Mike Recommends

So I happen to be surfing YouTube as usual, when I ran into this video of someone actually impersonating the drum and bass genre on just a table, and you have to admit that some serious talent goes into this. There are MANY others out there, most of them can be found just by clicking through the related videos. I’m going to share a few with you today. Enjoy. At the end of the post, I will list the users to give credit. Click the jump for more after the 1st video.

Original video I watched:

Sup everyone, been awhile since I’ve posted I realize, but I’ve had this sitting in my bookmarks for awhile, so I figured why not? Anyway, this video from site Create Digital Music is a creative take on DJ-ing. Enjoy the awesomeness of disembodied heads on turntables. Yeah, thats pretty much it. Recent news: I have a new desktop! and it is very powerful. I highly recommend shopping for PC parts from Newegg. Worth it. Anyway, enjoy the video.

What if I told you that there was a program out there that lets you have multiple IM accounts/email accounts/social network accounts/Twitter on ONE application? Well, now you can with Digsby! Digsby lets you check all of your friends Facebook/Myspace updates, enables you to check your email accounts and EASILY delete the messages from your taskbar with an icon (the least hassle i’ve had in a long time), IM your friends from AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Gmail, Google Talk, Jabber, and ICQ! You will be notified of all your friends activity as well. As far as I know, notifications happen pretty quickly, no idea if you can set the length of time for the notification, but if anyone happens to find out, let me know. Anyway, there is a video below, check it out!

Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo are two classical musicians who have taken the world by storm with their unique and hilarious theatrical shows, which combine comedy with classical music and popular culture. They really are a sight to behold. The thing I love about them, is their vast amount of creativity they add to every show. Check them out for yourself below! Here are 2 of my favorites.

From the Video Game Voters Network, here is a pretty mind blowing video on where the computer and video game industry stood in the past, and where it is now standing today. In a moment you will see what the sales were like, the average age of gamers, how important gaming has become, etc. Enjoy.

Go and check it out! I’m live right now!! Details on the page.

Toshiba has a campaign going in which normal everyday occurrences take on a competition. This campaign pits two small towns against one another in these hilarious videos to see who can do more unique and interesting things with laptops. These two towns are named Boring, Illinois and Normal, Oregon. Toshiba is making characters do things like recording music, and starting an online business. For example, check out this humorous video below called “Larper Duel”

Larger Than LARP (Boring vs. Normal) from ToshibaLaptops on Vimeo.

Then we have the “Daring Dance Off” in which two dancers see who is the better dancer:

Daring Dance Off (Boring vs. Normal) from ToshibaLaptops on Vimeo.

To view more information about the campaign, check out M80im.com’s post. M80 has contacted me  regarding this campaign.

Official Toshiba Campaign Site

On Boring Vs. Normal, users get to vote on which town is more interesting. Check it out!

Check this video out!

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Enjoy!!!

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Check out this video from NASA on YouTube of the recent space shuttle Endeavor STS-127. Enjoy the video! It is really incredible to see these, just the amount of work alone that the people put into these shuttle launches to make sure everything is perfect really are astounding as well.

NASATelevision

More to come later on today. I think you’ll like whats to come later. Trust me.