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Monday, July 31, 2006

Age of the Internet Celebrities

So I've notice that these days you don't even need to be famous anymore to be well-known. Maybe it's the other way around, actually; you don't need to be well-known to be famous. We owe it all to live streaming videos on the internet. Compound that with young professional working types who twiddle their thumbs in front of a computer for 8 hours a day, perhaps working for two. Now, any average joe can make it 'big' by having their videos circulate the email underground.

Who can forget the bear falling out of a tree, off the trampoline, then up in the air and plummeting toward the ground???

How about how MC Vikram brought Malayalee-ness to the masses? (featured on VH1)

I've been seeing this Juddson Laipply character's 'Evolution of Dance' video for the past few months. It's actually incredibly entertaining. However, I'd like to say that the best dancing i-celebrity I've ever seen was from a few years ago. Check out David Elsewhere in this absolutely AMAZING robot dance video . This video singlehandedly broke him into a lot of big dancing/commercial gigs later on, as well as into a lot of conversations starting with "whoa...did you check out the robot-dude in the orange shirt....?"

Further Observations:
1) The song in the above video is "Expo 2000" by Kraftwerk
2) The first dancer is also great but came before the wrong guy
3) You can hear voices in the background discussing a trip to the bathroom
4) Here is a less entertaining but still impressive video from his second Kollaboration performance

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