Posted on 11:07 PM | By KatieSham | In
I'm thinking most of you (I love that I talk like a bunch of people are reading this. LOVE IT.) don't know about my, somewhat strange, love of YouTube. So I'm going to enlighten you all.
A good portion of the people I know, only use YouTube for certain things. Things like, music videos, how-to's, and clips of TV/movies come to mind. But what I've realized, is that a lot of people don't even realize that there's another side of the website.
Aside from people uploading various copyrighted material, there is also the online community known as 'vloggers' (Video Blog-Vlog. OH HOW CLEVER.).
I stumbled upon a video of 'charlieissocoollike' back in the summer of 2007. One of his videos had been featured. Coincidentally, the video was titled, "How To Get Featured On YouTube". I went to his channel page and watched the few other videos he had uploaded previously. I was instantly hooked. Talking to a camera, about whatever you want, and having possibly thousands of people hearing what you have to say? That, my friend, is awesome.
So it went from there.
I'm not entirely sure of the order, but the number of people I'm subscribed to now borders somewhere along the 75 mark.
I just love hearing what other people have to say, not to mention some of them are just hilarious.
But one channel, has really captured my attention over the last year.
They're two brothers that started making videos January 1, 2007. I, sadly, didn't catch them until early January of 2008, but that's OK.
Starting on January 1st of 2007, each brother made a video, every other weekday, for an entire year. The really hard part? They couldn't 'textually' communicate for the entire duration of that year. Meaning, no texts, no emails, no letters, no cards, nothing.
One of the brothers is the fairly well known author, John Green. (Author of Looking For Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns)
I caught up one week when I was sick, and went from there. They continued to make videos all through last year and still do today.
My recommendation to you? Watch them, from the beginning. You WILL love them. Promise. Well, you will if you have that inner-nerd (or not so inner..) just waiting to shine through like I did..do.
So go, start from January 1, 2007 and move to now.
http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers
Do it.
Or I will be sad.
And we don't want that...right?
:D
I'm now off to continue to blow my nose ever other half minute and eat Popsicles until I can't taste anything else.
-Katie
[Edit: Didn't mean for this to run so long. OH WELL.]
A good portion of the people I know, only use YouTube for certain things. Things like, music videos, how-to's, and clips of TV/movies come to mind. But what I've realized, is that a lot of people don't even realize that there's another side of the website.
Aside from people uploading various copyrighted material, there is also the online community known as 'vloggers' (Video Blog-Vlog. OH HOW CLEVER.).
I stumbled upon a video of 'charlieissocoollike' back in the summer of 2007. One of his videos had been featured. Coincidentally, the video was titled, "How To Get Featured On YouTube". I went to his channel page and watched the few other videos he had uploaded previously. I was instantly hooked. Talking to a camera, about whatever you want, and having possibly thousands of people hearing what you have to say? That, my friend, is awesome.
So it went from there.
I'm not entirely sure of the order, but the number of people I'm subscribed to now borders somewhere along the 75 mark.
I just love hearing what other people have to say, not to mention some of them are just hilarious.
But one channel, has really captured my attention over the last year.
They're two brothers that started making videos January 1, 2007. I, sadly, didn't catch them until early January of 2008, but that's OK.
Starting on January 1st of 2007, each brother made a video, every other weekday, for an entire year. The really hard part? They couldn't 'textually' communicate for the entire duration of that year. Meaning, no texts, no emails, no letters, no cards, nothing.
One of the brothers is the fairly well known author, John Green. (Author of Looking For Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns)
I caught up one week when I was sick, and went from there. They continued to make videos all through last year and still do today.
My recommendation to you? Watch them, from the beginning. You WILL love them. Promise. Well, you will if you have that inner-nerd (or not so inner..) just waiting to shine through like I did..do.
So go, start from January 1, 2007 and move to now.
http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers
Do it.
Or I will be sad.
And we don't want that...right?
:D
I'm now off to continue to blow my nose ever other half minute and eat Popsicles until I can't taste anything else.
-Katie
[Edit: Didn't mean for this to run so long. OH WELL.]
Ha. I love how your new note on Facebook led here.
I have never really found any interesting vloggers, so maybe. But idk.
P.S. I have a book for you to read my nerd friend!
[Edit: I like long posts, it all good, my next post is going to be like a mini-novel. BE PREPARED!]
DUDEEEE. Brian, watch them.
And don't give up after the first week.
They are like, the epitome of a nerd. It is fantastic.
And I'd REALLY love it if I had someone else to talk about them to.
Besides my mom, who..doesn't actually watch them. :|
And if the book you're talking about is the one in your new post, I shall add it to my list.
If not...let..me know?\
That be the one, but I am also contemplating another after this one, but I NEED yo opinion, so don't let me forget to chit chat with you about it. okay? k.