Numa? Numa.
Lynda Weinman comes through with another one:
It’s Flash, it’s Friday, and it’s been a long week… unstrap those wrist braces, pull the phone headset out of your ear, disentangle your feet from the ethernet cables, crank the volume, click this link, roll your chair back and rock out!
Don’t worry — it loops.
And when you think you can’t rock any harder, check out the homage page and rock some more!
March 4th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
Turns out that this month’s Star Wars kid is IRL Gary Brolsma, age 19, from Saddle Brook, New Jersey. Evidently Gary was on the Today show with Matt Lauer and even made it on VH1 already. Even more amusing to me is that Rolling Stone dignified the performance with a quote for the Today show. (Has rock criticism fallen so far???)
Hey Gary! Wanna come entertain us at Flashforward New York?
March 10th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
I love this song. After seeing this video, I had to find out the lyrics and who sang it. It’s definitely a great way to promote a song. :) And I only do the Numa Numa dance in the privacy of my own home.
March 11th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
I am going to do the NUMA NUMA dance at FF2K5 so watch out Josh Davis! Here I come.
Yeah, check out my site if you want. Peace out from Vancouver!
NEOSMEDIA
March 11th, 2005 at 7:39 pm
When and where is FF NYC 2005?
March 11th, 2005 at 7:46 pm
We’ll announce the exact details on April 8, but it will be in early July and will take place at the New Yorker Hotel as in the past several years.
March 13th, 2005 at 10:29 am
People are even making gary buddy icons…
http://youricons.com/show-buddy-icons/293-numa_numa02.html
April 3rd, 2005 at 7:33 am
Numa numa is everywhere! Check out this Flash movie making a tribute to the world-wide spread of Garys Numa numa dance video:
http://www.nielses.dk/fun/numa_numa_is_everywhere/
August 6th, 2005 at 11:07 pm
This is the sweetest thing i have ever seen in cyber space!!! I waslaughing my head of. I just want to know who the original people are…like the people actually made the song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gary’s video is the bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I can’t wait to see other people try to match up to gary!!!!!
September 9th, 2005 at 10:23 am
[…] Not only is “N” an extremely fun and addictive Flash game, there’s a level editor called “Ned” and an archive of user-contributed maps called “NUMA“. (No, not that numa.) […]
September 13th, 2005 at 6:52 am
Net users claim japanese “numa numa” music video character resembles bulletin-board art
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/entertainment/news/20050913p2a00m0et014000c.html
The popular “Noma Neko” character from the hit song “Koi no Maiahi”(Numa Numa Song) is causing a stir among Internet users, who claim that it resembles the “Mona” character frequently used on “Ni-Channel,” Japan’s biggest Internet bulletin board.
“Noma neko” appeared in the promotion video for the song “Koi no Maiahi,” the Japanese title for “Dragostea Din Tei,” by Moldovan band O-Zone. This month, T-shirts and other goods featuring the feline character went on sale.
However, tens of thousands of critical comments have appeared on Ni-Channel, saying that the character is being used exclusively by a specified firm.
Avex, the music giant handling the song, said that “Noma Neko” was an adaptation of “Mona” and other “ASCII art” characters, which are drawn using only the letters and symbols on keyboards.
“‘Noma Neko’ was animated with inspiration from ‘Mona’ and other ASCII art that has become familiar on Internet message boards, and with these products it was made into a character with new added scenarios,” an Avex message posted on a shopping site said.
Avex says that the use of ASCII art characters that already existed “should not be restricted,” but debate is continuing on Internet message boards with many users still unable to agree with the firm’s stance.
Avex officials said they had no intention of halting sales of “Noma Neko” goods in spite of the large number of critical comments.
“A lot of people posted criticism on Internet message boards. We don’t usually make comments on message boards, but we put a comment from our firm on a shopping site. We are not thinking of halting sales of the goods,” a company representative said.