Cuppa Tea

Yellow

2006-12-04T12:22:00.000Z

I don't know why I like this so much, but I do. By directors Ken Nordine and 'Bob' Dobbs.

Post-It

2006-12-04T00:30:00.000Z

A fantastic student films using post-its. Quite a fun piece of work, and very clever.

More Eric Yow

2006-12-03T01:17:00.000Z

The guy who does these snooker tricks is called Eric Yow. This is a slightly more arty film of his amazing tricks.

Insane pool trickshots

2006-12-01T19:21:00.000Z

Oh my God. Just some incredible pool trickshots.

Tunnel in Russia

2006-11-29T17:51:00.000Z

Tunnel+ice+CCTV=a Cuppa Tea

Life as a guy

2006-11-25T19:07:00.000Z

It's bitter. It's mean. It's a little inappropriate. But it's well done, and it's funny. I also love the "Special thanks to my good friend Caffeine". :-P

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Things you CAN'T do when NOT in a pool

2006-11-24T10:59:00.000Z

PMS Survival Tips

2006-11-22T20:31:00.000Z

Parody on an old educational film. Quite funny.

Dog in circles

2006-11-18T17:48:00.000Z

This dog acts rather strangely when he hears the blender being used... Hihihi

Kiwi!

2006-11-14T19:52:00.000Z

I'm sorry that I've been so terrible at posting regularly. Been having trouble keeping up to schedule.

This little animation is called Kiwi. Why? I don't know, I'm guessing the name of the animal. Very cute (you get it at the end).

Also REALLY sad :'-(

Sketch furniture

2006-11-03T01:44:00.000Z

According to the description of this clip, "Invisible pen strokes in the air recorded with Motion Capture become digital 3D-files. Through Rapid Prototyping, the files are materialised into real pieces of furniture". Oh. My. God... Cool.

More information at FRONT website.

Borat

2006-11-01T23:32:00.000Z

The new Borat movie is coming out in England tomorrow. This is a clip of him on an American TV show. It's very silly, but quite funny. Interesting side note, Sacha Baron Cohen the actor who plays Borat is a Cambridge graduate. He studied history.

Pumpkin Rotting

2006-10-31T17:12:00.000Z

I just thought that this was kind of appropriate for Halloween. It's quite creepy really. Time lapse over 14 days I'm reliably told.

Nobody's Watching Lost

2006-10-29T11:09:00.000Z

I just really like the videos these guys are doing

Mookie and Sam EP 2

2006-10-28T12:12:00.000+01:00

Title pretty much sums it up

Amazing kicks

2006-10-24T13:17:00.000+01:00

A combination of martial arts and gymnastics. Look how high he jumps! It's incredible!

Crazy darts player

2006-10-23T10:15:00.000+01:00

I like this clip because he designed a mansion called George Hall. It also has a pub in it - am I dreaming?

Loose Change 2

2006-10-22T17:02:00.000+01:00

This is for those of you who love conspiracy theories. I haven't watched the whole thing - it's 1hr20mins long. However, the first 10 minutes were quite interesting. I plan to watch it all when I have the time.

Mookie and Sam (EP 1)

2006-10-21T17:57:00.000+01:00

I stumbled across this on YouTube. There are two episodes at the moment, and, having two Jack Russells, I love this! Just a really cool idea. I assume it's an amateur thing, but it might be professional.

ClipBandits

2006-10-18T20:32:00.000+01:00

These guys - the ClipBandits - claim to be the first 'web band' ever. Apparently, they have never met, and don't even know each other's names! Is this the future of music? Lets hope not...

Nobody's Watching OK Go!

2006-10-16T23:38:00.000+01:00

This is the response by Derrick and Will of Nobody's Watching to the OK Go video (treadmills). In case you've forgotten, they've decided to make the show, and in the mean time, are releasing a variety of short clips on YouTube.

Coffee addiction

2006-10-15T21:45:00.000+01:00

For those of you who hadn't gathered, I absolutely love Scrubs. And this is one of my favourite clips from it. I can emphasise with this - got a bit of a coffee addiction myself.

Bush vs. Bush

2006-10-14T18:31:00.000+01:00

Lets stick with politics shall we? Why? Because it's just so, so, so funny...

Apologies

2006-10-13T20:19:00.000+01:00

I am very sorry everyone... This blog has been dead for a while as I've just started uni. That means a lot of meeting people and partying, and no time online at all, let alone filling up the kettle so you can get your Cuppa Tea! Anyway, I'm pleased to announce that things are now calming down and I hope to be back on track! Starting off with this hilarious clip of Tony Blair and David Cameron:

Ironically it looks like even if the PM changes, we won't be getting many changes...

More Nobody's Watching

2006-09-26T11:09:00.000+01:00

These guys are awesome. I think that this is a great stunt:

Nobody's Watching

2006-09-24T16:53:00.000+01:00

You might remember my posting about a show called Nobody's Watching. Well thanks to the success it enjoyed on YouTube, they are making the show! In the mean time, they have a few small clips online. Such as this one:

Float

2006-09-23T11:29:00.000+01:00

According to the description of this video, it is "designed to inspire the imagination". Well, are you inspired?

Beautiful it undeniably is.

Easily mispronounced URLs

2006-09-22T21:48:00.000+01:00

http://www.grupthink.com/poll/22

The title pretty much sums it up. My personal favourite - powergenitalia.com.

Pregnancy

2006-09-21T13:12:00.000+01:00

This is just really cute. Put me in a good mood.

Will Farrell as George Bush on Global Warming

2006-09-20T15:23:00.000+01:00

This is a follow-up to this post with another Will Farrell on George Bush video. But this one is funnier.

There's just way too much to quote - but here are a couple of my favourites.

"I'm not going to lie to you, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about".
"I start my day thinking about the warming of the Globe, and how we can get it warmer".

I love it.

Dave Chappell as George Bush

2006-09-19T09:31:00.000+01:00

If nothing else, George Bush has given comedians a bottomless pit of potential. Books, films, shows, radio programmes, you hear people mocking him and imitating him everywhere. You would think that it would get old. It doesn't.

Funniest ad for a while...

2006-09-18T09:30:00.000+01:00

This Agent Provocateur ad with Kylie Minogue is the funniest ad I've seen for a long time. I think that the creepy old woman really adds something. I'm not really sure what...

There you have it: scientific evidence through experiment. They don't get much better than that.

Amaryllis

2006-09-17T13:06:00.000+01:00

Ok, this is the last time-lapse video I promise! This one is of the blooming of an amaryllis. I think that it's such a shame that the maker of the video choose this song. It's a really rude song behind something that's quite beautiful. Those who are easily offended, turn off the sound.

No time-lapse tomorrow - I promise you!

More time-lapse

2006-09-16T11:21:00.000+01:00

Another time-lapse video. It's spectaclar and with fantastic music.

I love the planes at the airport.

Time-lapse moonrise

2006-09-15T13:31:00.000+01:00

I found loads of really cool time-lapse videos yesterday. I love them for loads of reasons. First of all it shows you how rushed we are as humans, never stopping to observe things for the time they deserve. Take this moonrise for example. Not only is it a stunning video, but watching the moon and the sky move in this is the first time that I've seen the Earth rotate relative to other things in space.

See what I mean?

Reno Balloon Race 2006

2006-09-14T11:21:00.000+01:00

This was featured on YouTube, and I think that it's awesome. It's sped up to the perfect speed. I like the cow...

Will Ferrell as George Bush

2006-09-13T11:57:00.000+01:00

Is it possible to make fun of GWB too much?

"Don't watch the news, except for Fox".

Star Trek vs. Star Wars

2006-09-12T22:17:00.000+01:00

Because I was bored...

Still not entertained? Read the geek comments where they debate how plausible Star Trek and Star Wars are... Indeed the first comment is "Actually neither Star Trek or Star Wars are supported by scientific fact". I love it.

Random footage

2006-09-11T12:41:00.000+01:00

This is not a particularly incredible video from YouTube. However, what I find amazing, is quite how much stuff there is on there. Who filmed this? When? Where? How on Earth did a video of a military helicopter crashing find its way onto the internet to be viewed by all?

This is how NOT to land a helicopter. Some of you might want to turn the sound down...

The Bush Pilot

2006-09-10T15:58:00.000+01:00

I really, really want this to be true. It's a very funny idea.

I like that fact that the guy is German. And the Abu Garaba, Abu Garrab... Whatever.

How Superman Should Have Ended

2006-09-09T14:27:00.000+01:00

Hi all,

I just got back from a fantastic trip to Amsterdam. Beautiful city, and the Dutch are very nice people. Now I am back in London and will be able to provide a daily 'Cuppa Tea' again! The first one is this. This is how Superman should have ended:

[Update] faulty clip fixed.

Animator vs. Animation

2006-09-02T10:42:00.000+01:00

This is an absolutely fantastic Flash animation. For best quality, go and see it here. Otherwise, the YouTube version:

I'm off on holiday for a week, so I will be unable to post. But check back after then! :-)

Pancakes

2006-09-01T11:52:00.000+01:00

This little film from a student at the University of Aberdeen isn't amazing. It's very good, and rather entertaining, and the song is surprisingly catchy, but it's not amazing. What is amazing is that it's had 900,000 views, and has been featured on news channels in Great Britain, USA and Australia. See this news article on it by the BBC.

Ok, I say it's not amazing, but I must confess - I love it. My favourite bit is probably when he breaks the eggs, but eating them with all the different ingredients is fun too. Can anyone tell me how something like this becomes so popular?

Table Football

2006-08-31T12:12:00.000+01:00

This is another clip that I rememer first seeing years ago. Of course, thanks to the miracle of YouTube, it was easy to fin. Amazing table football skills - just amazing.

Matrix Ping Pong

2006-08-30T14:53:00.000+01:00

I played some ping pong yesterday and was reminded of this video that I first saw ages ago. It's extremely funny and unbelievably clever.

Finger Picking This n' That

2006-08-29T12:34:00.000+01:00

This video was featured on YouTube. I know nothing about guitars, but I think it sounds really nice. It's some absolutely awesome playing, and he now has a huge fan base. The brilliant thing about YouTube is that it shows you that there are millions of very talented people in the world, even if they are not big stars. This is an old American man who likes playing the guitar. 130,000 people have watched him. Perhaps through user generated online communities, like blogs and YouTube, we have finally found a way to show what we like, and not to be told what we like?

Spoof Nike Ad

2006-08-28T12:43:00.000+01:00

This spoof Nike ad was made by students at the University of Manchester. Not only do they show some amazing football skills (I was told they won the University Football League, but I might be wrong), but the film is also really well made.

1664 Ad

2006-08-27T15:44:00.000+01:00

Continuing with the ad theme. As DavidF said, 1664 make some good ads. This is one of them:

The Best Ad of All Time?

2006-08-26T01:35:00.000+01:00

Before I go away for the weekend, I leave you with one very pertinent question: is this the best ad of all time? When you analyse the HUGE response to it, with it being blogged everywhere online and everyone talking about, you'd have to say yes. People wanted to watch it just because of how creative and beautiful it was. From an advertising and creative perspective, is there anything better?

Check out here for higher quality.

Have a great weekend

Stella - the Doctor

2006-08-25T11:23:00.000+01:00

More brilliant Stella work! I'm sure that most of you have seen this ad. It's similar to the one from yesterday in style. I love the fact that you don't need to speak a word of French to understand it.

Stella Artois ad - The Pilot

2006-08-24T17:19:00.000+01:00

I love this ad. It's extremelly well filmed and very creative. The first time that I saw it I actually thought that it was part of a film until the end. In two minutes they have everything anyway - suspense, excitement, and of course, humour.

The best part is the barman's expression at the end.

The Hoff Pipex Ad

2006-08-23T11:41:00.000+01:00

This is wrong... Just so so wrong. I can't actually tell if it's a joke or not. I think that Pipex see it as a joke but Dave actually thinks it's a fantastic ad. It's the sort of thing I can imagine him thinking.

Jump in My Car

2006-08-22T17:42:00.000+01:00

David 'The Hoff' Hasselhoff's new music video. There are two ways to watch this: laughing hysterically, or eyes and mouth wide open in disbelief.

Don't hassel The Hoff!!!

80s music videos

2006-08-21T14:04:00.000+01:00

This website, despite its misleading name (http://www.insuranceandnews.com/), is a collection of thousands of 80s music videos. I think that my favourite might be the Village People - You Can't Stop the Music, for pure entertainment value. Quality stuff...

ABC The Look of Love is proper 80s too... You've got to love it.

Nobody's Watching Part 3

2006-08-20T10:33:00.000+01:00

And part 3:

I've now seen this first episode several times, and I love it, but I think that I can see why they didn't decide to make it into a series until recently. I think that it's got limited potential. How much can you really do with the scenario that they've set up?

Nobody's Watching Part 2

2006-08-19T16:00:00.000+01:00

Part 2...

Nobody's Watching

2006-08-18T18:02:00.000+01:00

The title of this clip is very ironic - everybody's watching. Let me give you a little background. This was a pilot produced by WB and the guys who did Scrubs and Family Guy. After the first episode was made, it was ditched. However, it has been uploaded onto YouTube (in three parts), and has had such a huge success that NBC are going to make it! I love it!

Part 2 tomorrow if you can't be bothered to look online for it, and part 3 Sunday. What do you guys think?

Pictures in pictures in pictures in...

2006-08-17T19:35:00.000+01:00

I had loads of fun when I discovered this. It just goes on forever! It's like one of those posters that is made up of tiny pictures, except that the tiny pictures are made out of pictures... It's fun.

Logic Puzzle

2006-08-16T20:43:00.000+01:00

The first time I did this I had 4 minutes to spare.

http://users.ntua.gr/ge01033/package.swf

How did you do?

France

2006-08-15T01:05:00.000+01:00

Hello all!

Some of you may have gathered that I am in France at the moment. This does of course mean that I am on holiday, and hence the irregular times of my posts. This is why I am posting this at a ridiculous hour in the morning, and the one tomorrow is going to be very late. This is today's, I promise that I will write a long one soon! I had promised myself that I would actually write something interesting and personal at least once a week, and I'm already failing at the first week!

Anyway, today's Cuppa Tea is B3ta. It is a whole teapot of timewasters in itself, especially its questions of the week. Be warned, not always suitable for a work computer!!! Wish me luck with my 4.5 hours drive tomorrow...

Ecotonoha

2006-08-15T00:46:00.000+01:00

I really wanted to put a long post up today, but I have run out of time, and guests have arrived! So lets save the world instead:

Ecotonoha will plant a tree for every 100 posts to their website. Run by Japanese company NEC, it's doing quite well. Get it into your daily routine and we might actually make a difference!

The Chase

2006-08-13T11:02:00.000+01:00

This is a trailer for a French film that I found on boreme.com. God I wish I could do this...

Lovingly uploaded to youtube for you guys!

Mario Live!

2006-08-12T12:48:00.000+01:00

This is probably the best school show ever. It's fantastic (until the sound guy messes up).

Magic

2006-08-11T12:45:00.000+01:00

This website seems incredible at first, but look at it in a logical way and you'll soon figure out the trick. It's quite good for fooling friends for a bit though!

David Elsewhere

2006-08-10T12:43:00.000+01:00

To continue with the dancing theme, this is David Elsewhere (now quite famous) at Korean festival Kollaboration in 2001. He's the thin white boy in the orange jumper.

I just love the fact that he looks so geeky at first! Impressive though...

Here It Goes Again

2006-08-08T23:53:00.000+01:00

This post is earlier than usual because I'm out for much of tomorrow. Continuing (as promised) with the dancing theme. This has been circling around quite a lot (nearly 2 million views on YouTube). However, if you haven't seen it, this wonderfully creative music video by Ok Go is a must.

Tomorrow, I'm off to the Plateau des Glières! I'd link to a wikipedia article, but it doesn't exist. Oh well.

Evolution of Dance

2006-08-08T14:02:00.000+01:00

If you don't at least smile whilst watching this, you have some serious problems. You've got to admire this guy's talent. Come to think of it, this might be a good time to start a bit of a dancing trend. I've got a couple of other dancing videos for you over the next couple of days.

Following on from yesterday, how many of you have read Scott Adams' blog? Which is your favourite post?

The hangover cure - a Cuppa Tea

2006-08-07T14:12:00.000+01:00

Seeing as it's Monday, I'll do something a little bit more substantial. The big question - why am I doing this blog?

The answer is quite simple - because it's something that I'd want to read. Here's what you do - next time you wake up on a Saturday morning with sand in your mouth and a gnome with a sledge hammer banging you on the head (also known as a hangover), gather the other survivors, go to http://cuppa-tea.blogspot.com, and just plough through those archives. It works even better if you have a couple of liters of water and an ibuprofen as well. Yes that's right, it's what you've suspected all along, the Cuppa Tea blog is a hangover cure. Hell, I'll probably use it! Of course it is much more effective if you can watch more hysterical videos, visit more timewasting websites and read more hilarious jokes. This is the third post, so you'll have to wait a couple of weeks before you can drink irresponsibly with the knowledge that you have an infallible cure to rely on.

So this thing is all about helping others! And you can help by sending in your own timewasters. Click on 'Send me a Cuppa Tea' on the right and hey presto - an email to cuppatea.blog@gmail.com. Don't worry - I've got plenty of tea bags to turn into Cuppsa Tea through the process of 'posting'. Here's today's:

The Dilbert Blog is written by Dilbert author Scott Adams, and has been my biggest Cuppa Tea for the last few weeks. It is terribly funny and also very thought provoking - he's a clever man. He also gets most of the readers to leave comments - which in turn make for a good read either because:
a) they're very interesting
b) they're very stupid
c) they're very funny
I must say that it's inspired me to have the goal to get loads of comments on this blog. It seems like it would be fun to check my email and see lots of new comments. I'd probably even try to read them all the first time! Anyway, my two favourite blog entries by Scott are The Devil and Talking to God. I don't like them for any religious reason, they just amuse me (and provoke lots of readers to comment 'b' style).

By the way, this would be a great moment for you to leave me a comment and tell me who you are!

World Cup 2006 Stats

2006-08-06T11:19:00.000+01:00

I found this website the other day and I think that it's fantastic. It is a collaboration of unofficial stats from the World Cup, with everything you REALLY want to know - who were the biggest divers, who bullied the referee etc... Trust me - there's nothing better than being able to spurt out this information at the local pub.

By the way, does anyone know if Frank Lampard's statistics at the World Cup actually made him the worst finisher at a World Cup ever?

Skiing in Japan

2006-08-05T14:09:00.000+01:00

This is the first ever Cuppa Tea! This hysterical video firmly puts me off skiing in Japan:

I think that it's even funnier when you don't speak Japanese! What do you think? More tomorrow!

Cuppa Tea

2006-08-02T13:56:00.000+01:00

Hello all!

From 5/08/2006 (that's August 5th for you Yankees), Cuppa Tea will provide you with the best Internet timewasters. Video clips, blog posts, fun websites, whatever is circling around - Cuppa Tea gives you the best way to spend a 5 minute break.

Watch this cup...