Homer Simpson On Google Earth

Here's another item related to the Google privacy issue :)

YouTube Video Awards Winners

The YouTube Video Awards winners have been announced.

Out of the 7 winners, I've chosen to embed the above video, Kiwi, only because as well has having Australian citizenship, I am in fact also a Kiwi (a New Zealander). For those of you who don't know, Kiwis are flightless birds that are indigenous to New Zealand. The kiwi is a national symbol.

It's quite amazing that because of YouTube, a video made as part of a master's thesis at The School of Visual Arts in NYC has managed to generate 6,656,398 views so far. That's quite an audience for a student film! It's a fantastic thing that YouTube has enabled this to become possible.

Check out the other 6 winners the YouTube community has chosen as the winners.

Get the Glass

Get the Glass is a new site from agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and Swedish interactive design shop North Kingdom. This 3D advergame for the latest Got Milk? campaign has a pretty heavy download, but there's plenty to keep users engaged for quite some time.

Good luck getting to that glass of milk. Hmm, I'm thirsty. Think I'll head to the fridge for a nice cool one before I have another go at the digital version. The campaign must be working.

Human Skateboarding

PES has created this Human Skateboarding video for Sneaux Shoes.

New marketing agency Crayon was tasked with helping to seed the video, and seems to have done a good job at it. According to Vidmeter, as of today it has had a total of 769,997 views.

LineRider Animation

A serious amount of work and planning has gone into this animation, Discarded by techdawg.

The Daily Monster Channel

Here's a unique YouTube project. Stefan G Bucher has been drawing a different monster every day, videoing the drawing process and posting it on YouTube (and his blog dailymonster.com) He's up to monster no. 88.

Robot Chicken - Donkey Kong

I've been working on a few online ad concepts involving twists on classic games, so this Robot Chicken animation caught my attention.

As you will see, it involves the Characters from Xbox game Halo taking over the classic Donkey Kong. It's nicely done.

Human Space Invaders

I don't want to fill my blog up with YouTube videos, but you have to respect the human effort that has gone into this stop-motion animation. It's not a bad creative idea either.

I'm happy that I wasn't one of the people running from seat to seat for the length of the shoot though. I can just sit back and enjoy the the aliens.