Revise the HTML standard in programming and look at what you get. WOW! Talk about getting crazy and creative and one up-ing the Arcade Fire We used to wait video. Of course it would be a band from Japan to blow personalized unique music videos out of the water. The actual song isn’t exactly next on my “to download” list but the video/webpage is definitely a cool look into how music videos are transforming online and their capabilities of interacting with their fans and viewers. In case you don’t want to connect your personal facebook page, twitter account and webcam to watch that version of the video, it basically takes pieces of information as well as live video through the enabled webcam and uses it thorughout the video. They have your location, and make a block figure out of you and your facebook friends’ profile pictures that walks through different screens related to you the viewer (pictures below). Anyway, I’ve tried to explain it enough, you will have to check it out for yourself. Perhaps facebook, google, or even twitter should let Sour Mirror make a promotional video for them. Enjoy!

This link will take you to their site, but you will most likely have to download google chrome from there. http://sour-mirror.jp/

As we march through the digital age, video is evolving everyday in different ways, whether through production or sharing. So you can imagine how surprising it was when Yahoo! Video announced last month that they are “removing all general user-generated content upload capability and user-uploaded video from Yahoo! Video.” In a world where video has taken over the internet with a bulk of it being produced and uploaded by the public, I feel skeptical as to what executives at Yahoo! are trying to achieve by completely removing this feature. I have to admit when searching, uploading and/or streaming videos Yahoo! Video is definitely not the search engine that comes to mind, its not even second or third which brings forward the main issue that yes they needed to do something radical and forward-thinking, but removing user uploading capabilities is more of a step backwards than forwards. This industry is about the innovative fight…Apple came out with the ipad so Blackberry (RIM) came back with the playbook, Nintendo came out with Wii so Microsoft came back with Xbox Kinect, and so on and so on. If Yahoo! is going to keep up in this game they will have to keep pushing evolution instead of accepting defeat. I suppose we will have to wait and see if they have something up their sleeve.

For those of you who are Yahoo! Video users you still have a couple more months to get your videos in order, they are re-directing and encouraging users to use and re-upload to Flickr (owned by Yahoo!) and provide the tools to do so.

Over the holiday season at VMG we were lucky enough to get our robot counterparts to take over for a few days.

Robot predictions for 2011: A year full of viral videos from outstanding sports moments to funny mock videos to serious political and environmental issues….these will mostly be starring babies and animals, but humans will still continue to love them!

Hope everyone had a safe and happy holidays! Time to reboot and start the year off in human form.