Christopher Bingham

There's something distinct about Christopher Bingham, aka Bing, and it's his voice. Bing is really good at shouting and he does it quite often in video appearances.

Bing is a creative soul and I get a lot of enjoyment from his sketches and his vlogs. Here is a really good and insightful vlog I adore called 'You Will Love Boring Things'.

He has a couple channels, Slomozovo and Bing Radio. Slomozovo he uses mainly for sketches and little videos more on the acting side and bingradio he describes as 'A channel of talking, travel and life advice from Christopher Bingham.' 
Bingradio holds Bing's completed, massive two year project called 'Past Bing Future Bing'. PBFB is a conversation in time where 'Past Bing' made a video everyday in 2011 and in 2012 'Future Bing' answered back everyday. The channel holds other things now, doing the whole talking, traveling, and life advice thing.

The most popular video on Slomozovo is 'The Bothering', one of my favorites that features Bing and his sister Jenny. It definitely serves to showcase Bing's shouting abilities. That video has over 378,000 views.


Bing has been working on a lot of projects lately, like making a musical album. He's also joined fellow youtubers Craig and Matt to help with an app called I'm Actin' Here! Bing has even another YouTube channel called 'Talk' His description of Talk is 'TALK is a discussion channel bringing creators who like to talk together to discuss ideas and issues.'
Basically, it's a platform to encourage pleasant debates amongst themselves via video form and viewers through the comment section. While at PlayList Live, I got to attend Bing's Talk panel and listen to a few Brits and one American talk about Talk and discuss some of the issues they've visited on the channel. It was very well done and is one of those great examples that goes towards one of my favorite reasons for loving youtubers--they aren't always just a pretty face, but can be so intelligent as well.

Video suggestions coming soon

Bing's YouTube: Slomozovo / BingRadio

Bing's twitter: www.twitter.com/slomozovo

One on One : Superman Fan Film

There is this place in Illinois called Metropolis. It's actually real. It's the home of the annual Superman festival, geeked to the max s you can imagine. (Yes, I want to go one day, duh.)

One of the activities that goes on at the festival besides the costume contest, celebrity meet-ups, and the like, is a fan film festival. About a year ago, I watched this great video that had won at some point and I recently found it again. The video is called 'One on One' and I assume is by Jake Thomas as the credits says 'One on One' is a Jake Thomas film. It was uploaded to FanSuperFilms' YouTube so I couldn't find too much information about the actual people who made it and acted in it, but the video on this channel has over 14,000 views to date. It is well worth watching, I think, even for people who aren't big Superman fans.

'One on One'

The message of the short film as well as the acting, casting, scripting, filming, editing, and production is all very well done. 'One on One' is a film that will leave you thinking and will end with twists you probably didn't see coming.







I highly recommend it. Apply it to your life, your faith, your surroundings. You can apply in some way, I assure you.

www.supermanconnection.net

Benjamin Cook

He's really easy to spot in a crowd, especially at a YouTube gathering. All you have to do is spot fire-engine red hair and you've probably found Ben Cook.

Ben is a nice lad from England with a lip ring, a good sense of humor, and a video-making passion.
His channel, ninebrassmonkeys, has over 165,000 subscribers as of now and serves as a platform for his projects of a documentary that tries to cover nearly every aspect of YouTube to be addressed. His first installment of BecomingYouTube has well over half a million views. The twelve 20-30 minute episodes include the issue's address, interviews with popular youtubers, skits, and even singing sometimes...well once. [The song is available on itunes with proceeds going to charity.]

In addition to the episodes that were originally promised to be released weekly but actually took a year to completely publish, ninebrassmonkeys also includes bonus footage from the series like a special interview with Tom 'TomSka on asdfmovie!'


BecomingYouTube has been  great success. I sincerely wish I had made it to the panel about it at PlaylistLive like I had wanted to, however I did attend two other different panels with Ben in which he said he has three big, new projects coming up in the near future.
He was also a big part of the production of the short film Project: Library that came out last October.


Ben's documentary is very well made and thought-provoking. I guarantee you that watching BecomingYouTube will not be a waste of time.

 

Ben's channel:www.youtube.com/ninebrassmonkeys

Ben's twitter: https://twitter.com/benjamin_cook

Here is a very sunny picture of us at PlayList

 BecomingYouTube merch: http://ninebrassmonkeys.bigcartel.com

Christian Novelli

He likes the Fish Eye lens, foxes, sweaters, instruments, and he's one of the sweetest and most caring youtubers out there. His name is Christian Novelli.

Christian has almost 290,000 subscribers on his channel TouchTheSkyFilms.

He's super encouraging all the time over any and every media he's on. His most popular video to date with over 306,000 views is called '46 Reasons To Exist,' and is just that.

The Seattle boy's tweets are kind of the best ever because Christian is a little wacky and a lot of silly. His tweets don't always make much sense and they're random without fail, but they never fail to bring a smile to my face.

'Thinking maybe I need to reinvent myself & become cooler. I will start by doing a few jumps & also spinning around a bit. Hope this works'

'Skateboarding rly fast & they tell me to slow down but I say nope. I do a kickflip over everyone & I’m not even sorry that much'

Christian always tries his best to reply to people and he tries so hard to inspire happiness and let people know he cares.

'I am seriously glad ur alive !!!!!!'


'Take some time to acknowledge the things that u appreciate instead of focusing on what bothers u !!!!! It feels way better probably!!!'

Christian always titles his YouTube videos with a comma at the end which has become his signature.
He makes encouraging videos like 'Whenever You're Sad,'  and 'YOU WILL HAVE A GOOD DAY,' and advice videos such as 'How To Make Friends,' 'Getting Out of Uncomfortable Situations,' and 'How To Have Cool Hair,'. He also makes pretty random videos and ones with beautiful artistic clips.

Other Video Suggestions:

'SLEEP STORY,'

'Haunted Coffee,'

The Cloud Song,'

'Christian Draws His Life,'

'My Missing Letter,'

Christian's YouTube: www.youtube.com/touchtheskyfilms

Christian's twitter:  www.twitter.com/christianovelli

Playlist Live 2014

Now, I've mentioned before that I went to a YouTube convention called VidCon this last summer. That was the 4th year of Vidcon, but in addition to that summer one, there is a spring convention on the East Coast called Playlist Live. I was able to go to the 4th of those as well which happened just this last weekend.

I hadn't been planning on attending because I went to VidCon and the event didn't line up with my university's spring break, but the plan came together on a spur a week before while I was in Key Largo and was becoming sad that I was in Florida and all these lovely people I enjoy were going to be in Florida the next week. Things came together quickly and unexpectedly and I have my grandparents and friends Rikki and Emma to thank for helping me make the trip happen.
I don't know, though, there's something so exciting about last-minute trips for me.

So Playlist Live in Orlando happened and I was there and I got to hug my favorites again.

 Hugging Phil, my absolute favorite <3

I don't want to put Playlist down, but yes, I did vastly prefer VidCon. A lot of people are upset about the lack of organization and control Playlist had, but to be fair they introduced more than twice the amount of people they had entertained the year before. The weekend was made up of a lot of trial and error. So in terms of the event, VidCon was better, but for myself, I had a much better social time in Orlando at  Playlist.

Jack and me trying to be dashing

For Playlist, I was able to stay in the hotel/resort where all of the youtubers and many attendees were and where the whole convention went down. [Special thanks to Rikki, her mom, and Cori for kindly letting me stay with them.] Being on site was so nice, but I also got to meet and hang out with a lot of people I talk to and had the opportunity to make a lot of good friendships. Even though it was a bit harder to bump into the internet celebs than at VidCon, I came to this convention feeling more organized and adult as a person and so had very lovely interactions with some, like a wonderful, long conversation with Jack Howard. Something that meant the most to me from that weekend was the fact that I was able to not be just a fan, but be a fellow person with people like Jack and Tom, and that a few days later when I got to see them again, they both remembered me. For someone who looks up to these people and enjoys their content, that is an amazing, amazing thing to know and a wonderful feeling to have experienced.

I'm not sure I can express to you how deeply I appreciate these people I look up to. They're more of celebrities to me than music artists and movie stars. Their status level is pretty perfect because they can have pretty normal lives and don't get crowded with fans unless they're at specific events like VidCon or PlayList Live.

Tom and Jack 

 

 That being the case, most of them [at least the ones that I respect and love] don't have the celebrity mindset of  'eternally-cooler-than-thou, don't-touch-me-I'm-famoose.'

They're really down-to-earth, loving, and genuine. My experience with Jack and Tom is probably my favorite memory of PlayList. I couldn't get over how genuine the guys were. It blew me away and just really expanded the love I already had for them. I had met them both before just for a picture [and an awkward elevator ride with Jack and Dean], but basically being me only asking for a picture, saying thanks, and going on. Jack took the time to converse with me and Tom did me a wonderful favor by recording a special video message for my little sister who loves his asdfmovie series.

I could definitely go on about them, but that's enough I'm sure. Basically, the youtubers I adore are super amazing and genuine people which makes me adore them even more.

Tyler Oakley meetup with Cori

I'm so grateful to have gotten the opportunity to go see everyone again and meet new people and make new friends. I'm afraid that since I've gotten a taste of YouTube conventions twice now, I'm never going to want to stop going to them. We'll see what the future brings.

Thank so much to everyone I got to meet, YouTube people and Twitter people. I love you and this wonderful community. <3

hugging Dan <3

Here is not everyone I met, but the channels of those I've mentioned in this post:

Phil - AmazingPhil

Jack - Jack Howard

[also 1/2 of omfgitsJackandDean]

Tom - TomSka

Tyler - Tyler Oakley

Dan - danisnotonfire

WW Commercials

My friends and I have been having fun at college too. 

We can be quite silly, but we're pretty proud of what silly produces. 

I don't like to self-promote, but this is more about my friends than me, although I am super proud of these videos we've been making.

What is becoming a video series started very randomly one day when we were all straightening our hair. For some reason, we grabbed a phone, hit record and made a little video of it. And so started the WW Commercials. 

That first video became a fake commercial for 'WW Salon,' a hair business run by a white girl with an unnatural oriental accent. Aubrey played the customer with a big-hair dilemma and Megan 'fixed her up.'

We had so much fun with that video that we knew immediately we wanted to do more like it and so just recently we uploaded another called 'WW Gym.'  

WW Gym offers a special 8-hour program with immediate results.

Megan and Aubrey had the same type of roles as each took in 'WW Salon' as owner and customer, but were very different people with a very different service. Rachael popped in again with a random role, being the CEO instead of a customer this time.

The short length of the first video was fitting and this one just ended up longer, but I think it was fitting just as much.

We like the random factor of our videos. We don't plan what video we're doing next or script everything out. The WW videos start with an idea and more ideas come from every mind and every direction. We have a general outline of what we want to happen and we go from there. Lots of things happen on the spot and we just fly with it. Too many takes can dull what we're doing so we minimize them. It works for us.

I mainly stay behind the camera, but I'm not complaining at all! I really like bringing things together with the filming and editing and occasional directing. This last video is better than the first we think and I know they'll continue to get better!

But who cares anyway? We're doing this because it's fun.

So check out my channel if you like.

www.youtube.com/outoftheazure

Thank you for reading what I write.

It's been about a month and a half since I've started blogging about vlogging and I'd like to thank everyone who reads regularly or occasionally for the support.

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Blogging about something I like and people I love is a very nice assignment. The research is always insanely fun to go about doing and even more so if I've met who I'm writing about and have fond personal memories of that experience. Each post does take more time to write than I first thought it would, and I know they're usually not very long, but I always hope I'm getting better and that what I write will do enough justice to the person being written about.

I always love to look at the statistics for this blog. I'm proud to say that this section of the blogger website has gotten over 600 views to date. My very favorite thing to keep track of is the audience though because I'm such a lover of culture and different countries. Every time a new country appears on my list, it gives off such an excitement. There are 22 different countries that have come to bloggingaboutvlogging, so thank you very much for that piece of joy! I know I have quite a few foreign friends to thank for supporting me.

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There have been two youtubers I've written about who have read the posts about them and responded nicely to me. Whenever this happens, I get so nervous and just hope and pray that I got all the facts right and that the simple little text of the blog lives up to their greatness. I truly have so much love for everyone I write about. These people are my kind of celebrities, but they're the best kind I think because they allow relationships to be made with them. VidCon was more amazing to me than sticking me in a room with music, TV, and movie stars would ever be. If you gave me the choice between seeing my youtuber crush Phil Lester or my movie crush Logan Lerman, I'd pick Phil in a heartbeat even though I've already met him and I haven't met Logan. That's just how much I adore these people. They're super real. But anyways, thanks to Megan and Jamie Jo for the sweet notes about the blog.

Like I said before, I hope to keep improving. There are a lot of youtubers out there and so I don't think I'll be running out of subjects anytime soon! Stick around; let's make this grow. Thanks always for stopping by this URL. <3