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The Best Event Video: Avatar vs The Hurt Locker

Merry — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:49:02 +0000

All night long directors of both films kept their breath waiting for the results. Somebody was satisfied, while others were definitely not. Avatar of James Cameron won in three categories, and The Hurt Locker took six of them. No doubt, The Hurt Locker is a good and quality film about war, but its victory seems a bit strange.

Some critics suggested their point of view about the issue. Here I have some general factors that might have influenced this year’s results:
•    Social message. People prefer dramas to sci-fi stories. The thing is life stories are closer and more familiar to them than an unknown and fictional world of Pandora. The Americans tend to cheer for the U.S. success war operations in The Hurt Locker rather than watch their defeat in Avatar.
•    Age. The majority of viewers are senior. They have got used to movies that are standard. How can they appreciate the miracle of 3D? Besides, not a single sci-fi film has resulted the best according to the Academy.
•    Completely New. Avatar was a shock for most people who have not seen anything like this in their life. There were several similar precedents in Academy history. Innovations, 3D, new technique – that is not for Oscar.
•    Personal Affection. We could see during the event that voters are inclined to obey blindly their feelings. They have an idol and follow his each step exclaiming how perfect he or she is. And no matter what in reality is. The same happened on the red carpet this year. Just remember the cases of Meryl Strip or George Clooney. And James Cameron, on the contrary, was creamed. What should we love him for?

Well, for this or that reason the best film of these days was beaten by a standard one. Is it fair?

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YouTube Fight Video - Best Hockey Fights Ever

Merry — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:33:15 +0000

Everybody has his favorite video compilation. For some people these are video clips with adventurous spirit, for others these are crazy video loops, a perfect example of which I have in Watch Crazy Video on the Road. But there are people who go crazy about fights, but not street or professional. The topic of today is the best hockey fights.

Hockey has always attracted a vast audience by tough and cruel games and behavior of some players. By the way, ice hockey is the only major game where fighting is possible. It is supposed that hockey fighting appeared because of the lack of rules that encouraged physical strength to be used. A significant step increasing the amount of fights during the game became an implementation of blue lines. Here I have some YouTube hockey fight video clip for you to enjoy.
Since the year 1992 has acted Rule 56 that is supposed to control so called fisticuffs. In spite of this, hockey is still the toughest and cruelest game these days. Only Olympic ice hockey can be considered an exception.

There is in ice hockey even an unofficial role of “enforcer”. Such players have shifts just like others but their main aim is to deter an opposing player. Actually, players may find multiple reasons to start a fight. Among them there are both game related and personal.
There have been several efforts to ban hockey fighting. As a rule this happens after the media spreads the facts about any act of violence. Anyway, we can see no results of these campaigns yet. The thing is many people still love watching hockey as it is nowadays. They create video compilations and share them on the Internet. In the result, it turns into a pandemic hobby. But is it so harmless for players and for the game in general?

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Wilson Palacios Tottenham Videos

Merry — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:50:45 +0000

In continuation to sports topic, which the previous time included The Best Opening Ceremony Video, I suggest that we watched some awesome videos with Wilson Palacios. If you are not familiar with this name, it is a famous football player born in Honduras 29 July 1984.

Wilson’s club career is very diverse. He started playing as a professional in Honduras for Olimpia, where he played on the right of midfield, and Victoria teams. Then real success came, and the footballer moved to England. There he played for Birmingham City and Wigan Athletic. In the year of 2009 he changed the team, and now he represents Tottenham Hotspur, known as Spurs. The team is in the Premier League, and its players do not think to stop. I wonder that club’s motto goes the following: Audere eat Facere, which means To Dare is To Do. And they really dare and gain their object.

Wilson Palacios signed a five and a half year contract with Spurs. It was announced in the middle of January 2009 that Wilson signed a £12 million contract, and after only ten days passed the footballer had his debut in the new club. It was a game with Bolton Wanderers – a victory. The further, the better. The second game with Arsenal brought a man of the match award to Wilson Palacios.

It is impossible to realize that such a magnificent player almost quitted football in 2007. The reason is his younger brother Edwin was kidnapped, and the family had to pay £125,000 to release the boy. But the time passed and the situation did not become clearer. The story lasted almost two years when in May 2009 the body was finally found and buried. Wilson is grateful to Tottenham Hotspur for their support and promises to follow the aim.

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The Best Opening Ceremony Olympics

Merry — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:12:33 +0000

Hi, there. Sometimes I wonder what can surprise you. We have talked so much about funny, dangerous or shocking moments, we remembered outstanding people (let’s take Jeff Baxter video clips). And finally I realized – there are lots of those who have not seen video opening ceremony Olympics. Let’s do it.It is said in China that number 8 brings happiness and has magic power. So the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony started at 8.00 pm on August 8, 2008, and was expected to “blow up” the stadium.

The ceremony was opened by modern drum sequence including 2008 drummers with glowing drumsticks. They were followed by another inimitable invention of Chinese designers and engineers, a chain of 29 fireworks in the shape of footprints. Each footprint represented each one of the 29 Olympiads. As a rule such an awesome action complete a performance but China proved to be an exception. So immediately after magnificent trail of fireworks in the midair appeared twenty “fairies” flying next to Olympics rings of giant dimensions.

Not less captivating was appearance of 56 children that represented 56 different ethnic groups of contemporary China. It causes huge interest that the girl heading the parade was seen singing Ode to the Motherland, while the song was in reality performed by another girl. From the very beginning, the ceremony was entangled in rumors and accidents. For example, the SBS channel filmed rehearsals secretly and leaked some of it, which is prohibited by law. Or, let’s remember scandal about computer simulated fireworks. In the Internet appeared titles going that it was a fake and we were fooled. Well, in my opinion, we got a breathtaking show, and the way it was made is not our business. If it was not made in a traditional way, it testifies Chinese engineers’ imagination and qualification, which did their best to impress spectators.

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Glamis Videos - Live Your Life!

Merry — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:21:07 +0000

In contrast to the last time when we discussed Best NSync Music Videos, today we are talking about Glamis or Glamis Sand Dunes. So, if you are a fan enjoy videos below, but if you don’t know what it is let me explain a bit about this destination. The dunes of Glamis are known as the most popular off-road place situated in Southern California at the border with Arizona and Baja California del Norte.

The peaceful and silent dunes get overcrowded at holiday weekends when hundreds of thousands of visitors get together in such famous areas as Oldsmobile Hill and Gecko Road so that to ride up and down on quads, dirt bikes, rails etc. Such a fascinating show draws a huge number of spectators. Now, as I have already promised I offer some breathtaking Glamis videos.

Glamis stops are so popular and successful due to fun-filled gatherings that include family-friendly activities such as a scavenger hunt, bon fire, movie premier, a Show and Shine contest, KidZone, Karaoke Party, raffle, an ATV certification course, dune clean-up, and other.

The Glamis Sand Dunes are also known as Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area. According to researches, more than 1.4 million fans arrive here annually. The area occupies 72 km long and 10 km wide. Lots of you know the name of Algodones Dunes that can be translated from Spanish as Cotton Dunes, but I bet those who crashed there wouldn’t agree.

In spite of enormous popularity of the Glamis Dunes, there are lots of arguments and discussions aimed at restricting or even closing of the recreational area. Naturalists are meant to shut Glamis down because of an endangered plant. They have already shut some dunes and mean to continue, which caused burst of indignation from part of fans. But today when they are free and open to public, enjoy them and live your life with Glamis!

As far as the last Glamis events are concerned, they took place in March 2009 and in August 2009. Glamis fans may also mark their calendars for future Gordon’s Well in November 2009 and Dumont in January 2010. But now take your time and enjoy more Glamis videos.

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Quietube: Watch Flash Videos In Peace!

Merry — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:03:59 +0000

It’s all about time and attention. Our cities are covered with ads, mailboxes are full of spam and we are always distracted. As a matter of fact, we can’t even watch videos, because they’re glued to the shining, colourful ads. Or can we?

quietube: Video without the distractions

To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser’s bookmarks bar. On any of the supported video pages, click the bookmark button to watch in peace.

You can then make short URLs too, to send the quietube version to your friends. Easy as.

This is what the creators of Quietube say about their program. As a matter of fact, this is the first tool that lets you to put side all the buzz and concentrate on the video itself. Like everything genius the “Quietube” is very easy to use! You just have to drag the button from the official website to your bookmarks toolbar and once you go to YouTube for videos (Viddler & Vimeo are also supported) you just click the button “Quietube” and enjoy the lack of distractors.

Unfortunately, the� program works with the listed websites only, but can we consider it to be a disadvantage? Just the YouTube itself IS something.

The strangest thing about Quietube is that after having enjoyed a couple of videos you get a feeling that you’re watching them on a poorly-designed blog. But this happened to me and you may have another attitube towards ads-free videos. The only thing that is out of question is the speed! It turned out that Quietube is a great time saver, because you do not have to load ads and different previews of related, featured and other videos you may not even need. So, if you need a clear, ads-free page for watching YouTube videos - Quietube’s just exactly what you need.

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Flickr Proudly Adds Itself To List Of Video Sharing Sites

Merry — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:09:52 +0000

Looks like many social websites have finally come to the idea that people love to share videos with each other. So did Flickr, but will it be able to compete YouTube? That is the question.

Last Spring Yahoo has added a video hosting feature to its Flickr, but only for paid users of the Pro version. Recently the company has announced that now even users with free accounts can put their videos on Flickr. The service has also been enhanced with high-definition video quality, still only for members with paid Pro subscriptions.

Free users will be limited to two video uploads per month, and each video is limited to 90 seconds in length and 150MB in file size. This compares pretty scantily with YouTube’s allowance of up to 10 video uploads at a time with a 1GB size limit for free account holders. Vimeo permits 500MB and one HD video upload per week for free users.

A company representative clarified the free account situation as follows: “Anyone (Free and Pro) can upload HD video but it will only be processed as HD video if you are a Pro member. What this means for Free members is that Flickr keeps the original file, so if you ever decide to upgrade to a Pro account, your video will automatically update to HD, too.”

You can read about the changes on Flickr on Yahoo’s Yodel Anecdotal blog.

At the same time, YouTube has decided to give it’s users new opportunities: the site is launching a new Adopt A Feature campaign, inviting users to create videos showing off some of its lesser-known features, like AudioSwap. YouTube will track the progress of the features on its blog, and will present the most effective videos on the YouTube homepage and as permanent additions to its help pages.

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YouTube Problems: Obama Swithces To Akamai Instead

Merry — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:33:15 +0000

You may either love Google or not, there is no other option. As for December 31, 2008 the corporation has 20,222 employees and the revenue is US$ 21.796 Billion. Google’s most popular service YouTube is in favour even with White House. Or it Was?

President’s weekly address has become tradition since first being used by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930’s. And today it’s not the content that is important, but the way of delivering the message. As well as the radio, the President’s weekly addresses were to be filmed and uploaded to YouTube first. This had dual benefits for both the White House and Google, showing a President willing to adopt new technologies, and helping YouTube gain more traffic.

But recently, responding to complaints by privacy activists, the White House has quietly abandoned YouTube as the provider of the embedded videos on the president’s official home page and the latest video address was released using a Flash-based video solution by Akamai’s content delivery network.

Ironically, the decision by the White House comes days after YouTube began to roll out new policies to better protect the privacy of visitors who view videos embedded into federal government Web sites. The move by YouTube may prove to be too little, too late.

The White House is still posting copies of the videos to its official YouTube channel. However, the president no longer provides free advertising to YouTube by embedding those videos on a taxpayer-funded site.

So, despite the recent report that the White House has denied any change in online video policy, the White House spokesperson admitted using an in-house flash based solution for the latest of the president’s weekly video messages, he said the White House is just “experimenting” with different solutions.

Anyway, all the previous video address’ are still hosted by YouTube. Will the White House come back to using Google’s video service or stay with Akamai’s content delivery network, that does not make use of tracking cookies that is the question.

Via CNET.

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Know Your Choice: Video Services That You Might Like

Merry — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:08:01 +0000

Stop for a moment and think how much time you spend watching online videos. I bet, not less than couple of hours a week. And where do you usualy go for videos? YouTube? I bet yes, because it seems to be the No.1 place for videos. But don’t you ever get tired of Tube’s interface? And don’t you ever wonder if a video service can be more than that? In this article I’m going to familiarize you with some really good alternatives.

In fact, anyone can set up a video service of his own. So, there are many of them present in the web. But very few are well done and seem to be really interesting. Here are short reviews of the video services I liked very much:

Current TV is a huge peer-to-peer news and information network. The site is produced and programmed in collaboration with its audience. Despite the fact that anyone can submit any kind of information, Current does not look like a junkyard at all (which YouTube actually is). The whole website is done in black, white & green and looks really nice. The interface is very friendly, so that you won’t need to spend hours getting used to it. Speaking about the content, it has no concrete concept and I’m sure you will find many interesting things while just scrolling the front page. So, if you want to watch some viral news & unique videos - go to Current and enjoy yourself in a big & really friendly community. And as an example, in case you love the Beatles - here is a unique thing for you to watch on Current.com

This website has a unique design that from the first second makes you feel very comfortable & relaxed. It is done in white, black green & yellow, but apart from current, which makes you concentrate, Revision3 gives you a feeling of sitting on your favourite sofa & watching your favourite show. Revision3 is an actual TV network for the web, creating and producing its own original, broadcast quality shows. The content is designed for passionate committed fans who want to watch shows that entertain, educate and help expand their life experiences. All in all, Revision is both a good relaxing and educating video service. And the high quality content will make you want to come there again and again.

Another place you shall visit for unique videos and interesting design is Videojug. It was launched in September 2006 and is actually a huge library of free factual video content online. The website provides professionally-produced, high definition videos which cover every conceivable topic and the site is the definitive online “encyclopaedia of life”. Anyone is free to upload his own videos and there is also a forum, where you can ask for answers after watching a video(in case something will be still unclear to you). They also have a contest for the best “How To” video, so if you are a creative person, you’d better give it a try. Speaking about Videojug in general, it can be a great source for answers to any problem you may experience in your life. And the best thing is that everything is explained through videos, so that it’s both informative and very intertaining.

Expert Village is a video service that provides answers to your everyday questions. As you can guess from the name of the service, all the tips & advices are given by experts. At the moment Expert Village provides 148,873 videos and the number grows every day! This video service is a one stop destination to get well-researched, practical, and free information. In addition to the scores of educational and informative videos, Expert Village has interactive community features that allow visitors to provide video reviews as well as have a user-to-user “Q & A” sessions where members can ask a question about a topic and then have the community contribute helpful answers. This way, Expert Village is a video service that will give answers to all of your questions!

All the video services listed are growing incredibly fast and for the February 2008 Current had 492,721 unique visitors, Revision - 77,873, Videojug - 334,132 and Expert Village - 616,607, which appears to be more than 100% growth for any of them. I hope you liked at least one of them and in case you have some favourite video services of your own - please, let us know and in case they are really unique & interesting we will write about them with a great pleasure. And of course, do not forget that once you’re bored you can visit our video section.

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Oscar Nominees List: 14 Animated Features (2008)

Merry — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:09:17 +0000

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world’s preeminent movie-related organization, with a membership of more than 6,000 of the most accomplished men and women working in cinema. In addition to the annual Academy Awards – in which the members vote to select the nominees and winners – the Academy:

presents a diverse year-round slate of public programs, exhibitions and events;
provides financial support to a wide range of other movie-related organizations and endeavors;
acts as a neutral advocate in the advancement of motion picture technology;
and, through its Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, collects, preserves, restores and provides access to movies and items related to their history.

Through these and other activities the Academy serves students, historians, the entertainment industry and people everywhere who love movies.

The Academy has recently released the list of Animated Features, three of which will be chosen to go on to the big show. 14 films have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 81st Academy Awards. Here is the complete list, including official trailers I found on YouTube:

1)Bolt

2)Delgo

3)Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who!

4)Dragon Hunters

5)Fly Me To The Moon

6)Igor

7)Kung Fu Panda

8)Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

9)The Sky Crawlers

10)Sword Of The Stranger

11)The Tale Of Despereaux

12)WALL-E

13)Waltz With Bashir

14)$9.99 - I wasn’t able to find a trailer for this one, but here is some info on it.

I consider this nomination to be of a big importance, because animated movies is what our children love to watch and they greatly contribute to the way the kids interpret the real world. Anyway, enjoy watching trailers and choose something for yourself & your kids.

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