Big Bug Eyes
One of the joys of searching the Viral Video Universe is that it's, well, a universe. There are warm, inviting planets out there. But there are also cold, dark corners. They're no so much dangerous, as just weird and quite alien:
This man makes a whole series of videos of himself talking and doing things with Gollum-like bug eyes. And I don't mean like Susan Sarandon's:
When I saw this I had immediate flashbacks to the first episode of television that scared the hell out of me, an episode of the The Outer Limits called The Mutant. It was about an exploration to a planet called Annex One. And if you got caught outside in its radioactive rain, well....
DAN SCAPUSIO joined the Sun Sentinel's online team in 2008. A self described Internet enthusiast, he says the World Wide Web brings him joy, sadness, excitement, joy and a deep sense of terror all at once. For him, it's a crossroads where college humor and the most valuable scholarly information can be found and, in some cases, even melded.
