It’s years old, but it’s still one of my favorite online videos. In “Sound-a-Vision,” watch Homestar runner and his enemy Strongbad have a duel to settle their battle over the remaining parsnips at the depot. It’s a wonderful homage to early films with bad edits, repetitive lines, missing scenes and awkward pauses.
OKGo’s “Here it Goes Again” exploded to a million views in 5 days. Check out the video by clicking the frame, or visit their website at OKGO.com. Really fun to watch, and a catch tune.
Viacom Knows What You Did Last Summer. Holy shit. According to this Wired article, a judge ruled yesterday (Wednesday, July 2, 2008) that Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom. The order also requires Google to turn over copies…
I love YouTube’s grand-pappy, Zipster08, for capturing my uncensored thoughts about the 15-minutes of YouTube fame, and the “star arch” of weblebrities. I didn’t know he was taping it at first. Even when he told me… I just kept it real. Why self sensor ? After all, I probably ran out of Adderall on purpose. Here’s…
Facebook Head of Ad Products Gokul Rajaram shared some thoughts on social advertising using such meaty words as clustering, user actions, signals and advertising… and the future of social advertising. Facebook’s ads, like Google, are bid driven (CPC/CPM), and Rajaram was the former Google guy who started Chai Labs (later bought by Facebook). Social advertising,…
Want to get your stuff seen? Should you obsess with YouTube or go for the “long tail“? Let’s explore this important debate, and obviously the right answer is “do both.” But don’t hold your breath waiting for a million views on YouTube, or kill yourself getting your video on the homepage of some niche blog…
Charmin’s UK features references to a bunch of the euphamisms for pooping. Pictured here is someone “dropping a log.” My favorite is granny saying she “needs to sink the brown one” as she plays pool.
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Uhm, yeah.
Sounds exciting. Can’t wait to watch it when I get home. Not.
OMG am I the only person that finds this funny? We can’t even excuse this as a “medication thing” because I thought it was funny long before my back surgery.
I feel so much better about my mentally challenged ignorant backwoods rednecks on drugs series now. Thanks.
I just took an explosive shit. I didn’t even have time to read the joke section of my new Maxim it was so fast!
Oh my god. I friggin’ love home star runner. I watched this video for the first time in like 5th or 6th grade when I was still a huge weirdo. Ah, times have changed.
Now I just wait for the comment from Sukatra telling me that I still am a huge weirdo…
@3 Ummm Yep. I find it to be a play on the never ending Class struggle between those who have parsnips and those who don’t. The fact that this is done in a B/W 1930’s cartoon short style and the characters draw on existing archetypes from that era also help to reinforce the humorous implications of the storyline.
The reference to the potato famine and satirical implications endemic to the social upward migration of the second and third generation Irish-American community helps to sell this piece to the audience of that or any era.
Oh and I liked the music.
Well, at least now I understand your fondness for parsnips.