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Become an astronaut. It’s your only chance.

Elliott — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:54:52 +0000

Mountain Biker Gets Taken Out by an African Buck

Elliott — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:50:19 +0000

When I first saw the title of this video I thought it was going to be some really shotty edited video until I watched it and saw a mountain biker being taken out by a African Buck. Watch it! and you can trust me you won’t be disappointed.

Content is Queen, by Sergio Albiac

Elliott — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:14:53 +0000

I’ve seen tons of videos and work from companies like Shoothill based out of the UK that do some pretty amazing stuff using deepzoom. However, I have not seen a video like this before, I’ve seen it in pictures etc but not in motion. Sergio hats off to you and would love to see more around this concept.

Sergio Albiac elaborates on his project -

At the same time, is a paradoxical dialogue and strange marriage between the banal and utterly majestic: to create the series, the most popular (in a truly democratic sense) internet videos of a given moment are used as the input of a generative process that “paints” with action the image of a contemporary Queen.

You might also want to check out a more static version by Sergio called “Divided Experiences“. (via Today and Tomorrow)

Content is Queen from Sergio Albiac on Vimeo.

Cats and Tanks

Elliott — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:48:18 +0000

Well here’s to you 4chan for inspiring another internet trend. The new video cats and tanks by Whitehouse Post will be required reading for all social media students and viral wannabes in the next couple of days. Watch what happens when you put a cat in charge of a tank, humans beware.

Cats in Tanks from Whitehouse Post on Vimeo.

Portugal. The Man – The Dead Dog

Elliott — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:34:25 +0000

I am hooked on these guys! Portugal, The Man is a mix of San Diego based Pinback and Phoenix from the UK, two bands that have some amazing sounds. To top things off Graham Baclagon directed and edited the video for The Dead Dog once of Portugal’s new songs. The video is probably one of the best music videos I’ve seen in awhile.

Video Credits -
Director of Photography: Fred Miller Assoc. Prod: Jesse Santiago Cast Members: Micah Dejon Williams, Denise Brown, Grandma Brown, Rachel Wickard, William Cummings III, Sharon Kluge, Ken Patel, Timothy Farrell Breakdance parts choreographed by DJ Westside of Chi-town’s Finest Breakers. Chi-town Finest Breakers is BGirl Spinderella, B-Boy Turbo, BBoy Mad Skillz aka Lil Crazzy Legz, BBoy Ozone and Special Thanks to Bob Braidwood from The Diner”

Balloon Popping Flip Book

Elliott — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:47:05 +0000

Stop motion and flip books have been coming more and more popular. Director Dulcidio Caldeira of ParanoidBR has taken both of these to a new lever. Dulcidio shot the following video for MTV Brazil using a conveyor belt full of balloons with drawings on each one. They are all timed to pop one after the other to give the images a flip book effect. Kudos to you Dulcidio ingenious idea! (via This is colossal)

Random Voices

Elliott — Wed, 04 May 2011 16:40:19 +0000

Things like this makes me wonder

How do people come up with this kind of stuff
When do you have time to do this
How can I get involved

Voices is random but sucks you in to the weird humor, Directed by Reina Hamane of teevee graphics for Japanese music website Space Shower TV. (via This is colossal)

INfluencers A Short Documentary

Elliott — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:46:19 +0000

Creating influence and engaging influencers is the hub bub of the social media world and online marketing. The truth of the matter it’s not simple and it’s hard for organizations to engage and create influence. Watch the video below for some great insight into influencers. My favorite part is at 8:00 min in.

Video Of The Day: Reflections

Elliott — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:28:27 +0000

This is a great video showing how simple ideas can be astonishing and very creative. Complexity doesn’t always equal innovation or quality. Some of the best ideas are just underneath your nose. When working on your next project try to think simple.

Reflection New York- Mood Collection from MOOD COLLECTION on Vimeo.

5 Ways To Use Your Social Profiles for SEO

Elliott — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:55:04 +0000

SEOmoz whiteboard Friday has a great video showing 5 differnt ways how to use your social profiles for SEO. The tips are solid and I highly suggest watching this video.

SEOmoz – SEO Software

TIP: go to their page where this video is embedded on their site and you’ll see the whole video transcription on the page. It looks a little like this.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. This week we’re talking about social media profiles. A lot of marketers, a lot of people in the SEO field know and realize that social media profiles can be valuable for their marketing efforts on the Web. But they don’t know exactly how to use them or where to use them. That’s what I am going to try to help you with today. So, what we have are five great ideas around how to leverage your social profiles to help with SEO and then some specific tactics and recommendations on each one that I think even some of the advanced folks will find pretty valuable.

So, let’s start here with direct links. You can see that, basically, I can take my profile on a LinkedIn, a Twitter, a Facebook, a MySpace, a Digg, a Reddit, a Hacker News. There are tons of these, hundreds of these. In fact, I’ll link you over. We’ve got sort of a list going on SEOmoz somewhere. You can take these, create profiles on here, and these profile pages oftentimes will have a followed link, sometimes will have a no followed link, but even that’s okay, and point that link over to your website. So, essentially, MySite.com is now getting some credit. And this pen is getting thrown in the trash. Oh, I missed. Sadly missed.

This key for Video SEO. All this text will be read by search engines where if they didn’t add the transcript of the video they would have missed out on all of this content because bots by Google and Bing do not read the audio of a video.