Remember those bullies from the 1980s movies with the big blond hair, that ridiculed us — I mean the protagonists — in so many movies? Huffington Post & Film Drunk offers a montage of the best “dork” insults courtesy of the Woot blog.
I hope this video demonstrates the power of user-testing viral videos to ensure they’re funny before launch. It’s the difference between being a viral-video creator and a viral videologist. Our method was simple. The moderator had individual subjects review the videos, and we observe their responses behind a two-way glass. Laughter was recorded, and viewers…
You burried your lead, Heather. Check out- “Whose Video Is It, Anyway” is a recent article by Heather Green of Business Week. The most interesting part of the article from my perspective is this… Turns out the creator of the famous “Mentos/Diet Coke” experiment (www.eepybird.com), who has earned probably close to $50K by now (my…
Via Video Sift: Snake eats crocodile. With my luck, he’ll be in the restroom working that thing out while I’m waiting for a turn pinching my cheeks.
What happens when you take a somewhat effeminate male voice and overdub a National Geographic video about honey badgers? You get this hysterical clip that examines — no judges and condemns and celebrates — the absurdly brave behavior of the Honey Badger (courtesy of the good users at Reddit). Whether he’s eating snakes, climbing into…
I never really bought in to the concept that audio or electronic signals could travel via powerlines. But when Jim Louderback (former computer nerd publisher and fellow online-video enthusiast) told me about these little dlink powerline guys at a bar in San Fran, I grabbed his laptop and purchased them via Amazon immediately. Come to…
Yesterday I spoke with a client about the “Holy Grail” of social media. He shared with me some of the secrets he’s reluctant to share at panels and with the media. Seems some of my videos have generated more engagements than horrific media spending and expensive attempts at building branded content series. Then I received…
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I feel nostalgic now. My glasses are steaming, my lack of muscular structure trembling, my nose becoming an oozy spring again…
…NOT! I was one of the those big cool guys who used nerds for toilet seats, toilet paper, toilet newspaper, toilet flushing water and as a toilet clogger if I had a really loaded day!
Z-lot I think I remember you. Did you kick me in the chest when I was getting off a bus once?
I vividly remember that one occasion, it was in our younger years before I bought my chick magnet cabrio as the first stud in school. You thought you could outsmart my brutish muscular self and prevent me from giving you a goodbye buttkick off the bus which made you roll out instead of stepping out… it was so good I decided to turn that one into an integral part of the goodbye protocol!
But that wasn’t nearly as fun as the time when you had an arm and a leg broken (due to another locker mishap), trying to walk out with those crutches… oh how those things flew in the air! BANG!