Five Favorite YouTube Videos, 2008

Madam Mayo's annual tradition continues. Herewith my top 5 favorite YouTube videos for 2008:

1. Jill Bolte Taylor's TED Video
This will, literally, blow your mind.

2. Takagi Masakatsu
A fascinating and beautiful art video, which suggests the myriad possibilities for the form.

3. Trajan: The Movie Font
Smart and super silly. Love the chihuahua in the popsicle-blue Santa suit.

4. Alex Gopher's Motion Typography
Via Right-reading, one of my favorite and most eclectic blogs.

5. Fabrizio Moro's "Pensa"
Italian anti-mafia rap. Not for those prone to seasickness.

Fabrizio Moro: "Pensa"

Re: Alexander Stille's Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic. Though about the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, it's required reading for anyone aiming to grok the current Latin American narco-imbroglio. My amiga N. sends this link to Fabrizio Moro's rap video "Pensa". N. writes, "...he wrote it after seeing a documentary about [murdered prosecutors] Falcone and Borsellino. It won the young artist category at the Sanremo music festival the year before last. (Young is a relative term in Italy -- Moro was over 30 when he won the award.) The woman standing next to Moro at the end of the video is Paolo Borsellino's sister Rosa. Her face says it all."