Enhanced State of the Union

Next year, maybe twitter and a live poll regarding the main issues.

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Easter eggs: the video

Easter eggs from seretuaccidente on Vimeo.

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The best parental control ever

via worktobejudged.com

In Tera Brasil

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Best videos of 2009

Top Vimeo videos

Born That Way from Tony McNeal on Vimeo.

Top music videos of the year (Pitchfork)

Lenny Kravitz (Justice Remix) - Let Love Rule
Cargado por elnino. - Explorar otros videos musicales.

Top viral videos of the year (Time Magazine)


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The history of internet

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

This is a german animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

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NYT video section: doing as always but in a different way

The New York Times was one of the very first print newspapers in producing specific video content for the web version. In 2005 they started to create their own videos, ranging from breaking news to in depth reports. Most of the content were created by NYT staff, including interviews conducted by some of their better known journalists.

My feeling as an user is that they've always tried to meet the quality and excellence of their written stuff. Although it took some time to adapt their style to an audience used to shorter pieces than the ones they use to deliver at first, now their archive (http://video.nytimes.com/) is really a video world in itself. A place for both the casual user and the one that thinks that looking for something interesting at Youtube is a loss of time.

Text and video are complementary
The company has made a great work trying to make video and text sites compatible and complementary. Just to put an example, anyone interested in business information sure will have time to spend at their video section, that offers both interviews, analysis and help discovering innovator ideas.

Two of the most popular columnists of the printed version, David Pogue and Mark Bittman, have their own spaces in the video site, where they show (each on in his own style) that an information video doesn't need to be a simple visual translation of a text and create formats that are not just well fitted for the internet, but make their videos perfect for watching with a mobile device as a video podcasts.

Since 2007 The New York Times is one of Brightcove's investors and uses their software to manage most part of their site.

For the last two years, the video section of The New York Times has also tried to create or use formats that would set apart, both from the content and the formal points of view. That way they came out with Blogginheads (a deal with http://bloggingheads.tv/ in order to showcase all kind of debates), or the Screen Tests, where popular actors talk in a minimal and intimate way.

Finally I guess that creating content in a similar way that a magazine does (entertaining, somewhat timeless, not mandatory tight to the breaking news) they have create a pure internet experience, where any of the videos can be considered a piece in its own or just a part of something else.

Time Lapse: Mardi Gras

Time lapse is a technique where each video frame i captured at a slow speed an later reproduced at a normal rate of speed. The result is similar to the slow motion animation.
- Timelapse videos channel
- Here an interview with Luis Caldevilla, from TimeLapses.tv (in spanish). Google translation to english

- A nice example of time lapse video

Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

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St Vincent: Actor out of work

From a Pitchfork's new performance series set in a chapel in the middle of a Brooklyn graveyard and named Cementery Gates. St. Vincent sings one of the songs from the album Actor. What I like from hearing St.Vincent performing alive is to realise that her songs are not only beautiful and well built, but also urgent and touching. I don't think that perfection she looks for in the record production makes the songs any better than this.

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Undressed + music + street

Make The Girl Dance "Baby Baby Baby" ( official video )
by placeblancherec

Previous video, Baby Baby Baby by The girl dance, happens to be influenced by Matt and Kim's Lessons Learned. Looks like police are less intrusive in París than in NY

[Vía Fubiz]

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YooouuuTuuube - The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl

via yooouuutuuube.com

Yes, just go to www.yooouuutuuube.com and select your favourite video. That's what will happen

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The red balloon / Le ballon rouge

Not suitable for impatient people, this almost silent short film by Albert Lamorisse (1965), is not only one of the most awarded in history, but also the inspiration for another wonderful film by the director from Taiwan Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Flight of the Red Balloon.

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Scrollbars experiment

Scrollbars Experiment from Yazev on Vimeo.

To reproduce the experiment (click here) you need to browse with Safari or Google Chrome.

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Swine flu already has a song

Is a cumbia from the mexican group Agrupación Cariño, and, yes, it shows how mexican are able to laugh at anything.

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Bill Callahan: Cool blooded old times

From the 'Don't Look Back' series by Pitchfork TV

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Where would you wish to wake up tomorrow? (NY answers)

One single question made to 50 different people. Here's the answers

Fifty People, One Question: New York from Fifty People, One Question on Vimeo.

By Fifty people, one question

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Where would you wish to wake up tomorrow? (New Orleans)

One single question made to 50 different people in New Orleans. Here's the answers

Fifty People, One Question: New Orleans from Fifty People, One Question on Vimeo.

By Fifty people, one question

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Where would you wish to wake up tomorrow? (Brooklyn)

One question, fifty answers. In Brooklyn, NY

Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Fifty People, One Question on Vimeo.


By Fifty people, one question

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Where would you wish to wake up tomorrow? (London answers)

One single question made to 50 different people in London. Here's the answers

Fifty People, One Question: London from Fifty People, One Question on Vimeo.

By Fifty people, one question

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Tweenbot

Image by Noneck

Cute robot, isn't it? I's name is Tweenbot and has been created by an NYU student named Kacie Kinzer. The mission of his robots (the tweenbots) is to get from one place to another, always with the help of complete unknowns, because they only can move forward in straight line.
[+ Info at Tweenbots]

Here you are a video where Tweenbot travels from the northeast to the southwest square of Washington Sq (NY)

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G20 protests video shows aftermath of police assault on Tomlinson

via guardian.co.uk

The video provides further evidence that the initial explanation of Tomlinson's final moments released by police was misleading. It also corroborates the version of events given to the Guardian by witnesses to his death, some of whom are pictured in the film.

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