Universal Talent

One thing I've realized from the pervasiveness of blogs, live journals, and sites like itube or ifilm is the large amount of talented and creative people that exist in the world, most of which are undiscovered talents. How does anyone ever get famous if there are so many other people out there with equivalent or better skills? I guess maybe it just takes an extreme passion for what you want to do, a bit of talent, and a smidge of luck. I've always thought it would be cool to just be one of those people that was "discovered" on the street. Like on the newest cycle of "America's Next Top Model," one of the girls didn't even try out. They just saw her in a mall and asked her to come on the show. Granted, I've also heard stories of girls getting "discovered" in shopping malls and then getting sucked into underground prostitution rings, but still. You have to admit that you'd feel pretty special if someone just came up to you and wanted you to do something that other people work their whole lives towards and can't achieve.

But I digress...

As far as blogs go, I always enjoy clicking on blogs of people I don't know and just seeing their writing styles. I have to say that I kind of dislike the blogs that are written with a real smoothness and flow and use lots of eloquent language and sound like poetry. I enjoy the more rough, natural style of writing where it sounds like somebody just put their thoughts down on internet paper and happened to end up with few great lines while they were at it.

And as for "viral videos," even though most of the best ones I've seen are spoofs, it still takes a creative mind and some skill to get them out there. Some of my favorites I've seen so far are:

Lazy Sunday
Brokeback to the Future
Real Life Simpsons
Super Mario on 2 Guitars
and of course, I can't forget the Numa Numa guy.
He will always give me a good laugh.

So, if you're having a boredom spell or just want to be entertained for 1-5 minutes, check out itube.com or ifilm.com and search for any of the above clips.