China's "Chalk God"

From Xinmin:

“Chalk God” 3D street art, netizens hail him as an “Architect”

Yesterday, many photographs of 3D chalk art spread on Sina Weibo [a Chinese microblog service like Twitter], with the talented person who created these artworks being nicknamed “Chalk God” by netizens. One netizen said: “Is he an architect like in ‘Inception‘?” There were even netizens shouting one after another: “This isn’t chalk, this isn’t chalk.” Through a search, Nanjing media discovered that the 3D chalk art first appeared on a post in the Henan section of Tianya [a popular Chinese internet BBS forum], with the poster called “tntu3d“. A phone call confirmed that he is the “Chalk God”, but we can call him Mr. Hou.

With regards to his own creative ideas, Mr. Hou said: “I think these 3D artworks actually aren’t that rare/surprising, but the idea is very key, and only with the idea can you move people. For example, I once went to a tourist sight/attraction, and there was a sculpture at this intersection. Below the sculpture, on all four sides, were a bunch of advertisements for counterfeit official documents. I felt this was so representative of China today, so I started drawing, never expecting to become so popular.” Mr. Hou expressed that the piece that he is most satisfied with was “drawing ‘happy birthday’ for my son’, and the vegetable planting piece was created last year when stealing vegetable games were really popular.

Here are the photos of the “Chalk God’s” artwork:

Ninja Warriors

Makoto Nagano winning Sasuke 17


Yuuji Urushihara Winning Sasuke 24


Ayako Miyake - First and 3 time Winner, Kunoichi 4


Ayako Miyaki's Second Win at Kunoichi 5

Other winners but I have no footage include
Kazuhiko Akiyama winning Sasuke 4
Ayoko Miyaki winning a third time in Kunoichi 5
Satomi Kadoi & Rie Komiya winning Kunoichi 8


Ninja Warriors All Stars

Other "famous" competitors include


Kyra Gracie &


*ahem* Aoi Sora

Fan-Made CG Video Might be World's Most Realistic

Silestone -- 'Above Everything Else' from Alex Roman on Vimeo.


Believe it or not, the fan-made video you're about to see is 100-percent computer generated, without the use of any real-life props. According to its creator, Alex Roman: "Whole production was 2 and a half months for the initial concept to the final editing." Continue reading for the video.

Some microscopically incorrect movement will betray the artifice of the image, or the light won't play off something in quite the right way.

Glass Harp

Canon in D


Toccata and fugue in D minor

Internet Meme - We No Speak Americano ft. Cleary & Harding

Performed and choreographed by Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding

Film by Jonny Reed
Music: Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup ft. Cleary & Harding

Britain's Got Talent 2011 Semis

Projection Mapping

(projecting film on to 3D surfaces)

This is a video of a building being used as a video projection screen. It's different than just projecting a regular film on to the irregular surfaces of the building (which would create distortions). The video is digitally edited to account for the irregular surfaces of the building. Remember.. there is NO light emitting from the building. EVERYTHING is being projected on to it like a movie...

China's Got Talent 2010 winner - Liu Wei

An armless Chinese man has wowed TV audiences in his homeland with a flawless piano performance - using only his toes.

Liu Wei appeared on China's Got Talent and stunned viewers with a faultless recital of the classic Mariage D'amour.

The 23-year-old lost both arms when he was 10 after he touched a high-voltage wire during a game of hide-and-seek.

He said it had been his "destiny" to perform on the show.

"For people like me, there were only two options," he added.

"One was to abandon all dreams, which would lead to a quick, hopeless death.

"The other was to struggle without arms to love an outstanding life."

When he was 18, Mr Liu decided he wanted to be a professional musician and taught himself how to play the piano in secret.

He persevered and developed his own style after his teacher quit, saying it was impossible for anyone to play with their toes.


First Performance


Semis


Finals


Appearing in Italy's Guinness Book of World Records Show

Not Your Average Pencil Sharpener

It took 2 1/2 years to complete his best-known work, "Alphabet."

Dalton Ghetti has found a remarkable niche in the art world. There have been artists who use pencils as part of their craft, but none use the smallest and most fragile part: the pencil lead. Check out the pictures to see Dalton Ghetti's amazing work for yourself. Think twice before sharpening your pencil. (Pics)

Dalton Ghetti is an artist who works with one of the toughest mediums around. His craft involves sculpting pencil lead into impossible to imagine images. Everything from a giraffe to a hammer can be made out of lead.

http://www.impactlab.net/2010/07/29/amazing-miniature-pencil-sculptures-by-dalton-ghetti/

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Master Business Card Thrower

America's Got Talent 2010 - Jackie Evancho 10 years old Opera Singer

America's Got Talent


America's Got Talent Semis


America's Got Talent Top 10 Auditions


America's Got Talent Finals


Her Youtube Audition for America's Got Talent


Bach's Ave Maria


O Holy Night


Think of Me - Phantom acapella at 8 years old


Practising her low range on Concrete Angel

Amazing Street Performer: Luc Abrogast, Strasbourg

Drawing on Water

Cool Ice Cream Man Skills

Super Mario Beatbox

Hikakin

Sungha Jung

“Hi, I’m Sungha Jung from South Korea. My dream is to become a professional acoustic fingerstyle guitarist.

I had been watching my dad play the guitar for awhile before I finally jumped on it myself two years ago. I just turned eleven in September, 2007.

Currently, I am taking weekly classical guitar lessons and teaching myself fingerstyle guitar.

I used to not have tabs for the music that I played in my videos. I just listen and pick them up directly from the sound source in videos available on the internet. However, recently, I have started playing with original tabs whenever they are available to me by courtesy of the authors.”

Pirates of the Carribean Theme Song

More Than Words, a amateur guitarist's "must have" repertoire right?


Love of My Life


When The Children Cry


Both Sides Now


Moon River

Guitar Styles

Erik Mongrain - Guitar Tapping


Andy McKee - Guitar Drifting

On the Rocks - Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Geeks - Professional Regurgitator

From wikipedia:

A professional regurgitator is an entertainer whose act consists of swallowing and regurgitating various unusual objects. The objects may consist of anything from live animals (live mice: The Great Waldo, to light bulbs, billiard balls (Stevie Starr) and kerosene (Hadji Ali).

Some magicians perform regurgitation as part of their act (for instance, Harry Houdini), but professional regurgitators may perform regurgitation exclusively. There appears to be a debate as to whether some of the more extreme demonstrations are true or "tricks". Stevie Starr has apparently swallowed an unsolved Rubik's Cube, then regurgitated a solved cube.

Stevie Starr. Saw him on Britain's got Talent 2010. But they disallowed embedding. He has also appeared on Letterman, Leno etc. This clip has most of his tricks except the goldfish, rubiks cube and keyring one.


Afore mentioned Hadji Ali, vaudeville headliner in both the emispheres in the 20s

Dave Moore - "Wrong Gig" Drummer

Dunno if he was bored, but he is awesome in Sharp Dressed Man


Putting on a show in Wipe OUt

Hi, I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC: The Musical

Paul Dateh Top 40 Violin Mashup

Taiwanese Lin Yu Chun - Whitney Houston Pwned!

Lin Yu Chun outwhitneying Whitney

Ross Sisters

Crazy flexibility stunts

Origami Master

Check out Brian Chan's web site






































He has a youtube site too. Here's my favourite


Wall-E

There are standard designs I suppose. Here is a japanese guy demonstrating several famous foldings live for youtube. His youtube page is here


Kamiya Satoshi ancient dragon

Amazing Hand Shadows

Raymond Crowe at Ceasar's Palace


Bob Stromberg Shadow Morph


Bob Stromberg featuring Ken Davis


End Slavery Ad


Cool Ad, but what does it have to do with cars?

Dan Dunn's Paintjam

Single Colt Action

Remember Bob Mulden, the fastest gunslinger ever?

Here's another clip showing another amazing feat




I was reading a debate about whether Bob is a fake, and if such speeds are even possible. Well, yes they are. Here is a gun expert who does gun shows explaining and showing the techniques used

The Sing Off

Cool show. Acapella competition with American Idol style voting for the winner


This is my favourite. All the contestants in the first episode


Compilation of the winners "Nota"

Compilation of the runners up "Beelzebubs"

Famous Virtuosos as kids

The internet is amazing. Here are a few legends back when they were mere child prodigies


Michael Rabin at 15


Itzhak Perman at 13


Jascha Heifetz at 18, audio only


Yehudi Menuhin at 13, audio only

Igor Presnyakov - Accoustic Covers

Lady Gaga's "Pokerface"

Red Hot Chilli Pepper's "Snow"