Hampton Inn has published a clever video to YouTube that shows that they are one company that has some understanding of this business of new media. It is a “Ballad of a Traveler” who stayed at a lesser and more suspect establishment. It is not clear from the video that it is an ad until about half way in and frankly by then I was entertained so that fact did not bother me. The entire video is a dramatic poetry reading that at 3 minutes in length would not fit as a TV commercial.

My son Mike the film student told me about this brilliant film which is an homage to both Shakespeare in Love and George Lucas. Where did Lucas get all of those ideas for Star Wars? This film has the answers. The film got the director a 3 film deal with a major studio.

The a cappella group from Miami University sings of their love of facebook.

A friend in Argentina sent me this video of a young man in Hong Kong giving out free hugs. Maybe this world is not so far apart after all.

The folks at www.howitshouldhaveended.com offer some advice in case you are attacked by space invaders. Brilliant!

A humorous look aback how we finally lose the internet

I enjoyed this clever look at Facebook. I particularly enjoyed the look at what we would do if Facebook went away.

This new video version of Jonathan Coulton’s song “Code Monkey” has helped stick this song in my head for 2 weeks:

Tony Allen who turned his apartment in Leicester, England into a Star Trek spaceship is selling it on the internet after 10 years. It has no bedroom because he made that into a transporter.

A very funny rant about Pachelbel’s Canon in D

Via: VideoSift