BensonLover99 is a YouTube user dedicated to the prolific production of videos in tribute to Olivia Benson, the sex crimes detective played on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit by Mariska Hargitay. In just the past week, BensonLover (who, according to her YouTube profile, is… Read More »
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Indie filmmakers, videographers and photographers are uniting to protest a series of new regulations proposed by the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting here in New York City. As currently worded, the new regulations would force any group of two or more people using a… Read More »
When I first become aware of a funny YouTube clip that’s been making the rounds, I rarely watch it more than once, but I can’t stop watching this Filipino-prisoners-doing-”Thriller” thing. Obviously, I’m not the only one–as of Sunday morning, the clip has been viewed over… Read More »
The West Side, a new series produced by Zachary Lieberman and Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo, is a western set in an alternate-universe version of contemporary New York, impressively shot on a shoe string in real NYC locations. The city (known colloquially within the first episode as The… Read More »
If you made it to Pixelodeon a couple of weeks back, you might have seen Rob Parrish’s Tapes of My Father. Composed entirely of found, public domain footage set to voice over, Tapes purports to be a son’s presentation of recently unearthed videos made… Read More »
Last night, I overheard my boyfriend and a friend bitching about how physical copies of VICE Magazine have become increasingly hard to find. Whereas pretty much every other cultural niche magazine is on deathwatch, record and skate shops here in New York can’t keep VICE in… Read More »
As an adjective, “emo” is often misused, mostly by people like me who are trying to accurately describe a culture that they’ve aged out of. I mean, even Hope isn’t exactly “emo” — she’s more like neo-Goth. Basically, any shred of teen culture that has… Read More »
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The final episode of The Sopranos may have left some fans hungry for definitive resolution, but what David Chase denied, YouTubers have supplied in spades. Hundreds of response videos have popped up over the last two weeks — spoofs, alternate endings, detailed deconstructions… Read More »
“Animation is a fad,” says a human character in a recent episode of Unleashed, an animated series about struggling animal actors, which is now in its third season. “Before long people will tire of it, just as they did plate spinning, ventriloquism, and that Larry… Read More »
As a part-time political junkie, I’ve generally been disappointed by the range and quality of DIY politically-themed news videos online. Yes, there’s some great stuff directly resulting from the war, such as Hometown Baghdad, but for all the hype about how citizen journalists are going… Read More »
If you’ve heard of Michael Cera, it’s probably because you (like me) were an obsessive fan of the canceled FOX series Arrested Development. Just 15 when the documentary-style comedy started airing in 2003, Cera showed incredible maturity as a comedian in the role of George-Michael Bluth,… Read More »
Earlier this month, Jeff Jarvis announced plans to invest in Black20, an online video network which NewTeeVee’s Liz Gannes profiled earlier this year. “I have been blathering a lot about exploding TV,” Jarvis wrote on his blog, BuzzMachine. “But I am putting my… Read More »
Never underestimate the power of a half-naked girl to draw attention to something good — or, in this case, something GOOD. According to Technorati, the most linked-to video in the blogosphere today is this clip, in which slow camera pans reveal factoids on the… Read More »
When I first heard about Hey Josh, a weekly show billed as “a three minute advice video podcast for teenagers,” I mentally classified it alongside what Ryan Fitzgerald (otherwise known as The Guy Who Gave Out His Phone Number On YouTube) has been doing:… Read More »
Last week, I went looking for mashups produced by and/or for women, and came up short. As Chuck Tryon summed it up in the comments to last week’s post, the issue doesn’t seem to be that women are not making funny videos, but that there’s… Read More »
A thread on The Chutry Experiment (a blog maintained by film and media studies professor Chuck Tryon) sent me on a mission this week. Tryon is working on an academic paper on movie trailer mashups, and in this blog post, he observed that most… Read More »
If you think about most of the videos that qualify as “YouTube hits,” the majority of them have certain keywords in common: “gimmick”, “funny”, “DIY”. But none of those keywords apply to Afterworld, which is currently the number three Most Subscribed To director’s channel… Read More »
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