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I found a lot of interesting videos on youtube and I thought I should share them here. Let’s start with awesome! Sxip Shirey and Adam Matta perform Moon in her Belly. Sxip with a harmonica and Adam is a human beatbox:
And now something weird, someone has taken Mahmoud Awad’s songs and used a strange filter. This thing better not be the next big meme.
And here’s another:
Finally some AMVs (Anime Music Video) from my favorite Anime/Manga, One Piece. Spoiler warning of course.
So a bunch of Saudi kids decided to make this video:
Nothing original here, just a copy of this “Asian Numa Numa dance” which is also based on this original “Numa Numa” video. The ad war between the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Mobily continues. After STC’s response to Mobily. Mobily has aired the following ad on 9/9/2009. The Mobily employee warns against using inferior products shown by “their brothers”, meaning STC. In the end he said “beware of fake products”.
CITC is being quiet about it. But a few days later STC has edited their ad to remove the “fake device” and Mobily has stopped airing their ad mentioned in this post. I found this interesting comic on Alriyadh newspaper:
The title is “ad wars” and the two women in this ad are dressed in the traditional logo colors of STC and Mobily. Guess the ad war is good for the consumer, no? This is not the first ad war between the 2 companies. It happened before in 2006 and you can read about it on Arab News. The eternal feud between the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Mobily will never end apparently. Starting this Ramadan Mobily has aired some ads showing their Mobily Broadband @ Home service. This ad shows a person installing a DSL land line, happily saying “they are finally installing the Internet”, he did not say “finally” but his expressions show that he is happy that he finally got his DSL Internet connection (from STC).
This second ad is about the wireless features of the modem, it reminds me of the good old days of dial up modems (oh wait, STC DSL still feels like a dial up modem sometimes). The third ad shows people screaming in frustration with their disconnected Internet connections (something I am sure everyone in Saudi Arabia has experienced). So on September 6th, STC has aired a counter advertisement which ironically airs at the same time as Mobily ads:
The ad clearly copied how Mobily customer care desks looked like, the blue square logo on the modem and how the modem looked. The customers were trying to get a good signal by extending the modem out of the window. The guy using STC’s service said “they got screwed”. I am no fan of Mobily; their billing system is inaccurate and they are ruining the iPhone 3G/3GS experience in Saudi Arabia (I got into the details at SaudiMac). STC isn’t any better; Mobily is truly the lesser evil of the two. Even Hilter is angry at the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and their crappy DSL service! He could only get 512kbps DSL to his house. Watch the video (Arabic subtitles):
I understand his frustration with STC! If anyone wants an English transcript I am willing to translate. Just ask. Special thanks to @yassoma from twitter for posting the link to the video. I have translated it, here you go: Continue reading Hitler can’t get STC DSL (with English translation) I like this site, it is attempting to list stuff that the average Saudi person would like. Many items on this list I do notice that a lot of Saudis like them but I don’t. For example Balot playing cards, Shishah/Shesha, obsessive online chatting, reckless car drifting (taf-heet), huge bug-eyed shades, Pepsi obsession and smoking cigarettes. This google search result is very funny if you ever programmed before. Hope you found it funny. You didn’t? You call yourself a geek? Recursion is a computer science term means to repeat an activity, again and again. Without stopping or anything. Did you get it? Read more about recursion on Wikipedia. Roller Babies is Evian water’s latest campaign advertising how “young” you feel with their water. It shows babies on roller skates, computer generated of course. Wall Street Journal said the video had over 5 million views in the first few days. Here is the video ad:
Here is the making of video:
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