The behind-the-scenes-featurette/parody contains a great line for learners: ‘Effortlessness is born out [sic] of great effort.’ That certainly rings true for my EFL students, but applies similarly to everything from music to math to martial arts.

The Sigur Ros vid was definitely moving. (SPOILER) I found myself first praying that they wouldn’t jump and not 2 seconds later being elated that they did.

Incidentally, I share a lot of short videos with my students too. I’ll be sure to send along any that might work in your show and tell sessions.

Thanks, as always, for the tips.

… that you write the tortoise off as an ottoman or some kind of footrest on first pass.

… that the jaunty little guitar tune is performed live.

… that after all that awesomeness, at the very end, the tennis ball rolls into the out-of-focus background.

Nice moves.

As for fake-or-legit, the soccer-ball-to-tv trick is almost certainly fake. Going frame-by-frame reveals a very odd bounce to that soccer ball.

For more obvious reasons, the tennis-ball-throw is fake also.

The rest, for my money, coulda been done.

Check out Brylcreem’s funny, though uninformative, and oftentimes downright misleading behind-the-scenes featurette.