I recently discovered the nature photographer Art Wolfe. He has a show called Travels to the Edge and posts small sections to YouTube. I found him through this short video which made me laugh out loud.

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Think your house is small?

Bet this one is smaller.

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Are you tired of being broke? Are you tired of email spam asking if you are tired of being broke? Are you tired of everyone trying to make money by trying to sell you a way to make money?

Then check out this parody.

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A while back, a group called the Richter Scales created a video called Here Comes Another Bubble. It is a clever parody song using the music from We Didn’t Start the fire.

However, it was quickly taken down because of a DMCA request claiming copyright violation.

I posted about this back on 14.Dec.2007 at www.myephemerae.com/here-comes-another-bubble.

You can read about why it was (probably) taken down at this page on Valleyag.com: valleywag.com/tech/online-video/here-comes-another-takedown-332666.php

More information and commentary (particularly of interest to photographers) is at Here Comes Another Fair Use Dispute (12.Dec.2007: www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2007/12/12/here-comes-another-fair-use-dispute).

Now, the Richter Scales have responded. They have posted V1.1 of the video back onto YouTube and provided full credit to all the images both in the video itself and also on a credits page on their site: richterscales.com/bubble_credits. 

Lane Hartwell, the artist who originally objected, has a page about the issue here: fetching.net/2007/12/my-statement-regarding-the-new-version-of-the-richter-scales-video

The Richter Scales comment is here: www.richterscales.com/blog/2007/12/announcing-bubble-version-11.php

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This New Year’s eve, please be careful. Every year, all around the globe, people drink and drive. They injure and kill themselves and others. 

We all know better. Don’t do something you, your family and your friends will regret for the rest of your life. 

Have a Happy and Safe New Year!

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One of the blogs I monitor is Garr Reynold’s Presentation Zen (www.presentationzen.com).

He just sent out a link to a Flash video of the original Drifters 50’s classic: White Christmas.

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Watch it, smile and have a very, merry Christmas.

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It was put up on YouTube. It was quickly taken down by a DMCA request claiming copyright violation. But you can still see it here. At least you can as I write this.

Separate from the DMCA question, I think it is a good parody.

A recent edition of Roy William’s Monday Morning Memo discusses the ads for the Mac. You know the one. It features the Mac and the PC in a conversation.

The article links to a clever picture of what that ad would have looked like 11 years ago.

After my last post I was sure I’d posted enough about this Yancovic/YouTube thing. But being sure only lasts so long.

(If you have no idea what I’m talking about, go to the next post first, then come back here.)

So, forgive me if I post one more.

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I received an email from a friend sending me to a YouTube video.

Seems that Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of Backstreet Boys “I Want It That Way“. The parody is called “eBay“.  

Some guys took the Weird Al Yankovic song about eBay and added some video.

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It was cute. I liked it. But I noted that the Farrah Fawcett poster used was not the Farrah Fawcett poster … the one that sold a still unrivled 12 million copies!

That got me thinking. I wondered, have others done this. So I checked and they have.

I liked this one because the images are actual screens from the ebay site. They appear to be camera shots instead of screen captures and they aren’t great shots, but I still like it.

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So, what others are available?

This one had some good stuff.

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Last is one of my favorites. The typography is clever and I really liked the use of the Tribbles for Shatner’s old toupe.

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 By the way … the Yankovic’s “ebay” was actually performed live at eBay Live! 2003. There is no “official” video of that event, but a poor quality video from the audience is here:

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