The coolest thing happened today. It all started with an excited and frantic phone call from Ali, who was waiting to tell someone about this. Tejas was busy, and Romit was being stubborn - he just refused to believe it. But this actually happened.
It all started back when...
Tejas Menon, a very good friend of mine, got entangled in the world of blogging, and quite unknowingly started his own Vlog (a video blog - yeah that phrase does exist) on youtube. I followed, and then it was Romit's turn. What we do, when we are really really bored, is make videos. The Backstreet Boys were our inspiration. We just had to deride their gayness, and that lead to the rise of 'The Frontroad Mans'. (wait, read on, you will find out more) We made a video imitating the Backstreet Boys - with all the 'Yeah's and the 'I Want It That Way's. We then dwelled into other spheres of videography and also tried to make a scary video (it wasn't successful so we called it 'Not So Scary'), some 'Matrix Shit', a news report, a puppet show, a music video (literally) and lots more. So what we did was that we put it up on the World Wide Web for the public to see. And we were waiting for some kind of a reaction. We got views but no comments. We brave souls didn't give in and kept uploading videos, still waiting anxiously for some reaction. That's when Ali's phone call comes into context.
Ali told me to go check out this link, and it left me flabbergasted. We were the topic of discussion for the past two days among some people we don't know because they came across our video on the internet. How cool is that? He had his roots in Dubai and therefore watched our video, more precisely our first production - 'The Frontroad Mans - Incomplete'. Joseph Akkawi (he) put it up on his blog and there are two pages, yes two pages of comments on it. Unbelievable! And as Ali put it, 'We are famous!' I bet you are eager to see our videos now and the comments page too, so if you are as jobless as we are, do the following, you will enjoy it!
1. Visit this link - http://youtube.com/results?search=ali+romit+tejas+anish+harry&search_type=search_videos (This has all our uploaded videos - see as many as you want and do leave your comments. But definitely see Frontroad Mans - Incomplete)
2. The Visit the link below and watch how a bunch of people marveled about the video 'Frontroad Mans - Incomplete. http://www.phride.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12133
3. If you are really really jobless, also visit this link. My short-story, which I had written when I was in Grade 9, and which got published in a very amateur magazine - Young Times, caught the attention of some person. He liked it and put it up on his blog. I find that too cool. It is an okay story, but again the brilliance of the World Wide Web is what I want to highlight.
http://www.xanga.com/mukundh/72468088/item.html
The internet has certainly made the world smaller and has connected us, the people, all over the world. The connecting power of this medium is unbelievable and God bless the person who came up with this, that is if He, as in God exists.
P.S. Shrivats please comment on this. You can start off by telling me who this person is, as in the person who discovered the internet. I know I can just 'google' (I just love that word) it, but I am feeling very lazy, and it is a good excuse to get you to comment!
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its not that i didn't wanna believe it.... Rohith salim and Govind made me not believe Ali. Becoz of that whole Octopus thing. I read few of the comments..... shit man ..... it really kool.... and one them said(i dunno if its a joke or not)we should make these guys perform a gig... so kool. And one of them said......"that bsb video was very emotional".
Romit.
Im really quite pleased with the reactions of our(well mine...sort of)fellow countrymen even if some of them were negative. im looking forward to spending more time making videos and other jobless crap with you guys.cheers!
i have a blog now.
Well answering your q, (I wouldn't tell you to google I'd tell you to Wiki it!)
'Twas Tim Berners-Lee who invented the internet while at CERN (of Angels and Demons recent fame). You might find these links interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
(I wouldn't recommend getting into the debate on whether its the "internet" or the "Internet") :)
the comments were not wat excited me... neither was the 'fame' :P
but it was the fact that the videos which we made, and published on the world wide web, just for the heck of it, had been well, discovered by someone in dubai (someone probably as jobless as us) and these videos became a topic of amusement.
we, or atleast i, never expected anything like this to happen. my brother left one comment on the site itself, (something bout displaying our homosexuality on the internet :P) n i thought that that would be the most anyone would say.
but well, 3 pages of comments dedicated to one video (which we made out of sheer boredom, and nothing else!) is really something!
2 things : it really is a small world after all
And the internet is infact a wondrous product of technology and intelligence
well said in the blog, keep it up
anish this is a favour your doing me...tell everyone about my blog in yours then everyone will know...thats how popular, i feel this blog has become...well done
tejas, i just added a comment to your blog..and when i get the time, i will put a link up on my blog too..but thats when i get the time..
ALI.. jsut to get things straight..by u saying 'we are famous' i never meant u were excited about the fame, i was infact agreeing to that statement of urs..and also using it as a methond to make my blog-post interesting...
obv wht was exciting u and me..and all of us is exactly wht u said in ur post..so 'cheers' to that!
oh and btw..tejas and the rest of u 'cheers' gang...i know it sounds cool and all...but let us all stick to being who we are!..:P
dude...we are being who we are in doing as i have stated above in "other jobless crap".sorry for being so specific!i mean in the different things that we do as a group...the way we experiment and stuff.damn this thing can geet quite dangerous...(blogging i mean so as not to make the same mistake twice)cheers!
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