Andrew Currie Online » YouTube http://andrewcurrie.ca I direct theatre, usurp technology and travel the world. I also have a cat. Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:37:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 For Those Who Like to Watch http://andrewcurrie.ca/2006/10/16/for-those-who-like-to-watch/ http://andrewcurrie.ca/2006/10/16/for-those-who-like-to-watch/#comments Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:10:00 +0000 Andrew http://acurrie.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/for-those-who-like-to-watch/

… Here’s the film I made for Darryl’s Hard Liquor & Porn Festival. This three-minute short contains adult themes and content, but no nudity.

Sorry!
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Want to know what it’s like to be (almost) a billionaire? Check out this video from YouTube founders Chad and Steve…

It’s nice to know that the reckless days of internet land grabs aren’t over just yet. And I’d like to remind the good folks at Google that every website has its price, including this one!
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]]> http://andrewcurrie.ca/2006/10/11/exit-strategy/feed/ 1 It’s Hard to Argue with Free http://andrewcurrie.ca/2006/10/02/its-hard-to-argue-with-free/ http://andrewcurrie.ca/2006/10/02/its-hard-to-argue-with-free/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:33:00 +0000 Andrew http://acurrie.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/its-hard-to-argue-with-free/ image

In days of old I would painstakingly tweak my travel photos in Adobe Photoshop and upload each and every one of them with a thorough description and appropriate links. I wouldn’t even have considered uploading videos, as the large file sizes would eat up my available server storage faster than you could watch them.

But this past weekend I placed my precious travel souvenirs in the very capable hands of Flickr and YouTube, both free services and current darlings of the social media set. It was such a painless experience that I’m starting to rethink this whole blog re-design thing.

Considering that this very page has permanent links to both my Flickr and del.icio.us accounts, and that I’ve also had a free Blogger account since 2003, maybe I can nix my monthly web server bill by having AC.ca re-direct to a start page that will list all these other accounts as links.

I’ll try to mock one up this week to show you what I mean…

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I’ve got about forty photos up so far on my Flickr page, and also a couple of videos on YouTube. The photos are a bit of a work in progress—I’m still adding descriptions and I don’t know the names of some of the other authors at the NALIS reading.

Little help, Ray?

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Yeah, I thought so… ;)

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This real-life altercation on the upper deck of a Hong Kong bus has been viewed in its many incarnations almost six million times! Click on the screen grab above or right here for the version with English subtitles.

And like every other internet meme, the Bus Uncle video now has its own portal page, rife with mash-ups, remixes and ‘official’ merchandise… Enjoy!

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It’s bad enough that YouTube is fast becoming the VCR for the MySpace set; now people are uploading crap without first getting their facts straight…

My weekend newsfeeds were all abuzz with the story of how the BBC mistakenly interviewed a London cabbie about a legal decision in the case between The Beatles’ Apple Corps and Apple Computer.

While the Cock-up did indeed take place, the gentlemen in front of the cameras was not a cab driver but instead an IT professional applying for a job at the Beeb. Watch the video for yourself and you’ll hopefully agree that all things considered the poor guy ended up doing an okay job!

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It took literally all day for me to add a logo and render out the best quality video I possibly could, yet YouTube still makes it look like crap. There are other, much better video sharing sites out there, but none has the mindshare of YouTube. So the mob has spoken—here is the internet’s next superstar, courtesy of (blech) YouTube and (hooray) iLaugh.com…

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