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Tipp-Kick football game timelapse

// November 28th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Video, iPhone

I’ve been playing around with the iTimeLapse app for the iPhone and I must say that I’m hooked.

With iTimeLapse you can create stunning time lapse videos straight from your phone! iTimeLapse allows you to capture a series of images rapidly and then compile them into a video.

So with the iPhone in hand, I loaded up the iTimeLapse app and directed it at the Tipp-Kick Table football game.

What is Tipp-Kick?

TIPP-KICK is a football game featuring two versatile metal players who can kick the ball along the ground or lob it up in the air. One push of the button sends the goalkeeper diving / leaping across the goal to clear the ball. The colour showing uppermost on the two-tone balls tells the players who is allowed to kick. The winner is the one that manages to combine ability, skill and tactics.

After recording 15 minutes of “footage” and a quick render - the end result was of course the following video:

Direct link to Tipp-Kick football game timelapse

And for those wondering, the final score was 3-2 in favour of the red team.

A father’s love - inspirational video

// August 30th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Video

Last year I posted the inspirational video of Team Hoyt, an amazing story of a father’s relationship with his son.

Earlier this month Rory Dyer showed us an equally inspirational video during the GodFirst Church Men’s camp (Download audio resources | view some pictures )

The video replays the 400m race from the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. Britain’s Derek Redmond tears his hamstring, then gets up to try to finish the race. His father comes down from the stands to help him cross the finish line.

Choir sings “What’s my age again”

// May 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // Funnies, Video

BBC’s “All the Small Things” recently featured a choir singing “What’s my age again”, the Blink182 hit off their album Enema of the States.

Sex In The City

// April 19th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Video

Our church, GodFirst Johannesburg, will be kicking off an eight week series entitled Sex in the City, which is set to get tongues talking.

According to PJ Smyth, “Prudish fundamentalists should please take a Valium before setting out for GodFirst.”

It kicks off on Sun 17 May 2009 and if anyone is interested we’ll be at the Montecasino gathering. Hope to see you there.

100 iconic internet videos

// April 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Funnies, Video

A few years ago I mentioned that the Numa Numa video was undoubtedly one of those ‘laughing so much the coffee came through my nose’ clips.

The team over at Urlesque listed the top 100 iconic internet videos that made us laugh so much we cried and perhaps, just perhaps, changed the internet as we know it. Admittedly I don’t recognise all of the videos on the list, but here are some of my favourites below.

80. Bill O’Reilly Flips Out (We’ll Do It Live!)
39. The Two Talking Cats
20. The Evolution of Dance
17. Diet Coke and Mentos Eruption
13. OK Go, ‘Here It Goes Again’ Treadmill Video
11. Numa Numa
10. Sneezing Baby Panda
1. Star Wars Kid

Geez it cracks me up every time.

Update: Turns out that it was four years, almost to the day, that I first blogged about the Numa Numa phenomenon. Remarkable.