Somebody please give these guys whatever they need to make this into a feature.
A great retrospective motion graphics piece from the best thing the millenium's offered us so far.
Taking the Old Spice social media gimmick to new levels, Rice Pirate made an amazing motion graphics piece (with especially commendable voice work) out of an angry commenter's review of an RPG.
Post something anywhere on the internet and it just might become another's magnum opus.
[reposting an old popten post I wrote ages ago - original here ]
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It's a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google's ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al's White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the victor, I figured I should try rounding up the soundtrack to geeks' most epic of victories. Which is a surprisingly monumental task, mostly because I'm realizing that there are so many subgenres to geek music. In researching this list, I came up with a few categories for Geek Anthems: Mainstream Geek Jams, Geek Metal, Nerdcore Rap, Video Game Themes and Meme Songs. (Hip Hop's geekery-masked-as-hardcore is a whole different post. At the end of the day, who's really made geekiness more legit than the Wu Tang Clan?) Now for the second challenge- how to quantify what makes one geek anthem better than the next. Popularity? Geekiness of lyrics? Hardcoreness of dorkitude? Sheer bombastic nerdery? Nostalgia factor? I did my best. I'm sure I'll hear some flack over my choices, what I forgot (let me know) and the order- but the title says Top Ten, and so shall I attempt it. Because the choice was so hard, I have a whole section at the bottom full of geek anthems that should've been Top Ten.
I'm a Senior Strategist for digital creative agency Big Spaceship, leading strategy for a number of clients including Skittles and Crayola. I wrote and produced the virtual world documentary Second Skin and am the managing editor for the pop culture blog Popten.
I'm a Senior Strategist for digital creative agency Big Spaceship, leading strategy for a number of clients including Skittles and Crayola. I wrote and produced the virtual world documentary Second Skin and am the managing editor for the pop culture blog Popten.
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