I have three things to say about all the hype around This Is Why I'm Hot: 1. The mere existance of flowcharts explaining the lyrics I'm Hot 'Coz I'm Fly/You Ain't 'Coz You're Not makes me glad I didn't waste…
Continue Reading →When you're done twiddling your thumbs staring out the window thinking about your own earth shattering way to change the world, you should be browsing PopTech's Pop!Casts collection-- watching every single video, one at a time, becoming more educated and…
Continue Reading →You would think that, after all the success of YouTube, video-sharing sites would be evolving at a rate that left us overwhelmed with mountains of user-generated goodness. After all, that's the way it normally works; someone strikes it big in…
Continue Reading →At first glance I thought this fake music video for Rap Cat on YouTube was just a spoof-- poking fun at the almost hilarious "rap game" that fills local airwaves with nonsense rhymes, big-booty girls and those oh-so-nice 'flashy' cars.…
Continue Reading →The most appropriate way to kick off the inaugural post from Sao Paulo is to talk about one of the best things it has to offer the rest of the world: music. Sure, bossa nova and the MPB old-time faves…
Continue Reading →We've all grown to know and love the extensive amount of video footage that's come along with the YouTube era. YUXT is a neat flash site that allows you to make some sense of all of those great clips you've…
Continue Reading →At long last the talks of TED Prize Winners, President Bill Clinton, EO Wilson and James Nachtwey are available online for your viewing pleasure. I've embedded James Nachtwey's talk here about his decades as a photo journalist-- my favorite of…
Continue Reading →When I saw this nifty BMW promo on Motionographer, I couldn't understand all of the lingo they were using to describe it. Terms like "3D cutscenes" and "sprite based games" may as well have been written in greek. But I…
Continue Reading →Thisss is LIIIISSSSAAAAA!!! Many of you know her by now, but if you need refreshing-- Lisa Donovan (a.k.a. Lisa Nova) is the uber talented YouTube queen that was responsible for the infamous spoof of Diddy's futile YouTube channel purchase idea.…
Continue Reading →The following videos might be some of the most compelling, moving and yet indescribable pieces of animation and music as visual art I've ever seen. Animator and borderline-genius Robert Hodgin worked with Processing, an open source programming language to program…
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