This Way To The Egress II from Stimulating Pixels on Vimeo.

Pay attention to the movement in the back by the glowing sphere to help get an idea of how many people are moving. I think the overall ticket sales were ~80,000. I’m sure they weren’t all there, but a lot of them were.

Note: if you do not like crowds, these type of music festivals are probably not for you. At least not the headliners for each night. During the early parts of the day, it’s not bad at all. For the last shows of each day, everyone gathers around one of two stages and then all leave at the same time when the set is over. I find the resulting mass of people in various stats of inebriation fun to watch.

This was shot on my recently acquired F200 point and shoot. Once again, I’m blown away with the quality little consumer cameras can capture these days.

To me, the the way he talks about stealing is more about learning from someone/something and then using what you learn to create something new for the world. What a great take on things.

It sounded familiar at first and then at about 1:10, I figured out why. It’s the tune that is used during assembly line scenes in Looney Tunes shorts. Before the www, I used to wonder what the name was but never really had a way to look it up. Even though I’ve thought of it since then, I never looked it up. Perhaps that song was stuck in an old mindset.

This is the tail end of the crowd leaving Bryant-Denny after the 2008 Iron Bowl where the Tide beat the stew outta Auburn. Final score, a 36-0 shutout. Watching the fans move at roughly the same speed across caught my eye and I decided it would make a worthy video. This was after most of the fans had already filed out. Next time I’m there, I’ll see if I can get on the ramp earlier and see what it looks like with more people packed together.

Of course, that wouldn’t matter if it didn’t groove.

For the most part, these don’t require any work. It’s just a simple copy and paste job. Then, there’s folks who talk the source video and clip and reassemble themselves to create a new peice of content. Call it Remix, Mashup or whatever, this type of clipping can also provide some very entertaining results. Two examples are below.

In case you haven’t seen The Sopranos and don’t get the meaning of uncensored, you now have fair warning that there is a lot of dialog that’s not safe for the office. In fact, damn near all of it is considering the clip is billed as every curse word from every episode of the show.

Kudos to the folks who put these together for taking the time to do it. They have much more patients than I.

It was created by a company called Superfad who have done a lot of other great work. For one, they created "outtakes" of the Durex commercial that are well worth a watch.

More impressive is their reel. It’s got some beautiful images in there and stands as a great example of why we don’t have much of a chance against commercials. I mean, when stuff looks that cool, you’d have to be lacking a pulse not to be influenced.

Excellent stuff.

If you are just going for views of your video this is fine, but the real key is to make sure that views know who the hell you are. I expect to see an increasing number of people posting little banners at the start and end of their videos that contain their specific web site. This is critical if the creator wants to draw traffic to their own site and generally speaking, this is the goal since that’s where the ads served make them money.

Here’s an entertaining example I found on Laughing Squid:

Song # 10! “3 Rules of the Internet” from rockcookiebottom.com.

NOTE: For those of you who are afraid of monkeys, don’t worry about the slate in the video window. Other than that photo, I don’t think monkeys even make an appearance.

While trying to see if I could find it online, I was looking for “Backwards videos” and came across a page that had this one for the song “Typical” by Mute Math.

I’d never heard of them, but I dig the tune. They have a site mutemath.com if you want to check out more.