Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
No Title Necessary
Its only at 13, 892 views (as of 7:50 pm), but if it doesn't get to 200 thousand by the end of tomorrow then my worst fears are confirmed: people just aren't into awesomeness.
Update: The video doesn't quite have as many views as I would have thought (stuck around 33,000) but the creators have chimed in on the Youtube comment thread:
so i think it's time we made a statement here. we never had any idea this video would make such waves. we have decided to open a profile on my space back slash cocons. please go add us. the page is still under construction and there are many more videos to come. thank you all and stay tuned. -90210 twins (and brian)
[via Jervenaut]
Crappy Musicians Keep Stealing Our Internet
I forced Tkid to write this little diddy because he found the media and, frankly, its fucking interesting... regardless of its truth.
Look familiar? Aside from the fact that you may recognize the rapidly un-indie-fying (i just made up a crappy word) Peter Bjorn and John, their video for Objects of My Affection looks eerily similar to a certain Flash game where the likeness of our President falls listlessly through space occasionally hitting and sliding off orbs. Can it be that the internet is affecting other mediums such as music and even the less impressive music video? I know email is huge, but who knew the impression this internet could have on modern life. What's next a line rider novella?
BONUS! :::
We found a copy of this game, but instead of Bush you get to fling around a cute little bikini clad girlie.
Bird Watching
Davis on the music beat, unbeatable. Here's a quick background, to set the scene: On the Parisian Website La Blogothèque, photographer and filmmaker Vincent Moon regularly contributes a video feature called Les concerts à emporter ("The Take-Away Shows") in which he films emerging bands in distinctive locations around France, performing songs in one continuous take.
Andrew Bird has definitely got the best foie gras on Montmartre. Vincent Moon's video of Bird pondering around the 18th arrondissement is equal parts impromptu concert en plein air and study in public reactions to impromtu concerts. By the end of "Spare-Ohs," Bird is looking out over the hill onto the rest of the city below and Moon swirls the camera around to catch a 360 of the gathered crowd. And of course you're like, Whoa where did they come from? Because Moon's technique is carefully calculated to seem simultaneously in your living room and on a crowded street. Because if crowded streets were really like videos of a whistling fiddler and the children of Hamelin, then the world would be a better place. Extra points for the little spiritual-tinged song Bird picks on his fiddle and sings during the credits.
[via La Blogotheque]
Chickernet/Interabbit
I can trust Murder to pump these posts out. He's all up to his knees in internet trends and chicken feces, though he much prefers the latter.
Are chickens the newest trend in internet…trends? Fucking apparently.
A while back I came across a live web feed of a bunch of chickens in someone's backyard in Massachusetts. It depicts a scummy yard filled with chicken crap, all day long, and once in a while a few chickens meander on and off screen like zombies.
"Fascinating," I said to myself.
So then today I was trying to find it again, so I googled "chicken cam" (editor, link to Google there so people know what it that means). Amazingly, about a hundred chicken cams from all over the world came up and in case you were wondering, chickens in France don't do much different than chickens in America, except they smoke cigarettes.
Eventually I found a chicken cam in Massachusetts that I loved so dear and repeatedly sent my friends hidden links to, and observed the chickens were nowhere to be seen. The ground was soaking wet and the sky in the distance gray and cloudy, and I took these to be the effects of the recent nor'easter. Did the storm kill the chickens? Suddenly I noticed the option to actually look inside the chicken coops, and sure enough, there they were, holed up in their little tenement avoiding the elements like maybe even people would.
"Fascinating," I said to myself.
Are chickens our greatest natural resource, our best and our brightest? Think about it, as the two in the video break up a fight between a Sunni rabbit and a Shiite rabbit.
[via Kottke]
Angry Letters
I'd like to say that this site isn't going to be home to a series of mediocre vidoes, but I just can't guarantee that anymore.
I've never seen anything like this before. Feel free to make fun of it/me in the comment section. Also, what?
Launching Beers, Balls, and Careers
Occasionally technology and absolute laziness come together in sweet, sweet harmony. This, ladies and gentlefarts, is one of those moments. Recent Duke graduate John W. Cornwell's BeerLauncher falls somewhere between sliced bread and saturday night. Apparently, it's just as popular :
"2/27/07: To everybody who is asking about price, the BLF took me at least a hundred hours to build, as well as several hundred dollars worth of parts. I would put the price at about $2500 to build ONE. If you are serious about acquiring one, you could email me with the price you would be willing to pay. If I get enough interest the price would obviously come down substantially, although probably not < $1000."The funny thing is that this kid is pissed about his video ending up on YouTube because he's earning shared revenue on Metacalf (currently, $1,441). The copy on YouTube has 195,000 views, but he doesn't make a penny from it. He's also created a tennis ball launcher (and a video for it.)
::: via Clusterflock
::: related BeerLauncher.com
Innernet, Innerspace, Innerearinfection.
TKid is back. With a vengeance. And proper.
Ah to be young again. This report brought to us by Canada's CBC and the stalwart Bill Cameron was made during the early years of Internet. Although there is no year on the clip, the report seems to have been made during a time where the internet had yet to be overtaken by Spam and Porn, an innocent time where pedophiles had to hang behind middle schools to find their victims. Those were the days when nerds were still nerds and gainful employment predicated on the production of "Fart Videos" was just a pipe dream. Today Internet is called The Internet and is pirated by rich nerds and yes Porn. Pedophiles surf freely among chartrooms (can't believe those still exist) with hopes of ultimately ending up on Dateline's To Catch a Predator. The Future is now my friends. The Future is now.
- TKid
see also, awesome Nat Ives ramble here (somewhat related)
::: via The Internet (youtube)
Duuuh Duh Di Di De Deloe Doo Doooo
tkid doesn't have time for you:
In the hustle and bustle of today's modern working world no girl has time to watch an entire movie. Life is measured in 2:30 long clips on Youtube or WebJunk and McDonald's can serve you a meal in 36 seconds (which is the exact amount of time you have after finishing before filling your pants.) With this new world in mind guywithglasses has created these five second movies. Now, i have to runs me to a meeting.
[via webjunk.tv]
Before I Kill Myself: "A Rant In His Pant"
Because websides is totally taking off and because the intern market is bone dry, I'm going to be opening this thing up a bit to other contributors. Accordingly, I present to you our very first guest editor, tkid. Be nice.
Do you ever look at your hands and notice that they have extra hair on them? Or your toes? How about wondering if working on the inter net is the wave of the future or your way of postponing adulthood? Do you hate actual mail (not the electronic kind) and refuse to open it unless the envelope is a nifty color? Do you catch yourself using the word "nifty" and think about your mother? Do you have chest pains (i seriously do), back pain, sore joints, muscle ache, ass rashes or boils? If the answer to any or all of these question is yes then you are getting old. However, there is a solution. A healthy diet of AVF montages and underage women can lift your spirits or put you in jail.
[posted by TKID]
Nervous Fat Kid!
Ok ok. This stupid blog is not a video dump site, but lately it has been... and I apologize. For those of you (read: 2) that are interested in the data/trend stuff, I'll get back to that soon. And for those of you interested in the weird/porno shit (read 1, or the rest of you) -- more of that to come as well. But, in the meantime enjoy this nervous little fat kid:
[via my good friends at Webjunk.tv]
Hand-o-rama
New spot for VW's Phaeton. Kottke's calling it "professional-grade shadow puppetry" and I'm just calling it plain awesome. Seriously, look at the tag below... it says awesome.
[via Kottke.org]
The Orig-ins of Narnia
By definition, viral content spreads quickly and deftly. It infects the social concsiousness and puts down roots in the cultural dialogue. That being said, the term itself has gained such momentum that its casual uses far exceed that original definition. Douglas Rushkoff's book, Media Virus, helps to reframe the discussion -- or at least to remind us where it began.
Similarly, Time magazine's recent "Person of the Year" (its YOU!, in case you haven't seen it yet) helps us to understand the recent media infatuation with interative, the bloggy, the individual. Blah, blah, blahggggy.
All of this, mind you, is pretty masturbatory and optomistic. Granted its hard not to be excited about this technology and its implications and utilizations -- they are, for all intents and purposes, changing the way we operate as media consumers. But it is important to keep perspective (i.e., SecondLife)But one particular paragraph did catch my eye. But of course the party is just starting for Chad and Steve, whose omnium-gatherum of online videos has captivated the Web for the past year, at least since a Saturday Night Live digital short called Lazy Sunday was forwarded millions of times last December, increasing visits to youtube.com 83%.
Its worth reading the rest (god love Time-liness), but the above paragraph contexualizes the YouTube phenomenon. It had been around prior to Lazy Sunday...so had SNL (read: really?) but the exclusive hosting of the "Chronicles of Narnia" helped both the service and the video to soar. Suddenly Andy Samberg was a name and Youtube was a destination. And mind you, the reason this stupid blog/alterego even exists.
It is for this reason that I will be hereafter referred to as Narnia, 83%.
[via ]
Al Jazeera, Daily Show Style
I'm usually not a big fan of Samantha Bee's stuff on the Daily Show, but she takes her quippy little vocal styles (and piano skills) straight to the heart of Islamasist Fascinocentral. Its pretty amazing. Anyhoo...
[via Eat The Press]
"You Won the Innernet"
Amidst the basest levelest junk up all over youtube and myspace, something so base and so conscious of its baseness rises to the top to become the Ace of Base. This is why video sites like Vimeo should still offer simple iMovie like video cutting abilities. That way beer guzzling, babe slaying cool dudes could film their girlfriends making out and then score it with the soundtrack from American Beauty.
I'm Mad Bothered
Kickass!
Thats exactly why I'm taking martial arts. Its more about the little annoying things that get in the way than intimidating foes. Inconsiderate co-workers, obnoxious cell phone conversations, exact change, etc thats what really pisses me off. I will kick all of your collective asses, petty grievances. I will snap-kick you, my minor qualms.
[via GaryGnu]
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