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Jason Saenz and I teamed up for this year’s Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest.

6 finalists will be chosen for the award of $25,000 each! Fans will then vote for their top 3 which will air during the super bowl!

Here’s a link to the official entry:
http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/video/951

Special thanks to:
Jeremy and Vanessa, Keith’s Mom, Brooke and Rom, Ryan, Damian, Mike D, Brian W

Me at 250 frames per second. Shot on the Phantom HD which is capable of speeds up to 1,000fps in HD. Audio added for effect.

I spent Saturday helping out CJ’s film crew shoot some amazing HD footage in beautful Roxbury, CT.  The Phantom HD (pictured above) shoots 1 to 1,000 fps in HD. It’s a pretty amazing experience to see an insect fly in frame for a split second and then immediately be able to see  this detail more than thirty times slower. This is definitely the future of cinema. Here’s a set of photos of the shoot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithhopkin/sets/72157621999583736/

http://www.johnlockeisdead.com/

Is there a similarity here? Watch this:  

Then watch this:http://www.nutri-grain.com/TVSpot.aspx

Come to the UCB Theatre and see my Improv 301 final class performance!
Saturday February 28, 2009, 1pm

Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
307 W. 26th Street
New York, NY 10001

Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=63888894544

A few years ago a 24 spoof I created was pulled down from YouTube due to copyright infringement. One of my oldest video was pulled down last month by Warner Music Group due to audio copyright infringement. The video entitled “Stevie G” depicts an unusual moustached fellow (played by myself) taking a stroll to the supermarket set to the 80’s ZZ-Top hit Sharp Dressed Man. Fortunately YouTube now offers “Audio Swap” which lets you swap out the audio with one of their approved music tracks. Unfortunately for Stevie G this really changes the vibe.

Original Video:

New Video:

Excerpted from email from YouTube:

“…A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video Stevie G. The audio content identified in your video is Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top. We regret to inform you that your video has been blocked from playback due to a music rights issue…”

“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG.”

Get in the holiday spirit and add your message to the World Wide Yule Log brought to you by Drillteam Marketing.

It’s an interactive LED scroller brodcasted from the Drillteam offices via webcam.

I love Pandora and don’t mind the full page ads. In fact I think they’re generally well designed and interesting. But what if you don’t want to look at the ads. You can browse straight to the SWF in your browser and Pandora still functions as a radio player:

https://www.pandora.com/radio/tuner_8_7_0_0_pandora.swf

A lot of the other functionality is lost though.