For those with incredibly short attention spans, Mecano points to 5 Second Films, a group of people producing films that are exactly 5 seconds long (minus 2 seconds for title and 1 second for an end tag). As you can imagine, the films are very random and sometimes require you to view them more than once to understand what is going on.
One of the better April Fools’ Day pranks played out on the web came from internet video site Vimeo. While YouTube decided to flip all of their videos upside down, Vimeo went a more subtle route and altered their logo to form the anagram ‘movie’.
Honestly, I never realized that ‘Vimeo’ was an anagram of ‘movie’ until this prank, but it makes sense given their content. Heh. Nicely done!
Vimeo launched their Channels 2.0 today with some much-needed improvements in design, including better badges for each channel and the ability for channel creators to layout their page in either grid, stream, or gallery format. The gallery format is well-suited for channels that feature predominantly HD content (the HD Channel on Vimeo for example).
Also worth taking note of is the new Nice Type Channel created by Matthew Buchanan that features videos made using typography of all forms. It’s pretty nice to go through and that’s where I found the Dumb & Dumber clip above.
This is great! The White house has an active dedicated channel on Vimeo featuring the President’s weekly address along with other official White House clips. I think it’s a much better alternative than YouTube’s identical channel because the video quality on Vimeo is far better than it is on YouTube. The only thing I can think of that makes YouTube’s channel worth visiting is for the closed-captioning option (in case you need it). Otherwise, Vimeo wins this distribution race hands-down.
