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Anyone Can Be Featured At The Guggenheim

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:55:12 +0000

I like this collaborative idea between the Guggenheim and YouTube. The Guggenheim believes that digital one of the most important, influential, and accessible mediums of art and they’ve teamed up with YouTube to invite anyone and everyone to submit a video to their…well it’s really an open audition of your artwork. Submit your video to youtube.com/play and a jury of experts will select a winner to be featured at the Guggenheim.

Hitler Takes On YouTube

admin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:52:10 +0000

So apparently AG Constantin, the copyright holders of the film “Downfall,” have petitioned YouTube to take down all the “Downfall” memes on YouTube. Wha? That means my favorite of all times – the Burning Man version – is gone. Why the hell would they do that? With all the free press and exposure…oh wait…Hitler makes the case for you…

It’s Like A Primitive Performance Art Piece

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:35:49 +0000

….using As Seen On TV players…I’m strangely drawn to it….

Hate Cutesy Cat Videos?

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:25:07 +0000

Looks like cats do too.

This made me laugh. I can’t help it.

If You’re Feeling Blu…

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:56:19 +0000

…then this should do the trick. Big thanks to Stephen Chow who introduced me to the artist Blu a while back. And thanks to Jeff for sending me Blu’s latest stop-motion video.

Besides the art and the use of the environmental space, I love the sound design. It’s been such a long-time (relatively) convention to use music as a backdrop that I’ve kind of forgotten that well crafted sounds can fill that space just as compelling-ly. (I have two certificates from two different higher institutions of learning that qualify me to wordsmith my own words. So back off.) I especially dig the texturized tone that is used behind the more foreground sounds.

Visual And Reasonable

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:37:36 +0000

Keeping the discussion on a thoughtful level. One man’s take on the health care debate brought to life by a couple of animators.

The Funniest 72 Seconds Of My Day So Far

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:53:14 +0000

heh heh

More 8-Bit, More Lego

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:04 +0000

And by “more” I mean it took this guy 1500 hours to create this out of legos. If you divide that by 8 hours a day – I think that’s more than 6 months. WTF? I’m glad some people have figured out how to have the time to do this kind of stuff.

Though the idea isn’t super-new, I love how it starts and the camera angles they used. That said, I highly, highly recommend turning the sound off. Unless you like hanging out at discos in Bucharest. I’ve been there. I know what I’m talking about.

The Right Way To Do It

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:21:28 +0000

For marketers who insist on making “ads” for the online space, rather than engaging in an end-user considered relationship….this is how you do it.

Congratulations to the Wand Agency

I Don’t Know What I Just Watched

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:41:36 +0000

I like it.

I just don’t know what it is.