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an objects of affection special report

Animoto Edits Your Crappy "Lost" Tribute Videos So You Don't Have To

"Welcome to the end of slideshows," declares the subtitle on Animoto's press kit. The site, which launched last August and just got some funding from Amazon, allows users to upload photos, choose audio from Animoto's library or their own computer, throw these elements into a slick virtual crock pot, and come up with an automatically produced "music video" that's more like a fancy slide show. The concept is very similar to what we know all too well as tribute videos—except there's even less skill and artistry required, as there is no actual editing involved at all. As the resident expert in both tribute videos and stupid Internet shit, I took it upon myself to test out the service and see what it could do with some of the odds and ends in my Photobucket account and an English New Wave classic. More »

4:30 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Kate Richardson
278 views, 1 comment

Latest by n/a: Kate, that was some hot Diego Luna action, there. Must re-watch "Y Tu Mama Tambien" before drinking tonight. more »

an objects of affection special report

YouTube Lets Sigur Ròs Be Weird All Over Its Front Page For 24 Hours

If you've been on YouTube today, you may have noticed that the front page is curiously devoid of videos like "Todd's Oscars rant" and "Monkey eats cheese." Instead, Iceland's second-most-famous weirdo musicians, Sigur Ròs, have taken over the site for the day, and anyone can watch their tour documentary Heima in its entirety (for free!). They've also selected ten fan-made videos submitted to the Minn Heima contest to be featured on the front page. Most of the videos use leftover footage from Heima, but at least one out of ten Sigur Ròs fans is going to be artsy enough to dabble in stop-motion animation. Let's review a few of the more notable entires. More »

3:00 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Kate Richardson
384 views, 1 comment

Latest by Paul D: Sigur Ros is the most amazing live performance I've ever seen. That is all. more »

an objects of affection special report

Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

In light of what they see as Clive Davis's neglect toward the promotion of Kelly Clarkson's My December, the Kelly Clarkson Express—a group that sounds like it should serve as a dual-purpose fan club for the first American Idol and trains—has put together a video for the song "How I Feel," which its members think should be the next single. This is but one facet of the How I Feel Project, a campaign to get the song played on the radio, or maybe very quietly in the background of an MTV show. While strong fan support is essential when you're a pop star being ignored by one of the world's most powerful music bigwigs, that devotion can come with a price—and in this case, that price is a well-intentioned but sadly incompetent tribute video. More »

2:00 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Kate Richardson
1,765 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: The Album is not a FLOP as many are compelled to Call it.. It has gone Platium in the US as of December 07, (yes look it up if you wish on the RIAA website) Also the album world wide more »

an objects of affection special report

Tribute-Video Community Insists that Jane Austen Can Be Sexy

Period dramas: pretty costumes, stringent etiquette, and smoldering sexual repression. Men with cartoonish sideburns stare longingly from across the room at women in corsets. Indiscretions are hinted at, though rarely seen. And if there's one artist who can capture the essence of this subtle, implicit sexuality, it's Marvin Gaye, right? More »

4:00 PM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Kate Richardson
201 views, Comment

an objects of affection special report

In Case You Missed The Patrick Stump "Law & Order" Episode Last Night

For those of us with no particular affection for Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump and even less of an affinity for Law & Order, last night's season premiere of the NBC stalwart, in which Stump had a role, was not at the top of the to-do list. But I was just curious enough this morning to search for clips of it on YouTube, and luckily for me, there were already ten good old-fashioned bootleg videos—made by people who pointed their video cameras at their TVs, and hoped for the best—posted on the site. But which was the most watchable? In today's fast-paced world we can't be expected to pay for music or watch TV shows on a television set, so here's a handy guide to the best and worst Stump/Law & Order bootlegs on YouTube. More »

12:45 PM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By Kate Richardson
2,028 views, 20 comments

Latest by n/a: excuse me, uhm, mr. pete wentz hater.i would like to say that you deffinetly shouldnt be bashing pete, patrick or thefact that patrick stump isnt the front manof the group...because honestly, that doesntmatter. so if you want to go ahead more »

"No One" Reimagines Sondheim Like The Tribute Video Community We're just now wrapping up two concurrent seasons: movie-going season, and end-of-year music criticism season. Luckily YouTube has a video to offer that combines both of these variously unbearable occurrences into one moderately amusing tribute.

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an objects of affection special report

Amy Winehouse: Not Even Trying Anymore


In her continuing effort to disappoint as many people as possible, Amy Winehouse has put down the bottle and picked up Windows Media Maker. The video for her dull-as-dirt single "Love Is a Losing Game" is basically a glorified slide show that looks as if it's really a fan-made tribute video. And it's a mediocre one at that. More »

2:30 PM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By Kate Richardson
2,744 views, 10 comments

an objects of affection special report

Idolator's Tribute-Video Treasury Wonders, "What The Hell Are We Doing Here?"

"Musical Video of the movie becoming jane, with the song of radiohead creep. I hope you like it!" And with that, the universe was sucked through a gaping black hole located at the mathematical center of of YouTube, only to come out the other end as a never-ending tribute video to humanity set to "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. More »

2:35 PM on Thu Nov 15 2007
By Kate Richardson
358 views, 3 comments

an objects of affection special report

Anderson Cooper, R.E.M. Think Tribute Videos Should Be Sad, Boring

Last night on Anderson Cooper 360°, R.E.M. premiered the videofor their new single "Until the Day is Done"/ trailer for the upcoming Anderson Cooper adventure "Planet in Peril." The song is so bland it kind of makes the polar bears want to go extinct. But is it, as Jess predicted yesterday, "the most depressing YouTube tribute video in history?" Well, yes. But it's also kind of hot. More »

12:45 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Kate Richardson
655 views, 8 comments

an objects of affection special report

New York "Times" Super Soaks That Ho

It's always both amusing and kind of uncomfortable when the New York Times deigns to discuss the unwieldy specificities of YouTube, kind of like when your parents ask you about "this band The Decemberists?" after a long week of drive-time NPR. The attempt at youth media awareness is endearing, yet always just not quite right, even when it's done in the most journalistic of ways. More »

2:30 PM on Wed Sep 26 2007
By Kate Richardson
1,390 views, 1 comment