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Viral videos, Oscar edition

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

Today we’ll have the Oscars. And what better way to celebrate it and wait for them than to show you some Oscar related recent virals?
The first one is by Wooshii members Whirled Creative, who’ve done several viral videos in the past, and now compiled a few oscar speeches into a video that has had 40.000 views [...]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Mar 7, 2010

Viral animation: Lego – The Force Unleashed

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

Going viral since yesterday, this is one of those videos that one is amazed at the effort put into it.
Done by Youtube user xxxfancypantsxxx for an animation challenge for a bricksinmotion.com, the video already got 265.000 views in 5 days and it’s climbing on the top viral video chart (currently at the 6th spot of the [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 5, 2010

Going viral: Pedigree Dogs

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

Going viral since yesterday (but on Youtube for 10 days) is a video from dog food brand Pedigree, shot in slow motio at 1000 framers per second!
It’s simple, effective, and beautifully shot. And people love animal videos, particularly dogs and cats, so no wonder it’s going viral as cool as this video this.
And now we’ve [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 4, 2010

Viral hit: OK Go – This Too Shall Pass [UPDATE]

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

UPDATE: it’s now been only 30 minutes since this post was published and the views have jumped to 770.000 views.
- original post follows -
OK Go are a band that got it’s first shot at stardom with a viral video. The treadmill video, remember that? It got attention to their music, and soon they were given [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 3, 2010

Auto-tune is viral again

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

Going viral these past days and climbing steadily the top viral charts is another auto-tuned video with auto-tuned scientists. It’s the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series by John Boswel (melodysheep on Youtube).
Clever editing and remixing, it’s no surprise it already has got 240.000 views in just 4 days. And it shows [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 1, 2010

Musical viral: Kirsten Dunst Turning Japanese

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

If you go now check the top 10 most shared videos you’ll see that 7 of them are music videos. If you go back to check the top 10 most seen videos of last year probably the same number.
So music videos, particularly of know artists, have a high potential to go viral.
So it’s no surprise [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 25, 2010

Going viral: Neurosonics… Live?

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

This is an amazing video. We’ve posted here the Neurosonics viral a few months ago, one that was very well made and had great special effects.
Now the piece was performed live. How is that even possible?
The video was put on Vimeo 6 days ago and has 28.000 views already, and I’m sure the factor here [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 24, 2010

How To Make Viral Videos

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under Explanations, General Commentary

There are a few new videos going viral today but most have to do with Twilight cast appearances at the BAFTAs, nothing much interesting.
So I though to post this really good video with great tips on how to make a viral video done by Wooshii members Whirled Creative. Now, this video is pretty old if [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 22, 2010

The first ever Youtube video

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

On a Saturday night at 8:27PM, on April 23rd, 2005, a video was uploaded to Youtube by one Jawed Karim (who worked with the other two Youtube co-founders) showing him at the San Diego Zoo. It was the first Youtube video ever.

Almost 5 years past, the site has become a giant and changed the way [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 17, 2010

Viral hit: stop motion T-Shirt War

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

Last week there was this video that started going viral and now has been on the top charts for days.
It’s a stop motion video using 222 individual t-shirts, by comedy duo Rhett and Link and directed (and edited) by Youtube user and Wooshii member Mistery Guitar Man.
It’s also a great piece of work and labour, [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 15, 2010

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