for lip dubs to follow their original creation of Flagpole Sitta. Now, Vimeo is being sued by the record labels for encouraging these flagrantly illegal lip dub videos to be made in the first place. One side says that the homemade videos’ use of songs qualify under fair use; the labels say that doesn’t count since the entire songs are usually used.
Watch these videos, and decide for yourself if the music labels have a point:
HEY YA! by Outkast
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Watching late night television on New Year’s Eve has become a tradition. No matter where you are, who you’re partying with – as soon as midnight draws near, everybody gathers to the closest TV screen to watch Dick Clark and his big ball drop on Times Square.
Sure, Ryan Seacrest may be inheriting the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve throne soon, but it will always be Dick Clark’s show.
But other networks have tried to muscle in on the stranglehold that Dick has had on New Year’s Eve festivities (portions pre-recorded). FOX tried to create an event by having motorcyle legend Robbie Knievel jump “over” the Mirage casino volcano last year. The broadcast was poorly done, there was no crowd to speak of, and even the television audience could tell that Robbie didn’t really jump over the volcano. See for yourself:
So the question is – where was everybody that cold Las Vegas evening?
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Web Watch has seen our share of wacky wedding photos:
Yup, Web Watch has been there for all of these.
But we can be glad that – when compared to the images seen on WEDINATOR – that the happy couple were usually part of the gag and were willing participants in the photos at some level. Just like CAKE WRECKS and other photoblogs, Wedinator takes those unintentionally funny wedding photos and shares them with the world.
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Remember Jason Sadler? He’s the guy who would WEAR YOUR SHIRT for one day and market whatever message is on the shirt that you provide. He’s been able to make a decent living at this, charging anywhere from $1 to $365 per day, depending on the day of the year that you have requested his services.
Jason has inspired Love Harnell with his tale of how to be a successful Internet entrepreneur, so Love sat down to figure out what HE could charge up to $365 per day to do.
And since Love Harnell has an unusual hobby, he decided to make that his Internet business.
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Can you name the #1 selling brand of paper clips?
It’s a simple question. It should be obvious.
For every product in the world, there is a single top selling brand. Some items are easy to name as the top selling brand in their categories: Budweiser (or Bud Light if you need to be a stickler). Coca-Cola (ditto for Diet Coke, again depending on your point of view). Bic pens are ubiqitious, but at least you know who Bic is and that they are a pen manufacturer.
But the paper clip is even more common.
And chances are you still haven’t thought of even one manufacturer of paper clips, let alone a brand name, by the time you’ve read this far.
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So by now, Web Watch hopes that you have taken the time to view the Muppets’ version of Queen’s BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY.
If you haven’t, we’ve included it here. (If you have, we know you’re just going to click PLAY again, if only to watch Animal’s segment one more time.)
Obviously the highlight of the video for most people is Animal’s part. Web Watch, on the other hand, enjoyed noticing the many lesser-known Muppets that were included in the video, including Mahna Mahna.
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