Crazy Humans | People Are Awesome 2011

Crazy DJ | Ruth Flowers aka DJ Mamy Rock

We all know the traditional view of the "old year" as an old man, and the "new year" as a newborn baby -- ever wonder what the "old year" does after it's collected the golden watch...? I think DJ Mamy Rocks has a pretty good idea. Check this out!

Crazy Band | Pink Floyd "Time"

Crazy Viking | TechnoViking

Crazy Band | Black Veil Brides "Set the World on Fire"

Crazy Orchestra | The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain "Teenage Dirtbag" (Wheatus)

Faith | Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - One Day

Yule | Terry Gilliam "The Christmas Card"

Yule | Coldplay "Christmas Lights"

Yule | Killers "The Cowboy's Christmas Ball"

Yule | Boney M. "Mary's Boy Child"

Yule | Coca Cola Christmas Trucks in Berlin

Yule | Santa is a Jerk

Yule | Rudolph Goes to Rehab

Yule | Jimmy Fallon "Drunk on Christmas"

Yule | Larry the Cable Guy "Politically Correct Christmas"

Yule | Jim Carrey "White Christmas"

Yule | Silent Monks "Hallelujah"

Yule | Christmas Lights

Yule | Trans-Siberian Orchestra "Christmas Canon Rock"

Yule | Elvis "Blue Christmas"

Yule | Waiting for Santa

Yule | Phil Marlow "Holiday Everything" from CBC This is That

Yule | Stephen Colbert "Cold, Cold Christmas"

Yule | Pogueswith Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale of New York"

Yule | Gruff Rhys "Post Apocalypse Christmas"

Yule | Jonathan Coulton "Chiron Beta Prime"

Yule | William Shatner's Happy Holidays

Yule | That T, from Arrested Development

Thanks to haha for that one!

Yule | Justin Bieber "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"

Yule | Tradition... the re-creation of the Baby Boomer's Christmas...

Crazy Dancer | Grampa Shufflin'

Crazy Awesome Buy | Have Not Been the Same album

Desperate to get something super-cool for that awesome music-lover on your list?! Check this out!!

Or you could get it after the Big Day and be a hero for simply giving a cool gift ("...saw this and thought of you...") without being social-traditionally-bound to do so...


Have Not Been The Same commercial from Colin Medley on Vimeo.

Just Crazy | Touched by a wild mountain gorilla

Crazy Band | Destroyer "Kaputt"

Crazy Band | Grimes "Vanessa"

Grimes - Vanessa from Arbutus Records on Vimeo.

Crazy Band | Royksopp "This Must Be It"

Crazy Band | Arcade Fire "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"

Beer | The WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery

omg. you mean i don't even have to go to the pub anymore...?


The WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery from WilliamsWarn on Vimeo.


Thanks to Beck and her fabulous becks beer blog for this enlightenment!

Crazy Filmster | Michael Berliner "School Portrait (2011)"

School Portrait (2011) from Michael Berliner on Vimeo.

Crazy Musician | Kalle Mattson "Thick As Thieves"

Kalle Mattson - Thick As Thieves (Official Video) from Kevin Parry on Vimeo.

Thanks to Larry Cebula's Northwest History for this!

Crazy Filmsters | Side Films "Too Late"

WARNING: The makeup in this film is quite graphic! It is not for children!

Too Late from SIDE FILMS on Vimeo.

crazy storyteller | Moran Cerf's Moth GrandSLAM winning story

crazy musician | The Coppertone

The Coppertone- Quicksand (live) from Adrian Vieni (Wood & Wires) on Vimeo.

crazy filmster | Keith Loutit "Time Lapse: Metal Heart"

crazy foodie | John Nese at Galcos Soda Pop Shop (Los Angeles)

crazy animator | Dropbear, for Hudson "Against the Grain"

Hudson - Against The Grain from Dropbear on Vimeo.

crazy orchestra | Recording the main theme for Legend of Zelda (25th Anniversary)

ThreatWatch | Planet-Hacking

We've always had a bit of a love-hate relationship with Science down here in the abomb&thecorpse bunker. After all, Science gave us Reason, Evidence-based Change, and a host of technological developments that eventually led to a plethora of wonderfully nefarious devices to divert the attention of the masses. It opened up a whole new world of grey, which is absolutely magical to Our paradyme.

On the other hand, it also handed a spectrum of tools for potential mis-information and lies to Those Who Agendize. (I think this, or something to this effect, was said on The Wire: "A lie is not the other side of the story: it is still a lie.")

I have always loved Science for dreaming the big dream, for shooting at the stars, for going all-in, for doing almost any cliché you might wish to imagine for trying anything just to see how close it comes to being done.

This is one of those things I'm not sure is best to try on our planet -- after all, right now we only have one. Best not to mess that up until we've at least got another, in case we break the first one.

"Planet Hacking", more accurately Geoengineering, or manipulating natural systems to create a desired outcome, does not seem like a particularly good experiment to fiddle with. [cbc] I wonder if Eli Kintsch is the new Nero? (I tease. Obviously not. There will be nothing to fiddle to if Mr. Kintsch were to accidentally burn down the planet.)

crazy animator | Terry Gilliam explains Monty Python animations

crazy musician | skrillex "First of the Year (Equinox)"

crazy driver | Speed Demon goes 462 miles per hour

carzy musician | Sean Quigley "Little Drummer Boy"

crazy musician | Dub FX "Step on my Trip"

crazy animator | Kevin Parry "The Arctic Circle"

The Arctic Circle from Kevin Parry on Vimeo.

crazy musician | Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the pentatonic scale at a neurological conference

space'd | Astronauts falling on the moon

crazy filmster | Support Your Local Video Store

I posted the first three webisodes of this a few posts back, when Videomatica was going to close down... they have since gotten together with the ever-excellent Kitsilano music store Zulu Records to share space, as this excellent post by Bob at Vancouver is Awesome explains.

Here are webisodes number 4 and 5 for you! (And check out the main SYLVS site!)

Support Your Local Video Store Episode 4 from Red Wheelbarrow on Vimeo.

Support Your Local Video Store Episode 5 from Red Wheelbarrow on Vimeo.

Space'd | Timelapse from ISS

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

strength through unity unity through faith

Here's a cool story about David Lloyd...

The Man Behind the V for Vendetta Mask

by Rosie Waites at the BBC News Magazine.

crazy band | Focus "Hocus Pocus" live 1974

crazy animators | Ormie Wants A Cookie

crazy filmsters | the Videomatica folks "Support Your Local Video Store"

This is a comedy web series by the fine folks at Videomatica, on West 4th Avenue in Vancouver. I can remember if they already closed down, or are closing down in future... which I guess is part of the problem, sadly. I hardly ever went to the store... but I loved that they were there.

Funny webisodes, though.


Support Your Local Video Store Episode 1 from Red Wheelbarrow on Vimeo.


Support Your Local Video Store Episode 2 from Red Wheelbarrow on Vimeo.


Support Your Local Video Store Episode 3 from Red Wheelbarrow on Vimeo.

crazy dancer | WHZGUD2 dubstep to Pumped Up Kicks remix

crazy filmster | Vita Bella: The Dogumentary

A web series mockumentary about a dog psychologist, filmed in Vancouver. Three episodes so far, as of this posting... I'll post those here, and you can find the rest!

crazy musician | Marc Martel, as Freddy Mercury

This has made the internets rounds a bit already, and I didn't bother to watch it initially due to the hype... glad I did, actually... this guy has a really good voice, period. He made this to audition for a Queen cover band... and didn't seem to expect the response from the general public. Again: great voice.

crazy musician | Katelyn Molgard

via the ever-amazing and wonderful Jonathan Dy.

Book Party!

Come to The Beaumont (316 West 5th Avenue, at Alberta Street) at 9pm this Saturday, September 24, 2011 for the release of Mark Loader's newest M.O.R. graphic novel! The $12 entry gets you in, and gets you a copy of the book (limited to the first 100 people)! Plus live music by Katelyn Molgard! There will always be MOR!

Crazy Band | Timber Timbre "Too Old To Die Young"

Crazy Robots | ChatBot vs. ChatBot

Igor Labutov, Jason Yosinski, and Hod Lipson at the Cornell Creative Machines Lab set up two chatbots to chat to each other.



[via Good]

Crazy Filmster | Kim Pimmel "Compressed 02"

Kim Pimmel combines soap bubbles and ferrofluid liquid. Very cool.

Compressed 02 from Kim Pimmel on Vimeo.

[via Kottke]

Interlude | Mountain Biking Vancouver's North Shore

Crazy Actors | 25 Unscripted Moments of Movie Magic

Respect | David "Honeyboy" Edwards, 1915-2011

Deltablues guitarist David "Honeyboy" Edwards passed away today at the age of 96.

Crazy Musicians | 2cellos (Sulic & Hauser) cover Guns n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle"

Crazy Band | Weezer cover Radiohead's "Paranoid Android"

crazy musician | Baard Kolstad

Crazy Band | MGMT "Time to Pretend"

Crazy Band | Puscifier "The Mission (M is for Milla mix)

Crazy Filmster | Rick Mereki

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Crazy Band | The Pack a.d. "BC is on fire"

crazy musician | Delia Derbyshire

Crazy Band | Suicidal Tendencies "Institutionalized"

Respect | BC Day

In short form, we in British Columbia have BC Day to celebrate the pioneers who built the Colony into the great Province it is today. And because when it was brought in everybody else had the first MOnday in August off already.

Bob Kronbauer at the Vancouver Is Awesome site wrote an excellent post last year to explain the history of the day in more detail. [via]

Crazy Choir | Perpetuum Jazzile cover Toto's "Africa"

crazy orator | C.R. Avery on Pierre Elliott Trudeau

crazy musician | Jason Webley

Check out Jon Dy's blog, Eye on the Sound.

Jason Webley - Pork Goulash from Jonathan Dy on Vimeo.

Crazy Athlete | Ueli Steck speed solo Eiger record

Crazy Collaboration | Yo Yo Ma and Lil' Buck perform Cello/Dance

Crazy Band | World Order "Machine Civilization"

Respect | B.C. Women

British Columbian women won the right to vote in Provincial elections, on this date in 1917.

Last year Daniel Francis at KnowBC wrote an excellent post about this important event. [knowbc]

Crazy Choir | Scala & Kolacny Brothers

Crazy Band | eddy "need" (first music video shot fully on iPad 2)

iPad 2 Music Video - Eddy "NEED" from Remedy Films on Vimeo.

Crazy Band | Stomacher "Untitled/Dark Divider"

Stomacher - Untitled/Dark Divider from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

crazy dancers | this has to be on a cruise

Respect | Make Your Influence Positive

crazy cute | Baby smashes up a bar

Crazy Musicians | Top Secret Drum Corp

Crazy Band | The Black Keys "Howlin' For You"

crazy animation | Joy Division's "Transmission" in Lego

Crazy Band | Eskimo "We Got More"