Sure, melting glaciers, raised sea levels, increased tropical diseases, bleached coral reefs and extreme weather patterns may loom large over the next few decades, but is global warming really coming from car tailpipes and our massive energy usage? Equally formidable to consider is the amount of steam rising out of the ears of net-users around the world, a flock of heads bubbling away in a brew of ever more densely saturated media. Occasionally a step back reminds how utterly dizzying it is to be able to send and receive such vast amounts of text, image, audio and video around the globe.
New video classics are being born everyday online, hurtled around from site to site, blog to blog, even emailed to users. In the last week, several videos were thrust into the limelight by the crowd, the rush from obscurity to global recognition now almost possible instantaneously. Videoblogs are making that rush easier, with their systems for automating the publishing of video online ( see www.freevlog.org for easy tutorials about how to do it for free). Videoblogs can be easily watched, subscribed to and referenced. And all of this just got an injection with the new ‘video iPod’, not an amazing device in itself – but with Apple now enabling subscription to videoblogs through iTunes ( as well as music videos and some tv programs), the path from bedroom video to global eyeballs is getting easier and easier.
Last Week’s Top 3 Viral Videos?
1. Moving Canvas
A project by Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green and Richard The (UDK Berlin), which sticks a computer and pokcet projector onto the side of a subway train and creates unexpected surreal flickering imagery for the train passengers.
2. Mutant Eyeball Plants
Holy crap this animation is crazy good. More here.
3. The Shining Remix
A competition where assistant editors ‘re-cut’ trailers for famous movies to try and make them seem like different movies, and Robert Ryang managed to morph ‘The Shining’ horror into a romantic comedy. Interview with Robert here.
We are currently promoting our comcs website with this viral video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9197541264003802258&q