$300 YouTube video lands $30 million contract

According to CNN, the following YouTube clip named “Panic Attack” cost $300 to make (not including equipment) and helped land a $30 million Hollywood contract for the director.

Fede Alvarez’s short film “Ataque de Panico!” (Panic Attack!) featured giant robots invading and destroying Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
It is 4 mins 48 seconds long and was made on a budget of $300 (£186).
So far it has had more than 1.5 million views on YouTube.
“I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios,” he told the BBC’s Latin American service BBC Mundo. via BBC

SEO Reading and Friday Link Finds

Get listed launches. Google is destroying the web? Should you sweat the small stuff with SEO?

  1. Get Listed offers a great tool to manage local listings
  2. How Google is destroying the web
  3. Is your blog advertise friendly?
  4. Six ways to get people to say yes I’m almost done reading the book this post is based on, and it is an excellent read.
  5. Do the little things in SEO make a big difference?
  6. Google to push semantic search in 2009

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College Bowl Game Schedule 2009

2008-09 College Football Bowl Schedule
Bowl Game Date/Time Site Matchup Network
EagleBank Bowl Dec. 20
11 a.m.
Washington, D.C. Wake Forest vs. Navy ESPN
New Mexico Dec. 20
2:30 p.m.
Albuquerque, NM Colorado State vs. Fresno State ESPN
St. Petersburg Dec. 20
4:30 p.m.
St. Petersburg, FL South Florida vs. Memphis ESPN2
Pioneer Las Vegas Dec. 20
8 p.m.
Las Vegas, NV BYU vs. Arizona ESPN
R+L Carriers New Orleans Dec. 21
8:15 p.m.
New Orleans, LA Troy vs. Southern Miss ESPN
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Dec. 23
8 p.m.
San Diego, CA TCU vs. Boise State ESPN
Sheraton Hawaii Dec. 24
8 p.m.
Honolulu, HI Hawaii vs. Notre Dame ESPN
Motor City Dec. 26
7:30 p.m.
Detroit, MI Central Michigan vs. Florida Atlantic ESPN
Meineke Car Care Dec. 27
1 p.m.
Charlotte, NC North Carolina vs. West Virginia ESPN
Champs Sports Dec. 27
4:30 p.m.
Orlando, FL Florida State vs. Wisconsin ESPN
Emerald Dec. 27
8 p.m.
San Francisco, CA California vs. Miami (Fla.) ESPN
Independence Dec. 28
8:15 p.m.
Shreveport, LA Louisiana Tech vs. Northern Illinois ESPN
Papajohns.com Dec. 29
3 p.m.
Birmingham, AL Rutgers vs. N.C. State ESPN
Valero Alamo Dec. 29
8 p.m.
San Antonio, TX Northwestern vs. Missouri ESPN
Roady’s Humanitarian Dec. 30
4:30 p.m.
Boise, ID Maryland vs. Nevada ESPN
Texas Dec. 30
8 p.m.
Houston, TX Rice vs. Western Michigan NFL
Pacific Life Holiday Dec. 30
8 p.m.
San Diego, CA Oregon vs. Oklahoma State ESPN
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Dec. 31
12 p.m.
Fort Worth, TX Air Force vs. Houston ESPN
Brut Sun Dec. 31
2 p.m.
El Paso, TX Oregon State vs. Pittsburgh CBS
Gaylord Hotels Music City Dec. 31
3:30 p.m.
Nashville, TN Vanderbilt vs. Boston College ESPN
Insight Dec. 31
5:30 p.m.
Tempe, Ariz. Kansas vs. Minnesota NFL
Chick-fil-A Dec. 31
7:30 p.m.
Atlanta, GA LSU vs. Georgia Tech ESPN
Outback Jan. 1
11 a.m.
Tampa, FL Iowa vs. South Carolina ESPN
Capital One Jan. 1
1 p.m.
Orlando, FL Georgia vs. Michigan State ABC
Konica Minolta Gator Jan. 1
1 p.m.
Jacksonville, FL Nebraska vs. Clemson CBS
Rose presented by Citi Jan. 1
4:30 p.m.
Pasadena, CA Penn State vs. USC ABC
FedEx Orange Jan. 1
8:30 p.m.
Miami, FL Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati FOX
AT&T Cotton Jan. 2
2 p.m.
Dallas, TX Texas Tech vs. Ole Miss FOX
AutoZone Liberty Jan. 2
5 p.m.
Memphis, TN East Carolina vs. Kentucky ESPN
Allstate Sugar Jan. 2
8 p.m.
New Orleans, LA Utah vs. Alabama FOX
International Jan. 3
12 p.m.
Toronto, Canada Connecticut vs. Buffalo ESPN2
Tostitos Fiesta Jan. 5
8 p.m.
Glendale, AZ Texas vs. Ohio State FOX
GMAC Jan. 6
8 p.m.
Mobile, AL Tulsa vs. Ball State ESPN
FedEx BCS National Championship Jan. 8
8 p.m.
Miami, FL Oklahoma vs. Florida FOX

Chris Matthews bias? Media at its worst.

I’m happy for Barack Obama, but the blatant “Obamamania” in this country is a little concerning when it occurs in the media so openly. See the video of Chris Matthews saying his job is to support the president? Then read the quote from Theodore Roosevelt.

“Every man who parrots the cry of ’stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ’so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Hi (High?) traffic blog posts

I was looking over my web traffic stats for my blog this morning, and found the following posts seem to generate lots of discussion and traffic. I never thought they would.

Barack Obama, Cocaine Use and 60 Minutes - This post details why I think the news media never really covered the fact that Barack Obama admitted to snorting cocaine.

Obama/Palin Dancing with the Stars - This is a Photoshop mockery of Barack and Sarah Waltzing or doing the Tango or something.

Why you should vote - This was a collaborative blog post that a couple of other people agreed to write and post at the same time I did. See (Announcing my future candidacy, Chris Knudsen) and (Why you should vote, Connor Boyack).

Barack Obama is not black? - This is one of the most ridiculous claims I have ever heard, so I posted a video of the woman making the claim.

Hmmm… Maybe I should write more about politics.

Obama/Palin: Dancing with the Stars

Barack Obama and Sarah Palin in Dancing with the Stars… need I say more?

photo credit: Martin Rice

Proposition 8: Marriage in California

These Proposition 8 videos are worth watching as they discuss the marriage issue which will be on the ballot in California next month, an issue that was already decided on by 61 percent of voters and then overturned by four activist judges.

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