Some Friday nights you want to go out and party. Others you just want to sit at your computer with a stiff drink and watch an animated bunny dance. What kinda Friday night are YOU having? Dance along if nobody’s near you to make fun of you.
Okay folks. I don’t make any money on this stupid blog. So I don’t mind using it for self promotion now and again. If just 1 in 10 of you vote for me on Valleywag’s hot blogger competition I can secure my place. I’m 2nd place right now, and it’s going to be a very…
Online video collaborations are probably my favorite part of online video. Probably the first online-video creator with whom I developed a parasocial relation was the affable homeless guy from Texas known as Marquisdejolie. He has a blog. Google it (anyone catch that reference?). Via JibJab, here’s him break dancing with me, and songwriter-nurse-YouTuber, ChristopherMast. Before…
I’ve always been enchanted by great improvisational performers… from the classmates I used to videotape in college, “Rebels Without Applause” to Drew Cary’s “Who’s Line is It Anyway?” I will never forget watching improv live at Second City in Chicago, and even in Amsterdam. Improv comedy is the highest form, I believe, because it’s spontaneous and fluid. I adore…
Balding white marketer desperately wants to meet smart, strategic media buyer. If you’re one, please recognize you’re not the target of this rant. But the rest of you are just so friggin’ short sighted and clueless. There are some amazing online-video series that could be incredible opportunities for smart brands wanting to engage with early…
After all of the controversy between YouTube and NBC regarding the SNL “Lazy Sunday” Cupcake video, it would appear that the companies have been through marriage therapy. NBC (a unit of GE) announced yesterday that it would use YouTube to promote its fall television lineup in a partnership that draws attention to the Internet’s growing…
Last night I had the pleasure of dining with Filmmaker Chris Barrett, actor Efron Ramirez (best known for his role as Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite), YouTube Comic EdBassmaster, and Barret’s Publicist partner. Barrett and Ramirez had spoken to a group of underprivileged highschool students in Camden, NJ yesterday afternoon, and were doing a media circuit…
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I just saw this one too. Very impressive animation. He (the creator)said he uses Maya for the animation. I’m going to have to look it up.
You can download a free 30-day trial version of Maya, AquaD. I did. It looked like rocket science to me and the tutorial ate up a huge amount of harddrive space. I decided to retain my amatuer status a while longer.