Tag Archives: youtube

Alan Champion is Not Dead!

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

[UPDATE: April 22, 2011 -- Alan Champion died this morning a bit after 10:00am. He died in Oklahoma with his sister by his side in the same bed in which his mother previously passed. Alan was 55. He died on … Continue reading →

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Banksy Beats Down the Simpsons

Posted on October 12, 2010 by

We love Banksy.  He’s an Enigma Artist.  This week, he took on — The Simpsons — to make a political point that the television cartoon is a profiteering entity made rich on the backs of foreign, slave, labor.

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When Does Graphic Violence Become too Real?

Posted on July 26, 2010 by

I was wandering around YouTube the other day, when the service recommended this video — X-Men Origins: Wolverine — as something that should interest me based on my previous watch patterns.  I was surprised YouTube wanted me to view a … Continue reading →

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CaptionTube for YouTube Records the Human Condition

Posted on April 20, 2009 by

One of the greatest inventions of modern humankind is Closed Captioning.  When text is wed to image to create memeing for words being spoken, the Deaf are winners included in the learning and in the entertainment and so, too, are … Continue reading →

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