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What’s Up Vevo?

Written by Amy on Monday, February 8th, 2010 ( Start discussion ) | Heart It! (4) | Share This!

First, WTF is Vevo, right?

Unless you’ve been looking for a music video by an artist sign by one of the few record companies that have signed deals with Vevo, chances are you haven’t even seen the Vevo logo.

Vevo started out with a celebrity packed opening, yet bumpy. Some of the musicians that day were Lady Gaga, Rhianna, Mariah, Taylor Swift, and even Justin Timberlake… but nobody cares if your platform is buggy. Users complained of slow “buffering” times, wondering why it was buffering instead of streaming. International users were shown a big splash saying they couldn’t use Vevo because it was only for US residents, however, some US users were also given the big splash for no apparent reason.

In short, very few people like Vevo for one reason or the other.

Some can’t use it, some others hate the waiting, others hate the buggy player, others hate the loading time, others (those who get to use it) hate the music collection… you know, since there are no indie labels.

Then, YouTube began using specific Vevo links, which seems to work for non-US users. However, loading times are still an issue. Add to that that it seems to be very random when it decides to not let non-US users watch videos. For example, I can watch some videos on my WinXP computer, but I can’t wtch them on the Vista I’ve got at home. Both are same location, and same internet connection. What gives?

Vevo: What’s the Deal
5 Tips to Make Vevo Better

Add to that International viewing.

Filed under: English, Music, Rants
Tags: internet, justin timberlake, no international, only u.s, rhianna, taylor swift, web, youtube

Full Cycle YAM – 007

Written by Amy on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 ( One response ) | Heart It! (2) | Share This!

Congrats, Amy! You’ve made it a year!
Now please, get to work on that website you’ve been talking about all this time.

Yeah, where is Nate? Yeah, that. Nate and I are working on something else, which is nothing at the moment… just a random gig, which will hopefully fuel our bank accounts a bit and let us work on YAM fully for a month or two…

yam007_Dec09

This is Julz 2nd straight cover. Hooray! Omedetou!!!

In it she covered the Stockholm Film Festival… met Susan Sarandon xD, there’s a Q&A with Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, reviews for Precious, Up in the Air, Koreeda’s Air Doll, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, The Cove, Thirst, Dexter Season 4, Sasameki Koto, Family Outing, Les Amants Papillons, 2pm, Shinee, Rihanna, The Swell Seasons, Crowd Lu and more! Oh yeah! There’s also a Julz BSB concert review of their Worldwide This Is Us tour, and some Eva Ayllon. Coz we love variety…

check it out over here.

Filed under: Books, Chinese, English, Films, French, Fun, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Music, Reviews, Sharing, Spanish, Swedish, Television
Tags: backstreet boys, crowd lu, dexter, download, family outing, film festival, kore-eda, maps of the sounds of tokyo, online magazine, precious, rhianna, stockholm, up in the air, westlife, yam

Weekend Shorts

Written by Amy on Friday, August 7th, 2009 ( Start discussion ) | Heart It! (0) | Share This!

Reuters is reporting that Jay Chou has been cast as Kato (previously played by Bruce Lee on the series) on the new movie adaptation of the Green Hornet written and played by none other than Seth Rogen (Pineapple Express, Funny People) – really? LOL

I said it! Asian invasion!!! xD

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The Lima Film Festival began today!
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VMA Nominees Announced!
Normally, I would’ve done a different post for this, but I’ve lost my interest on MTV.
Can’t blame me, can you?

Womanizer… video of the year? – oh the sadness. Alongside Spears~~~ Eminem with We Made You, Beyonce with Single Ladies, Kanye and Lady Gaga. – REALLY??? I should really make a Look Back on 2008 Videos, I mean… there should be better, MUCH BETTER music videos than those.

Lady Gaga for the win, even though I didn’t really dig any of it. <- that’s a prediction.

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Filed under: Celebrity, Chinese, English, Films, Music, Sharing, Spanish, Television
Tags: awards, breakthrough video, britney spears, bruce lee, coldplay, eminem, film festival, jay chou, jay z, lima, mtv, music video, news, nominations, peru, predictions, rhianna, vma

Richard Phibbs’ Celebrity Portraits

Written by Amy on Friday, May 22nd, 2009 ( Start discussion ) | Heart It! (0) | Share This!

I spent nearly 3 hours photographing my cousin today, so I spent yesterday looking at some photos, many of them belong to Richard Phibbs…

The whole page belongs to him LOL… so I ended up shooting Black & White. – Celebrities included there are Tobey Maguire, Tim Robbins, Christian Bale, Rihanna, Peter Dinlage, Lenny Kravitz, Jude Law, Jimmy Fallon, Jason Schwartzman, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller, and Adrien Brody.