Comedy, Quebec Style: An Interview With Michel Beaudet, creator of TAC.tv
by Marc Ostrick | Mar 4, 2009
Inteview with Michel Beaudet of TAC.tv.
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20 Online Video De-Motivational Posters
by Brendan Lopez | Mar 5, 2009
The Internet has provided us with many amazing moments in online video over the years, moments that will be remembered for a long time to come. As you'll see in the images below, I've captured some of these moments in the form of de-motivational posters.
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10 Hollywood Sex Scenes We’ll Never See
by Brendan Lopez | Mar 2, 2009
The Internet, and online video in particular, has the ability to provide audiences with new perspectives on their favorite films. Trailer re-edits, mash-ups, behind-the-scenes interviews and bloopers – the list goes on and on. Sure, Hollywood tries to push the envelope some of the time, but it’s important to make sure that we, the Internet community, contribute a little nudge of our own.
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They've Got Game: What’s the next big thing in online gaming? How about video clips?
by Chris Koseluk | Feb 27, 2009
As anyone who spends a lot of time on the Web can tell you, there's one thing that's in no short supply. No, I'm not talking about that. Get your mind out of the gutter. What I'm referring to is online games. Type in those two words at Google, and your search will return 248 million results.
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Top 10 Made-For-Internet Oscar Parodies of All Time
by Brendan Lopez | Feb 24, 2009
The 81st Academy Awards are now a distant memory, and all of the 24-karat, non-chocolate filled statues (sorry, Queen Latifah) have been distributed to Hollywood elite. The majority of the year's nominated films examined controversial subjects such as sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church, gay rights, government corruption, and even professional wrestling. However, even though the films took themselves incredibly seriously this past year, we're going to take this opportunity to examine the lighter side of Oscar.
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Did the Internet Save Traditional Animation?
by Brendan Lopez | Feb 23, 2009
Since the success of Disney's collaboration with Pixar Animation Studio on 1995’s Toy Story, computer animated technology has become increasingly popular...
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Meet the Monetizers: The Year of the Branded Web Series
by Melissa Roth | Feb 20, 2009
In the pilot of Illeana Douglas's web series, Easy to Assemble, a Burbank Ikea employee offers orientation pointers for her famous new co-worker. "It's dark half the year in Sweden, and it's very depressing," she says through a Swedish accent, locating the store's headquarters on a map. "You are now part of our family. We are all dark together."
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Pure Imagination: An Interview With Stop-Motion Filmmaker PES
by Marc Ostrick | Feb 18, 2009
I knew absolutely nothing technically about stop-motion animation until I had the idea for my short film Roof Sex. I studied literature and printmaking in school, not film or animation. I don't think I really knew what a director did until I had to figure out how to make my own film.
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Top 10 Moments in Professional Athlete Generated Video (PAGV)… of All Time
by Brendan Lopez | Feb 16, 2009
It's no secret that consumer generated video (CGV) has spread like wildfire over the past several years. The people making these videos were once primarily tech-savvy individuals, but nowadays, anyone with an Internet connection can easily share their story (or strategically placed screenshot of cleavage) with the world. In the spirit of this month's Superbowl, however, I wanted to call attention to a group of consumer video generators who only rarely get their moment in the web video sun: professional athletes.
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When Harry Killed Sally: The Post-Op Transgenre Trailer Movement
by Jonathan M. Silver | Feb 12, 2009
The latest all-out viral craze is upon us. In basements across the land, self-taught editors are taking short clips from major motion pictures and reconfiguring them into a different kind of movie promo. The catch is that the reorganized footage completely changes the original film's genre. To a new generation of internet fans, The Shining will now be thought of as a coming-of-age romance, while Sleepless in Seattle is a blood-curdling horror film.
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