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I’ve never been a real big candy person; coffecake and doughnuts are more my weakness. But my kids, of which I have way too many, love candy beyond all reason. So we make candy sometimes, spending long hours pouring through recipes and deciding on a project, then plotting the exact variation we plan to make, and debating various “improvements” we might add to the chosen sweet. Candy making day sees my kids reach their giddy peak, although I confess I have sometimes assigned separate projects to the kids rather than all work on the same recipe at the same time. It greatly cuts down on the sibling arguments.

For all that, though, our candy making is fairly rudimentary. Candy making is a fine art, one that requires precision and care. Which is why fine candies are so very intriguing.

The video below shows a true “lolliologist” at work, making a wonderfully unique hard candy with words written in the middle. You’ll be amazed at how they accomplish this.

There’s actually more to the title of this video, believe it or not. The full title is “Dancing Man Wearing Horse Mask Cooks Wild Mushrooms.”

It is a classic piece of insanity.

There’s an old fiction writing exercise that involves the task of taking a random list of objects and working them into a story. A friend of mine who throws great parties told me the secert to a good party is to invite a mix of people from disparate worlds. The cable show “The Surreal Life” took this concept and created a whole series out of it - take random people from different walks of life (only requirement being that they have some sort of celebrity status), make them live together in close quarters for a while, and see what happens. Road movies are all about the premise of putting mismatched couples into a situation where they have to work together, and waiting for the story.

My point is, as bizarre as this video is, it really isn’t that different from many, many other creative works that people have created. It’s weirder, no doubt about it, but not really that much different. Does it work? Well, I found it oddly compelling. Not seven minutes worth of compelling, but I found myself, after the initial open mouthed puzzlement, smiling at the joy in the dance. Is it really all that different than the secret dances you do in your bathroom, or even in the kitchen when nobody else is home?

Here’s another weirdo for you.

Well, if this guy hasn’t mastered it all, I don’t know who has, I mean, Completely ! Everything from jumping off of roofs to jumping onto roofs, he’s got all of the moves you’ve ever wanted. Watching this video may convince you to believe that you can do it yourself.

I actually want to give it a try and just do one of the things that this guy does. Its my goal to do a backflip off of a wall, meaning that I run up a wall (in theory) and do a backflip as I (theoretically) jump off the wall. The only thing I need to do to complete my goal is to practice practice, practice :!:

I hope you enjoyed by little banter here at Youtube Digger, hope to see you next time :D

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The economy is wobbling. Middle class jobs are shrinking (tried to find a factory job in the US lately?). So while some job experts are preaching the opportunities available in home based businesses and entreprenuerial projects, I’ve discovered some folks who’ve been able to forge a career out of what David Letterman would no doubt call “Stupid People Tricks.” I suppose it’s not too surprising that someone thought to try doing a hula hoop while standing on their head, but to then go out and turn it into a whole act is sheer brilliance. Or, rather, it’s sheer vaudeville. Vaudeville is alive and well in this country, it’s just on cable TV and YouTube instead of the theaters of Main Street.

This video shows a battle between two street dance crews on some kind of organized event, but I thought the two primary dancers were exceptionally good - especially the guy in white.

He’s the first guy that dances - and the guy that does most of the dancing - is amazingly springy. I want springs on my feet, too. I wonder if they’re stick-ons or if he had them surgically implanted?

Wandering around youtube to discover that such a cute baby existed wasn’t to hard for your average joe, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the video shown is going to be an average joe video. Well, whatever it is that makes this video good, maybe its the laughter of the baby, will definitely make you smile when you see this.

I believe its a well stated situation in Psychology that when you see another person laugh, you are just as likely to have a happy thought when you see that person laugh, I don’t know if its entirely true for you, but when I see this video, its completely true to me.

Well, here I am off once again to find some more videos that catch the interests of my inner-self, I’ll keep posting as long as long as I can find things, and believe me I will find them, because, of course, it is the large database of Youtube that I am search. (Not to mention metacafe, and megavideo as well…)

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As a soccer player myself, I’ve found it hard to hit the top post of a soccer goal even 2 times in a row. I’ll be able to get it once if I’m really really lucky, but chances are, as most novice players find it, that the ball will go over the post. So, how does Ronaldinho hit the post not 3 but 4 times :!:

That deserves the credit that it is getting, its one of the most viewed videos on youtube and now I know why ! I applaud this guy who has made the most viewed videos on youtube only because he is a professional at what he does and wouldn’t be there if he couldn’t do what he does.

I hope you enjoyed the daily video here at Youtube Digger. Hope to see you next time :D

Okay, so I am simply pre-occupied with this one because I’ve been playing guitar for a couple years now, and still have no idea how this guy learned this so fast and could play this so well. Of course, I can try to play the intro to this on my acoustic, but it still doesn’t sound the same as how this guy does.

There are plenty versions of Canon Rock played on youtube, but this one is by far the best of them all. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you can never see this guys face, so its all mysterious and whatnot. Anyways, another noted Youtube video has been noted, so now on to more Youtube Videos! See ya next time on Youtube Digger :!:

I’ve been reading the Harry Potter series lately. Far too late, according to my daughter, who is currently in an intensely obsessive phase around anything and everything Potter. While she is thrilled that I am finally reading the entire series, she is still sorely disappointed and, frankly, befuddled, that I didn’t do it sooner. My protestations of the need to feed and clothe her and her siblings, while simultaneously driving them all over town on an hourly basis, seem only to confuse her.

Her obsession extends to collecting pictures of favorite characters off of the web. She has large photo album files of various characters, ranging from shots of the actors in and out of character to cartoon and odd anime versions of the characters. And she also spends hours combing YouTube for homemade video montages of the series. There has sprung up a huge community of amateur film editors producing music videos, parodies, memorials, and all kinds of other “things” based on Harry Potter, all of it available on YouTube. Here are some notable bits.

Harry Potter scenes with South Park voices dubbed in.

The Harry Potter Rap

Wal-Mart invades the Magical World

A Memorial