Tag Archives: vernacular video

Want to know what the future of Vimeo is? Look at the Dick Van Dyke show. Bruce Sterling shows how to think about the future: start with the past. He's not the first to say it, but he puts it together with as much brio and precision as anybody.

Gaming culture meets graffiti meets vernacular video insanity. Video after the jump.

Are you doing the Boston Typewriter? Perhaps we're lucky that when it comes to marketing, viral video has its limits.

Chris Beckman's short film "oops" stitches together appropriated camera-drop pratfalls from uploaded videos to suggest a network of serendipitous mishap. Video after the jump.

An animated reverse-history of communications media that goes from apps to web to video to clay to slate and chalk. In six seconds.

Is it play? Turf-defending aggression? Or the dysfunctional behavior of captive animals?