The Golden Age of Video

A new music video made of clips from well known shows and movies recently came out called 'The Golden Age of Video' by Ricardo Autobahn on YouTube. It includes footage from well known shows and movies such as, Ghostbusters, The Simpsons, Godfather, School of Rock, South Park, RoboCop, Sesame Street, Back to the Future, Star Wars, Willy Wonka, THE SHINING, etc.

Personally this is my favorite YouTube video I've ever seen. Though I don't think many people know about it from seeing that only around 300 thousand people have watched it.

I recommend this video to everyone. Enjoy (:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFM140rju4k

INTERNET

The internet is finally working...again. Enjoy it while it lasts cause I am. If it wasn't for internet I wouldn't be able to write these marvelous blogs about both useless and useful stuff.

My podcasts aren't downloading and it makes me sad. So I went on g4tv.com and checked out some pretty cool subjects, but since 'tekken 5' and other crap games don't fascinate me, the only thing I could write about was RockBand ideas and Zynga's fabulous ideas such as 'FarmVille' and 'Mafia Wars'. Yet now all I can find that I would enjoy writing about are global crisis articles and politics. Though this is a media class and those topics don't seem to fit with what we would like in this class..

Our Movie

The people in our movie group are Kathryn, The Goodman twins, and me. For our movie we filmed brief short interviews of people and their take on the meaning of the word "Media". Some of them just saying the first word that comes to their head when they think of media and others one example fit into a sentence. With Hannah using her editing skills, Naomi using her camera skills, Kathryn's great movie ideas and script-writing skills, and I guess my GarageBand skills... we made a pretty good team.

soo...yeah.

I think we are all equally afraid to watch this movie when it is over.

'FarmVille'

Zynga, the makers of 'FarmVille' and 'Mafia Wars' has been seeing many dollar signs lately. On almost any day 500,000 tractors are sold to the around 50 million players of FarmVille, the largest and fastest growing social game on the Internet. Annual revenue at the two-year-old firm is likely to pass $100 million this year, prompting speculation that the company (backed by the likes of Linkedln cofounder Reid Hoffman and PayPal cofounder-turned-investor Peter Thiel) will soon go public. The software company also has managed to do something that other popular sites such as Twitter and Facebook have not: Zynga has found a way to make social networking profitable.

This company was founded in 2007 by Mark Pincus, 43, who also started social-networking site Tribe.net and software company SupportSoft (SPRT), which eventually went public. Most of his Web 3.0 peers rely on advertising and sponsorship for revenue, Picnus makes its money by getting gamers to buy virtual goods, like tractor fuel or land in FarmVille, which enable players to build bigger farms at a faster rate. Once hooked, Pincus says, players spend real money on virtual goods to help them advance to higher levels.

Music game based on The Who

Lately it seems that music based video games like Guitar Hero and RockBand have been getting their names on Top Game Charts and 50 most played games. Last month, Beatles RockBand hit stores and made a huge success. After seeing the outcome of Beatles RockBand, Roger Daltrey from The Who said, "They're going to be doing a Who one next year. There is one planned. The idea is fabulous. Anything that gets non-musical people interested in music is wonderful. In my opinion, music is our last true great freedom. They can burn our books, they can burn our paintings, but they can't stop us singing and making music."

No one knows if we will see The Who RockBand or The Who Guitar Hero in the near future, but we just might be in luck.....sometime..

Movies and Internet

According to Moviegoers 2010, conducted by entertainment marketing firm Stradella nearly all people who watch movies, regardless of their age, are on the web. An overwhelming 93 percent use the Internet to find out information about new movies that are out.

The average moviegoer spends a nearly six hours more a week on the Internet than they do watching television, while 73 percent of respondents have profiles on social networking sites. Like Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter. 74% of teens and young adults enjoy sharing opinions and personal thoughts about movies with others, and 75% of them trust a friend's opinion on a movie more than they would a critic.