All stories about "Youtube"

A vaguely Angelina Jolie-esque flight attendant has turned a Delta safety video into a YouTube phenomenon, thanks to her good looks and a memorable finger wag. The star is real-life stewardess Katherine Lee, who lives in Atlanta and has been nicknamed "Deltalina" because of her resemblance to the actress. In April, the bit will serve as Delta's official safety video and be seen by as many as 80 million passengers worldwide. Talk about a swift rise to stardom. Video after the jump...

In an effort to class it up, we've added some Bowie. If only Howard K. Stern had had some better musical taste, maybe Anna could really rest in peace. Until then, let the children lose it, let the children use it. Let all the children boogie!

Previously: Vegas Airport Has More Baggage Than An Abused Runaway, Stardust Memories, Who's A Big Winner in Vegas

And still the same number of creepy old dudes trying to pick it up. Thanks to Brian Finkelstein for the video!

Fantent

Previously: Stardust Memories, Who's A Big Winner in Vegas, Mike Tyson Won't Be Eating/Making Babies Anytime, Porn Star Vegas Recommendations

As you may or may not know, our Gridskipper's Trials of Soho: A User's Guide is a featured clip on YouTube which means it's been viewed thousands and thousands of times and people have left comments, mostly misspelled often hilariously anti-semitic ("You are an idiot with a hideous hook nose. What a surprise, you are from NY") and refreshingly positive. But by far, by far, the best part of the whole experience and, as far as I'm concerned, the crowning achievement of my career, is this guy's video response. We laughed so hard when we saw it I now feel clammy and sick.

Gridskipper's Trials of Soho: A User's Guide

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From the frigid loins of Mother Russia, a new magazine recently emerged called Russia! about Russia! but for Americans! Our big sister Gawker checked it out yesterday and concluded, "Informative!" We heartily concur, although we'd be very very very interested in who is financing the venture since it seems a boosterish. Nationalist shilling notwithstanding, the mag has a ton features for any Russophile. There's a tale of exploring Moscow subways, a correct hatchet job on Gary Shteyngart and a list of "The Russia! YouTube playlist" from which the above Basement Jaxx video was taken. According to the mag, it "is admirable for its ethinic and social accuracy." Well, if that's the case, all I can say is Russia. No, wait a minute. I meant Russia!

Update: We just talked to publisher Ilya Merenzon who informed us that no, the magazine isn't funded in any way by the Russian Tourism board but is a commercial publication. Of course, Ilya says, the board is happy about the magazine and bought advertising but that is where the relationship end.

Russia!
Reading Russia! [Gawker]

Previously: Moscow: Two Tapas Town, Glorious Capitalist Revolution Brings Thugs to Moscow's Artists and Safe Taxis to Moscow's Women, Not One For Subtlety Monkey Poops on Swastika

Gridskipper's Joshua David Stein takes you deep into the heart of Soho to lurk among the wildlife found there: skinny uptight sphinxes, scruffy web designers and of course, models. First in a series of New York wildlife videos inspired by true events and the spirit of David Attenborough.

[Video: Richard Blakeley]

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FinnAir's newest commercial features an adorable little panda who dreams of flying FinnAir. According to the ads, if you're a 2ft high panda cub, there's plenty of room in business class. Or maybe that's just in the poor panda's dreams. However we ask you, dear readers, was it wise of FinnAir to put all their stock in a little dreamy bear or would it have been better just to use this video? Those Finns, always going highbrow. Will they never learn from John Vilhelm Snellman who said, "Small countries [like Finland] should not reach for goals that they can not hold on to when international relations take an unfavourable turn?"

Some things are simply too important to wait until Monday. One of those things is the New York Comicon which is running through Sunday 5pm at the Javits Center. Richard Blakeley, our in-house videographer and father figure, who plainly loves his job, visited the show on Friday night and sent us this report. Enjoy and Nanu Nanu.

New York Comicon

Okay so we know JetBlue is having a tough time. It's planes are frozen, it's CEO mortified. But nothing brings out the man in some than crisis. I guess that's what CEO David Neeleman meant when he appeared in this video on Mormon Business Practices when he said, "If it wasn't for the two years I spent on my mission in Brazil, I wouldn't the CEO of Jet Blue today." Those two years, presumably, being one crisis of faith after another. To avert this current one, as our brother

Call and Response: Has Neeleman/Jet Blue done enough? Let us now in our nifty comments section.

Our Promise To You [Youtube]
Jet Blue Announces Patient Bill of Rights [Consumerist]

Previously: Jet Blue Has Some Baggage To Work Through, Jet Blues: 10 or 11 Hour Frozen Jet Blue Inferno

Having cycled through regular street art, anti-graffiti graffiti, landlord sanctioned graffiti and L.E.D. graffiti, we're now onto laser graffiti. Graffiti Research Lab recently used a laser pointer, and incredibly high powered projector and a Renzo Piano building in Rotterdam to demonstrate their latest concept: Laser tagging. Though no physical damage was/is done to the building, it must be a bitch to live there.

Laser Tagging in Amsterdam [GRL]

Previously: Rotterdam's Smuggler Experience: You Put What Where?, The Spectacular City, The Discreet Harm of the Bourgeoisie, Off_Corso

Montgomery, Alabama has a great deal to commend it to tourists: A Fine Arts Museum, the First White House of the Confederacy, we could go on and on. But the real reason to visit the city is the Flea Market Montgomery. Specifically what's to be visited is Sammy Stephens the owner and YouTube sensation. His rap, above shown in the long version, has won the Alabaman a devoted following among YouTube watchers and Ellen DeGeneres Show acolytes after the other lesbian on television Degeneres featured the video on her show. . But, the man deserves fame regardless. His flea market is the most like a mini mall that we've ever seen. Visit now before Stephens blows up and closes the flea market to pursue a novelty recording career.

Flea Market Montgomery

Well, we take it back. Their weathermen are humorless. Their citizens are fat and naked and it snows.

Previously: Cleveland: Maybe Not So Bad [Retracted]

Richard Blakeley, urbane chronicler of the moving image, is a Nashville hillbilly by nature and also by virtue of living there for 6 years. When recently asked to describe himself, Blakeley cheerfully offered, "pig fucker" as an apt moniker. Blakeley recently revisited the city and visited the Nashville Antiques and Garden Show. Here now Richard's report from the trenches.

Nashville Antiques and Garden Show

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One of the projects at Project No. 8 is a book of art by Danielle Aubert entitled, "16 Months Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel. An edition of 350, the hardcover book costs 47.50 which is only 9 cents a page. Not bad at all.

Danielle Aubert
Various Projects
The Art of Spreadsheets [Wired]

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