a complete waste of your time
Somehow...this video of people doing random stuff is oddly engaging. Like you'll watch it, and pretty much it goes nowhere, but you can't stop watching.
Do we really need to spend millions producing commercials anymore? From @coudal.
Labels: creativeinspiration, video, viral, youtube
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:21 AM
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
broadcasting live...on facebook
Bubblicious reviews Bambuser, a Swedish live video streaming service that lets you broadcast directly to your Facebook fan page. Live.
uStream and Justin.tv already feature Facebook integration in their products, but according to Bubblicious, Bambuser has made it simpler than ever. And simple wins.
Labels: facebook, social media, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:37 AM
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
digital music marketing genius.
Check out the new C-Mon & Kypski video, currently being produced. You can watch the video as it is being produced, ONE FRAME AT A TIME. Even better, you can add yourself to the production (as many times as you'd like) by contributing frames to the video.
Charlie at Curve Detroit points out that any business can learn from this creative feat. C-Mon & Kypski have done a bunch of things right:
+ They appealed to the 90% of the audience who might NOT want to participate because they're too shy, afraid, whatever - these people get to watch the process unfold.
+ They let the visitors that participate in the site become OWNERS of the product. Think they'll talk about it? Share it on Twitter or Facebook? Post about it? You bet.
This is crowdsourcing done smart, done well, and done right. Thanks, Charlie!
Labels: marketing, music, social media, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:21 AM
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Monday, January 11, 2010
when coffee attacks
There's just something that's so much fun about putting a mascot into obnoxious situations. Nice piece for Verbatim.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:34 AM
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
some things are better on paper
Let's say that you're really into parkour - but you're not really limber or fit enough to bound across buildings, somersault over cars and generally jump around the neighborhood. What's a parkour wannabe to do?
Introducing parkour on paper. All of the fun without the real danger, bruises or brushes with the law. Awesomeness. Thanks, Devon!
Labels: creativeinspiration, illustration, streetart, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:30 AM
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
your cell phone could shoot 2012 II
Holy crap. Proof the iPhone is worthy of the title "magic phone." From @tsand
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:33 AM
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
cocktail mixmasters with flair
Check out the mixmagical skills of the Prestwick Crew. All to remind you that TGI Fridays is the place for drinking with flair during the holiday season. Awesomeness.
Labels: hospitality, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:28 AM
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ideas win.
OK Go became a household name based on the success of a single video that went viral. And it wasn't a million dollar budget that got Here it Goes Again millions of views. It was a great idea.
Their new video is just as clever. They've taken an age old video effect, "trails" and made it fresh and fun. Once again - not technology, not a kabillion dollar production budget, just a fantastically great idea done well. Woot.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:29 AM
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Monday, November 09, 2009
naked victoria's secret models can sell anything
This is more than just naked girls prancing in the street. It's an effort to promote Victoria's Secret. Even though there doesn't appear to be any Victoria's Secret apparel in the clip. The press release say that it's "already received a lot of attention around the world for its titillating music video". Interesting.
Apparently this is part of a new Victoria's Secret TV campaign - even though the video was released months ago (because tv is slow??). And the parody is just as entertaining.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:22 AM
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Friday, November 06, 2009
how to introduce the carbon economy
To promote the upcoming Carbon Economy Summit in Washington D.C., the visually brilliant team over at XPlane put together a clip that demonstrates the importance of the task and the opportunity that lies ahead. Beautiful, important work.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:14 AM
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
how bloggers are sharing video
Sysomos has done some interesting analysis on video streaming and sharing as it relates to video shared on blogs. They examined 100 million blog posts since July of this year, and determined:
Young Males Engage the Most - 20-to-35-year-old males constitute the most engaged demographic group in the study. In total, 77% of users are under 35-years old, while 60% of all users are male.
Asian Users Engage Differently - 90% of the users from Asia and Oceania are under 35-years-old. In comparison, a third of North American users are over 35-years-old. Bloggers in Asia and Oceania are less likely to use services other than YouTube, with 89% of the links and embeds pointing to YouTube.
Engagement Peaks on Tuesday - The most popular day for engaging with video in the blogosphere is Tuesday and Wednesday. The most active engagement takes place between 11a.m. and 1p.m EST.
There's a boatload of additional data where that came from. Read the details from their entire study and learn what's likely to get your video shared, posted on blogs and viewed by millions.
(There's also some slammin' graphs and charts that will make your PowerPoint deck look all juicy when you present this to the boss.)
Labels: analytics, blogging, social media, trends, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:38 AM
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Monday, November 02, 2009
people will stare at a rectangular screen anywhere. really.
Right Guard hired a bunch of models, gave them specially equipped shirts, and asked them to show their armpits.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:33 AM
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Friday, October 16, 2009
something to kick off your friday
Watch this because it's Friday, or because you've always wanted to do one of these videos for yourself, and you needed the inspiration to give it a shot today.
(You'll really wished that you worked with these guys.) Happy Friday.
Labels: creativeinspiration, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:13 AM
3 comments
Monday, October 12, 2009
best buy: where art and retail meet?
Last week artist Borna Sammak created an art show at Best Buy.
The plan was to secretly take over all of the monitors on their lower Broadway store in NYC. The artist is known for his renegade installations, and this one went off without police or blue shirt involvement...apparently because Best Buy agreed at some point to let it happen. Win/win for both artist and retailer.
See video of his installation at Animal and an interview with the artist at Art in America.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:56 AM
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Friday, October 09, 2009
make exercise fun and people will do it.
Check out this fun initiative (brought to you by VW!) that answers the question "if we made the stairs more fun than the escalator, would people take them? Cool.
Labels: automotive, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:19 AM
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
cutting our military friends a break
We don't often promote our own clients on BrandFlakes, but thought this was worthy. Check out the video promoting Helmets to Hardhats, a unique program aimed at helping military vets that are returning from active duty get awesome jobs in the construction industry.
We produced Are You G2G, an online tool that helps soldiers plan for their re-entry into our nutty civilian life. There's even a Facebook app that lets them countdown their days till discharge in their timeline.
All you need to do is send the video to people who have friends in the military.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:54 AM
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
star wars: crowd sourced
Star Wars Uncut is a crowd sourced version of Star Wars!
Here's how it works: they've cut the entire film into individual 15 second scenes. You can pick a scene, produce it however you see fit, and then upload to the site.
When they're all done, it'll be stitched together into a magnificent crowd sourced version of the film. Awesome times ten. Hurry! There's still 215 scenes free! Thanks, Bill!
Labels: film, pop culture, social media, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:28 AM
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
how to cram 100 people in a photo booth for 60 seconds
Here's what the crew from Never Hide Films can produce with footage from a video photo booth at SXSW. Videomixmasterawesomeness. From Cory Obrien.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:05 AM
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
how to turn heads in a music video
It's like the more you watch it, the more mesmerizing it becomes.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:38 AM
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Friday, August 28, 2009
what happens if you enter every contest on youtube?
Meet Jake and Will. They want to make a film, and need $100,000 to do it. They also realized that there are countless companies doing YouTube video contests, and giving away some sweet prizes. As budding film makers, they figured that they've got a better chance than most at winning, so they've decided to enter every video submission contest that they can find.
It's working. They've launched Video Contest Warriors, to document their progress and adventures. And - they may even enter the Riunite contest (a Plaid client) where they'd have a chance at meeting their short term goal of $10K, in one fell swoop. (Do people really say "fell swoop" anymore?)
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:34 AM
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Friday, August 21, 2009
interns make more videos
The interns at Crispin, Porter & Bogusky made a video. Everyone in the industry reacted with "oooohh...Crispin interns can make video!!"
And now it's becoming a meme. Interns from agencies across the land are scrambling to outdo each other. The interns at Archival (both of them) took on the challenge to better the Crispin dudes, and created their own "we're interns" video (and at least on cinematography, killed it.)
What can your interns do?
Labels: adindustry, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:13 AM
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Monday, August 17, 2009
not your average feature release video
Who says that you need a fat production budget, killer effects or even animation to promote a game release? XBox 360 Achievements promotes a new "Slo-mo death match feature" for the game FEAR 2 with...a silly, low-budget home grown video.
30K views (so far) is not a bad return on the investment.
(If you work in an office that's not tolerant of moderate swear words, you may want to listen in headphones.)
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:53 AM
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the apple store: your new production studio
There's something totally infectious about this kid, and the fact that he produces and broadcasts his videos from the Apple store.
He's evolved and has gotten to be quite good - look at one of his earlier broadcasts and you'll see that he wasn't always entirely comfortable performing in the space.
Just begging to be a part of a fun campaign.
Labels: apple, pop culture, retail, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:21 AM
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
bringing buildings to life
Here's another fabulous example of projection design in use on a building. Stunning, awesome, amazing.
Labels: architecture, outdoor, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:08 AM
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
how thin is your computer?
The MSI computer is soooo thin that you could catch it in your butt.
Dabitch points us to this hilariously funny promo for MSI computers. The concept plays on the original Ray Ban video which was later co opted into a jumping jeans video.
It's officially a meme people - so start catching stuff with your body.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:35 AM
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
new intern trend: make youtube videos
If you intern at a big agency, chances are that you'll be asked to produce a video. That seems to be the trend now - even at America's hot shop Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Most are annoying, but this one had more funny moments than the others. If you can get past the silly beards, anyway.
Labels: adindustry, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:04 AM
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Coke Coke Coke Coke Coke is it
David Kaplan over at PaidContent predicts online video will soon be surrounded by advertising clutter. It seems the giant networks who fund all that entertainment are worried that online dimes won't match television dollars, so are squeezing in more spots.
Now we could get all deep on you and explain how this will set off a vicious cycle of diminishing response rates and inflated inventory, driving down CPMs as marketers bail and consumers flit away to other media, doing to web video hubs what the internet did to newspapers, cascading the tragedy of the commons into an Andersonian free price singularity, thus destroying the ad industry ... but hey, we're guests here and this is the Brandflakes blog.
So. Dude. Will this screw up the layout?
Labels: adindustry, television, video
posted by Ben Kunz @ 7:44 AM
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parents, you can stop paying for singing lessons
Someone has auto-tuned the news. The technology for manipulating video is getting freaky easy; in a few years, animated characters that look like real people may be here, like this Heavy Rain game trailer, and then you won't have to play with any prior recordings but can simply create your own.
What will the world look like when we can't believe anything we see or hear on video? Oh, yes. FoxNews.
Via Canadian coolhunter Andy Jukes.
Labels: music, technology, video
posted by Ben Kunz @ 7:11 AM
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
send this to that girl who writes code
A wonderous song devoted entirely to girls. Who write code. "Feels like my first LOL." Nice.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 5:54 AM
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
music video shot with iphone video
Check it out - an entire music video shot with nothing but the new 3GS iPhone. Proof that you don't need a film budget to produce a music video. Although a stellar production team, director, studio and killer editing can't hurt, of course.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:16 AM
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Monday, July 06, 2009
you don't need a hollywood effects budget
Here's one of the most creative music videos that you've seen in a long, long time.
Incredible creativity, lots of planning and a handful of webcams from fans come together to achieve glorious video magic. From make the logo bigger.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:27 AM
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
youtube lets you link your videos to anywhere
Starting today, you can add links to your YouTube videos that link to the outside world. Like away from YouTube. Think call to action.
YouTube hearts marketing. :) This is a good day in the YouTube-iverse.
(Silly teen girls for your enjoyment only. They have nothing to do with this post. But I guess they like to touch their hair.)
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:11 AM
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Monday, June 29, 2009
preserving moments in a new way
News from the Herd points us to This Moment, a new tool geared toward saving and sharing the moments of your life.
All of these things exist separately thanks to countless internet tools, but This Moment has brought the art of photo, media and story telling together in a unique way. Fun concept. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
(Oh, and I have no idea who any of those people are. Just sharing someone else's "moment." ;))
Labels: photography, social media, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:53 AM
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films for your fast paced lifestyle
You're busy. You don't have time. Those 180 minute long borefests can't hold your attention once the JuJuBes have run out. Not to worry. Now there's a series of films geared to your always on the move lifestyle: Five second films.
From Thought Gadgets.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:39 AM
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Friday, June 12, 2009
bringing movie posters to life
There's a bunch of buzz about this new hot digital video camera, the Red One, invented by the billionaire founder of Oakley. The short: this is a video camera that has a resolution that rivals 35MM film. It's super hot in the film and video community, and the resolution is so good that you can use a single frame of video as a high resolution photograph.
Which...opens up some amazing opportunities. Check out the video clip above, which details the making of a movie poster that comes to life. The future is awesome, isn't it?
Thanks, Justus!
Labels: ads, film, photography, technology, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:38 AM
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
bringing the video screen to the mailbox
Wow. Direct mail with embedded video. I can think of about a hundred and seventy eight cool ideas for utilizing this. Let's talk.
Labels: directmarketing, technology, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:58 AM
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Monday, April 27, 2009
honda shines immersive
Honda's new ad for Insight totally takes over. From Waxy.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:53 AM
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Monday, April 20, 2009
slo mo that looks totally hot
The latest video to hit "viral" status doesn't include anyone farting. Or jumping over a car on fire. Or hot girls doing sexy things.
Just the most wonderfully shot imagery in the highest definition you've ever seen on video. Mesmerizing. From charlie @ curve.
Labels: technology, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:21 AM
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Monday, April 13, 2009
how to get teens to target
Retailers looking to make themselves cool to teens might want to look outside the agency PowerPoint decks, and just let a teen do the job for them.
Target should totally be sending this dude a mondo-big gift certificate. The internet is an awesome place.
Labels: creativeinspiration, retail, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:28 AM
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Monday, March 30, 2009
what google street view looks like in motion
Check out this super cool animation made from individual Google Maps Street View images. Amazing.
Soooo many possibilities. Tourist councils, college campuses and city centers. Give real world tours of your neighborhoods. And we're cooking up even more ideas as week speak. Sweet mapalicious.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:01 AM
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non profit raises 10K in a day on youtube
That headline is a little deceiving, as the non-profit we're talking about was featured on the YouTube home page. But even if you can't get that kind of positioning, YouTube's non-profit program sounds like a winner. Add overlays to your videos that drive traffic directly to your campaign site.
If you're not already a YouTube non-profit partner, get all of the details here.
From Rodney Rumford
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:42 AM
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Friday, March 20, 2009
the history of the internet
Microsoft has released a new version of that browser they make - Internet Explorer version 8. To get everyone all pumped up, they've produced this cute video about the history of the internet. Fun.
Labels: ads, microsoft, social media, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:21 AM
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Monday, March 09, 2009
how to be polite and stay safe in a nuclear emergency
Now, thanks to A.V. Geeks, you can find all of your favorite AV movies in one handy place! Like that film the girls got to see in gym. Or the one your teacher made you watch about manners.
Even better - the A.V. Geeks will bring the video fun to your place! They're on the road, they're on the internet, and they're on the ultra awesome geeky product.
We like Lunchroom Manners, which has taught us how to behave more politely in the Plaid lunchroom. Found on Coudal Partners.
Labels: creativeinspiration, pop culture, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:28 AM
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
how cute animals might use your cell phone
Samsung has a new phone with a big, sweet screen. What better way to demonstrate its awesomeness than with a video devoted to how 38 cute animals might utilize such a screen of wonder?
Labels: ads, mobile, technology, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:31 AM
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
100 days/songs/locations/dances.
100 days, 100 songs, 100 locations, 100 dances. Why ask why? Isn't the internet your favorite place, ever??
From Kevin Rose, via Twitter.
Labels: creativeinspiration, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:59 AM
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
internet pop culture school
Sadly, there is no internet pop culture school. But if there were - the first class would be to watch everything on Greg Rutter's Definitive List of the 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something.
New internet employers should require their employees to watch everything on this list.
Even better - the next time you're at a party, and someone says "grape stomp?? what's that??" you'll have a remedy. Instantly send Greg's list to the offending dork, and you'll be making the world a better place.
Labels: pop culture, video, viral, youtube
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:44 AM
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Friday, February 13, 2009
blogs drive 80% of traffic to online video
Ummm, blogs and social media are really important if you want people to see your video. Here's proof with a bunch of numbers for your PowerPoint deck.
Which gives me the perfect excuse to top this post with Darth Vader's response to the David the Dentist video. Happy Friday.
Labels: blogging, marketing, social media, trends, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:50 AM
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using digital noise to your advantage
Sometimes hot video producers can just blow you away with the killerest concepts.
Today, that comes in the form of a music video for the band Chairlift. Their video utilizes compression artifacting (that pixely stuff that makes it hard to see detail in lower resolution online videos) and turns it into wonderous eye candy.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:36 AM
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
ridin' them slots hard
Hardee's and Carl's Jr. are sponsoring a new series of episodes about...slotcars. Their first features a profile on the new driver of the Hardees car: Smoky. A big black bear from Tennessee.
Just enough silly guy humor told by slot car action figures. Well done.
Labels: action sports, ads, video, yummyfood
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:46 AM
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
does your grocery store generate this kind of love?
If you're lucky enough to live in a market where there's a Trader Joe's, then you'll absolutely love this user generated video of love devoted to the store.
YesButNoButYes suggests that Trader Joe's adopt this as their official spot. A 30 second edit would be a grand idea. Bonus that it's shot on a cell phone. And now I'm hungry for Chili & Lime cashews.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:47 AM
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Monday, February 09, 2009
school that you don't mind going to
Omnisio has a great collection of videos with slide presentations from Startup school 08. This is a pretty cool conference of geeks talking about all of the things that you love: startups, business and the internets. Take 20 minutes a day this week and watch some of it. Your inner geek will love you more.
From StyleTime and Problogdesign, via Twitter.
Labels: adindustry, blogging, education, strategy, video, workplace
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:35 AM
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Thursday, February 05, 2009
what it's like to go through airport xray
Evan Roth, the founder of the Graffiti Research Lab, has posted an interesting project documenting his travels...he's kept his video camera running through airport xray machines as he's traveled the world.
This project does prove one thing: those airport xray machines aren't filled with Gremlins, monsters or goblins.
Labels: art, creativeinspiration, streetart, travel, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:08 AM
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
not your father's white house
The White House has even started a Vimeo channel. Even better than YouTube. Way to go. Awesome.
Labels: politics, social media, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:02 AM
1 comments
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
the history of asics told in paper
Here's a stunningly produced history of Asics/Onitsuka Tiger. You should use this as an excuse to go buy yourself a new pair of sneakers in honor of this wonderous production. C'mon. I'll join you.
Labels: creativeinspiration, fashion, pop culture, sports marketing, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:37 AM
1 comments
Thursday, December 18, 2008
how to produce a video without a camera or production budget
Isn't it awesome when creative genius trumps production budget?? From Ryan Varjas, via Facebook.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:51 AM
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
b2b: fun for the holidays, too.
I hear business-to-business leaders complain all the time that they can't have fun with their marketing. Locked in a world where they pretend their audience is non-human, has no sense of humor, and convinced the only message delivery vehicles are pages and pages of boring copy. (And PowerPoint decks.)
So it's energizing to have a client with a business to business audience that LOVES to have fun. And isn't afraid to share that in their marketing collateral. Check out the video that we produced for RMI Direct Marketing, as their holiday greeting.
Their clients get to know them better, feel like they're a bunch of fun to work with, and yes - enjoy a sense of humor. (And they can act, too!)
Labels: holiday, marketing, plaid, self promotion, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:03 AM
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
people only pay attention for 60 seconds
This is a few days old now, so in internet time this is like 436 year old information - but Dirk and Ben have pointed to some really good studies about video viewership. Like how about 1 in 10 viewers leave a web video after 10 seconds, and 54% quit after a minute.
People are bored. And they're moving on. If you haven't already tuned out, you can use the graph above in the PowerPoint presentation convincing your boss that you don't need a 20 minute long sales video.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:25 AM
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throw away your video camera
Really. Who needs it. All the cool videos are now made with stop motion, or photos, or whatever.
Two awesome videos that are making the rounds in internet land are living proof that you don't need that old video recording machine. The clip above was produced with 45,000 individual photographs. For real.
And then there's this new clip from Melpo Mene. More wonderous stop motion. See? Everyone's doing it. What are you waiting for? You have thousands of photographs to shoot. Get moving!
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:05 AM
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Monday, December 08, 2008
how they make creative juice
A little bit creepy, a little bit wonderful. It's a campaign launched by Rubber Republic to promote the creative industries in the South West (of England). I'm pretty sure that I'm going to have nightmares, tonight. There's a website too.
Labels: adindustry, ads, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:33 AM
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Monday, December 01, 2008
bringing whoppers to the world's whopper virgins
The work that Crispin Porter Bogusky has produced for Burger King has been nothing short of astounding. They're about to unleash yet another promotional feat - Whopper Virgins.
Equally impressive is to see that Stacy Peralta is involved. Here's a guy who was a legend in the skateboard industry, and has now reinvented himself with career number two: film producer.
So get a nice, warm Whopper in your hand and curl up in front of your monitor. Only a few days until Whopper Virgins is released.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:36 AM
6 comments
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
the hottest girls on the internet
Like everyone's totally buzzing all over the internet about the I'm Just Saying Show. It's like totally like awesome and amazing like.
Hipster girls talking about whatever, like. This will keep you entertained for hours. Or annoyed. You decide. (If the F word isn't welcome in your workplace, you might want to watch it at home, or with headphones.)
Labels: podcasting, trends, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:41 AM
2 comments
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
put video in the surfaces within your video.
Ummm...this is just utterly amazing. Insert ads - or any kind of content that you want - into any surface in any existing video. The possibilities are beyond ridiculously exciting.
Watch the clip above to be blown away by the technology as well as the dude's cool accent where he says 'advertisments' in a totally awesome way.
Labels: adindustry, technology, video, web2.0
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:26 AM
2 comments
Friday, November 21, 2008
let's reinvent television, ok?
Super nice guy/boy genius - Brian Shaler has been working on a pretty awesome project.
BitGravity just released the killerest video application that allows up to six different synchronized high definition video streams at once. Viewers can switch between views, and the audio is synchronized.
Ohhhhh, the possibilities. We could produce magnificently creative wonder productions that will make you look at your tv and laugh out loud, saying "one screen?? Puhleeze."
Watch a demo here. We're chomping at the bit to produce for this, and can't wait to see it in action.
Labels: technology, television, trends, video, web2.0
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:47 AM
2 comments
putting people behind your website
This is one of the most fun website/navigation designs that I've seen in a long time. Awesome work, VW. (They still make Foxes??)
Labels: automotive, design, Flash, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:34 AM
1 comments
Thursday, November 20, 2008
8 bits are all the range
All of the cool kids are dancing to chip music. That 8 bit low-fi music made popular by the early generation video games.
Now there's a Blip Festival coming to NYC in December. The festival will feature music, art and pop culture associated with the glorious 8 bit revolution. This is a must do for any computer/game/designer/creative nerds. From Boing Boing.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:52 AM
1 comments
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
what your neighbors are doing on youtube
Thanks to YouTube's new geolocation feature, you can now search videos by the location from where they were uploaded. Curious about what the next door neighbor is doing on video?
There's a rough demo of the technology (you'll need to install Google Gears), and it works pretty well.
This creates some really fun promotional opportunities. Contests, treasure hunts, the possibilities are endless. (And snooping on your neighbors is always cool, too.) Thanks Giuli!!
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:14 AM
2 comments
the cool bloggers have camera eyes
An artist in San Francisco who lost her eye a few years ago has put out a call to engineers to help design a new camera eye replacement. She's working with her doctor, and has some pretty aggressive specs/requirements for the camera eye.
Soon, everyone will have them, and will be streaming live. Maybe your coworkers already have them. Or that lady at Starbucks this morning. They're watching. Recording. And blogging.
Labels: blogging, technology, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:12 AM
1 comments
Monday, November 03, 2008
how to reach the rockers in their cubes
Where are all of the AC/DC fans now? Probably working in cubicles across the corporate land. So how do you share the new AC/DC video with them, when their evil IT departments have blocked access to YouTube?
Create the music video in Excel. Really. You can download an Excel file, right? Genius.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:08 AM
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video displays that are almost paper
These would be sweeeet at retail, in store displays, at the gas pump, and a marketer's delight. Imagine retail shelf talkers coming to life, point of purchase displays animating and marketers rejoicing.
Labels: marketing, pointofpurchase, retail, technology, tv, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:36 AM
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
what if hatevertising existed in 1860?
Cohorts, fellow bloggers and friends MakeTheLogoBigger and Jetpacks got together to create a spot for the Douglas/Lincoln campaign, as if it were produced by the hatevertising producers of today. Puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
Labels: adindustry, ads, parody, politics, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:30 AM
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
people in france don't wear shirts to class
Amazing: 140 people pulled off a lip dub version of Thriller. In ONE take. Just in time for Halloween. Oh yeah - and it appears that in France, students go right from gym class to lectures.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:09 AM
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Monday, October 27, 2008
link anywhere in a youtube video
YouTube just launched a very interesting new feature. The ability to link to specific points in a timeline of a video. Sure, that's awesome when you want to send your friend an important video, and link to the very moment of importance.
But this has got some neat promotional aspects too. What about contests that link to specific parts of videos that allow users to complete a puzzle? Loads of ideas. TechCrunch has all the details on how to do this.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:30 AM
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in a world of only black and white...
What if everything were just black and white, and you needed a paint gun to find your way? This is probably a question that you ask yourself everyday. Now you'll know the answer. From SwissMiss
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:14 AM
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
like schoolhouse rock. but without all of the singing.
Confused by the crazy electoral system? About the importance of states versus the popular vote? The Center for Governmental Studies has produced a fun video that explains it all, by comparing it to something you can understand: The corporate workplace. From Make the Logo Bigger.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:15 AM
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Monday, October 20, 2008
let's get literal.
Literal videos are hot. It started with the literal version of A-Ha's glorious 80's tune.
Now there's a literal version of the Tears for Fears video. It's officially a meme. Which means that it's ripe for interpretation and modification. What else could we do literal versions of? Other videos? Trailers from movies? Bad commercials? This will be guaranteed fun.
Labels: parody, pop culture, trends, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:42 AM
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Friday, October 17, 2008
promo porn: worksafe porn is hot
The hottest new video trend: almost porn. Inspired by porn. Porn covered up to be work safe. Coming soon to a corporate training video at your firm.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:16 AM
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
what now for weird al?
The Catch Up Lady chats about a recent Wired article on Weird Al Yankovic. And how his act is now done by teenagers on YouTube from the safety of their living rooms. He perfected the music video parody, and then the internet gave us all the means to produce them on our own.
Catch Up Lady has a couple of ideas on how Weird Al could own social media. I've got a feeling that Weird Al isn't so worried. But I like that his name is only a misspelling away from Wired Al. That should be his new thing.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:42 AM
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Thursday, October 09, 2008
make lists, watch video. who needs to get work done?
SmashLab is an awesome design firm in Vancouver and they're also the creators of wondertool MakeFive. Make five is the most massive collection of top five lists in all of the universe. You can explore, comment, or join in and make your own lists. It's an entire community based on lists.
If that wasn't enough to keep a bunch of designers busy, they've now launched a video podcast. A vidcast. A video blog post. (Can we just call them videos?).
Marketing geeks: pay attention. This is an awesome example of how to better connect with your community, fans and potential users. Let them meet the people behind the product, get to know you, and feel connected to you. Eric and the gang have created a really fun piece that will have you wishing you worked in Vancouver. At SmashLab. In the meantime, you can make lists.
Labels: blogging, social media, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:03 AM
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
send this to that person in your office who isn't registered
Maybe you've already seen this video. But there are probably five people that are in your circle of friends who haven't seen it. And since the deadline to register for voting is quickly passing, you might want to give them the inspiration to do so.
(Just don't send it to anyone that might be offended by hearing the word sh*t or f*ck once or twice. Because this is the uncensored version. And that could make the prude in the cubicle down the hall's head explode.)
Thanks for the inspiration, Missy!
Labels: video, viral, youthmarketing
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:42 AM
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Thursday, October 02, 2008
brandstalkers: ready for stalking.
What if you could turn your brand over to your fans, and have them do something really cool for you? That's what Brandstalkers asks. A new marketing concept from a group of brand fans ready to do whatever it takes to get your brand some attention.
Here's the deal: You agree to hire them. Providing they're actually fans of your brand, they'll produce something for you. They maintain 100% creative control. You let go. If you like it, they release and distribute.
Their first project is a magical marker fueled party for a restaurant in Australia called Guzman Y Gomez. Let's assume that this is the most amazing Mexican food that you've ever eaten. Ever. And you love it so much that you have a magic marker party. And paint your friends up real good. And then take it to the streets....
(Side note: Is Australia way behind us or way ahead of us? Are 80's new wave mullets just hitting the cozey little island, or have they come back in style and not hit the U.S. yet? Oh, how I hope they're coming back.)
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:37 AM
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let's get crafty
Craftylicious opening for a totally crafty movie. Really cool work. Thanks Matt!
Labels: creativeinspiration, film, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:12 AM
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Friday, September 26, 2008
how to make your website more human
Absolutely totally love this pitch presentation found on Herd. Daring, bold and hilarious.
Labels: adindustry, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:17 AM
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
red alert remix. it's got a good beat.
Video game freaks will be stoked about the new release of Red Alert 3. And there's no better way to celebrate than a mix of boobs, guns and military dudes set to a good dance beat. Wins every time.
Red Alert remix features a host of B-listers, including Jenna McCarthy, George Takei, Tim Curry, JK Simmons, and other names you might not recognize. Come for the guns. Stay for the party!
Labels: ads, gaming, video, youthmarketing
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:56 AM
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
england's hot spot for animations
4mations is like a YouTube for animations. Our friends in England may really dig this, as it's produced in partnership with their famous Channel 4.
Right now, it looks to be mostly stuff from their side of the pond. (You know, all that high brow stuff featuring people with accents.) We need to hop on and start adding South Park videos, and other sweet examples of American ingenuity. And stupidity.
Labels: video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:07 AM
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how to do youtube advertising
This is the kind of advertising that I don't mind watching with YouTube videos. Totally awesome. From Sean Howard, via twitter
Labels: ads, gaming, video, youthmarketing, youtube
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:30 AM
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
how to talk to your kids about drugs
This series of videos for the Partnership for a Drug Free America made me chuckle. Not sure who I like more - Uncle Ron, or Patsy. Both equally awesome.
Labels: ads, nonprofit, video, youthmarketing
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:56 AM
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google earth = new hot video tool
Chemical Brothers + film makers + artists + photographers + GOOGLE. What do you get? A really cool video. From The Denver Egotist
Labels: film, google, music, photography, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:31 AM
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
watch your favorite songs sung by art students and internet geeks
Lip syncing. Reserved for select artists like Ashley Simpson or Milli Vanilli. Lip dubbing is for the rest of us. It's fun to watch, fun to produce and fun to share with friends.
Finally someone's created a nice place where you can watch them all together. The Vimeo Lip Dub Stars. From BenKunz, via Twitter
Labels: creativeinspiration, pop culture, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:21 AM
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Monday, September 08, 2008
tally: video with twitter is really cool.
We have a client Tally (I'd say that I've changed her name here, to protect the innocent, but I haven't). Tally loves reading our blog. Except for when we post videos. Because they're too disruptive to the work flow. Because you know - you can kind of work, participate in a conference call, and sort of half pay attention while reading blog posts. (You do the same thing. Admit it.) But video is different. Video requires most of your attention. And that's where Tally draws the line.
The social media developments in video this year have been nothing short of amazing. So many wonderful tools, and so many possibilities. The other day, I posted on 12 seconds, a tool that lets you record 12 second video clips.
Viddler just upped the ante. You can record 15 seconds of video with Viddler. But it's not the 3 seconds that makes the difference. It's how Viddler integrated their tool with Twitter. Viddler and Twitter. Together. So now you can post a quick video clip and tweet it at the same time. That's video-micro-blogging awesomeness.
Tally: stop working. Forget about productivity. Your company will run itself. You should just spend more time goofing off, and watching videos. I believe you may enjoy this one.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:23 AM
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Thursday, September 04, 2008
the video revolution continues
There's a new fun video micro-blogging tool in town. 12 Seconds. You can record up to 12 seconds of video and share it with your friends. And everyone else. This is a cool idea for one-way video bloggers. People that want to post clips, but don't really care about interacting (so much) with the people that watch them.
I watch the clips and I immediately want to interact and respond (in video) like you can with Seesmic - but it's not like that. You can comment (blog style) which is certainly better than nothing.
This will be an interesting tool and community to watch. If nothing else, it's more proof that video is HOT. Anyone using it yet, and loving it?
Labels: blogging, social media, video, web2.0
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:43 AM
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
paper: what a waste.
INFORM - the people behind the uber successful production of the Secret Life of Cell Phones has done it again. This time, they're putting paper into perspective - with the Secret Life of Paper.
What a cool example of how a non-profit can create educational entertainment that furthers the cause. Well done.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:11 AM
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
how to make a snowboard video fun
You'd think that just about everything has been done in the world of snowboard videos. And that watching dudes ride rails would get boring after a while.
Mike Benson proves otherwise, and re-imagines the snowboard video by adding a single wonderous effect. Totally, totally awesome.
Labels: action sports, video, viral, youthmarketing
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:50 AM
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
those copywriters really know what they're doing.
Send this to your copywriter friend. She'll hug you. (Yes, it's long and in French or something - but you can deal with it. Trust me.) From Mave Gibson, via Facebook.
Labels: copywriting, creativeinspiration, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:00 AM
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
welcome to the font conference
It's over a year old, but still funny if you haven't seen this. From Where's My Jetpack?
Labels: adindustry, design, typography, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:11 AM
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Monday, July 28, 2008
behind the scenes with obama video
Here's a really cool post featuring some behind the scenes juice from the director of video field production on the Obama campaign.
There are a bunch of interesting links and details - like the fact that the average viewer of videos on BarackObama.com and YouTube.BarackObama.com is 45-55 years old, and those viewers want long-form content - proving people have more attention span than we usually give them credit for.
Good information here that could be applied to a variety of brands and campaigns.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 6:24 AM
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
incredible idea just waiting for you
AdFreak points to a really sweet idea just waiting for an opportunity.
A choose your own adventure series on YouTube. Watch this one, and you'll get the idea on how this could work. AdFreak is right. This is soooo ripe for a really cool promotion or branding campaign. Let's do it.
Labels: creativeinspiration, video, viral, youtube
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:21 AM
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Friday, July 18, 2008
look what's cookin'
Animation and production studio PES shows you what they're capable of with a little Western Spaghetti.
If they can make this out of candy corns and rubber bands, then imagine what they can do for your project. Nice work.
Labels: adindustry, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 6:09 AM
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
yes, google does know everything. everything.
The Googling shows what you can do with Google's "My Maps" tool. A tool so good, it knows everything about you. Everything.
Labels: google, search, social media, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:17 AM
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Monday, July 14, 2008
it all starts with a girl.
A super inspiring piece, all about a girl.
Think you don't have a strong enough production budget? Think only irreverent productions go viral? Here's a wonderous example of the most simple production, masterful copy writing and an emotional message coming together to make something beautiful.
From Shari, via Twitter.
Labels: copywriting, nonprofit, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:35 AM
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
stick this in your muffler
Two fun videos for Fiat. Here and here.
I would assume that if you try to put a baseball in your muffler pipe at home that your car will explode, the baseball will not be pitched at the right angle to swing at it with, and your car will not fly. But you never really know until you try, so don't let me stop you.
Labels: automotive, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:14 AM
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