Tag: Video

Video Fun: Inappropriate Soundtracks make movies fun again

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 29, 2010

Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History

Most hardcore movie fans are also fans of film music and soundtracks.

We’ve all seen those cheesy Oscar presentations where they show us how important it is to have music supporting key film scenes, as they demonstrate how a film clip plays out both with and without its accompanying audio track.

But who’s to say that the audio track that the film score composer used was the correct choice? INAPPROPRIATE SOUNDTRACKS puts the creative side back in the hands of us – the movie-loving public – and allows us to recut our favorite movie scenes with new audio for a completely different experience.

Tags Movies, Music, Video

News Video

Woman loses a lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild due to “implied consent”

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 24, 2010

Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild

JANE DOE HAS LOST HER LAWSUIT AGAINST “GIRLS GONE WILD”.

The 26-year-old woman sued the publishers of Girls Gone Wild, Mantra Films, for US$5 million. In the lawsuit, she claimed that she had not given consent to show her breasts to the Girls Gone Wild cameraman — the original video even has her saying “no” repeatedly. Then her top was pulled down by another patron at the bar, where the act was caught on film and later published in the GIRLS GONE WILD: SORORITY ORGY video. She didn’t know that she was in the video until one of her husband’s friends called to point it out a few years later.

All of this took place in May 2004, while a then 20-year-old “Jane Doe” was dancing on the bar at the (now defunct) Rum Jungle at Laclede’s Landing in St Louis, Missouri. The lawsuit was suing for damage to her reputation to the now mother of 2, and was originally filed in 2008. Can you believe it took two years for this thing to get to trial?

Tags Girls Gone Wild, lawsuit, News, Video

10 Things Funny Internet Video

How much money can a Youtube video earn when it goes viral? Let’s start at $150,000

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 2, 2010
2 Comments on How much money can a Youtube video earn when it goes viral? Let’s start at $150,000

Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack, with Steve Martin as “The Dentist”

One thing about YouTube that bothers Web Watch is the number of videos that parents film over their shoulder while driving their car down the road. Especially now as MORE AND MORE STATES — up to 29 as of this writing — ARE PASSING BANS ON TEXTING WHILE DRIVING more and more states are passing bans on texting while driving. For those Web Watch readers who were wondering, based on that link it looks like Ohio and Hawaii are the only two states with absolutely no laws on their books relating to driving while using a cell phone or texting.

It’s only a matter of time before DWV (driving while videoing) joins DWI and DWT as acronyms to avoid getting a ticket for.

But the threat of receiving a DWV violation may not deter enterprising, money-hungry folks from filming everything that happens to them and posting it on YouTube in the hopes that their video goes viral.

Today’s example is DAVID AFTER DENTIST.

Tags 10 Things, business, Internet, Video

Funny News Video

10-year-old Boy Sets the Underpants World Record!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 18, 2010

Men's Underwear
Men’s Underwear

When Jack Singer of Warwick, New York, wanted to celebrate his birthday in style, he did what any rational 10-year-old would do.

He asked his parents to help him set a world record.

And not just any world record.

Jack wanted to set the WORLD RECORD FOR WEARING THE MOST UNDERWEAR AT ONE TIME.

Tags News, underwear, Video, World Record

10 Things shopping Video Websites

Odd invention of the day: Anti-Aging Cream made from Infant Foreskin

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 9, 2010
1 Comment on Odd invention of the day: Anti-Aging Cream made from Infant Foreskin

SkinMedica - TNS: Essential Serum
SkinMedica – TNS: Essential Serum

SkinMedica is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in anti-aging creams and lotions to help restore elasticity to aging skin.

And, it appears from what Web Watch reads on other sites, that they will make an anti-aging cream just for you… if you send them your baby’s foreskin to use as an ingredient. It must be true, as it was allegedly announced as such on an episode of the Oprah Winfrey show in 2007.

And we know that Oprah wouldn’t lie to us, would she? Besides, SkinMedica isn’t the only company doing this. A different company uses foreskins to make Vavelta, which is injected to help smooth wrinkles as Botox does.

Tags 10 Things, Beauty, medical, Penn & Teller, Relationships, shopping, Video, website

Funny How To Video

How to Train your Bird to Talk

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 20, 2010

The Farmer Says

Animals can say the darndest things.

Here are some videos that prove just that.

THE CHICKEN SONG

Tags How To, Video

Funny Video

Video Fun: YouTube’s automatic closed captioning goes bad

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 16, 2010

Closed Captioning Decoder

Web Watch knows that automatic transcription of speech-to-text for closed captioning still has a ways to go.

A lot has to do with the quality of the source audio material. And if you have poor source audio, the chances are pretty good that the transcribed closed captioning will be off more than just a little bit.

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Disney Travel Video

Meet David Rosdeitcher – The Zip Code Man

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 9, 2010
1 Comment on Meet David Rosdeitcher – The Zip Code Man

The Adventures of the ZipCodeMan
The Adventures of the Zip Code Man

David Rosdeitcher has an affinity for numbers, or just a really good memory. He is a street performer from Boulder, Colorado, and his act consists of asking the audience for their zip code. He then proceeds to tell those people not only what city they’re from, but also about a restaurant or other local point of interest that’s located there.

He’s been called THE ZIP CODE MAN, THE MIGHTY ZIP CODE MAN, and MR ZIP CODE.

As a busker, he earns money based on the tips that people provide from the entertainment he offers. His pitch line is “give me money, because I know where you live.” It seems to be effective.

Tags Celebrity, D23, Disney, Epcot, Party Talk, Travel, Video, World Record