I’ve done videos asking people to submit videos. But never before have I received so many responses. Yesterday at Starbucks I invited people to send 30-second videos in which they did their best to bore me.
I got nearly 50 boring responses, some creative ones and a few hysterical ones. The prize I offered was a free 1-month subscription to YouTube (yes, YouTube is free).
Check ’em out. I haven’t even gone through them all yet, but here are some favorites (most are titled RE: Bore Me, so I’ve given them my own names).
- Foot fungus.
- Nalts is boring enough
- Don’t forget to wipe.
- The unmade bed (this one is actually really boring).
- A new twist on the word “bore”
- Wet paint
- Wait what?
It pains me I can’t watch the rest yet because I remain on vacation with very slow video streaming!
Don’t forget to wipe has a certain Je ne Fois Gras.
Ewwwww
Oh man, can we still enter this?
From the number of ratings and comments I’ve decided mine was more ‘artistic’ than boring.
Btw slow down your blogging, I can’t keep up!
I posted two videos. It seems only one is currently listed though. Here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7aRNPr-Nhs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYq4DYf40ZI
Your unboring idea shows just how much people want to be part of a community.
How about hosting a “Goofiest grin” contest? I might have a shot at Win Place or Show in that one.
I see the winner right there in the screenshot – my goldfish bowl!
Thanks for the fun contest, nalts. It’s not as easy to come up with a boring idea, as it seems. When you try to be boring, and have others view it as boring, it’s not so easy to actually accomplish. When I brought the camera out, the first thing my son said was, “can I be in your movie?”, and I had to decline, since that would have been far from boring.
If you ever have a hyper contest, then I know who to cast in the vid!
I believe I have produced, written, directed and starred in the most boring video. This is one I deliberately made boring and I accept your subjective appraisal of other video in my collection that you would esteem beyond the rational boundaries of boredom. There is no accounting for taste. I must caution you that the running time is well beyond the 30 sec limit. My arguement: How can anything be passionatly boring in only 30 seconds?
congrats to the winners
“Everybody’s is in somebody else’s movie,” says Haskel Wexler and he should know. But being mentioned in a Nalts video can quintuple your viewership. Better get on board, folks!
I think we’re about to crack some 100 responses to this! I can’t wait to put them into a montage.
Marquis- to be fair you started at an inexplicably low base.
A montage of 100 30 second video clips? That’s 300 seconds or 5 minutes of, well, boring video clips. The idea of sitting through 5 minutes of submitted boring clips just makes me wonder whether some hospital will buy it off you to use as a sleeping drug for patients.
And I’m returning to my inexplicably low base as you can see in the TubeMogul charts I sent. My 15 minutes are over.
I think you could get the jist of most of the Bore Me responses by clipping them down to 10 seconds each. My math seems to be different from Tripple’s, but I figure that’s 100 x 10 = 1000 seconds or 16 minutes. Hell, there’s your opus. It has a certain Je nes fois gras.
Il est de quelle année votre salami?
Bore Me video contest? 100 entries?! Can you promote my BorAT video contest for me? merci beaucoup.
lots of entries…how?