Mostly video
Posted: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:31 PM by Will Femia
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Video
I ended up with a lot of YouTube video in my notes today so I decided to use them all in one shot.
Have you heard anything about the movie Children of Men? I hadn't until last night when I clicked this compilation of scenes and critical acclaim (NOTE: the creator warns that it contains spoilers). Then I clicked the trailer and it sounds like a great story. Great story, great movie, but I haven't heard much about it? Apparently for a lot of people online, that's just too much to bear. Some people found the movie so good and so compelling that they've launched a Web campaign to raise its profile in spite of the lack of marketing from the studio. If this actually works and the movie becomes a break-out hit as a result of online word of mouth, we can probably look forward to a whole new era in movie marketing (not to mention a new tune from the MPAA on piracy). UPDATE: As I code up this entry it occurs to me that there was no greater Web campaign for a movie than Snakes on a Plane and I'm not sure the studios learned any positive lessons from that.
Though I'm not aware of one, it seems like Saturday Night Live is hosting a contest for responses to their Justin Timberlake "box" video. I clicked one called How to Get a Guy in Silicon Valley, which should be titled "Mac in my top" if only to help you understand what the heck they're saying. Slightly less popular, but better sung and produced (and funnier) is My box in a box. It's basically safe, but fraught with innuendo and "make love to the camera" type moves.
Speaking of funnier, this guy's silly laugh entertained an audience for nine minutes, upstaging the actual comedian who'd planned to use him as a prop, and now almost a half million people have laughed along with him. If there was a show on TV that was nothing but people laughing, I'd watch it.
Speaking of risqué online video parodies, PS3 vs. Wii - Done in the style of the PC/Mac commercials, Wii is a scantily clad boopsie. No nudity, and really not any more racy than would impress a 13-year-old boy, but ... well, don't share it with your 13-year-old boy. I wonder what Xbox would be in this scenario.
I've seen the Spiders on Drugs link floating around for a couple weeks, but I thought it was old lab video and I wasn't really interested. Today on a whim I clicked it and tried to fast forward just to see if the spiders on drugs built funny webs. Turns out the whole thing is funny and at under 2 minutes it's a worthwhile click for a chuckle.
Second Life: 'Unless you're a sexual deviant, boring as hell' - While I agree that it's hard to find things to do in Second Life, I don't agree that that makes it useless. It's not really a game, so it's not correct to judge it as such.
Speaking of virtual worlds and games, Presentation given by Joi Ito at the 23rd Chaos Communications Congress on World of Warcraft. If I could have a video version of the Commuter Click, this would be it. He makes it clear from the beginning that Second Life and World of Warcraft are like apples and oranges. That may be true, but they both have that aura of "if you're not paying attention to this you're missing something important."
Baby panda sneezes.
As long as we're dealing in cute, Real world Bambi and Thumper
Wicked hard Jet Ski game
