Only three things left!
My last post was rather Youtube-heavy, and so when I read the post and listened to the podcast for Thing #20, my brain was sort of still in "video game videos" mode. So the first video I'm embedding is a Youtube-heavy appropriate video...about the "Heavy" class in Team Fortress 2, the first of many viral videos Valve used to promote The Orange Box before it was released. It is appropriately titled "Meet the Heavy."
Youtube is a great thing to use for viral marketing, for video games, movies, and all sorts of other things. They've even started to do trailers for books! How awesome would that be if we were able to do something similar for the display books in the library?
For instance, right now I'm reading the Newberry Award-winner, The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman. I've heard his voice before, as he reads his novel Stardust for the audio book version of it.
HarperKids, presumably the youth division of HarperCollins has posted this trailer for The Graveyard Book:
A friend of mine told me last night that Gaiman had been on The Colbert Report, and rather than talk about Coraline, he talked about The Graveyard Book. I don't watch much television, and I haven't watched Colbert's show for some time now, but in order to test the validity of the Thing saying how quickly things are uploaded, I decided to look for the clip. Part of me was scared at the notion that it may not be there, due to copyrights, but ho! Here it is!
The fact that Gaiman mentions Art Spiegelman is just a bonus. It is also very hard not to giggle while sitting in the back room of PS and watching this video.
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