Video Dating Meltdown

Remember the 90's? I do. Things have changed a lot since then especially when it comes to dating. According to a 1992 survey out of Chicago, 68% of adults met their spouse through a family member, friend or mutual acquaintance. So what about the other 32% of people?

Well I don't have the figures for that. However, I do know some of that 32% would have used video dating services. Video Dating services offer you the advantage of seeing your date before they see you. The central element of these services is a library featuring a video profile/autobiography for every member. A monthly subscription was paid, thus keeping your video in the collection regardless of whether it was watched or not.

In this video you will see a nervous young man tell the camera what he is looking for in a female companion. He contradicts himself quite a bit which adds a real element of humor; he certainly gets into the swing of things as the video progresses.

A study conducted at Oxford University reported that one in every three people who use the internet have visited or registered to an online dating portal in order to find love partners.

The survey was conducted among 24,000 men and women who spend a considerable amount of time online. Surprisingly, only 6% of the people used online dating services between 1997 and 2009. That number jumped to over 30% by the end of 2010.

So tell me, "Have you found love on the internet?". Leave your comments or creative responses below.

Friday or Android on crack

Today I have watched two videos that I feel are extraordinary, each in there own way.  Both of these videos are have become very popular overnight.

So I wanna know which one is really better to watch? You know, which one do you like better? It doesn't matter for what reason you like it, I am just asking you, as a normal person, which one would you choose to watch again. Which one would you show to your friends?

Friday or Android on crack?

Video #1: Friday

Video #2: Android on crack?

You just need to vote the numbers will speak for themselves. Besides, what are you really doing now anyway? You might as well vote.

I will be the first to vote. I vote Dancing Robot.




So tell me, "Which one did you watch again and why?" Leave your comments or creative responses below.

Happy Babies :)

I am not quite ready to have a baby yet. However, when I do, I can only hope that my baby is as cute and happy as these little guys.

The first video is of an 8-month-old boy laughing hysterically while his daddy rips up paper, every time he rips the paper the baby laughs more and more. It is somewhat hypnotic and very hard to look away, it even harder not to smile or laugh while watching this video. The satisfaction of this video also goes up when you find out that the paper the daddy gave his baby to rip up, is a a job rejection letter.

Watch, laugh and enjoy.



This next video is just as cute, and you see two very different emotions: happiness & fear.

Emerson, a five-and-a-half-month old is not really sure how to act when his mummy blows her nose, sometimes he is terrified but then when the blowing stops, he bursts out into laughing.

The face that little Emerson makes when he is afraid, makes this video well worth watching.



So tell me; What makes you freak out or laugh? Leave your comments or creative responses below.

OK Go

OK Go is a band that not only has good music, they also have really good videos, in fact I would go as far to say they're videos are awesome. They are always very well made and keep you entertained till the end.

I first leaned about OK GO by watching their music video on recommendation from my friend Steve. In fact he showed me the same song twice. However, each clip had its own unique video. The name of the song is called 'This too shall pass'

This first video is filmed in one constant shot incorporating a Rube Goldberg machine. A Rube Goldberg machine, device, or apparatus is a deliberately over-engineered machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. Named after Reuben Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways.

In the opening shot you can see one of the members of the band covered in red paint; This may not mean much to you, until you see the end of the video. However, what it tells me is, it took many takes to film this clip in one constant shot, as you will see OK Go's Rube Goldberg's machine is quite complex and there are many points that it could have failed and would require the clip to be shoot from the beginning again.



As I mentioned before this second video clip is the same song 'This too shell pass'. However, it has a completely different feel to it. Check it out.



Upon writing this blog post and doing my research I found that OK Go has a lot of video's that I could recommend for you, Here are my top picks:

White Knuckles (Dogs)
Here It Goes Again (Treadmills)
Last Leaf (Toast)
End Love (Stop Motion)

And of course, Here is OK Go's Channel. Go and subscribe to them to stay up to in the loop when a new video is released.

So tell me; which is your favorite OK Go music video? Leave your comments or creative responses below.

Slo-mo

A big thanks to my Sis for sending me today's video, it is very cool and right up my alley.

Tom Guilmette is Boston based sports television camera operator and DP. He has worked in the industry for over 10 years. During this time he has been to the Super Bowl, Olympics and worked World Series events for clients like FOX, CBS and TURNER. 

In Tom's spare time, he publish a blog and vlog testing out new equipment and a doing reviews and tutorials.As you'll see in this video Tom has some fun with a Phantom Flex slow motion camera. 

There is something about slow motion and true HD. That just go hand in hand. However, when you mix in an awesome sound track and add some awesome video effects the results are fantastic.


Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo.

For another awesome video from Tom, check out this one: http://www.tomguilmette.com/?p=1661

What do you think would look good in slow motion? Leave your comments or creative responses below.

Titan; A place much like our own.

Space really fascinates me, especially lately. So it makes me happy to know that there is a YouTube channel out there that can cure my space fix. It is called SpaceRip and it frequently updates it's channel with the latest videos from NASA and other sources. The videos are generally of a very high standard, with most available in HD 1080p.

We live in a very exciting time in regards to space exploration. We are just on the edge of commercialized space travel and we are receiving data from a plethora of spacecrafts, satellites, telescopes and probes that we have sent out to space.

Did you know that on October 15, 1997 the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched. Consisting of two parts, the Cassini orbiter and the Huygens probe they traveled as one towards Saturn, entering the planets orbit on July 1, 2004. 
On Christmas day 2004 the Huygens probe separated from the orbiter to make its way to Titan; one of Saturn's moons. On January 14, 2005 the Huygens probe made it into the history books, when it descended through Titan's dense atmosphere and successfully landed on the surface. Making it the first landing ever accomplished in the outer solar system.


As the Huygens prob sailed through Titan's atmosphere, video was being transmitted back to earth. The first images of Titan were a big eye opener as it appeared that it was actually entering earths atmosphere; as the clouds cleared away, you could see a mountain range. As the probe floats down with its parachute, it lands in what can only be described as a river bed. The familiar rounded rocks and pebbles that had been shaped by years of liquid flowing over them.

WAIT....WHAT....

Does that mean there is water on other planets, that is not just frozen but is actually acting like it does on earth?

I think now is a good time for you to watch a video.



So, it is not water that caused the landscape of Titan to be similar to earth; instead, liquid methane. Because of Titans great distance from the sun, it is a lot colder and causes chemicals and and chemical bonds to act differently then they do on earth.
On Titan, methane acts the same way as water acts on earth: freezing like a glacier, lakes, rivers, clouds and of corse rain. However, the interesting fact is that because Titan's gravity is low and the atmosphere is dense, when it rains the droplets are very large and they fall as if they are in slow motion. 



What are your thoughts on Titan? Leave your comments or creative responses below.

Ray William Johnson

Ray William Johnson is the host of an awesome show called =3. During each episode RWJ reviews 3 YouTube videos that are either becoming very popular or are already popular, a new episode is available every Monday and Thursday.

I feel very confident in recommending him as I have not been dissapointed with one of his episodes yet.
Sometimes the fastest rising YouTube video is not always funny. However, he has a way of finding the humor in them. He is always upbeat and very entertaining.

It is pretty awesome when two of your favirote things come together to form one. This is exactly what has happens in this next video.

In my last recommendation I introduced you to schmoyoho and the world of autotuning. In this special episode of =3 RWJ teamed up with Schmoyoho to create an autotuned episode.

Now because that video was a bit different to his normal episodes, I am going to post his latest video. Thant should give you a bit more of a feel of what his episodes are normally like.
Remember to check out his channel HERE and subscribe if you like it.




What are your thoughts on Ray William Johnson and his style of video reviews? Leave your comments or creative responses below.

Sunny D & Rum, Yum Yum!

This week I am going to introduce to you my favorite YouTube channels. What do I mean by that exactly? Think of YouTube as a TV, now just like a TV, YouTube has different channels that you can watch, Sometimes the channels contain original videos, made by the person posting them. However, other times the channel contains videos on a particular subject.

Today I am going to introduce you to schmoyoho (The Gregory Brothers) and the wonderful world of autotune. Autotune is software that is used in the music industry; it takes vocals and "autotunes" them into which ever key you would like. This gives people that would normally sing out of tune the ability to sing in key. Autotune is most famously used by T-Pain.

The Gregory Brothers took a different approach to autotune when they began 'autotuning' the news. Turning the normally boring news into fun songs. Since then they have expanded to autotuning you-tube clips and nearly anything else that is requested. In fact The Gregory Brothers have become so popular and good at what they do, their most recent claim to fame was doing an autotune for The Oscars. 

Some of their most popular songs include:

The Double Rainbow Song
The Bed Intruder Song
Backin Up Song

The following video is divided into two parts. The first part is the original video. At first it is funny to watch. However, pretty soon you start to get very annoyed with it and her singing. But please push your way through it because the other half is a great Autotune mix by The Gregory Brothers, it makes it well worth the pain of the first half.
This video is a perfect example of why I love, what they do. It shows how something that started so bad can be made into a song that is not only catchy, but awesome.



What are your thoughts on The Gregory Brothers and their autotuning? Leave your comments or creative responses below.