Learning to look up
“WE are a generation of idiots, smart phones, and dumb people, too busy looking down at an invention that we miss out on beautiful things.”
Learning to look up
By ROXANNE LOW brats@thestar.com.my “WE are a generation of idiots, smart phones, and dumb people, too busy looking down at an invention that we miss out on beautiful things.” That’s a line from a video titled Look Up, which was uploaded (ironically) to YouTube by British writer and director Gary Turk. In the three weeks […]
Joseph Germani’s tricks for the tube
Joseph Germani’s tips for being a great YouTuber: 1. Do something you enjoy! Whatever genre or a topic you’re doing, if you enjoy it, it will reflect in your video – and that’s exactly what audiences want to see. 2. Be consistent in your output. This is definitely one of the biggest challenges of being […]
Inside looking out
Stories by LIM MAY LEE alltherage@thestar.com.my YOUTUBE is such an instrumental part of our lives that it’s hard to imagine that the video sharing site is only nine years old. While most of us use YouTube to watch everything, from hair-curling techniques (well, I do anyway!) to cat videos and THAT Emma Stone lip-sync battle […]
The ‘you’ in YouTube
By JC LAM alltherage@thestar.com.my SURE, they have collectively amassed millions of viewers and subscribers on their YouTube channels, making each and every one of them celebrities in their own right. But a YouTuber’s path to online stardom is not paved in glitter and gold – especially now. International YouTube stars David Choi, Kina Grannis, Madilyn […]
From YouTube to Malaysia
By LAURA CHIN and MARCUS HENG Photo by MARCUS HENG brats@thestar.com.my AFTER watching her numerous covers on YouTube, Malaysian fans finally got to witness the incredible Megan Nicole Flores perform live at INTI College Subang Jaya earlier this month. Best known as just Megan Nicole, the Texan’s interest in singing started at the age of […]
R.AGE Open Mic 2012: The winners
After over 53,000 video views and 5,000 ‘Likes’ (and that’s just the finals!), the results for the R.AGE Open Mic 2012 YouTube talent search are finally in! Here are the three YouTube acts who will be performing live at Urbanscapes, as decided by your “Likes” and our judges’ scores. To the three winners, congratulations! We’re […]
Time to shine
Three lucky acts will go from singing in their bedrooms, to performing live on stage at Urbanscapes – and you could be one of them! The R.AGE Open Mic competition is now in full swing! Over 80 YouTube singers, musicians and performers have sent in their video submissions, and our judges can’t wait to help […]
YouTubers go offline
By FIONA CHAN alltherage@thestar.com.my MALAYSIA held its very first official YouTuber event, OMG Live, at The Actors Studio, Kuala Lumpur last Sunday. OMG, which stands for On Malaysian Grounds, featured the five most prominent players on the Malaysian YouTube scene – JinnyBoyTV, Germani Productions, Dan Khoo Productions, The Ming Thing and Grim Film. In […]
Grabbing hold of #Merdeka
By DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my When I was about nine, a trip to the “Pusat Sumber” (resource centre) in school was a real treat not to be missed. So whenever the teacher asked us to “go outside and line up”, we would hurriedly do so, eagerly awaiting whatever video was about to be shown to […]