People are beginning to realize that it’s important that we see animals in a natural state – but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don’t involve… performing for us.
Any kind of horror video game where I’m the first-person player and I’m… I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I’m like, I really don’t want him to die,’ and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can’t play those games.
There’s more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.
It’s like everybody is shooting something, and everybody’s a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is – for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good – is how do they get attention to it?
I don’t know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
‘Guyism’ wanted a daily video series. They told me they were planning on hiring a girl and then hiring someone to write all her jokes. Then they figured it would be easier just to get me, so they offered me $750 a month to do it, which turned into an offer to move to New York and do it full-time for $30,000 a year.
Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.
Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn’t be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn’t understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn’t understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.
I’m a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.
I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I’m performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!’
When I was growing up, I was an ’80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body’s the controller.
To the U.S. and the world, I’m just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I’m doing one of the biggest concerts; it’s not a dance music concert. I’m playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.
There are no rules when I’m making stuff. That’s why I’m glad I’m not signed. No one’s telling me I got to drop this type of single or this video.
Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can’t lead the audience of players in one direction.
Finally, the day came where I put stuff online for the first time ever. The Lil Dicky video got a million views the first day. It was one of the best days of my life. It was the day I learned I was who I thought I was. It was a fantastic I-told-you-so moment.
I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up.
The so-called alleged ‘art’ of the video – well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America – when a video camera is put in your face and you’re asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.
Every video I’m in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It’s not real life.
I spend a lot of time visiting friends, watching video cassette movies, and things like that.
I can’t believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can’t believe I set foot on the same stage, and it’s going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it’s going to be a video.
Viral word-of-mouth marketing for GoPro is massive. Video is really the conduit.
I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines.
Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It’s like a payoff.
The Gunnar Challenge offers new workouts every day, a meal plan and daily ‘verbal vitamins,’ which are a motivational video or workout tip. The thing that really makes the program work is the forum, where Challengers can communicate with each other and with me.
I’ve learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I’m gonna do after the race, what I’m gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.
I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.
When a regular guy like me starts getting attention, it’s natural to want more. I wanted the next video to be bigger than the last.
I worked with Lady Gaga for a day on a video shoot. It was crazy; we had a lot of fun. I had a great time.
As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It’s a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.
In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.
I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me.
I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that’s why I’m here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people’s passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.
I’m spending way too much time test running my Vine videos. I’ll go into a room and close the door and be in there for an hour workshopping a Vine video that I never even post. So that’s probably a huge time suck.
I’m more of a feel pitcher. If something’s wrong, I don’t watch a video. I go throw in the bull pen until it feels right.
I’d like to be able to recall every J. Lo music video dance routine ever, naturally.
I’ve always been suspicious of TV, I’ve always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
My No. 1 key with fans is, honestly, to stay connected with them. I think it’s important to talk to the fans online and respond to their questions. You know, live streaming, playing video games.
I learned from making random little personal projects, like school projects or little GoPro montages with music. Then once I made my channel, I really improved just by making video after video.
When I was 13, I posted a video of myself singing a Bruno Mars song on YouTube.
I would love to work with Karlie Kloss and model for Chanel. And I would love to be in a music video with Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift, my two favorite artists.
I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don’t think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.
Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it’s video or photo, you not only needed a camera, you needed another human being. And if you wanted the footage to be good, you needed that other human being to have skill with the camera.
If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous ’40s musical on video. But I’m very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I’m a ‘glass half full’ person. In fact, it’s three-quarters full!
I wrote ‘Wish U Were Here’ for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it’s the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.
The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.
I’m into video games, but only real specific lame video games.
I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
When I posted my first video, I remember it hit 700 views after a week, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is amazing.’ I was over the moon.
For me it’s all just one big online world. Everyone has a favorite social network, and some people like YouTube more than Facebook or Twitter. But I make sure that when I post a new YouTube video, I post it on Facebook, and I tweet about it.
I often wonder when I make a film – I’m thinking of making a film of the Buddha – and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director – if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera – would we get Buddhism better?
