Another perfect example of why intellectual property law needs to be updated in order to be relevant in today’s new music ecosytem. Ophir Kutiel, aka Kutiman, is scoring more than a million view with this collage/mashup of youtube amateurs musician videos. Copying ? derrivative ? def not. Wired magazine is running a great interview of Kutiman Here. Worth reading.

This one is one of the orginal sample used to create this:

This might be my top skateboarding part ever. Pat Duffy from Plan B “the questionable video”. I remember the night i first saw it, was blown away. His riding was hardcore, massive tech and innovative at the the same time. Make sure to check the last part where he is shreding a rail under the rain with sooooooo much class; The use of the slow motion mixing original sounds with “riders on the storm” from The Doors is just perfect. One of the most influential line footage of my life.

Music:

This Mortal Coil - Andialu

Primus - Tommy the Cat

The Doors - Riders On the Storm

Gambling Youtube no more ?

From Youtube’s blog:

Video view counts reflect the YouTube community’s interests and the grassroots popularity of videos. We periodically make changes that allow us to display consistent view counts and accurately reflect a “real” view based on video consumption, video streaming and spam filtering. Unfortunately, a few people still try to artificially manipulate their video’s view counts. Some people game third-party view counts as well. That can make things unfair for everyone.

Recently, we found spamming issues associated with the view counts on a small number of videos. The inflated view count number on these videos will be frozen until actual views catch up to the published, artificial, view count. Also, a few people have commented that their view counts are updating more slowly. Occasionally the speed with which views update changes — sometimes it’s faster and sometimes it’s slower. But we are always working to make sure that the final view count numbers are an accurate reflection of the community’s interest.

Michelle Schlachta
Community Manager
The YouTube Team

i just realized that i started riding bmx when i was 7 … so minus a 8 years hiatus, i been riding on and off since 30 years. crazy. so i just a made a little remix from an old school video part of me circa early 90’s and added into it some recent footages. enjoy.