Every time he tries to walk past the fence of a certain house a crazy rabid dog starts to bark like crazy, snapping his teeth and pushing on a loose board in the fence to try and attack.

His only option is to go the long way around it all by taking the bus. That is until one day someone leaves a plastic bag with a goldfish in it on the seat next to him.

This isn’t an ordinary goldfish though, it has a secret…

I thought The Passenger was a great bit of storytelling, not to mention animation work, and was very happy to have come across it on YouTube. I really liked how all the comedy was done in this video, especially when the main character was in the bus.

The opening of the umbrella, how he was still smacking the bag even after the fish went back to normal, the plugging and unplugging of the headphones, etc. None of these were revolutionary sequences to the art of comedy but they were executed perfectly and had me laughing the whole time. Oh and as for the bus driver he must be the most oblivious bus driver ever lol.

What do you think, did you like it? Y/N?

Once you see him this isn’t a character that you’ll soon forget and that’s for one big reason, his mouth is just… well you’ll see:

So there’s actually a story behind why The Mouth Of Sauron’s mouth is the way it is.

It’s not some terrible disease that he caught or some kind of weird injury that made his mouth like that, it was words.

He was a servant of Sauron for hundreds of years (so long that he’d even forgotten his own name) and seems to have mostly worked in a spokesperson and propaganda messenger type role.

The Mouth Of Sauron spoke so much evil during his service to Sauron that his mouth became horribly disfigured and nasty.

And that my friends is why you should always say nice things ;).

This video tells a funny story about a situation that unfortunately many on Facebook know all too well.

A guy accepts a friend request from someone he had reservations about, just to be polite. Bad idea.

Moral of the story: creepers gonna creep, don’t accept their friend requests.

Anybody reading this ever have an online creeper? I had one, though it wasn’t on Facebook. I had specifically stopped talking to this person because I realized he was the creeper type (amongst other things) and made it extremely obvious that we were never to have even a speck of contact again.

Then years later a message arrives in my inbox saying someone had written me on a certain obscure social network. It was the creeper.

It was jarring to see, as there was no way that he could have even found my profile on this particular site unless he’d done some serious creeping.

The message? Totally bizarre. He did not use his own name but a pseudonym and talked ‘hypothetically’ about ‘could things be forgiven’ if a certain situation had happened. What situation? It sounded suspiciously similar to the situation involving him of course. HELL NO CREEPER!

I did what’s usually the best thing to do with creepers like that, just ignored him. He wrote another message a while later, an anonymous one this time, trying to strike up a conversation but I seen through it in an instant. I knew it was the creeper.

He eventually faded away but this song reminded me of that whole thing. Creepa!

But in this video a storytelling duo called Eth-Noh-Tec sums things up nicely in a story of HELL ON EARTH MUAHAHAHAHAHA…okay maybe it’s not that intense lol but it’s good though, you’ll see…

I really like how Eth-Noh-Tec did this one, their storytelling is on point and they do it with humor and style. Came across this video by accident a while back via a Google Alert for, well I can’t remember what but I was pleasantly surprised. Wish I could come across more good storytelling videos like this randomly, I need a StumbleUpon for storytelling stuff!

What makes a recut trailer awesome is the retelling of the storyline in a way that twists the feeling of the original movie, extra points if it makes you laugh.

Scary Mary Poppins is still the best recut trailer that I’ve come across (it helps that Mary Poppins has a surprisingly large number of creepy/scary shots in it, who knew?) but this one redoing Home Alone is another favorite of mine.

This video tells the story of Kevin, a psychotic child who endures repeated rejections by his family and finally snaps during the holidays.

He decides to fulfill his own vengeful Christmas wishes by killing his family and the people in his neighborhood one by one…

What did you think, is this a good recut trailer or did it fall flat for you?

Wasn’t sure what to expect from this one when I saw that it was a nine minute beat poem.

Yes it is an animated poem and I tend to love those but on the other hand I’ve heard a lot of beat poetry that …how can I say this… makes me want to claw at my ears, so I kind of braced myself when I pushed the play button lol.

Storm turned out to be excellent though, both the poem itself as well as the animation.

Written by Tim Minchin it tells the story of how he went to a dinner party one night and was confronted with someone so outrageously ignorant that try as he might he couldn’t stop himself from calling her out, even though it would make the whole dinner party incredibly awkward…

Kinetic typography is one of those things that’s either done really well or makes you cringe when you watch it, doesn’t seem to be much in between unfortunately.

Here’s one that I really like, it’s done to audio of a scene in the beginning of V For Vendetta.

It also doubles as a way to get wasted really fast…just take a shot every time he says a word starting with v:

‘I’m not questioning your powers of observation, I’m merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.’ Lol!

Surrounded by fields of unforgiving concrete, the residents took to the local cemetery to get the feel of grass under their feet.

 

What is a hint memoir?

More hint memoirs.

Feel free to post your own hint memoirs in the comments too if you want I’d love to read em :).
 

 

I like his sort of deadpan style on this one, it’s entertaining without distracting from what he’s teaching.

And of course it doesn’t hurt that the end is freaking hilarious :D.

What do you think, like it Y/N?

A spectacular Carl Sagan video was passed on a while back by Gunthar via the Facebook page for this blog.

The video was made by someone who was frustrated with how badly NASA is doing at telling it’s story, which interestingly enough is exactly the same situation that lead Sagan and some others to make the Cosmos tv series so many years ago.

The foundation of the video is Carl Sagan reading from his beautifully written book The Pale Blue Dot. As usual he was through words trying to rouse people into the same love and adventurous spirit that he felt for space exploration.

I think that the person who made this video did an excellent job of translating Sagan’s poetic words into just the right images. I love the subtleties, like the tree with it’s array of limbs shown during the part where Sagan is saying ‘Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the solar system and beyond, will be unified.’.

Anyway check it out, I think you’ll be inspired: