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[YouTubeUlar] <— 5,145 I'm no expert by any means... but I do impose a question. When viewing the above video about technology being the solution for autism — Has anybody thought about technology being the creator of autism? Autism birth rates: 1970 - 1 in 10,000 1995 - 1 in 1,000 2012 - 1 in 88 ?

Chris Newman – Chopper Flight School

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[YouTubeUlar] <— 33 views Tagging along with Devin Super Tramps latest Insane Rope Swing Video is Chris Newman’s guide to getting started with Chopper Flight School. Chris runs CineChopper.com and is going to provide a great resource to those of us looking to jump into this fun world of playing with really expensive toys. Luckily it is NOT that pricy to get up and running.

Here is his list of things you need to get started.
Blade MQX Quadcopter Ready to Fly Version (RTF)

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Blade MQX Quadcopter Bind and Fly Version (BNF)
with one of these…
Spektrum DX6i Transmitter (TX, Remote Control)

Or this controller with software bundle…
Phoenix R/C Pro Simulator (Windows only) with Spektrum DX5e

And don’t forget some batteries…
MQX Batteries

Thanks for the tutorials Chris. Looking forward to more.

[CineChopper – Homepage]
[CineChopper – Facebook] <— 42 likes [CineChopper – YouTube] <— 136 subscribers 022713 mQX Quad Copter Purchase List

Shane Koyczan – To This Day

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[YouTubeUlar] <— 4,684,243 Bring back poetry. Thanks Shane. See this live.

Upon listening to Shane Koyczan present some of his poetry, I’m reminded of Sarah Kay and her TED Talks from 2011.

More Often Than Sometimes – Watch another

“Shut Up and Say Something” – iTunes

[Shane Koyczan – Homepage]
[Shane Koyczan – Facebook] <— 23,609 likes [Shane Koyczan – YouTube] <— 30,087 subscribers

Code.org – This Is My Office

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Great coders… are today’s rock stars. That’s it!

Beautiful work by Hadi Partovi from code.org for creating a pretty remarkable video about ideas, coding, and awesomeness from the leaders of today.

Steve Jobs – Apple
Bill Gates – Microsoft
Jack Dorsey – Twitter
Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
Vanessa Hurst – Girl Develop It
Ruchi Sangvi – Dropbox
Drew Houston – Dropbox
Elena Silenok – Clothia.com
Gabe Newell – Valve
Chris Bosh – Miami Heat
Makinde – Facebook
Tony Hsieh – Zappos
Bronwen Grimes – Valve
will.i.am – The Black Eyed Peas

Genius.

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Jesse Lakes – GeoRiot

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[YouTubeUlar] <— 479 A long time in the making and a lot of hard work, GeoRiot now has a pretty face to put in front of their affiliate clicks program. Back in the day when we conceptualized Ski Movie Music and figured out we weren’t getting paid on more than half the affiliate links being clicked, we realized we had a problem. Finally, after writing an entire book on Mastering the iTunes Affiliate Program and actually working for Apple on the subject, Jesse Lakes finally created a solution — GeoRiot.

[GeoRiot – Every Click Counts]

Awesomeness Lakes.

[Jesse Lakes on Idea Mensch]

Snubby J’s – Original PVC Instrument

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[YouTubeUlar] <— 5,407,693 Soon to be future Blue Man Group extraordinaire Snubby J‘s video is touring the interManets yet again. I’m actually surprised it took over 2 years to reach me, but that’s how the webs works sometimes. Not every viral campaign moves as fast as The Harlem Shake.

This feed came through TJ Fry and has a surprisingly good list of songs.

Songs are…
-Office Theme Song (0:18)
-Linus and Lucy (0:38)
-Turkish March (1:13)
-Mario Brothers Theme (1:27)
-In the Hall of the Mountain King (1:54)
-Bad Romance (2:07)
-Viva La Vida (2:50)
-Like a Virgin (3:03)
-Crazy Train (3:23)
-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (4:01)
-James Bond Theme (4:15)
-Pirates of the Caribbean Theme (4:35)
-The Final Countdown (featuring my friend, Quin) (4:56)

This kid is making moves now showing up in Pringles ads and with his music now available on iTunes.

[Snubby J – Facebook] <— 29,376 likes [Snubby J – YouTube] <— 55,059 subscribers [Contributing Article]

Alex Khadiwala – Life Moments

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From: Alex Khadiwala

To all of you, my closest friends and family, I want to say that I love you.

I say this today in particular in memory of my late father who passed 16 years ago today. It has not been easy to be without the incredible man who was my father as I go through life. But I like to think that the final lesson I learned from my father that this is life. Something fleeting and temporary. Each moment can not be reproduced and should be treated as such. This lesson has taught me to appreciate each one of these moments. Furthermore, I have learned that the people that we experience these moments with and who make most of these moments so special are also temporary. Health and life are precious and fragile things. I understand this through and through.

With this final lesson from my father, I try to live each day appreciating every moment, and every experience; acknowledging and understanding how special each one is.

But as a the question goes, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, is there a sound? Each moment is not nearly as important nor memorable as it is when we can share these moments with the ones we love and care about.

So, on this important day, I’d like to take a moment to tell you all that I love you all. You make my life important and make me happy to live each of these moments that I have the opportunity to live.

I look forward to every moment we spend together, all the experiences we share, and all the great food and music we enjoy with an expression of bassface.

With all my heart and my sincere love,
Alex

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Alex – thank you for sharing – you are awesome!

Having also recently lost my father I too cherish the moments that we consider the right here and right now. I believe that is something I have always been particularly good at, but when you lose someone or something that is particularly important to you, it is funny how you are somehow re-reminded to cherish the important people and things that are still in your life.

For you to take the time to reflect about your father and then to share it with your friends means a lot to me and I feel privileged to be included. I wish we all did more thinking, reflecting and especially sharing… Just like you have now :)

Love you dude!

Rock on!
Greg Hydle

Harlem Shake – Hydle Edition

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[iTunes – Harlem Shake – Single – Baauer]

We shot a Harlem Shake at Bent Gate’s Silverton Sick Days this past Wednesday. It’s worth a socially creative review as this could be the fastest growing viral campaign ever.

“The Harlem Shake” Timeline of Events

  • 1981 — The dance was originally coined in 1981 as a drunk dance by a Harlem resident and creator “Al B”

    “it’s a drunken shake anyway, it’s an alcoholic shake, but it’s fantastic, everybody appreciates it.”

  • 2001 — It was featured in a G Dep – Let’s Get It – Music Video.

  • 2012 — An electronic producer named Baaur out of Brooklyn uploaded the Harlem Shake (HQ Full Version) on May 10th, 2012. Unrelated at the time, a vlogger known as FilthyFrank uploads this video while dancing to Skrillex.

  • 2013 — On January 23rd, 2013 – 2 weeks after Baaur’s “The Harlem Shake” dropped on iTunes, still unrelated FilthyFrank uploads this “How To Dubstep”video with his character PINK GUY. At this time, his facebook page which claims he “once tripped and had anal sex with himself” has less than 4,500 likes.

    On January 30th he uploads his Compilation #6 – Smell My Fingers video with the Harlem Shake short introduction. This video still only has 322,347 views, but his viewers were asking for more shake. So on February 2nd – he gives them the original Harlem Shake which now has over 10,900,000 views.


    “yall naughty fellas wanted the full separate version of HARLEM SHAKE SO HERE IT IS.

    SHARE IT WITH YO FRANS XOXO

    ♥”

  • Over the next 2 days, 257 of Filthy Frank’s fans share the video, 908 like it and 84 people comment on his original post. A Filthy Remix even pops up and somewhere in the mix people start uploading their own versions. A few of the early videos gained even more views than Filthy Frank’s original, so he re-posted the original to his now growing facebook fan-base on February 6th…

    “some swagfag guys made a harlem shake video right after ours and it’s obviously copied. and it’s getting crazy views. but we stand strong, because we have the power of each individual filthy character. don’t forget where you came from, and stay filthy.”

    This repost gained another 105 shares, 1,239 likes and 116 comments to propel the Harlem Shake to the masses of the interManets. The competition was on and the creatives started uploading. ImAfricanJesus began a playlist of his Harlem Shake consumptions. CollegeHumor was #9 on the list. By February 9th ImAfricanJesus quit adding Harlem Shakes to his consumption playlist stopping at 47 videos.

  • On February 8th, the new york times posted an article relating winter storm Nemo + the Harlem Shake as a way to pass your time while being stuck indoors. Filthy Frank posts the article and it gains 38 shares, 858 likes and 150 comments from his fan base. The Chive, Break, Buzzfeed, and Maker Studios out of LA created job campaigns out of their versions of the Harlem Shake which proved the shake could definitely be used for marketing traction. Musical talent Matt and Kim even jumped into the mix.

  • A good friend of mine, Jason McWilliams, preached the Harlem Shake to Copper Mountain Ski Area on Saturday, February 9th. By February 11th, around 12,000 “Harlem Shake” videos had been posted with a collective 44 million views. One of my favorite and most creative versions was posted by the UGA Men’s Swim and Dive team on February 11th.

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  • On February 12th, Copper Mountain dropped their Harlem Shake creation, which is when I first took notice of the completely random sensation. We recorded our random version on February 13th in Silverton, CO and nearly had the mountain convinced to shoot and upload what I still believe would be the most epic Harlem Shake ever. Conceptually you couldn’t beat a helicopter hovering behind a bunch of Bent Gate Silverton Sick Days skiers and riders dancing their asses off by the rental bus at Silverton. I blame myself, and partially Devin Rhinehart for not TSOIGDH’ng and following through with this one.

  • By Valentines Day the number of “Harlem Shake” uploads had increased to 40,000 with a collective viewership of 175 million views. Thank YouTubeTrends for the February 12th writeup.
    Harlem Shake Upload Rate
  • The Today Show ripped their own version on February 14th, officially killing the interManets viral meme formerly known as the “Harlem Shake”. To put an exclamation point on it, McWilliams walled me this one just to be sure. Filthy Frank now has over 47,000 likes and 125,000 YouTube Subscribers and overall he seems pretty modest about creating the sensation and actually makes fun of his post Harlem Shake audience.

    • This completes your Hydle write up and review of what catalysts enabled a creative meme to go Viral. I’m actually pretty surprised the Adelia Shake didn’t take off.

    The song is still Number 1 on iTunes.

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    Happy Belated Valentine’s Day

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    Valentines Day

    We were all brought up thinking that the heart that you see for Valentine’s day is similar to the Human Heart Organ. That cannot be farther from the truth. Heart Organs are oblong and have a bunch of nasty looking arteries and ventricles coming out of them. The attached photo shows clearly the true origin of the Valentine heart.

    I hope you learned something today.
    Happy Belated Valentine’s Day