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Ultimate Break Dance Battle: Joker vs Batman

By Andrew Ledwith on June 12, 2009 • Share • 1 Comment

We all liked The Dark Knight. We all like clever YouTube videos. And, if we’re honest with ourselves, we all like to watch break dance battles. If you combined all these elements what you’d have is Bboy Joker, an interactive break dance competition in stop-motion pitting Batman against the Joker.

Interactive, you say? Yes! You, the viewer, aren’t just watching the action, you’re controlling it. You actually dance as either Batman or the Joker. I did mention this all done on YouTube, not some game site, right? The blog 10,000 Words explains: “The interactivity is created by overlaying annotations on top of the video. Annotations were previously used solely as captions or speech balloons leading viewers to another site for more information related to the video. Now they are transforming YouTube from a static video player to a tool for engaging the audience.”

Check it out and let me know what you think. Click here for some more interactive YouTube videos.

The Dark Knight [No Spoilers]

By Andrew Ledwith on July 18, 2008 • Viewpoint • 0 Comments

Last night I went to a midnight presentation of The Dark Knight. It’s the first time in over a year that I’ve gone to a midnight premiere (the last time was for Transformers). It’s also the first time all summer I’ve selfishly taken advantage of the fact that I don’t have to go to my office job until 12:30 PM each day. I want to give you some of my impressions, but without giving away any of the plot for the majority of you who probably still haven’t seen it. But before I even do that I want to tell you the story about how I managed to get tickets at the last second.

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