Category Archives: Videos

Peeps contest finalists

Akira Hakuta created these videos about the five finalists in The Washington Post’s Peeps Diorama contest, which has some really creative entries this year. Videos feature The Mad Hatter, Korean War memorial, the movie Up, and “Goodnight Peeps.” I created the player, which is almost exactly the same as the Scene In player. Noel Smart designed the logo treatment.

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Modern-Day Evolution

I heard on the radio this morning that you can actually choose the sex of your baby. Here’s an excerpt from WAMU’s Market Morning Report’s piece entitled “I’ll Have a Girl, Please”: JENNIFER MERRILL THOMPSON: “I really, really wanted a daughter, and I knew that technology was probably the only way it was going to happen for me. And we didn’t want to keep having boy after boy. I didn’t want to have a huge family, so we were willing to spend the money to…

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The Magic of the Three Ws

Today there are two items on the agenda. #1 - The magic of the Internet and #2 - The question of whether or not the Facebook has gone too far. #1: The Magic Today I went to check out Katie Couric’s first broadcast on YouTube, when I was distracted by a video called “Piano Tetris”, which led me to the video I have posted below. The video is by a person named “cutiemish”, who pronounces some words to show her accent. But the really amazing…

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