The viral video world has been quiet this weekend, so quiet that this clip is the best I can find-- a little kid doing a better job parallel parking than I ever will.
Damon Weaver's interview with President Barack Obama
Palm Beach County's most famous sixth grader, Damon Weaver, finally gets his interview with President Obama. The two sat down for a 10-minute chat, where Obama answered questions about everything from improving school lunches to stopping school violence.
We here at Watch This Now congratulate Damon on scoring his long-awaited chat with Obama. It's now official: In the last few months, he's interviewed more famous and powerful people than we will in our entire careers.
Aelita Andre is the newest sensation of the art world in Australia. Her paintings are commanding about $1,500 each and her first exhibition was a smash hit with the critics. After the show, it was revealed that Aelita is 2 years old. Red-faced critics are insisting the prodigy’s finger-daubing is so advanced that she must have had help. Her parents deny it.
This kid is awesome. A boy playing the harp = serious guts.
My favorite part of the video, besides the very talented kid playing Star Wars music on a ginormous harp, is the woman hovering off-camera to flip the music at the appropriate time. Don't be so camera shy!
Kids say the darndest things: Kittens inspired by kittens
Kids are all the rage right now in viral videos. Last week, it was "David after dentist" and I predict this week's kid (and cat!) related viral video will be this one.
It's a creative (the description says weird) young girl making up her own story of kittens. Kittens and kids, what a combo!
Thanks to viral vid goddess Erica for passing this along.
Or as I like to call it, Why I'm glad my parents didn't have a video camera when I was a kid. I got a bit freaked out by, well, anything involving doctors or dentists.
Check out this time lapse video of a 9-month old boy rolling around in his living room. The mother in you wants to scream "Where are his parents?!?!?", but fret not, they were edited out of the video.
Kids say the darnedest things. Watch as this toddler thanks George W. Bush for teaching her manners, how to play dress-up and the meaning of preemptive strike.
I can completely relate to this video, only because for a time my infant son would only stop crying when we played one of two songs -- Olivia Newton-John's "Xanadu" and Young MC's "Bust a Move."
This video makes me happy to know I'm not alone in playing cheesy songs to appease a bawling baby. Does this mean I now have to download Rick Astley onto my iPod?
In this video, a diaper-wearing kid sings "Hey Jude." It reminds me of when my friends and I go out to karaoke. I think this kid sounds better than us most of the time.
It's pretty clear I underestimate the entertainment value of kids and animals.
This clip of a baby biting a kid (and by the way, let this serve as a lesson -- you totally do not taunt a baby like that and expect to escape unharmed) has received more than 2 million hits on YouTube and inspired a slew of parodies.
For some reason, when I would give my parents the "evil eye" they wouldn't encourage me to do it again. Watch as this baby gives the "evil eye" and then giggles.
I have two questions for the makers of the “Ready, Set, Bumbo” series.
1) Where did you find the time? I’m a new parent, and some days I feel like it’s a miracle that I’m able to get out of bed and function as a normal adult. I don’t know what impressed me more: The stop-motion camera work or the fact that your house is spotless.
2) Can you please tell me how you got a baby to sit long enough in the Bumbo (which, for the uninitiated, is just a plastic seat) to accomplish all this? We consider ourselves lucky if our 5-month-old can be still through dinner.
For the uninitiated, a Bumbo is a molded seat that helps infants sit upright. Our son likes to try and escape from his. We have not yet tried to videotape this and post it on YouTube. We still have not figured out how to work our video camera.
You don’t have to be a parent to find these clips amusing. Just make sure to watch the series in order. Like Star Wars (Nos. four through six, not the prequels) and Harry Potter, the clips each stand on their own, but it all makes more sense if viewed in sequence.
Bumbo I:
Bumbo II:
Bumbo III:
To learn more about the “Ready, Set, Bumbo” videos, go to their Web site.
The Internet has spawned a universe of renegade video: an outpouring of parody, celebrity, sci-fi, bloopers, undiscovered talent and weirdness that defies category. We're in an age where homemade clips flare into worldwide phenomena.
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