So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 - Kupono and Ashley
My Wife has got me hooked on this. Ridiculous. But this routine was just amazing! Wade Robson choreography to Goldfrapp.
This One Time
Be Amazing!
Want to destroy the world using nano technology? Ransom Riggs explains you how.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Related: Portable Living Room.
Forever’s Not So Long
What if you only had a certain amount of time on this planet? What would you do? A question that many films have asked before. This film answers it in its own unique way.
CUT | PASTE

Beautifully realized student film on cloning.
Watch it (Thanks Karsten)
VW - FishDog
I love this commercial for all of its…imperfections.
9

Action packed animated story about…well…to kill the mean monster. Good enough for me.
John August’s The Remnants (featuring Ze Frank!)

Lost but with characters who take themselves less seriously. Promising show. Can’t wait for the second episode. Last line says it all: “The end of the world, is not that bad.”
Dr. Horrible

Josh Whedon, writer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, directs this videoblog/show starring Neil Patrick Harris. Be a little patient because it picks up from its slow start wonderfully. A clever tale with ample amounts of wit.
Watch it - download it on iTunes.
This is an incredibly successful internet phenomenon (making it to the Time’s Best Inventions of 2008!!). A couple of thoughts:
- Length. People keep saying the shorter is better online. This has been true but the internet is evolving and with it the perception that the internet is some sort of distraction from other forms of media will change. I can’t wait, very promising for storytellers.
- Whedon said it was a small budget with the budget in the low six figure amount. Yes, I am with you when you say “that is a small budget”. But this is clearly an investment. This video series will be a full fledged something. This is just the beginning.
- I hadn’t heard about it till the Time’s article. But Googling the show, there isn’t a doubt in my mind that this is megahit. Whedon is quoted as saying as getting a thousand hits in a second in this USA Today article. What is amazing to me is that I hadn’t seen it earlier. I maintain this blog about online video, I spend (too much) time looking for online video content and yet this thing lives successfully outside of my world, my blogs, the places I visit for almost 5 months. Incredible. Shows you the size of the internet and how small you really are.
- Musicals do great online. I was talking to Rhett & Link about their incredible videoblog (more about them later) and they were saying their most popular videos end up being their music videos.
Synecdoche, New York trailer
Directed by Charlie Kaufman. Enough said.
Ark

An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true nature of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set off in search of uninhabited land. So begins the exodus, led by one man…
Ark is a short movie directed by Grzegorz Jonkajtys who produced it with Marcin Kobylecki at Platige Image.
Watch it. (Flash Video Quicktime, HD)
Watch it. (MPEG-4, Hi res)
Gremlins 2: Fan Made Film Break
Sacha Feiner reignites Gremlins fans’ lust with an incredible Gremlins 2 “Film Break” Alternate DVD Version.
In the middle of the movie Gremlins 2, there is a sequence where the film seems to break, and where the gremlins invade the projection booth. This is the alternate sequence Sacha made, supposed to replace the theatrical one on the DVD.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
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Ticklinks: The Dark Side
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Death Star over San Francisco: They’re here!
Attack of the Lightsaber Clone: A young wannabe Jedi stumbles across blueprints to make a real lightsaber only to find out that they don’t work. Well, not quite as expected.
The Jedi Gym: Star Wars is all about the Hero’s Journey, and so is working out, you leave home, battle your demons, and hopefully return home stronger.
ELA in “Love at First Byte”

E.L.A. is a young girl in love back in home planet Earth. But the power of her love is too big to be limited to solely one being. An extremely bizarre love triangle unravels an invasion of epic proportions, and E.L.A. is set on an adventure to save planet Earth from the evil claws of Havra the Merciless!
Directed by Fernando Sarmiento, J.F. Mackeprang and Federico Quiros at Peppermelon.
By the power of Greyskull, watch it! (Flash Video)
Cable

Seething with rage a woman dives headlong into a tower made of steel and cables to recover her three young daughters that have been abducted. Short movie by Rémi Gamiette.
Watch it. (Flash Video)











