Here's looking at you, kid

This soccer fan poked himself in the eye on live TV while celebrating Liverpool’s win over Cardiff in the 2012 Carling Cup final.

The little guy is too excited to care; in fact, he seems "absolutely delighted," according to the BBC Sport commentators.  Bouncing up and down on someone's shoulders at Wembley Stadium, he carries on cheering (albeit with his eyes closed).

Although he doesn't seem any worse for wear from the incident, he's now earned his allotted 15 minutes of fame — and then some: the 13-second clip from BBC Sport has been posted numerous times on YouTube since Sunday. This one has garnered more than 98,000 views so far.

After Oscars 2012 comes Jimmy Kimmel's 'Movie: The movie'

And you thought The Artist was the talk of the town after Sunday's Academy Awards? Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is here to prove you wrong. Kimmel says he’s keeping a four-month-old promise to deliver a romantic, comedic, political action thriller drama. The “trailer” of the movie called Movie: The Movie that’s making the rounds online is packed with stars including Ed Norton, Charlize Theron, Samuel L. Jackson, Will Ferrell, Gary Oldman and directors J.J. Abrams and Martin Scorcese. It’s also packed with drama — Helen Mirren in a hovercraft, suspense — George Clooney as a disabled NASA scientist, intrigue — Meryl Streep in a moustache, comedy (we think) — Kate Beckinsale in bed with a chimpanzee, and petulance — Matt Damon in a balloon suit.

Curious? Hit play.

No mystery behind appeal of stunning snow circles

Snow Circles from Beauregard, Steamboat Aerials on Vimeo.

 

Unlike mysterious crop circles, which are of unknown origin, the genesis of these snow circles is clear.

Artist Sonja Hinrichsen and some volunteers made these "Snow drawings" on a snowy day last month in Steamboat, Colo. and then aerial photographers Steamboat Aerials filmed it from the sky for a bird's-eye view of the circular markings.

The result is the aptly titled "Snow Circles" video which you see above. The response was so positive that on Thursday, she posted a sequel:

 

Snow Spirals Two from Beauregard, Steamboat Aerials on Vimeo.

 

For those of us living in a mostly snowless Toronto, this might be the most powder we'll see all year.

Walk Off the Earth try to do it again

Some younger Grammy Awards watchers’ unfamiliarity with Paul McCartney notwithstanding, musicians seeking popularity are wise to align themselves with the Beatles. Burlington’s viral quintet Walk Off the Earth are doing just that.

The band that struck YouTube gold (54 million views and counting) with its cover of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know”) has changed its approach for its cover of the Fab Four’s “From Me to You.” Whereas in their most-watched clip they all played one guitar collectively, here the band has a more broadly eccentric approach: one member plays the keyboard absentmindedly with his socked foot, another does duty on guitar and ukulele and so on.

It’s more likeable than revolutionary, but then again their home page now lists two companies for foreign and domestic PR and an international booking agent. They got wilder when they had to get noticed; mission accomplished, it seems.

 

Justin Bieber hangs out with ailing girl after she 'marries' him

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An Olympic-sized proposal

Olympian Matt Grevers earned a victory in and out of the swimming pool, scoring a Valentine and a first-place finish at a recent competitive swim meet.

Grevers, a member of the U.S. national swim team and medallist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, popped the question to longtime girlfriend Annie Chandler at the Missouri Grand Prix on Saturday.

A YouTube video documenting the proposal has gone viral, with nearly one million hits and counting.

In the video, Grevers stands atop the podium after winning the 100-metre backstroke. Chandler, a fellow national team member, awards her boyfriend the gold medal. He then calls her up to the podium and gets down on one knee at the 0:43 mark.

Onlookers erupt into cheers, and a red-faced, open-mouthed Chandler nods her head, “Yes.”

Grevers had planned to propose after Chandler made the medal stand for the 100-metre breaststroke, but nixed those plans after she finished fifth, according to the USA Swimming website.

“She didn’t have the best swim,” Grevers told the website. “So I was like, I’ve got to do it. I think I took it out a little fast because my heart was racing the whole time. I wanted to get up on the medal stand.”

“If I didn’t get first, it wouldn’t have worked out so well.”

Superman and the death of innocence

Between the currently filming Man of Steel movie and the recent complete relaunch of all the relevant comics, DC Comics and its Time Warner corporate parent are undergoing one their periodic efforts to reinvent Superman. Max Landis is here to give new fans a glum history lesson in The Death and Return of Superman.

Landis, screenwriter behind the current box-office hit Chronicle, narrates a lively, long personal recollection of DC's big stunt of 20 years ago: 1992's “Death of Superman” storyline, with the tone of a once-innocent, now-jaded fanboy. He's done this before with other bits of the medium's history, but this time the cast has big names: Mandy Moore as a clueless Lois Lane, Elijah Wood as the villainous Cyborg Superman and one of Hollywood's most successful directors in a cameo.

The 26-year-old Landis (son of veteran Hollywood director John Landis) rips the comics for their unlikely plot points, including Superman's inevitable resurrection. The younger Landis also notes the storyline's success led DC to kill off and revive almost every hero it had. The cinematic version may not be thriving, but he has, at least, been spared all of this.

Small planes' video gathers big clicks

Space invaders? Spying machines? A cool university experiment?

Three developers at the University of Pennsylvania were caught off-guard by the attention the video of their nano quadrotors — tiny robot drones — received via YouTube. In its first three days of existence, it’s gotten about 2.2 million views and counting.

The developers'  website kmelrobotics.com says, “We have received a lot of feedback and questions about our work! We are working on providing more information about our quadrotors and the company. Thanks everyone for the attention!”

Here is the short video of formations by the tiny planes developed by Alex Kushleyev, Daniel Mellinger and Vijay Kumar.

Daddy's little helpers make Everything Count

Colombian video artist Dicken Schrader wrangled the help of two tiny popstars-to-be — daughter Milah and son Korben — to do a clever rendition of Depeche Mode’s “Everything Counts.”

Schrader set up several webcams in his tiny studio, showing a pair of feet tapping away on an empty plastic Coke bottle and a tambourine, downscreen, to start the song’s infamous beat, while centre-screen Milah played the recorder, wind chime and rattle, as Korben used a cheese grater and maraca for added percussion, while simultaneously tapping out that instantly familiar ’80s sound on a toy keyboard (shown on the right screen).

Dad played the xylophone (shown on the left screen) and kazoo, while singing and using his feet on the Coke bottle and tambourine.

And while dad sung most of the song, his kids chimed in on the chorus, happily bouncing away to its beat in this multi-tasking feat.

With so much going on, the trio definitely managed to make everything count when it came to creating the video.

The family has also covered two other Depeche Mode songs: “Shake the Disease” and “Strangelove,” which have been popular on YouTube.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dog Strikes Back - VW's new Super Bowl commercial

Volkswagen has released its much-anticipated Super Bowl commercial and it is a very self-referential, meta spot involving an overweight dog, the famed Star Wars bar and a special appearance from the most famous Sith Lord of them all.

The ad has fun with the inevitable comparison's to its wildly popular 2011 Super Bowl video The Force, with one of the character's this year even saying, "I kind of miss that Vader kid." It is really smart, and a pretty good follow-up.