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.
Remember the short story “The Lottery”? The town would hold a lottery and the “winner” would get stoned to death. That’s how I think about online-video comments. They’re usually demoralizing. Then suddenly I posted a video that almost never made it online. It’s me and my son sharpening pencils. Yahoo featured it on its homepage,…
Watch out folks. “Officer Bubbles” (Toronto police constable Adam Josephs) is suing not just the people behind YouTube video parodies of his anti-bubble threat (example from a 2-day old account “MisterOfficerBubbles” channel that’s soon to vanish), but commenters as well. According to this post, Josephs is suing Todd “pussymcfats” Mara (age 33 and father of…
There are some nice nuggets in this piece by Robyn Tippins in AllBusiness.com. It’s titled “10 Ways to Succeed at Viral Video.” I especially like Robyn’s advice to gain student “thought leaders” to test and gain initial traction. And her willingness to “start over” if something doesn’t get a good early response. I rarely do…
The folks that connected me with my recent sponsored video for GPSManiac did a blog entry that recounts the way the idea developed. Here’s the video, titled “Poor Man’s GPS.” It’s currently the third highest rated Comedy video of the day on YouTube, which is the highest rating I’ve yet received for a sponsored video….
Got this note from The Daily Reel just moments ago: We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new user interface, The Daily Reel 2.0. The Daily Reel 2.0 is sleek, fast, and user-friendly. Our favorite new feature is one you’re all familiar with from other video-hosting sites — the user profile. Creating a profile…
Thanks to Jan for these four videos, which will make your Monday pass a bit faster. They’re all short, weird, and mostly dug from the river of dung we call YouTube. Lala Guy (in shower smoking something) Man Bras (or “bro’s” as Kramer called them) England People at Englandshire (it looks like a Mighty Python parody but…
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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.