The latest thing to emerge from the combined talents of beatboxer Beardyman and video artist mr_hopkinson (previously featured on D’n'C) is this spoof advert. More please!

Damian draws my attention to Chicago-based discussion forum Electrical Audio, which has been discussing warning signs of really bad bands as well as sure signs a band will be awesome. In the first category:

• “Bands playing in front of a large banner bearing their name and/or “logo” cannot possibly be good. This is science.”
• “If the bass looks like an endangered hardwood dildo, you know straightaway that something awful is about to commence.”

Signs of awesomeness:

• “Homemade gear of some kind; A bass with one pickup; Tape on the guitars; Fingerprints, sweatsalt, and/or blood on the guitars”
• “If the singer has a broken arm or broken leg it’s always a good sign.”
• “One of the band members being butt naked. I’ve never heard this happening and the show being bad.”

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Stephen Colbert recently issued another green screen challenge, this time to make John McCain more interesting, producing results that are freaky and funny.

There’s more available via this guy on LiveJournal with Elvis Presley, Star Wars and Samuel L. Jackson all morphing with McCain

Meet Donnie, creator of the funniest screen-capture tutorials ever. Learn how to make use of the Smart Objects feature in Adobe PhotoShop, how Donnie’s sperm are infertile due to excessive laptop-in-bed usage, and how much of a moron you are.

Feeling a bit peckish? Get yourself along to this ‘interactive’ buffet where you can zoom, pan and salivate to your hearts content without gaining a pound!

An extract from the Radio 4 programme Genius uploaded to YouTube and given an intriguing visual interpretation.

… and Genius is about to become a TV series sometime later in the year.

What if sex in films was more like sex in real life? What if the hero had difficulty getting his last sock off and was nervous about the heroine going on top (“don’t crush my penis…”)? CollegeHumor.com’s Realistic Sex Scene features some nudity- duh!

Beardyman’s looped beatboxing and mr_hopkinson’s video editing have a lot in common. They both loop small bits of content on top of each other in way which starts off simple but builds into something jaw-dropping. Here they are united: David Hopkinson filmed Beardyman at a beatboxing convention, edited the video into sync with the loops in his trademark style and showed off the result at his excellent session in the recent Venn festival.

(mr_hopkinson’s beatboxing vids featured previously on D’n'C)

Adam Buxton (previously featured on D’n'C) is back on TV - yay! - and releasing some teasers through his YouTube account. Expect humour very much in the mould of Time Trumpet, to which Buxton was a contributor.

More on LEGO, with a great 3 minute presentation on how it is changing the world …

… memo to self, must make use of the take a deep breath slide in future