Derren Brown

Some of you might be familiar with the British illusionist Derren Brown, perhaps because I might have subjected you to youtube videos or articles. He has turned his hand to stunts from psychologically influencing a group of business people to take a toy gun and hold up a bank security van in a street on a whim, to a seance, where you forget he's telling you what utter tosh it is, because you too get wrapped up in the trick. He even went to America, where he was unknown, and tricked alien investigators, psychics, and religious groups. Its all fairly intellectual with a slant of humour, and he's easy on the eye to look at.

After discovering my boss was almost equally fanatical about the man, we have also subjected colleagues to the amusement of his blog (in a similar way to Team Supahero, it is blogged by a team of people including Brown). One of his more amusing posts of late was a video from his dressing room. A proud owner of the Iphone and an mac air, he also, as you will find, does a mean impression of Stewie from family guy while in the fridge...

His Blog
Art site - he paints very individual portraits

BoonOakley.com

Greetings from web company land. Want to see a novel way of using youtube? Why not put your whole website on it. Yes, host it on youtube.

Don't believe me?

BooneOakley.com

Creative media agency Boone Oakley have their whole site as videos on youtube. To add to this rather inventive presentation, they also have quite a humourous presentation of their creative talent, even if I haven't a clue what "The One" show is. (In the UK, "The One Show" is a weekday television programme on live at 7pm, by the BBC covering topical issues!)

I do wonder if the site will survive or die to internet hype....

For Every Harry Potter Wannabe

Rather than post something truly geeky like Google Wave or the Tea Flash Game I found at work while we were looking for something today, I figured a more lighthearted but rather excellent flash game called Witches Brew was far more the cup of tea!

I started laughing when I realised how to do the fish bones in the last part, but I did get accusations that I was abusing a cat for the noise.


Witches' Brew

Harry Pothead

"Hogwart's up in smoke!

19-year-old Jamie Waylett, more famously known as school bully Vincent Crabbe in the Harry Potter movies was arrested on Tuesday in London for marijuana possession! And lots of it!

The Harry PotterSmoker star was caught by Westminster police with eight bags of the wacky weed in his Audi!

Officers swooped on Waylett and a friend in a car after the occupants "were thought to be behaving suspiciously."

It wasn't until police searched Waylett's home that almost $3,000 in marijuana plants were found growing in the young actor's bedroom!!!

Talk about a buzz kill!

Waylett has since been bailed out from jail, but no doubt the stoner's legal troubles are far from over!"

Article from PerezHilton.com (yes, I read Perez, shut up)

- MEGHAN