I produced this video for Jon Loomer, a marketing expert who specializes in helping organizations leverage Facebook to drive their business goals.
The idea was to animate a fast-moving timeline that built up into a tower in a way that illustrates how rapidly Facebook is constantly evolving. I chose the music because I thought it reflected sort of a Tetris vibe.
Check out Jon Loomer’s Facebook page for more information about how he can help your business leverage Facebook.
UPDATE: I took down the video, and I’m in the process of uploading the extended version, with guest star Cole Aldrich. You can watch the extended version on Youtube (below), but the FunnyOrDie.com link leads to nowhere.
My friend AJ Steinle and I produced this video for his film class, animating PhotoShopped pictures from Google Images of Russell Westbrook, Kendrick Perkins and Kevin “Durantula” Durant.
He wrote the storyboard, and I edited it into an action-packed cartoon that accumulated more than 3,000 views in five days, and was picked up by the Daily Thunder.
“Don’t really know how to accurately describe this video, nor do I understand the motivation behind it. Regardless, it’s awesome,” wrote Daily Thunder contributor Royce Young. ”Basically everything you could ever want in the most random Thunder video I’ve found yet.”
We decided to upload it to FunnyorDie.com, where it has drawn 169 views and a 96 percent funny rating – as of Tuesday, May 10.
It jumped to the No. 5 highest rated animation of the week, and No. 7 for most buzz. And if we can keep it in the top 20 of one (or both) of those categories, FunnyorDie.com could potentially feature it on the front page! Disclaimer: The previous sentence is a total assumption with no facts to support it – only hope.
I made these videos for the World Rainforest Foundation, a non-profit organization that takes donations to protect rainforests in Costa Rica.
I made this cartoon about three talking fish for a client who wanted a cartoon with three talking fish. I wrote the script, recorded the voices and After Effected three talking fish.
President Obama projects Kansas will conquer Kentucky to win the 2010 NCAA Basketball Championship.
“I think Kansas is gonna be solid… [They're a] balanced team with Collins in the back court; I always like teams in the tournament that have experience with terrific guards,” he said on ESPN’s Barack-etology 2010. “Don’t let Sec. [of Health and Human Services Kathleen] Sebelious down. She’s really counting on it and a lot of people will be giving her a hard time if they don’t pull it out.” (Sebelious was a KU graduate.)
His bracket also predicts KU and KSU will meet in the Final Four, with Kentucky facing Villanova.
“Kansas State impresses me – they always play tough, and I think they’re going to be motivated, so they’ll get to the Final Four,” he said.
At one point, he accidentally writes in Missouri to beat West Virginia, but immediately realizes his mistake and smudges it out with his finger.
KU All-American point guard Sherron Collins is one of 11 finalists in line for the 2010 Bob Cousy Award.
The award honors “leadership, team work, success, and fundamentals as being critical parts for the game of basketball as a point guard.”
Fans can vote for players at CousyAward.com.
As of midnight, Collins was in fifth place, with about 8 percent of votes. The front-runners were Greivis Vasquez of Maryland with about 30 percent; John Wall of Kentucky with 23.3 percent; Jeremy Lin of Harvard with 17.9 percent; and Ronald Moore of Siena with 9.4 percent.
The current healthcare system is like “an economic tapeworm” eating away at the U.S. economy, Billionaire Warren Buffett said Monday in an interview on CNBC.
“What we have now is untenable over time,” He said, citing that the cost of U.S. healthcare has jumped from 5 percent of the country’s GDP to 17 percent of GDP. Most other developed countries maintain healthcare systems that cost about 10 percent of GDP, he said.
“If you want to get the very best; you want to spend a million dollars to prolong your life another three months… you can probably do it better here in the United States than any place else,” Buffet said. But, ”We have a healthcare system that, in terms of cost, is really out of control, and if you take this line and project what has been happening into the future, we will get less and less competitive,” Buffet said.
Buffett said he thought the proposed healthcare bill does not do enough to address the cost situation.
“We need something that will end the constant increase in medical cost as a percentage of GDP,” Buffett said.
When asked if President Obama should scrap the current healthcare bill and start over, Buffet responded:
“If I were President Obama, I would just show this chart of what’s been happening and say, ‘this is the tapeworm that’s eating at American competitiveness. And I would say that, ‘one way or another, we’re going to attack cost, cost, cost; just like they talk about jobs, jobs, jobs…
“I would try to get a unified effort and say, ‘This is a national emergency to do something about this – we need the Republicans; we need the Democrats… We’re going to get rid of the nonsense and we’re just going to focus on cost, and we’re not going to dream up 2,000 pages on other things…’
“I believe in insuring more people, but I don’t believe in insuring more people until you attack the cost aspect of this… And I admire people for tackling it because it’s so tough politically. But I’d really like to see [Obama] get the job done.”
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) members voted overwhelmingly in favor of Ron Paul on Saturday in its annual presidential straw poll.
Paul received 31 percent of the votes from participants who indicated that “reducing the size of federal government” was their top priority.
The Daily Beast reported that more than 10,000 people attended the event, and 2,395 of them voted in the straw poll.
Here is how the top five candidates performed:
31 percent - U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas
22 percent – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
7 percent – Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
6 percent – Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
5 percent - Indiana Rep. Mike Pence
Politico reported that Paul’s win embarrassed CPAC organizers, who believe Paul is “unlikely to be a serious contender for his party’s nomination.”
Fox News tried to discredit the poll, saying it was “not necessarily a good forecaster.” It cited the example that Mitt Romney won the poll in 2008, but John McCain went on to win the election. Jake Gibson, Fox News micro-blogger for Live Shots, called Paul’s win “surprising” and wrote that it “spurred audible gasps and boos in the room.”
Other news outlets praised Paul’s win as proof that he will be a serious contender in the 2012 Presidential Election. The National Review’s Robert Costa wrote that Paul was “by far one of the most popular speakers at CPAC this year.”
“Some older CPAC attendees don’t seem to care much for the Texas congressman, sure, but many young activists seem to regard him as a hero of sorts,” he wrote. “When he talks about the debt, like he did on Friday, calling it a ‘monster’ that will ‘eat up’ our future, it was with a passion that you can’t fake in politics. He also didn’t mind challenging many of the room’s security hawks on foreign policy.”
Ron Paul ran for President in 2008 as the only Republican candidate to call for a withdraw from Iraq. His supporters had accused Fox News and other news outlets of downplaying his candidacy and not giving him a fair chance.
“All the sudden, the crash that I had been predicting all along: it came,” Paul told his supporters the day before the poll’s results. “And now, Fox News TV has had me on about 60 times since the campaign was over.”
Frantz St. Germaine, a Haitian pastor who helps manage The Global Orphanage Project in Haiti, posted video this weekend that shows Haitians holding American flags and chanting “Obama.”
Frantz said the video shows about 20,000 Haitians demonstrating their desire to make Haiti an American territory – similar to Puerto Rico in 1917.
“They urge the Senators of Haiti to contact the American Congress to present their case,” Frantz wrote. ”This is the first time such an event happen in the history of the Island. They claim the support of all the haitians living in the USA.”
It’s uncertain how many Haitians share this view, but Frantz said in an e-mail that it was a popular movement across Haiti. He said similar demonstrations have taken place in Port-au-Prince, Petit Goave, Grand Goave and people are planning another demonstration next week in Grand’Anse.
“The people don’t want to continue under the old system anymore. They want change: partnership with USA. The actual situation is like a bomb in hold mode. Any time it can explode,” Frantz wrote in an e-mail. ”The next few weeks are going to be crucial for our land. Food, medication, items to use every day are becoming rare. The government is overwhelmed by the situation. “
Frantz works for my company’s Cambry Center in Haiti. Follow his Twitter updates from the ground HERE.
Andy Greenhaw specializes in multimedia journalism, social media marketing and motion graphic video production. He's proficient in Adobe After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut Express, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Soundbooth, Camtasia, Web design and copy writing for SEO.
I can produce almost every form of content on a highly professional level, and I know how to viralize it through social media.
