Middle Aged Wolf
My White Friends
SNL Digital Short: On the ground
The Cask of Amontillado
To mark the bicentennial of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe: January 19th, 2009; this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s dark and twisted tale of vengeance… Produced and directed by Mario Cavalli.
Requiescat in pace.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Ho School Musical
Major Lazer “Pon De Floor”
Major Lazer “Pon De Floor” from Eric Wareheim.
Ummm…yes. So silly, I love it.
Dave Green wackiness
High Octane wacky comedy can be found here and here.
Conan’s opening to his new show
Seems like a fun road trip.
Hands off!!!
How wrong could possibly be a commercial. Well, when kids are involved, there doesn’t seem to be any limit…
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Walk in Fridge
This would have deserved a sure place in the Best of 2008 if I managed to find it before. Anyway…
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Thanks to The Stand
JibJab: 2008 Year In Review
It must be December – snow is falling, children are writing letters to Santa and we’re dragging 2008 through the mud in our all-singing, all-dancing, all-out year-in-review. Baby New Year ‘08 takes you on a tour of all of the good, bad, and worse the past year had to offer, all at breakneck speed. We’re giving society a primo wedgie – everyone watch, point and laugh!
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Bottlecap Assassins
One of the many gems that will be playing at the Carrboro Film Festival this weekend.
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.
Head of Skate
It is now officially a Palin day on Ticklebooth.
After hearing Matt Damon’s brilliant comparison of a Sarah Palin presidency to a bad Disney movie, I called up Sam and said “Let’s make a trailer for what that movie would look like.” Within hours, Dan and Amir were writing it, Ben and the CHTV crew were casting and producing it, and two weeks later, here it is.
Perfect. Thanks Damon.
Gorbachev, Bigger and Russianer
Half Russian History allegory as told through an old zombie movie made in the Soviet Union, and half animated Soviet Propaganda posters.
A music video directed by Tom Stern for the Russian band AnJ.
Watch it as: MPEG-4 – Flash Video
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