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This is Zack Kim, and Zack plays guitars. Yes that’s right, guitarS.  Zack is a pluralistic plucker who today is performing a verbatim version of the theme from the The Simpsons using TWO guitars. Very clever stuff…

 

 

If you know this theme as well as I do, you’ll know that this rendition is note-perfect, even down to the timing and inflection on particular notes and passages. As a guitar player I’m having trouble following the zipping hands across two guitars, let alone comprehending actually learning to play it THIS well.

 

 

Previously here at WD we brought you the golf-ball episode of Will It Blend. Today we have a special and spectacular double dose of WIB.  Our first contestant is the venerable JesusPhone from Apple. At a cost of US$600 this is definitely NOT something you’d want to try at home.  I really enjoy watching this over and over. Makes up for the saturation coverage this half-baked device has been receiving.

 

 

Next we have a solution for those nights when you’ve been out drinking and you get home and find yourself fumbling about in the dark for the house keys (assuming you’re allowed back in the house).

 

 

 

 

This is an interesting and clever short film. I say that because really it deserves more than the tag of simple "video". Clearly a lot of thought and effort went into the production. The results are high quality.

 

I reckon this guy’s got you covered

 

 

I‘m not sure what you have to be ON to do this, but I’m sure it has some level of skill that transfers across to the REAL world somehow… 

 

 

 

Right from the first frame you just KNOW this is going to end badly. But I give due credit the morons errr.. I mean producers, they did use editing to build the suspense nicely. There are many questions, most of which can be answered with the simple phrase "Just go around…"

 

I do take points OFF the producers however for choosing the "punchline" to be the thumbnail-frame for the video. I use this same service for some of my videos and unlike YouTube, they let you choose what frame from the video to use as the thumbnail. These clown-dacks either didn’t bother to change the auto setting (which is a random frame, half way through the video), or even worse they chose to use the punchline as the thumbnail. Either way, it’s the equivalent of the movie posters for Empire Strikes Back showing the scene from the end with the captioning "Luke… I AM your Father…"

 

 

As funny as this is, it’s also part of the reason why insurance premiums continue to rise. Often when these things end badly, it’s VERY badly for the individual at the centre of the action. Like this guy. These incidents get filed under the category of "Nature taking care of it’s own problem".  However the guy in this 4WD video lived and was well enough to be home filling out the insurance forms that night.

 

 

Or does it ?  Watch the video and decide for yourself if this is some new form of Soviet levitation aviation, or merely a clever effect created by syncing the FPS rate of the camera to the rotational speed of the helicopters blades.

 

 

Wow… not bad. Guy is yelling a bit too much.

But I guess I probably would too if I was there taking that video.

 

My favourite part is at about 1m 30s when he pans up and shows the whole thing.  Granted, it’s not one of those giant big "black" tornadoes that rips buildings apart and flips cars across the road. But spectacular none the less.

 

 

This was taken on the same day when a giant

F5 tornado levelled the town of Greensburg in Kansas.