“Gone too soon”

“Born to amuse, to inspire, do delight. Here one day. Gone one night…”

Rest in Peace, Michael.

Fear the Mouse!

Infamous political leaders are afraid of your online participation on ishr.org.

GreenTube by Greenpeace

Excellent use of the medium and a clear case of ”Why didn’t I think of that!?”
Greenpeace uses the YouTube Player get the message across.

Vintage Stop-Motion Race.

Stop-Motion animation sure celebrates a renaissance lately.

Probably due to the fact, that it’s easier to do today than it was only 10 years ago. All you need is an idea, a digital camera or camera phone, a computer and a lot of time.

If you do it right, it looks like this, this, or even this. Ad a lot of money to the equation and the result looks like this.

Now image you were back in 1965 and didn’t have all those precious things. Just an idea and a 8mm-camera! The outcome can still be  ”fully awesome“, as Rhino would say. Watch:

*clap clap clap*

Mini’s Meta-Viral

The first viral video that actually knows it’s a viral – and fake. New approach to a no-so-new concept… And that’s what makes it viral in the first place. Enjoy =)

Filmed on the german “Autobahn” A8 to Munich.

Where the Wild Things Are.

Looking forward to this film-adaption of the classic childrens book
“Where the Wild Things Are“.

Let’s do “The Very Hungry Caterpillar“ next. With the transformation scene from caterpillar to butterfly made by Bruckheimer…

Tetris HD

In Soviet Russia, Tetris plays you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try it.

Superbowl Ads 2009

So, I just watched all the Superbowl ads on youtube/adblitz and I gotta say I’m really disappointed.

Seems like it’s all about outdoing each other with crazy stunts, expensive visual effects and lame jokes. Many of the commercials were totally generic and irrelevant to the prodct or  the brand anything. Some even downright stupid.
Like this, this, this and this. But see for yourselves. Or don’t…! 

There were however some rays of hope. Like “Roadies” or “Talking Flowers“.
But by far my favorite Superbowl commercial this year has to be AUDI’s
“The Chase”. 

Also worth mentioning, I think, is the Miller High Life “1-second-ad”. Find out all about it on 1secondad.com.

 

Anything else? Oh yeah… Steelers won.

The Top 10 of Everything 2008.

If you like Top-10-Lists as much as I do, you’ll love the TIME Magazine’s “The Top 10 Everything of 2008“.

How ’bout the Top 10 Viral Videos for starters…

#1:

I can’t help but feel that some great virals are missing in this list though.
First of all this one:
But also Chubby Cup Cake Boy, Tom Cruise’s creepy interview, Barack Roll and Bill O’Reilly. Anything I forgot…?

Monty Python’s YouTube Channel

That’s right. The guys who invented “funny” launched their very own YouTube Channel. That’s news worth spreading!

They’re still hilarious after more than 30 years and I absolutely worship their absurd humor. I could post a thousand of my favorite clips, but I’ll leave you with “just” three…

Click here for more. *NudgeNudge* And buy their DVDs. =)