Monday, July 07, 2008
YouTubing for slots
The dialogue went something like this:
My Editor: Os, you're the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Oh, and we need to run more video stuff on the ‘page.
Os: You’re giving me an excuse to surf
YouTube? Excellent, dude!
Unfortunately, the video slots playing crowd in large part hasn’t discovered the wonder of YouTube yet and the overwhelming majority of related items on the video 'site are seriously low-budget advertisements, perhaps best personified with
this thing from All Slots Casino.
Love that microphone-dropping effect at the end of the clip. And what do you think the Rolling Stones would say if they knew their music was being used in an online casino commercial? You’re right, they’d probably demand payment.
On the other hand, the Vegas-visiting multitudes have their minicams in hand to shoot lots of action on non-virtual slots.
Here, for example, is
the world’s briefest look at a 100,000-coin winner in Sin City. Visual poetry, says LCD...
You gotta love the minimalist nature of YouTube titles sometimes.
Slot machines paying off over a couple of days in Vegas promises and delivers precisely that, once past five seconds of quasi-obligatory jerky-camera smokin’-chick walking footage. Nice run by the lady. The player, LCD means.
Finally, there is nothing bad about this clip taken from an episode of
Players Network’s “Winners & Jackpots.” From John Daly’s earnest introduction to the story of Robert Wilkie, winner of California’s largest all-time penny slot jackpot ($3.2 million plus), through the sartorially challenged Wilkie’s own excellent play-by-play retelling of the spin (“...and then it said, ‘See technician.’” Lol, in the parlance of our times), and into Daly’s outro proclaiming the story “awe inspiring,” this is an excellently watchable bit of YouTubery.
Happy YouTubing!