Did You Know 3.0 November 25, 2008
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Back in May I wrote about Karl Fisch’s “Did You Know” video and how it became a “viral video” that was viewed by thousands on YouTube. I won’t explain Karl and his original video again, but if you want to check it out, read this blog post. Well, a lot has changed in just two short years in the world of technology and the internet.
An updated version of the “Did You Know” (also called “Shift Happens”) video is now on YouTube after being shown at a conference in Rome. Many of the statistics are the same, but some are amazingly different. The number of registered Myspace users jumped from 106 million to 200 million in just two years. Also, the number of Google searches increased from 2.7 billion per year to 31 billion per year since the first video was made, which was just two years ago. As the video states, “we are living in exponential times.”
Did You Know 3.0 by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, Jeff Brenman
Oktapodi November 17, 2008
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This 3D animated short film was created in 2007 by students at Gobelins L’Ecole de L’Image (School of the Image), a visual arts school in Paris. This award-winning film is all over the web, but to view a high resolution version and a wonderful “making of” video, you should visit the film’s website: oktapodi.com.
As with most computer animated films, this one translates wonderfully on the silent flat screens at the library because it relies on the images rather than the sound to tell the story. There were two little boys laughing hysterically at this video yesterday, and who doesn’t love that?!?!
Oktapodi
By Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier and Emud Mokhberi
