Smashing up a Lamborghini or Ferrari is never pretty

Owning a supercar is usually reserved for the rich and famous, that would be, obscenely rich and moderately famous. However, owning a supercar lie a Ferrari or Lamborghini should mean you've had a fair amount of road experience to handle the extra power, the low ride height not to mention the reduced visual scope out of the back of these things. 
Owning a supercar creates a paranoid driver of sorts from the simple fact you don't want any moron with a push bike within 50 feet of the car when you're on the road or you need to park it in front of the cafe and end up sitting by the window watching every molecule of shiny paint like a fat kid eyes up a cake "Stay away from the vehicle it's mine!".

I've always said I'll buy myself a 911 Porsche Carerra 4S in Basalt Black and have it modified further if I won the lottery, truth be told it'd last  half a day before some little bastard with a grudge walks a key down the side of it, #thisiswhywedon'thavenicethings

owning a supercar should by all intents and purposes signify you've made it in the big leagues, that you've worked hard for the pleasure of owning this fantastic beast that makes schoolboys drool and women swoon. Then again you might have won a shitload of money or rented it for the weekend which blasts all that into oblivion, rented , bought, won or gifted wrecking one these is damn expensive but never, ever pretty.

Damaged Ferrari sports cars plus a Lamborghini Diablo litter the Chugoku highway in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture, western Japan following a 14-vehicle pile up.

Wrecked: F40 Ferrari wrecked in Vancouver, the driver blamed the road surface for the smash but what exactly caused the car to crash is unclear.

a Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 driven by a man convicted of murdering 6 people crashed into a brand new Ferrari F430. The Lamborghini was being driven by a former hitman who was sentenced to 72 years in prison but was granted political amnesty and released.

A man crashed a brand new Lamborghini Gallardo during a test drive of the supercar on the streets of Sydney, Australia.

 A Lamborghini Gallardo sits wrecked after the police officer driving the supercar crashed into two parked cars.  The accident took place following an exhibition in Cremona, Italy, where Italian police had the car on display.

In a well documented internet sensation this £250,000 Lamborghini Aventador was left looking a bit worse for wear after its owner managed to crash it into two parked cars in Kensington, London. The car had been filmed driving aggressively prior to the crash and at one point went airborne when it collided with another vehicle, ouch!

 

Check out how this Lamborghini went airborne when it collided with another car in a London Street.

This Enzo Ferrari crashed at 162 mph in Feb 2006 on the PCH in California in what became a case far more complex than just a car crash involving weapons, fraud and stolen identity.The car was driven by Swedish businessman Bo Stefan M Eriksson. ( Eriksson tried to launch the failed Gizmondo games console)

The Enzo's impact at 162 mph sheared the car in two dumping the engine onto the road. Eriksson was lucky to make it out alive.

This man makes money in his sleep, lots of money.

The first rule about YouTube earnings is you don't talk about YouTube earnings.The second rule about YouTube earnings is you don't talk about YouTube earnings - There’s a veil of secrecy (almost) when it comes to the cash earnings that the biggest YouTubers earn. The most popular YouTuber is currently PewDiePie, aka Felix Kjellberg a 24 year old Brighton resident who creates wacky gaming and lifestyle videos on YouTube. He currently has over 27 million subscribers who tune in regularly for his latest online antics.

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal Felix revealed he is earning a staggering  $4 million a year from YouTube in advertising, an amount he's earning 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,even in his sleep.
Felix comes across as a pretty level headed guy, despite the fact his videos can be quite unusual to say the least. Appeal is everything with a successful YouTube channel, on the one hand you need to tap into the audience in the right way and engage them on a level that will gain the most interaction and followers but on the other hand, also keeps your content fresh, interesting and above all unique.

His earnings and success are the core result of You Tube subscribers, a captive audience that advertisers and brands love to reach. In today's digital climate more and more brands rely on social media to reach their audiences, in fact some brands dedicate more into social reach than they do in more traditional forms of advertising. Take Coca Cola for example, apparently the third largest brand in the world, with over 86 Million facebook followers its able to reach an incredible number of consumers, more economical than Coca Cola spending hundreds of millions of dollars in print or TV ad spend to reach the same number of people. On Twitter Coca-Cola has 2.4 million followers. Over the last month, @cocacola has Tweeted 1,994 times. That’s over 60 Tweets a day, this in turn creates billions of impressions and reach.

For YouTube though its all about content, its important that content is unique and engages the audience enough that it'll either get a kick out of it or share it further socially.
If your channel reaches over 100,000 subscribers, you will receive a framed silver "play button" plaque that has the YouTube logo and their username on it from Google themselves. Channels that get over a million subscribers receive a the exact same plaque (Only exception is that the play button is gold) also from Google.
In order to successfully monetize YouTube videos there are a set of strict guidelines that YouTube partners need to follow.

• You must own the rights to everything in your video, including music, images, and text.
• Anything you don’t have the rights to, you must have written permission from the creator to use it and make money from it.
• Your videos must follow the Community Guidelines set down by YouTube. Sexually explicit content, gratuitous violence, shock videos, hate speech, and more are all prohibited from being posted. The complete list can be found here.

Every 1000 times a pre-roll advertisement is shown, Youtube gets paid some amount of money. The amount can vary but typically Youtube is paid between $20 and $25 for every thousand ad views.Youtube takes 45% of whatever the partner channel earns. The CPM price varies a lot, but typically a Youtube Partner ends up earning roughly $5-7 CPM.This means that for every 1000 times an advertisement is shown on their channel, the Partner could earn $7 ( Youtube would take the remaining ($18). Ad values vary though, premium ads for example can earn significantly higher rates for partners depending on the number of subscribers and views or interactions with the advertising.

The top 5 Youtube Earners are...

#1: Pewdiepie – $7 million (3.7b views)

#2: BlueXephos – $6.7 million (2.4b views)

#3: Smosh – $5.7 million (3.1b views)

#4: DisneyCollectorBR – $5 million (1.6b views)

#5: BluCollection – $4.8 million (1.4b views)

Felix (pewdiepie) rarely ever talks to the media about his personal life, occasionally he'll do a Q&A with fans where he'll answer questions but mostly there is a huge dose of humor added to the answers and for the most part he likes to keep himself to himself.

One of my favorite YouTubers is FPS Russia, Activision were quick to seize on his popularity even featuring him in their advertising and PR campaign for Call of Duty .FPSRussia is a popular YouTube channel consisting of videos involving firearms and explosives. The videos feature Kyle Myers, an American born in Lavonia, Georgia playing the role of Dmitri Potapoff, a heavily accented Russian.

Another great channel to check out is Smosh which consists of Ian Andrew Hecox and Anthony Padilla. Padilla first began posting flash movies on Newgrounds in early 2003, under the name Smosh. With 18 million subscribers and some seriously wacky content no wonder these guys are pulling in the $$.

For a more in depth look at the YouTube high rollers and earners see the Social Blade stats here

Graffiti artist Millionaire

A Graffiti artist who shrewdly took shares instead of cash for painting Facebook's first HQ seven years ago became an overnight millionaire netting  $200MILLION in the social networks stock market float.
The 37-year-old Korean-American artist, who grew up in Koreatown in Los Angeles took equity instead of a flat fee of $60,000 when he was asked to paint the Facebook offices in Palo Alto, California, in 2005 by Sean Parker. (yeah, that Sean Parker)

Choe's not exactly been short of cash anyway, he started gambling at age 15, had already made his first million in Las Vegas casinos. In fact he's not that happy with the $200 Million he earned, in a televised interview with Barbara Walters Choe explained that he had endless requests for media and press interviews to talk about his windfall " I can't buy my privacy back" he said.

There's clearly more to this guy than most would give him credit for, he did a TV show about looking for a dinosaur in the Congo, spent time in jail for forging cheques and assault and he hangs around with ex porn star Sasha Grey not to mention that his $200 million hasn't changed him. When asked what he was going to do now that he had all this money he replied " I did everything I ever wanted to do before I had money" Holy crap. David Choe, interesting guy indeed, see the links and pics below for more.

Artist David Choe

After the  $5billion Facebook stock exchange flotation  at least 1,000 company employees became millionaires.

Choe's work is fluid, colourful and dynamic making him one of the most sought after street artists in LA.

Check out more of David Choe's wall work here 

Check out the amazing Danny Trejo (machette) youtube clip above

If Bruce Lee was a bartender this is what would happen...

Check out this incredible video of Po Hseng Hsu, who's known as the "Bruce Lee of flair bartending.

And to think, all you wanted was a bloody pint!

Women tied to shipwreck 75 feet below the see

There are some people who love to push the creative edge, I admire anyone that can take a subject like photography and take it to the next level.Photographer Benjamin Von Wong did just that when he left the studio and took to the coast of Bali to take these utterly mind blowing and eerily haunting images of models over 25m underwater in a sunken shipwreck. In his images, the models transform from simple free divers to enchanting mermaids wearing dresses by Bali-based designer Ali Charisma.
The hauting photos are like nothing I've seen before and the flow of the fabric in the currents and gloomy murkiness of the wreck make for a fantastic contrast.

Von Wong relied on natural light and camera strobes to photograph the models who were each tied to the shipwreck to hold them in place while the shoot was taking place, emergency divers were on hand for safety but all the models were also freedivers and therefore could hold their breath for up to 4 mins at a time.

The maidens of the wreck, underwater currents create dreamy shapes with the dresses fabric.

Safety divers were on hand to make sure oxygen was on hand for the models to breathe.

natural light and camera strobes were the only sources of lighting for the shoot.

Each of the models had to be tied in place due to the shifting currents.

Check out more of Benjamin Von Vongs work here

Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul is turning on my Xbox One

The advert for Microsoft's XboxOne console feature’s Paul in his home on his sofa reading a few scripts, the ad has Paul shouting “Xbox on” in order to demonstrate the consoles versatile application software through Kinect’s voice commands. It boots up, EA's FPS Titanfall throws us into the gameplay action and even more spookily -  Aaron Paul is also watching football (soccer for you yanks) - how convenient its World Cup time!.

This reminds me of an incident earlier this year where ouTuber Master Of Luck pranked opponent players in Call of Duty.

After creating a Gamertag called "Xbox Sign Out", he decided to troll around the Xbox One version of Call Of Duty: Ghosts, annoying his multiplayer victims until they called him by his name. As you can see in the hilarious clip below he was able to get players turning off their consoles mid game just from shouting out his new gamertag.

Can anybody tell me what's Wrong with this picture?

There's a scene in the 1993 Michael Douglas film Falling Down at a fast food restaurant, Douglas' character William Foster (D-Fens) attempts to order breakfast, but they have switched to the lunch menu. After an argument with the manager, Foster pulls a gun and accidentally fires into the ceiling. After trying to reassure the frightened employees and customers, he orders lunch, but is annoyed when the burger looks nothing like the one shown on the menu.

I can't be the only one who after ordering my meal returns to a table and in peeling back the grease proof wrap often quotes that film "Can anybody tell me what's wrong with this picture?" That juicy yet upright looking patty in the photo looks nothing like wilted Big Mac sitting there in its box, McDonalds, I'm loving it.(not)

Just like the movies employ green screen to edit out the stuff they don't want you to see, the wires holding up the floating spaceship, a Jedi Knight swinging a reflective stick at tennis balls on broom handles and 2014 telephone boxes in a 1940's movie it will come as no surprise to know that in order to make you believe high street retailers and brands are also employing a few tricks up their sleeves to get you to purchase their wares.

We've all seen the ridiculous airbrushed ads of actresses wrinkle free foreheads and models 20" waistlines in glossy lifestyle mags but for the most part this 'fake' advertising is going on all around you, how many Big Macs would McDonalds actually sell if they promoted what they actually served you?

And what about that fluffy looking misty effect Jane Fonda face cream ad, ol Hanoi Jane is knocking on for 76 years old and she sure as shit hasn't got a face as smooth as a Porsche 911 wheel arch without a surgeons help (several times apparently). No sir, take that surgery enhanced look away and she's probably a saggy old queen with more wrinkles than Yoda's feet. Wrinkly old women don't sell face cream, old wrinkle free women sell face cream. That firm smooth look old film stars have is normally because of a substance called hydroxypatie, a material used in implants because of its proximity to human bone. it's the key component of the injectible filler Radiesse.

A politician in England, Jo Swinson, headed up a complaint to the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) regarding a L'Oreal Paris ad featuring the 41-year-old Rachel Weisz. The Revitalist Repair 10 product claimed to target 10 signs of aging but consumers felt that Weisz' complexion in the ad was a little too baby soft for their liking. (there's that soft fuzzy focus at work again).

According to a report in the Telegraph, a rep from the ASA said, "Although we considered that the image in the ad did not misrepresent the luminosity or wrinkling of Rachel Weisz's face, we considered that the image had been altered in a way that substantially changed her complexion to make it appear smoother and more even." The conclusion was that the supposed result you could get from the cream was exaggerated, and therefore the ad is misleading. Ironically the same newspaper revealed that a similar L'Oreal Paris ad featuring Jane Fonda also received complaints from consumers, but they were rejected by the ASA. Apparently it looks like the surgeon has done a bang up job.

Of course photographers have to tweak things a bit, under the harsh lighting conditions required for photo shoots those battery driven lights pump out some serious heat so more often than not 'tricks of the trade' as they are known come in to play. In cases of food photography where perishable food only stays fresh for a short while photographers have to employ other techniques to get around this, motor oil replaces syrup on pancakes, fruit is shined with hairspray, glue replaces milk. But why do we accept it as representing what we're buying?, There's hair advert on TV with a guy talking to camera and his young pretty late twenties goddess of a wife is putting on her sling backs in the background, "I don't know how Kate does it, he says " two kids, a full time job and yet her hair"..blah,blah,blah - even my wife shouts abuse at that. 'Two fucking kids and job!?, no way she looks like she just stepped out of a salon, try 24 hours in my shoes bitch!"

It's like the pension and health plans you see being promoted by healthy looking retired people on TV, "no salesman will call and you won't be asked any personal medical questions", that's all good and everything but it would be a lot more believable if the actor playing the retired old fella wasn't in an episode of Doctor Who as the "professor" a couple of weeks back. You mean he's not really got that health plan?, and what, that's not even his garden he pruning the heads off roses in, holy shit who do I believe now?.
But alas we do, women will still buy face creams that apparently turns them into 20 year hard bodies, men will buy hair regrow products because it's not really spray paint (yes it is) and old people still want that carriage clock free gift with the health plan because the old fella in the garden said it was fine, and he looked perfectly healthy.

Pulling the wool over our eyes is par for the course when you're nothing more than sheep.