From Time Magazine: This year’s top 10 viral videos include a baby Darth Vader, a “nasty” honey badger, a 90′s crooner, an epic gigglefest and of course- Rebecca Black’s “Friday”
Timing is everything for this Filipino street kid who sells flute in the streets of Clark, in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. On the side, he sings to his customers and allows them to video him while singing! He’s got pure, raw natural talent. In this video below, he is covering a number of hit songs including that of Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, and Ne-Yo.
The clip has been viewed over 100,000 times in the first 24 hours it was posted on August 3rd and is spreading virally on blogs, email and social media. Only three days later today, it has already garnered over 700,000 views and counting!
If you have told anyone 10 years ago that in the future, someone can be famous and reach millions and millions of people around the world in one week’s time, no one would believe you.
The ‘future’ of instant fame happened six years ago when three cool geeks from California invented YouTube in 2005. Since May 2010, YouTube exceeds 2 billion views a day. 2 billion. Since March 2010, there are 24 hours of video uploaded PER minute. I thought there should be more but over the years, there have only really been a few breakout artists who attribute their good fortune to YouTube: Arnel Pineda, Charice, Greyson Chance, Kina Grannis, Marie Digby, and Justin Beiber comes to mind.
That’s what is special about Maria Aragon, a Filipino-Canadian 10-year old girl from Winnipeg, Canada. NOT everyone gets their chance! Her simple video of her covering Lady Gaga’s new track “Born this way” stood out from the hundreds of cover of the same song. She wasn’t trying to be anything. She wasn’t trying to copy Lady Gaga, she was just doing her own interpretation of the song!
Watch the video for the coolest coke vendo machine! Hindi lang coke ang nilalabas! Sana may ganyan dito sa Pinas! hehehehe 
| two Filipinos have joined a YouTube video-making contest that seeks awareness of climate change worldwide. Raise Your Voice (COP15) is a UN conference scheduled for December 2009. |
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We all have seen these happen. People who were virtual unknown catapult to instant stardom beyond their wildest imaginations simply for putting out there a 2-minute or so video on YouTube. Bear in mind, YouTube was non-existent 4 years ago. Since its inception in February 2005, the way most of us ‘view’ life revolved around watching those clips, forwarding it, talking about it, blogging about it- next thing you know, the video has gone viral.
YouTube has channels for everything- comedians, directors, gurus, musicians, reporters, entertainers, politicians and the ordinary ‘Youtuber’ further subdivided into regular viewers, those who have real talent like Charice, those who don’t, those who are desperate for attention or just plain crazies.
This is the best Entrance Wedding March or should I say dance, I’ve ever seen. It is so original and creative if not funny. Somehow in its humor, I was very touched because it felt real. Weird. I was laughing but it was so sweet I wanted to cry too. LOL! Everyone was genuinely happy as it should on one’s wedding day, including the guests. Awesome!
In just a week since its upload, the video has received over 6 million views/hits with a five star rating from over 37 thousand YouTube members with over 35 thousand and counting comments!
I’m still quite sad over Karla Garcia’s short lived stint in So You Think You Can Dance and promised myself will stop watching the rest of the show this season. So I head over to my least liked reality talent show, America’s Got Talent (AGT) just to see what they have been showing.
Watching “America’s Got Talent” turned out to be a cheer me up for me. Oh my, watching and hearing 14 year old Thia Megia sing out “I am Changing” by Jennifer Holiday was unreal. But there she was, confident, beautiful and powerful! Seeing is believing! I have been scouring her and people have already compared her to Youtube sensation Charice.
Yes, she is of Filipino descent, born in Redwood City, California in 1995. Her long full name again gave her “filipino-ness,” Thialorei Lising Megia. (Any relations to Filipino comedian Gary Lising?)
Watch her audition video on America’s Got talent where the crowd goes wild for her, leaving all three judges wowed and awed. Her mom is also shown in the vid:
in an effort to expand it’s social dimension, YouTube just announced a new “real-time” service that tells your friends what videos you’re currently watching.
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youtube a few weeks ago introduced the annotation feature for it’s video user accounts. what it does is that it allows you to add “speech bubbles” or annotations to your videos.
today, a new feature has been added so that you can invite others to post their annotations to your very own videos.
Yup, it appears that Rin On the Rox “violated” terms of YouTube but isn’t that what majority of users are doing if they call singing other people’s songs a violation of terms?!!
Talk about great timing for the princesses of YouTube to pay Ellen DeGeneres a visit! Rin on the Rox, that would be Erin Paula and Roxanne, made their first ever television appearance on Tuesday, February 3 on the highly-popular, syndicated worlwide- Ellen DeGeneres Show. As a thank you, Ellen handed them a pair of tickets to see the Grammys where huge popular music stars attend every year! Confirmed performers Rin and Roxanne will witness are: Neyo, Rihanna, Radiohead, Jennifer Hudson, Katy Perry, Chris Brown, T.I., Carrie Underwood, Justin Timberlake, Estelle, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Paul McCartney and U2!! The Oscars of music and Rin on the Rox are going to see it! Ellen so casually reminded them to bring a camera for this big event that you and I won’t probably ever get to see live in our lifetime! Of course, they MUST bring a camera!
Best friends Erin Paula and Roxanne unsigned Filipino-American singers from California may just get their biggest breaks soon! And again we have Ellen DeGeneres’ staff to thank for for spotting the duo on YouTube! After being featured in a short video clip on the Ellen DeGeneres show a few days ago, Ellen openly invited the two on national TV calling out: “they’re fantastic, if you’re watching right now please please come on the show!”
Have you thought about photographing yourself daily and journalizing each photo? In days, weeks, months, years?! Hard to believe that a lot of people have been doing self-portraits for years without skipping or stopping!! That’s 365 photos in a year and over a thousand photos of yourself in 3 years. Meet some of the people who have been doing this strange but very impacting project with minimum 3 years worth of work!
Read more about the people who popularized the digital Self-portraits phenomenon…
