As 2009 draws to a close (whew) and Christmas draws near, I thought I’d share a few videos that pretty much sum up both.
The first is a fun video that uses Google Wave to look back on 2009:
The second is a video that makes the case – which needs to be done every year – about what Christmas is really about.
On a completely separate note… Dear video producers: Please put the morphing 3D title text plugins and generators made famous in the movie Valkyrie and the Ford truck commercials away now. They have become the 2009 video equivalent of the drop shadow in Photoshop; overused but rarely done well. Every time I see this effect in use lately, I cringe.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and son Carter.
