You thought Awards Season 2008 winding down. Well, I am happy to inform you that you thought wrong! In addition to the Tonys (June 15th), there is another, lesser known round of awards coming up. It may not be The Oscars, but everyone’s favorite boredom banishing website, YouTube, is putting on its own little round of awards. This is the second year that YouTube will be honoring the best and brightest (and craziest) of the millions of submissions that the sight hosts. The 2007 YouTube Video Awards is not actually an awards show, but a website where user-generated video submitions have been nominated under twelve catagories, such as, comedy, creative, short film, and instructional. But hey, all bets are that it will be a whole heck of a lot more entertaining than the Golden Globes were this year, or (cringe) The Peoples’ Choice Awards. And in fact it is. I spent sometime this morning clicking around the site, and it is definatley fun to surf through all the categories, watch a couple videos, and vote for the ones you like.
The videos on display represent a mix of very well-known videos–like the “Let me Borrow that Top” episode of the Kelly videos that even my Disney-channel-crazed-1o-year old sister has watched– to less famous but still intriguing videos– like the one under “Creative” of a guy who draws the Mona Lisa on Microsoft Paint. Although while watching the videos I found myself wondering: who chose the nominees? The site doesn’t really say. Oh well, it’s YouTube, right? Whatever.
Interesting as well is the category “Eyewitness”, which recognizes excellence in being at the right place at the right time, with a camera, and capturing something unbelievable–like a close up of a lightning strike. Now, you don’t find stuff like that at the People’s Choice Awards.
Voting for the videos continues through tomorrow, March 19th– so fulfill your civic YouTube duty now– have some fun and vote while you still can.
–Arielle Little
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