Have you seen this video yet?



Well as of this very moment, it has been watched 2,565,263 times. What about this one?



It has been watched 2,874,420 times. These videos, and many more like them were created by Corey Vidal, a 21 year old amateur dancer and official YouTube partner who hails from Hamilton, ON. The first video features Corey lip-syncing the four different acapella parts of a song entitled, "Star Wars." The song was originally created as a tribute to John Williams by Utah-based comedy group, Moosebutter, and given to Corey in order to produce what you see here. The second video was created to satisfy one of the numerous requests he gets from his estimated 15-20,000 visits a day. So what's so special about Corey?

The Arts Now has gone to video! After a short hiatus, Amil & I bring you a special video edition of the Arts Now. It's short and sweet featuring an interview with Sasha Von Bon Bon from the Scandelles who talked to us about her latest burlesque show Who's Your Dada running from Jan 23 - Feb 9 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.



Warning: Nudity and silly sex talk.

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We're still hot off our victory lap from taking home the trophy for the Bloggers on Test the Nation last night and have some behind-the-scenes video for you.

The fabulous Ryan C and I took a camera backstage to get the scoop from some of the hottest celebrity look-a-likes including Paris Hilton (Joy-Marie Mitchell), Celine Dion (Laura Landauer), Austin Powers (Bob Shea), as well as some predictions and impromptu cookie-making advice from FoodTV's Anna Olson.

The first Sunday of the new year was a slow news day for the Toronto Sun, as they ran an article exposing YouTube videos primarily made up of drunken-antics on the TTC. While the behaviour displayed in these videos may have been an eye-opener for the 905 crowd, for most of us at blogTO it's nothing new.

The ROM's multi-media department is at it again. Last month we posted a timelapse video of the construction of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal and today they just YouTube'd a video of the mounting of Gordo, their insanely long (and once lost) Barosaurus skeleton that was unveiled a few weeks ago.



The video is two minutes long and can also be found, obviously, on YouTube.

With the dinos now on display, it was media day at the ROM today. The Post, The Globe, Citytv and a host of other media outlets were each alloted 10 minutes to interview Daniel Libeskind, the celebrated (or maligned depending on who you ask) architect of the ROM's Michael Lee-Chin Crystal.

I had hoped to talk to the globetrotting architect about the fake bomb but he hadn't heard the news. Said Libeskind "There are a lot of bombs around the world. You can't follow all of them." So instead we settled on the media's reaction to his work, what he would change about the design, and the state of architecture in Toronto. All of this and more in my brief (2 minute) video interview with him below:



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