I really don’t think New York City compares terribly well to Paris, but the maker of this cleverly crafted little video, shot entirely on the Nokia N8 mobile phone does a heck of a job at trying. Not surprisingly it won the Nokia Shorts competition 2011.

Hat tip to Inés Bagration.

This anti-Carbon Tax video from Australia’s Galileo Movement uses a well-known local bridge to explain the constituents of the earth’s atmosphere.

Via Theo.

“Reality hits you hard, Bro!”

Hat tip to Small Dead Animals via Karen L. Myers.

NSFW. Foul language warning, but amusing.

Hat tip to Mike Lawler.

Another of the videos from Power-line’s contest. This one has rapidly attracted over 35,000 views.

Winner of a Power-Line contest.

A small businessman tells the DC political class where to get off.

From Bird Dog.

Via Theo.

Too bad the fight was fixed.

The location is not identified for this rearview camera mounted on the locomotive footage. Watch the trees.

Hat tip to Vanderleun.

In this one, an old and white-bearded Osama sits wrapped in a blanket on the floor watching vigorous, black-bearded Osama the great warrior on television news (al-Jazeera, BBC Arabic, al-Arabiya) highlights.

Osama clearly had no flair for interior decorating and was not very tidy.

Left of the television, a large black cloth seems to be covering something: maps? or a whiteboard showing the plan lines of operational terrorist plots? or Osama’s luxurious 54″ big screen tv that he does not want the jihadi in the street to know about?

Spencer Ackerman has all five.

None of them have any sound.

The others are less interesting, but in those Osama has dyed his beard black, proving that he was determined to present a public image more flattering to himself than reality.