overstated

a weblog by cameron marlow

Tag: YouTube

The Weirdest Dog Ever

I normally find YouTube response videos to be pretty worthless, but here the value all comes in the retort. Via Buffingtron.
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Radiohead – Scotch Mist

On New Years Eve Radiohead released a 52 minute live performance of On Rainbows titled Scotch Mist. It features some poetry as well as imagery selected by the band (Current is also playing it on the teevee). Yet another move that makes me think Radiohead totally gets the web. I hope they sell a billion [...]

The polite umbrella

It’s days like this, where the unexpected rain forces exceptional stress on the public transit system and thousands of unhappy commuters bump into each other, wishing they had their summer back and that the world was a little more civil. A little more like this:

The Polite Umbrella is an art project by Joo Youn Paek [...]

The price of using social media for politics…

…is that you might end up with a giant pair of boobs next to your campaign videos.

I commend Barack Obama for his use of Youtube, Flickr and Facebook, and I apologize for the fact that “search sexy singles” is the most appropriate advertising they could find to put alongside your campaign.

YouTube adds backlinks

Last week YouTube released a new player along with a few other features across the site (for some reason they have yet to blog about these changes). Personally I liked the look and feel of their old player more, but that is beside the point: the new interface exposes the most popular off-site links to [...]