The Pigeon: Impossible Podcast Looks At Making A 3D Animated Film

The Pigeon: Impossible video podcast takes a look at what goes into making a 3D animated cartoon short.

The cartoon, above, has received over 3 million views on YouTube alone. It’s a comic romp on the idea of a secret agent getting sidelined by a pigeon.

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About Danny MacAskill

A Stunt Cyclist’s Tour de Fence

Published in the NYTimes

By CAROL WALLACE

Published: December 28, 2009

EDINBURGH — Like his fellow Scot Susan Boyle’s entry into show business, the stunt bicyclist Danny MacAskill can divide his life in two: before his YouTube video and after.

Read the entire article on the NYTimes @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/sports/global/29cyclist.html?_r=1

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Portland Area YouTube Sensation

Hillsboro YouTube sensation looks for mainstream fame

by Wendy Owen, The Oregonian

Thursday August 06, 2009, 6:35 PM

Abby Metty/The OregonianHillsboro teen Savannah Outen has fans as far away as Kuwait and Australia but doesn’t yet have a record label. She plays a song she wrote during a visit to Coyote’s Bar & Grill in Hillsboro.

HILLSBORO — Savannah Outen is looking for her big break. The thing is, the 16-year-old singer is already famous.

Outen has more than 38 million hits on her collection of 40 YouTube music videos. If that were a CD, she would have the Recording Industry Association of America’s diamond album hanging on her wall, just like Celine Dion or ZZ Top. Continue reading Portland Area YouTube Sensation

Grabtube: Convert YouTube or Other Videos Online

Grab Tube’s Converter is a free online application to convert anything to anything.

People use to ask me why should they use this service, but not others.. Well, just because this is the best one in the internet.. We are faster, we are more stable, we are more user-friendly and we enjoy making other’s [...]

Need help with class? YouTube videos await

Reprinted from eschoolnews (in its entirety as the article is not visible for class without registering).

Educational videos are getting thousands of hits on YouTube.

When University of Central Florida junior Nicole Nissim got stumped in trigonometry, she checked out what was showing on YouTube.

Nissim typically scours the video-sharing Web site for clips of bands and comedy skits. But this time she wasn’t there to procrastinate on her homework. It turned out YouTube was also full of math videos. After watching a couple, the psychology major says, she finally understood trig equations and how to make graphs.

“I was able to watch them at my own pace and if I didn’t get a concept, I could easily rewind it,” Nissim says. “It was a lot clearer once I watched the video.”

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