Topic: VIDEO - on February 28, 2008 at 9:57:00 AM CET
Serious Drama, And Lots Of Stupidity, Behind Stage6 Shutdown
Yesterday San Diego based DivX announced the shutdown of popular video site Stage6, to the surprise and dismay of the site’s 17.4 million happy monthly visitors (the post on the shutdown has over 5,000 comments).
There’s lots of speculation around why DivX is shutting the site down, ranging from piracy issues to the spiraling CDN costs of streaming all that HD content. But what really happened, according to multiple sources, is that a ridiculous battle of egos at the DivX board level caused most of the team to simply quit. DivX, essentially, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Topic: VIDEO - on February 27, 2008 at 12:48:00 PM CET
Disintegrating wind turbine caught on camera
YouTubers have been enjoying some spectacular footage of the disintegration of a Danish wind turbine which ended up a bit broken after its brakes failed.
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Topic: VIDEO - on February 18, 2008 at 12:43:00 PM CET
live music television
the only television network dedicated to live music performances and documentaries
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Topic: VIDEO - on January 2, 2008 at 12:15:00 PM CET
True Films eBook - The 200 best documentaries
This is the third version of a guide I have been developing for the past 5 years. It takes the 200 best documentaries I have reviewed on my website True Films and puts them into one handy book. For an explanation of why I bother to order the content of a website into a book see the previous entry.
In True Films, I cover only true films: documentaries, factuals, non-fiction, reality-based series, and some instructional how-to. You can get a sense of what I like from the site. I love documentaries that 1) surprise me, and 2) inform me.
kk.org True Films 3.0 By Kevin Kelly 2007, 198 pages, [PDF] Available (for as long as bandwidth lasts) here. via
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Topic: VIDEO - on December 22, 2007 at 8:37:00 PM CET
George W. Bush sings REM
Our fearless decider covers r.e.m.'s End of the World
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Topic: VIDEO - on December 14, 2007 at 3:35:00 PM CET
Hand written J.K. Rowlings book sells for 4,000,000 dollars!
BBC reports on a hand written book for J.K. Rowlings that was auctioned off for a record breaking price.
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Topic: VIDEO - on November 23, 2007 at 12:26:00 PM CET
The Video Director Who Invented the 80s
DVD collections have celebrated the music video work of Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek and the like, but there is one essential name missing from the roster: Russell Mulcahy. Best known to cult film fanatics as the man behind the Highlander movies (and the newest Resident Evil film, a sad illustration of his current career arc), this Australian director is perhaps the most influential music video director of all time. Why? Because he practically pioneered the form - or should I say pioneered the form of the cheesy 80s video.
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Topic: VIDEO - on November 19, 2007 at 11:13:00 AM CET
Optical Illusions Compilation
A nicely put together video clip, showing various optical illusions and other mind teasers.
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Topic: VIDEO - on November 4, 2007 at 11:56:00 AM CET
Top 25 Monty Python Sketches
The following is a list of the 25 greatest Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketches. Scenes from movies are excluded and have not been considered. They would just further muddy up the waters, which are quite murky enough already.
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Topic: VIDEO - on October 30, 2007 at 1:02:00 PM CET
Was Bin Laden's last video faked?
When al-Qaida’s media arm released its first Osama Bin Laden video in nearly three years, most of the media attention was focused on Bin Laden's beard. It appeared either dyed — or perhaps even pasted on. He was ridiculed and a variety of theories were offered to explain it.
But now, there is a running debate among video analysts about whether al-Qaida faked the video altogether —that rather than being new, the September 7 message may have been something recorded at the same time as his last video in October 2004 (and then released with new audio).
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Topic: VIDEO - on October 25, 2007 at 12:19:00 PM CEST
Make YouTube Better with Greasemonkey
Programmer and blogger Jane Kasprzak rounds up five simple Greasemonkey scripts that combine to make for a much better YouTube (one might even call it a Better YouTube, *wink*).
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Topic: VIDEO - on October 16, 2007 at 12:04:00 PM CEST
Google launches YouTube video-blocking contraption
Google has unveiled a long-awaited "video fingerprinting" system for YouTube.
Dubbed YouTube Video Identification, the system does what Google has been promising to do since June: It gives content owners the power to block copyrighted clips as they're uploaded to the popular video-sharing service.
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