Top You Tube Videos
March 30th 2010 09:40
I've been away for almost a week, so blogging has had to take a back seat. However, things are returning to normal, and I'm gradually getting back into the swing of things Internetal.
Came across Time Magazine's list of the 50 top videos to be seen on You Tube. This doesn't mean the best, just the ones that have been seen by the biggest number of people.
Some I've come across before myself, but many have somehow passed me by (and thank goodness, in some cases!) However, there's always something that appeals on You Tube - as well as stuff that appals. For instance, number 4 on the list is a music video in which the four guys from OK Go do a dance number on treadmills - moving ones.
Their synchronization is excellent, and I only glimpsed one moment when one of them looked as though he'd lost his balance. (Let's hope he had some cheap insurance.) The treadmills are set up in such a way that the first is going one way and the second the opposite, and so on.
This could get dull, but the guys make it all look very easy and do some quite nifty pieces of movement, leaving some good surprises till later in the piece. I've only just realised they're the same band who do a music video with all sorts of things knocking other things over.
Compared with number two on the list, 'The Evolution of Dance' - which I have come across before, and enjoyed - the band is way up with the best. The Evolution of Dance is fun, and the guy (Jud Laipply) is a very mobile dancer, but on subsequent viewings you realise how awkwardly put together a good deal of it is. It's only the guy's talent that saves the thing. He's not primarily a dancer anyway, but a comedian. So kudos to him!
Believe it or not, the most seen video is one in which a baby (Charlie) bites his bigger brother's finger, initially at the bigger brother's invitation. It's totally a piece of trivia, and speaks volumes about the way in which we will watch something so unimportant and enjoy it. What makes it so watchable? Who knows. But it's been viewed 170 million times since it was put on the Net in 2007.
Maybe we just like 'family' more than music and dance?
Came across Time Magazine's list of the 50 top videos to be seen on You Tube. This doesn't mean the best, just the ones that have been seen by the biggest number of people.
Some I've come across before myself, but many have somehow passed me by (and thank goodness, in some cases!) However, there's always something that appeals on You Tube - as well as stuff that appals. For instance, number 4 on the list is a music video in which the four guys from OK Go do a dance number on treadmills - moving ones.
Their synchronization is excellent, and I only glimpsed one moment when one of them looked as though he'd lost his balance. (Let's hope he had some cheap insurance.) The treadmills are set up in such a way that the first is going one way and the second the opposite, and so on.
This could get dull, but the guys make it all look very easy and do some quite nifty pieces of movement, leaving some good surprises till later in the piece. I've only just realised they're the same band who do a music video with all sorts of things knocking other things over.
Compared with number two on the list, 'The Evolution of Dance' - which I have come across before, and enjoyed - the band is way up with the best. The Evolution of Dance is fun, and the guy (Jud Laipply) is a very mobile dancer, but on subsequent viewings you realise how awkwardly put together a good deal of it is. It's only the guy's talent that saves the thing. He's not primarily a dancer anyway, but a comedian. So kudos to him!
Believe it or not, the most seen video is one in which a baby (Charlie) bites his bigger brother's finger, initially at the bigger brother's invitation. It's totally a piece of trivia, and speaks volumes about the way in which we will watch something so unimportant and enjoy it. What makes it so watchable? Who knows. But it's been viewed 170 million times since it was put on the Net in 2007.
Maybe we just like 'family' more than music and dance?
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