I once spent a summer in NYC and I couldn't believe I had access to sushi 24/7. Each day I'd have sushi for dinner and lunch, and this went on for about 2 weeks. Then suddenly one day during lunch, I spit out my sushi into a garbage can. I couldn't eat it again for…
Hysterical prank video from Google Video that has poor saps at a store seeing the Grim Reaper behind them on the television monitor.
Tuesdays suck. Why? It's the worst day to check videos. For reasons I can't quite explain, people do more on e-mail and the web on Tuesdays. It's been a long-standing "secret" that promotional e-mails get the best "open rates" on Tuesdays. My CubeBreak traffic spikes on Tuesdays. Even this blog spikes on Tuesdays. But all…
I've been trying to tell my wife to stay away from Starbucks for years. Mostly because our coffee bill is rivaling our mortgage. But now we have a new reason. Remember how certain foods get blasted over time: Movie theater popcorn Chinese food Fatty fast food meals Taco Bell "salads" Now here's video from ABC…
From Zefrank.com, it's "How to Impress Your Date." What's interesting about this is the lack of sound and B&W images… almost reminds you of Charlie Chaplin's early stuff.
We're all getting used to crappy video online. It may stream quickly, but it's a pixelated as Atari's original Space Invaders. Will this improve soon? Not for the most part. Sure some of us will upgrade to higher end pro-sumer video cameras ($3000-$10,000). And broadband will allow for higher file-size uplpoads than the typical 100…
My friend Jack wrote this rant about online videos, and he said I could steal it. Click "more" below for the entire piece. Here are some highlights. The revolution will be televised; but its just seems we needed to wait untill the television is really a large flat-panel LCD monitor with a PC hooked into…
This quote from a Cnet article on the topic of smut and online video: A weeklong review of some of the top user-generated video sites by CNET News.com unearthed scenes of beheadings, masturbation, bloody car accidents, bondage and sadomasochism. It's important to note that no child pornography was discovered. Meanwhile, imagine if YouTube needed to…
Let's make one thing clear. This blog isn't for movie reviews, and I don't review movies. But last night I went to see one of those old "feature length" films in a cinema. In case you don't recall them, let me give you some reminder cues: You have to pay and wait in line They're…
This courtesy of Adatos: Viewing a music video online usually requires paying a small fee, but Reuters has announced that Eyespot.com has created an environment where consumers can remix videos and post them on the Web site free of charge. The posting of such mash-ups is legal because participating artists decide on the material that…