The Photoshop detector: finally now you can know exactly which photographs have been digitally altered.
An interactive musical map of Colombia.
The 25 least influential people alive…
Emusic have debuted an iPad app that focuses on music scenes.
It’s that time again. It’s time to celebrate our strength, our creativity, our uniqueness, our heroes, our humanity and.. our ability to upload videos of unfortunate mishaps to Youtube.
What bigger heroine has 2009 offered us than Susan Boyle? She started the year a dowdy spinster. An appearance on Britain’s Got Talent and over 100 million Youtube views later and she ends the year as one of the biggest selling album artists of 2009 worldwide. Let us not forget the performance that started it all.
Other people became known for very different reasons this year. Tom O’ C (aka T O’ Pain) became an accidental rap sensation overnight, Christian Bale was caught on tape freaking out at a film crew member and Kanye had a bad year all round. Firstly, with the South Park Gay Fish parody and secondly with his interruption of Taylor Swift’s MTV award speech, an event which became an internet meme albeit an ephemeral one.
The year’s longest lasting internet meme was Play him off Keyboard Cat which spawned hundreds of video remixes and mashups like this Hall and Oates version while close behind was anything involving autotune including autotuned news reports and ads.
For once-off viral videos, nothing beats David, a young boy whose dazed state after a visit to the dentist was captured by his dad and uploaded to the web. For those looking to get their dance craze on, you should watch the wedding video entrance to end them all and those who can’t get enough of cute kids should check out the floppy-haired five year old playing Folsom Prison Blues or the less innocent but equally impressive redhead kid dancing to dirty rap songs.
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Daft Punk – DJ Hero
After the success of Guitar Hero, it was inevitable we’d get more variations on the theme. Daft Punk contribute to this new franchise. Watch the impressive trailer.
Tuts My Barreh
“I want you to caress me like a tropical priest”. Unfortunately misheard lyrics to Mariah Carey’s ‘Touch My Body’ writ large in the karaoke booth. A Youtube classic.
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Bret Michaels gets flattened
The Poison frontman was too busy lapping up the crowd’s attention at the Tony Awards recently that a lack of Indiana Jones-style moves resulted in a painfully funny moment. Ouch.
Blur rehearsal video
Watch a handful of clips which capture the band getting together to rehearse for summer shows for the first time since they went on hiatus. Click the news section to access the links.
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