Posts tagged YouTube
Amazing Deaf Woman Who Now Hears Meets Ellen Degeneres
Sarah Churman (she has her own blog) should be an inspiration to us all. Deaf her entire 29 years she recently had a procedure done in one of ears that allowed her to hear for the very first time. I saw the video she posted to YouTube a few weeks ago and was deeply moved. I don’t know her and will probably never meet her; but seeing her hear for the very first time was just spectacular. The miracle of modern medicine really is just that, a miracle.
I’m not the only one that has been moved, her video has already seen over 8 million views; and her original posting has already been copied to other YouTube accounts where hundreds of thousands of views have been logged. She has become an internet sensation. (more…)
Dr. Who Spoof – Very Funny
Have you heard of Rowan Atkinson? Yes you have, because I know you have heard of “Mr. Bean.” Well is this Comic Relief production Rowan Atkinson is “Dr. Who.” Jonathan Pryce is none other than the “Master.” You will also spot several other English actors you know so well. Even better, it appears the Dr Who production team was in on all the fun.
If you enjoy Dr Who you are going to love this beautifully done spoof that has lots of fun with the Dr Who mythos and its well known “over-the-top” style. Never you mind, just watch and I will explain later. (This spoof is based on “classic” Dr Who.)
Courtney’s Birthday
Today we celebrated Courtney’s birthday and Mother’s Day. Her birthday isn’t for a few days yet, but why not celebrate a little early.
As far as presents go she got the standard fare of clothes, shoes and gift certificates. Including some shorts that live up to their description. Not so sure I’m ready for her to “grow up.”
The cake is a Baskin Robbins Icecream cake and it’s very good. Ofcourse it figures that Courtney was just a little too full so she is waiting till later to have some. That’s assuming there’s any left.
YouTube – Turns 5
YouTube’s first video, Me At the Zoo, was uploaded on April 23rd, 2005 at 8:27 pm. I don’t think anyone at YouTube knew the revolution they would spark or how much YouTube would change the internet. It’s really surprising when you realize that they weren’t the first to do video, even Broadcast.com wasn’t the first; but none of them up until YouTube would capture the imagination of the world the way YouTube has done and continues to do.
Part of the success is the simplicity of the website (not unlike Google – which bought YouTube in 2006); but the true ingredient to their success is far simpler – it’s content created by us, average folks. It also owes it’s success to being in the right place at the right time, not an unusual ingredient to success. The wide adoption of digital video cameras, the ease of uploading to computers, the availability of inexpensive editing software (for those that wish to edit) and of course the ever increasing speed of our access to the internet – for watching and uploading videos. All of it came together around 2005 and all YouTube had to do was light a match. (more…)
Video of the Week: Funny Words
I think I’ve got a pretty good video of the week for you. With nearly 250,000 views on YouTube since April 21st (4 days) it’s currently one of the hottest videos on YouTube; and for good reason.
I’ve not seen her videos (spricket24) before, but I will have to check some of them out. Basically in this one she runs through lots of “funny” words. Not funny because of what they mean, but funny in how they sound. At one point, one of the words cracks her up as she is trying to say it.
Apparently this bit of comedy sprang from saying “gobsmacked” to someone and having that person laugh at her for using the word. Gobsmacked, if you didn’t know, means utterly astonished; no I didn’t know that until I looked it up!
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRqObEkrxQw
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Toy Story 3 – Official Teaser Trailer [HD]
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Wow, amazing HD on YouTube. If you have tried HQ on YouTube before you’ve probably been impressed, but not incredibly so. Wait till you watch this trailer from Toy Story 3 on youtube. It’s in 1080p goodness, and at least for me it runs smooth as silk on my Mac. Jut amazing how much better video keeps getting on the net.
