Viral Worthy: Archive

If you are a graphic designer, or any sort of creative who works on a computer, you have surely experienced this first-hand!

Aug 4th

Incredible series of Old Spice Commercials

This groundbreaking series of commercials have created a number of copycats and spin-offs, but there is nothing like the originals.

Aug 3rd

Merengue Dancing Doggie

I thought our border collie was agile and eager to learn new tricks, but this is far beyond the pale. The funny thing is that to this dog, this is normal behavior. You can see how much the pup is enjoying the performance!

Nov 5th

Meg Whitman Twitter Fail

This video features a young, bispeckled, cross-dressing Asian bass player jamming to an Anime song called Fuwafuwa Taimu (Fluffy Time). It’s worthyness comes from a slip-up in Meg Whitman’s political campaign team who intended to share a political endorsement on Twitter, but had a typo in the link generated by a URL shortener. As a result, Meg Whitman’s followers were treated to...

Oct 21st

YouTube Documentary: Spiders on Drugs

This fascinating scientific exploration on the effects of drugs is illustrated by the responses of various spiders when exposed to the same recreational drugs used by people.

Aug 15th

Drama Queen

Young girls can be so creative. More than that, creative advertisers really do their best work when promoting themselves, as they don’t need to hold back over client concerns about offending customers, clients, senior management, or investors. If all advertisements were like this, we wouldn’t mind seeing them more than once.

Aug 1st

Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing

The performance itself is amazing, but the story, the way one shape morphs into another like a great piece of animation, almost seems impossible, but there it is, she is creating the work in front of you. What is more amazing is that Kseniya had been at this for only a year when she was given the chance to deliver this performance.

Apr 4th

New Math

If mathematics was taught like this when I was in high school, I might have taken a very different course in my life. This is stunningly beautiful.

Mar 24th

Stanley Jordan - The Michael Jordan of Guitar

I remember hearing about this guy who played guitar the way a pianist plays a keyboard back in the early 80’s and quickly sought him out. His approach was originally developed by Emmett Chapman, inventor of the Chapman stick. But Jordan brought the style into mainstream jazz and to the attention of the world.

Mar 20th

What, me worry?

I don’t think Google is evil. I tell myself that every morning when I wake up to that cute, colorful screen that wants to help me find whatever it is that I’m interested in. Google is my humble servent, isn’t it?

Mar 19th

Amazing Musicians, Ages 8-12

Molly, Michael, and Sullivan are four years older now, and are awesome performers on the bluegrass circuit, but there’s nothing more surprising than to see these kids flatpicking a pretty tough tune. I’ve been playing mandolin longer than Michael’s been around, yet I still can’t play this tune!

Mar 9th

Conversation between Client and Web Designer

I used to design websites, which is probably why this strikes a chord with me. Though, in truth, i didn’t quite go like this. A company once told me that they could have an employee’s nephew design their site for $75. As you can imagine, it was a brief conversation from that point on.

Mar 7th

Now This is Truly Insane

You could not get me to try this in a million years. Not if I was drunk, stoned or whatever. Would you try it?

Mar 6th

Now That's a Strong Mouse

Nolan’s Cheese made a delightful commercial that is only predictable for the first part of the story.

Mar 6th

Feb 25th

The History of Pretty Much Everything

This is so worth the 3 minutes you’ll spend watching. Just do it. You can thank me later.

Feb 20th

Great Quotes

“Now you listen to me, I’m an advertising man, not a red herring. I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself “slightly” killed.”

Feb 19th

Smoking is Very Glamorous

The American Cancer Society was distributing free posters in 1972 as a part of their “stop smoking” campaign. The campaign was intended to counteract the subliminal marketing in Hollywood films that portrayed smoking as glamorous, debonair, and sophisticated.

Feb 18th

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From the List of Things You Should Never Try

If you read French, you’ll know that this commercial advertises the hands-free entry and keyless start features of Renault automobiles. For the rest of us, it is proof that sometimes you are better off just calling AAA.

Feb 18th

Somebody Has Patience!

Think about it. One day this kid, like all kids, stacks a bunch of dominos and then knocks the first one down, starting a cascade of falling dominos. Yeah, we all did it at some point. But this kid didn’t stop. He’s still doing it, and it gets more and more complex. Amazing. I wouldn’t have the patience.

Feb 14th

Well done, Google!

Maybe I am a sucker for love stories, but Google’s Super Bowl commercial “Parisian Love” not only tells a great story and entertains, it underscores just how essentially resourceful Google has become over the past decade. More importantly, Google had no doubt of the ad’s appeal. It tested incredibly well on YouTube months before being aired.

Feb 11th

Very Cool Rice Paddy Art

There are hundreds of varieties of rice in the world that grow in different shades of green and brown as they grow. By carefully planting, these beautiful works of art emerge as the growing season progresses.

Feb 6th

GeekWare

To a real geek, jewelry is kind of pointless. But add a few gears, and suddenly it’s a thing of beauty!

Feb 4th

There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time. Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry. (Let’s just think for a minute; is there any job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to this?)

Feb 3rd