If you’re stuck in an office without a television or bouncing from meeting to meeting this morning, you can stream the Oscar Pistorius court appearance analysis straight to your desktop or mobile, right here.
The ride is similar to those you rode as a kid outside the Pick ‘n’ Pay – you know, the space-ship or car that used to move about as your mom patiently waited. Banksy’s version is a little different, it delivers a message. The ride is not a space-ship or a car, it’s a dolphin struggling to swim through fishing nets and BP oil, installed as a reminder to those who have forgotten about BP’s role in poisoning the Gulf Coast of the USA.
Some time ago, we became aware of the fact that the folks over at the AVA were producing a documentary on the state of YouTube in South Africa. Their web doccie has finally dropped, and features the likes of Caspar Lee, Derek Watts And The Sunday Blues, and Anne Hirsch. Check it out!
How you get into professional pizza dough twirling as a vocation is beyond us, but it sure is fun to watch. Watch this master pizza dough tosser from Toronto, Canada spin a pie like an edible frisby.
The music video for Katy Perry’s new single, ‘Roar’ dropped this week, and the people of the internet have lost their collective minds over the narrative, which is explained almost entirely via cutaways of a Whatsapp conversation. Well how about that. The modern world, hey kids?
Surf videos just got even more gnarly than before. Surfers are being shot from whole new angles using drones. Check out the fresh new perpective in this video.
Ecce Homo is the Spanish fresco whose restoration was botched after parishioner, Cecillia Gimenez attempted to restore the painting to its former glory. The ruined fresco now enjoys the nickname ‘Monkey Christ’ and has become a serious tourist attraction with over 40,000 people making their way to the church to view the failure. Epic win?
This Sky Broadband ad, featuring Bruce Willis has been banned in the UK. Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority said: We concluded that the ad did not make sufficiently clear the extent of the commitment consumers had to make in order to obtain the broadband service at the advertised price
Smartphone and tablet manufacturer HTC has a new $1 billion (R9,9 billion) advertising campaign which is aimed at positioning the company alongside Samsung and Apple. Haha.
The isolated Kawahiva tribe was recorded in Brazil in 2011. The footage has been released and shows a rare look at the tribe people in the forest.
Elton John has released more than his fair share of monster hits, but his most famous track is undoubtedly ‘Your Song’. The song was released in 1970, and was written by Bernie Taupin when he was 17-years-old, “hence the extraordinary virginal sentiments”. Virginal sentiments aside, the song was written in 10 minutes at a breakfast table.
This newborn giant Panda, Yuan Zai was reunited with its mother, Yuan Yuan after being separated for 12 months. The newborn is Taiwan’s first baby giant Panda. Baby Yuan Zai was born on 6 July 2013, but was injured only a few days later, resulting in the newborn being incubated.
Capetonian filmaker, Dan Mace made this short film that is a celebration of life for all of us living in Cape Town. Mace said: Being a young filmmaker from one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Cape Town — South Africa, it is hard to not be inspired by the world around me.
This terrific pair is named Biggy and Mouse. Biggy is the big guy, Mouse is the guy with the mullet. Biggy & Mouse reign with an iron fist from Port Elizabeth. Because Port Elizabeth. Look, they’re no Jack Parow, but you have to give them points for enthusiasm.
The trailer for the ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts’ was unveiled on Wednesday in Los Angeles, and rapper Eminem debuted his latest song, entitled ‘Survival’ with the new gameplay footage.
Neil Hilborn is a poet who suffers from obsessive -compulsive disorder (OCD), and his love poem entitled “OCD” amazed those fortunate enough to be in the audience to hear it at the 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam. ‘OCD’ is a two-minute poem where Hilborn describes what the disorder did to his relationship, and conversely what his relationship did to his disorder.
The rooftop of a 26-story apartment building in Beijing, China has been a construction site for six years while a respected doctor built a mountain side villa. Complete with real grass and trees and fake rocks.
Jetpack received a flying permit which means test flights can begin and the flying machine could be in stores soon. And yes it has been designed for the general public, but with a hefty price tag
Last week, Marc and Lauren Gilbert began hearing adult voices coming from their child’s bedroom. As the couple moved closer to the room, they could hear explicit language and a foreign accent speaking to their daughter, Allyson while she was sleeping. The voice called their daughter a “fucking moron” and said, “wake up you little slut”.
This Nairobi lawyer, Dola Indidis is taking a case to the International Court of Justice. Indidis wants to sue Italy and Israel for killing Jesus Christ.
Although Sam Horowitz had his Bar Mitzvah in November 2012, his burlesque-themed celebration video only recently surfaced on Jewish website, Kveller. Horowitz’s celebration took place at the Omni Hotel in Dallas, and has been described by the Dallas Observer as “unarguably the craziest entrance to a religious celebration and ceremony”.
Grootbos has put together a Super Spring Special just for you. The ultimate luxury and fine dining experience is perfectly complemented by flowering fynbos and the arrival of the Southern Right Whales. Speaking of which, Grootbos is throwing in a guided land-based whale watching excursion, an exclusive whale watching boat tour and a 4×4 flower safari all for FREE.
German director Werner Herzog directed this chilling documentary which details stories of people who are living with the effects of texting and driving.
What do you do if an opponent kicks the ball away from where you positioned it during a soccer match? You pull down his shorts of course. This is what happened and the referee just looked on.
YouTube has brought us many things to be thankful for over the years, Justin Bieber, Charlie Bit My Finger, Antoine Dodson, and a myriad of cat videos. Don’t pretend you haven’t seen “Funny Cats in Water, EPIC,” it has 65,344,947 views. Whether you love these YouTube sensations or hate them, we all have one thing […]
Diva impressionist Christina Bianco performs Bonnie Tyler’s hit ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ but does so by the ballad as if it were Cher, Britney Spears or Celine Dion performing the song.
What makes a viral video a viral video? Twitter UK’s research team used three already viral videos to demonstrate what make these videos explode on Twitter.
This video walk through of Dyson testing lab in Malmesbury, England where they are testing the Dyson DC41 shows you have ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes of Dyson testing lab, without you even knowing that you wanted to know it.. This is the place where the dust sucker is tested against all the elements that the real world could possible throw at it.
This story broke in July, but given the excellence of this portrait, it would be wrong of us not to bring to those of you who have missed it. A shanghai-based artist named Paul Akashi has painted a portrait of Nelson Mandela with 27,000 punches. Akashi printed the Chinese character for freedom on to a boxing glove, and punched it on to the canvass to paint the portrait.
Oprah Winfrey’s recent visit to Switzerland for Tina Turner’s wedding resulted in an Zurich shop assistant refusing to show the queen of talk a bag because it was “too expensive”, according to the shop assistant.