Intertainment...
I spent the weekend with my family because my brother graduated from the University of I'm-not-going-to-tell-you-because-I'm-a-Duck. And as we talked, laughed and shared, we took a break to share some of our favorite amusements.
They weren't TV shows. They weren't videos, CD's or anything. For a good thirty minutes five of us huddled around a laptop and showed each other the amusing online videos and other oddities that we like to watch. And there was an interesting pattern that emerged. As we shared cool websites and programs that tickled our funny reflex, I noticed that by and large these were written and produced by non-professionals.
I'm amazed constantly about how the internet and current technology has allowed us to create and publish works on our own. It has maximized the amount of creative output and allowed individual people to participate in the process of creation and production. No longer to the big execs get to decide what is funny and what isn't.
So I wanted to share a few things that entertain me quite a bit, but are produced by little more than a few people and a computer. Ah the power of the internet!
Happy Mother's Day: Two students from Gonzaga studying film and production make amusing videos in their spare time. This one tells the hilariously-violent tale of two brothers just trying to take a photo of themselves to send to their mother. As someone who had three brothers, this rings true and hilarious. They went from being a couple locally known Gonzaga University students to being internet celebrities that got over one million hits for this video.
The Lonely Island: Here's a rags to riches tale for you. Three guys try, and fail, at producing a show called "Awesometown." They pitch it to Fox, MTV and Comedy Central, each of which turn it down. They continue to work hard and post all of their videos online, including a fake teen drama set in Malibu called The 'Bu and in the process become regular guests on "Saturday Night Live." They went from recording little sketches like this one and this one to appearing on "Saturday Night Live" with this ridiculously hilarious video.
Cute Overload: I challenge you to dislike this website. It's a blog style site in which readers contribute photos of animals that are cute beyond belief. And I swear to god, these animals are cute. Everything from a pug with a cast on one leg to a turtle the size of a DIME!!!!!.
These contribute little to the news media, but they are entertaining, quality pieces of work, put together by regular joes and done with little more than a computer. It may not expose a scandal, but it's a nice amusement during your coffee break.
They weren't TV shows. They weren't videos, CD's or anything. For a good thirty minutes five of us huddled around a laptop and showed each other the amusing online videos and other oddities that we like to watch. And there was an interesting pattern that emerged. As we shared cool websites and programs that tickled our funny reflex, I noticed that by and large these were written and produced by non-professionals.
I'm amazed constantly about how the internet and current technology has allowed us to create and publish works on our own. It has maximized the amount of creative output and allowed individual people to participate in the process of creation and production. No longer to the big execs get to decide what is funny and what isn't.
So I wanted to share a few things that entertain me quite a bit, but are produced by little more than a few people and a computer. Ah the power of the internet!
Happy Mother's Day: Two students from Gonzaga studying film and production make amusing videos in their spare time. This one tells the hilariously-violent tale of two brothers just trying to take a photo of themselves to send to their mother. As someone who had three brothers, this rings true and hilarious. They went from being a couple locally known Gonzaga University students to being internet celebrities that got over one million hits for this video.
The Lonely Island: Here's a rags to riches tale for you. Three guys try, and fail, at producing a show called "Awesometown." They pitch it to Fox, MTV and Comedy Central, each of which turn it down. They continue to work hard and post all of their videos online, including a fake teen drama set in Malibu called The 'Bu and in the process become regular guests on "Saturday Night Live." They went from recording little sketches like this one and this one to appearing on "Saturday Night Live" with this ridiculously hilarious video.
Cute Overload: I challenge you to dislike this website. It's a blog style site in which readers contribute photos of animals that are cute beyond belief. And I swear to god, these animals are cute. Everything from a pug with a cast on one leg to a turtle the size of a DIME!!!!!.
These contribute little to the news media, but they are entertaining, quality pieces of work, put together by regular joes and done with little more than a computer. It may not expose a scandal, but it's a nice amusement during your coffee break.
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