stop-motion
12/15/2006
Me and My Cell Phone -- The Past 25 Years
It’s a fact: web viewers love them some stop-motion. Girl Takes Picture of Herself Every Day spawned a generation of wildly popular time-lapse videos. Following the viral popularity of both Web 2.0 and the Dove Campaign, YouTube must have tipped Verizon off to the fact that you really can’t go wrong with stop-motion.
Currently the most watched video on YouTube, this perfectly targeted ad is actually quite clever. Do you remember those big brick phones from the 80’s? I used to have one in my car “for emergencies” and it was so big that I could barely fit anything else in the armrest compartment. Pretty amazing!
My favorite part of this blast from the cell phone past viral is somewhere in the mid-80s, when beretswere some how cool. Oh and the scrabble pieces, how fun?
