If you’re like me, sometimes you just need a distraction to give your mind a rest. When that happens I usually end up laughing at PeopleofWalMart.com or AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. But the best distraction of all is YouTube. If the Internet were a convenience store, YouTube would be the Twinkies you know are terrible for you but keep buying anyway.
Here’s a few YouTube Gems I’ve come across lately.

“The Man Your Man Could Smell Like”

This video just cracks me up because of its complete randomness. The disclaimer on their YouTube video page says, “We’re not saying this body wash will make your man smell into a romantic millionaire jet fighter pilot, but we are insinuating it.”

Stop-Motion T-Shirt War

Rhett & Link are some of my favorite guys to watch on YouTube. They recently released a stop-motion video that was fun to watch but exhausting when I think about what went into making it.

By the way, if you are curious what goes into making a movie like this, here is their TECHNICAL EXPLANATION FOR GEEKS LIKE US: “We changed shirts over 100 times each, taking individual pictures of each unique shirt. The designs on the shirts are not photoshopped. They are real shirts for each frame of animation. The video was exported at 30fps, while the T-shirt animation moves at 6fps (with a few exceptions where it moves faster) So, for each shirt, we took 5 pictures, so the animation of us (Rhett&Link) moves at 30fps, but the T-shirt animations move a bit slower. There are a few places where the motion seems so smooth that it looks like video. That’s because, in those parts, there was no changing in T-shirts, and Joe used burst mode to capture the frames, making it look very smooth.” (you can buy an actual shirt from the video here)

Some Things You Can Only Do With Your Pet

Some things, it would appear, only work when you do them with your pet. Don’t try this with your room-mate.

Cats On A Treadmill

Speaking of pets…cats are usually pretty boring. Most of the time they just lay around and sleep. However, CATS + TREADMILL = AWESOME!

WalMart Clown Commercial

Everyone knows clowns are scary. This commercial proves it.

What YouTube randomness have you enjoyed lately?