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Michael Aranda

I am SOOO impressed by this kid.

Check out some of his videos:

and

and

and this collab he did with the vlogbrothers

I want to do a video with him. Have to think of something interesting.

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  1. mythman says: 39

    I’ve got it! You could do a series of words starting with [Awesome] (e.g. ‘Awesome’ is rooted in x, which is rooted in xy, and so on, until you get to ‘Marina’)!

    Then the genius Michael could mix `em all together so it sounds like a rapping choir of ultimate beauty-queens! Kinda like he did with the snapping (which soooo must’ve been inspired by Zadi Diaz of Epic Fu).

  2. big ed says: 38

    Friggin’ hilarious!!! :mrgreen: As usual, it looks like I’m running a day late & a dollar short, but anyway… Whoa, blanked out for a minute there. The kid’s got talent, what else can I say? :lol:

  3. leonard says: 37

    :cool: Hey YA’ll…My Secret You Tube Girl
    ….MARINA is A HotForWords :smile: …inner tube(on)[tubeless]=SSELEBUT :lol: 4grins-yin*T…shshssshhh

  4. beevee14 says: 36

    “While we are postponing, life speeds by.” Senaca 3 bc-65 ad.

    I like that. Kinda the same as,” life is what happens while you’re planning for everything else.”

  5. leonard says: 35

    :shock: HotForWords, please could you do a video on King of Pain..0R queen of Pain

    …What is not the same of a BLack Cat verses a WHite Cat?…[sunny]

    :smile: Mudvayne-King of Pain-The Police remake…[destin]e[y]…[spelling]….april REIGHN, may it Rain

  6. nitebug says: 34

    The sneeze skit was funny! :lol:
    The finger snapping was cool. :cool:
    Don’t see the humor on the 3rd and 4th vids. :???:
    DFTBA vid was gr8. :smile: and I’m not much into that kind of music now but it was gr8.

  7. tomping61 says: 32

    MARINA–these videos are dumb

    • It’s all part of the Obamafication process.
      When you have no respect for the people,
      and don’t respect your mantle of office,
      people will lose interest in what you do,
      next to go is their respect for you.
      If someone GIVES you a crown just because
      you’re born a certain color, or have big … eyes
      Don’t you still have to earn it?
      Otherwise, it’s just a fancy hat…

      • I judge a man 3 ways: what he does, what he says, and if he does what he says. Simple, yes; but it always seemed to work for me. So far, BHO has failed in all 3 of these criteria.
        I have 2 rules for life:
        1) Lead from the front, dont watch from the rear.
        2) You dont get respect, you have to earn it…everyday.
        I think hes failed in #1 by waiting to take a position and then changing. I agree with Cha-Cha(surprise) on #2. Because hes president, BHO feels he already has our respect. I think alot more people are having a ‘wait and see’ attitude.

        I also never trust a man with a pinkie ring but thats a whole other story :!: :lol:

      • LIL CHACHA ARE YOU IMPLICATING THAT SINCE OBAMA IS PART OF AFRICAN DESCENT HE IS FAVORED AMONG THE POPULATION? HOW DARE YOU IMPLY SUCH A THING! IT IS A TRIUMPHANT VICTORY WHICH GIVES HOPE TO ALL PEOPLE TO EXCEL. YOU “AMERICANISM” OF THINKING MAY HAVE TO ALTER ITSELF DUE TO THE REALITY OF OBAMA IN OFFICE. :lol:

    • I agree; these videos are terrible! What’s worse than the fact that he spends time making crappy videos like this is that PEOPLE ACTUALLY WATCH THEM. I’m losing hope in humanity. Michael Aranda needs to die in a fire.

  8. John says: 31

    Just my luck, huh? *Not Recommended for those with hypertension http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-z54EP0EhM&feature=channel_page

    We’ ll have fun fun fun till her daddy takes her T-Bird away

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpP7tWXjcnc&feature=related

  9. labbatt78 says: 29

    Hmmmmmm… I wander if anybody like the song day and night by kid cudi? :?: I do

  10. Damn I had this whole story typed out and the computer screwed up and my 200 button mouse backed up a page and everything was wiped clean. GGGGRRRRRRR!!!

    So lets try this again. I had a great Friday night. Met up with some friends from boating. They wanted to go drink wine and enjoy the evening telling stories and what not. So all five of us went to Marie’s condo. Oh yeah her name sounds similar to Marina. She’s even good with words. So all 5 five of us (3 ladies and 2 guys) talk about boating rules, Music and words. Yes, we talked about words. Marie brought out her laptop and looked up words. It was like a HotForWords party! I did not write down the words we were looking up for I could not find my jacket that had my note pad and pen. Hey I was drinking some wine (which is very rare for me) and duck farts. So one words had to do with one slice of bacon. I’ll ask Marie what the words were and get back to you guys. I think you might enjoy them. It turned out to be a really fun evening. Any of you guys ever have a party and talk about words or etymology?

    (Hey Marie J., if your reading this send me a message of the words we covered last night, tnks!)

    • beevee14 says: 28.1

      There is a board game out called ‘boulderdash’ :?: that is great! You get a really obscure word and then make up definitions of what you think it should be compared to the real definition and everybody votes. Intellectually stimulating, its fun, and you’re excercising your brain; what more could you ask for. Ohh, every now and then you might have to give a fake belly laugh for the double-digit I.Q.’s :twisted: , but I look at as a small price to pay to keep the old ball a bouncin’! Seriously,(or is it to late) its a great party game :idea:

      • Do you mean Balderdash? (Not just for the bald. :razz: ) Yes, it’s loads of fun! Haven’t played in forever.

        • yes. I was wondering why I missed :wink: that word in the game!

          • BTW, is that you in the avatar or did you clip it from a McCalls?

          • Hi beevee14,

            Yes, it is I. Thank you for the compliment. :smile:

            A friend of mine is a photographer/artist/stuntman (he was in POTC — an Asian pirate) and took that for me over the summer. Oh, I forgot, he’s also a musician. And was in Cirque. Disgusting how much talent can be packed into one human being, isn’t it? :razz:

            With regard to football, I don’t trash talk (unless I know you personally and you went to F.S.P-U. Then you leave me no choice.). Otherwise I respect a person’s team and wait quietly until the end of the season to gloat. :wink:

            Happy Weekend,
            Monica

        • Hey Monica (aka MOMica)! I’m so glad to see you here. :mrgreen: I liked your YouTube videos and I subscribed and friended you. I hope to see you here more and looking forward to your comments. :grin:

          • Hi Captain Jack!
            Thank you for the welcome. :smile: It’s nice to be here. Many thanks to young James for inviting me!

            I just sat down at my computer after a LONG day with the kiddos. We had a great time with Grandma, even flew kites at the beach. :smile:

            I’ll log into my YT next. Thank you so much for subscribing and friending me!

            Many Smiles,
            Momica :)

        • I went to your site(hope ya don’t mind) and checked it out. You seem like the type of person people are happy to know and thats a good thing in this world. Look at my avatar, I can’t trash talk.

          • Do I mind? Not a bit! Please send your friends. :grin:
            Thank you for the lovely compliment. Be proud of your school regardless, there’s nothing worse than a fair weather fan (except one who talks trash).

            I try to stay very positive. You won’t find me debating politics or judging anyone. A dear friend of mine is gay and she was with me through the entire brain hemorrhage episode. I’m so thankful for her.

            I’m straight, not that it matters. I like Michael Buckley and Ellen DeGeneres. I’m also a huge fan of Mark Morford (not that he’s gay, but he’s brilliant). In my opinion, anyone who can string words together like that AND teach yoga should run for President. Or marry me. :wink:

      • Sounds interesting. Might have to look into that.

    • Yeah, Boggle is a game where you throw dice with letters on ‘em and form words from the letter, and Scrabble, of course!
      Isn’t “duck farts” a spoonerism?
      (guess we’ll recycle an old lesson, since there’s no new one today)

      • Duck farts are a very sweet drink. I don’t drink hard A that often but when I do I never turn way a drink like that. I like to see the reactions from adults that have never tasted the drink before. It’s kind of sneaky. It’s sever in a shot glass and you have to drink the whole think in one swallow to get the effect. Funny people see it as a really harmless at the first swallow as the seconds pass then BANG! It gets them. LOL.

  11. You guys really like his first video? Humm Maybe I need to re-upload my video. I uploaded it already but Youtube rejected it for it was too long. It’s 15 minute long an YouTube that is full of weird stuff. I just have to find a way to cut out 5 minutes of video without losing continuity. I also have an issue for it has copyrighted music in it. I just can’t do an overlay for there is speech that would get wiped out. It’s a really corny video I did many years ago to learn how to use iMovie 2 for the Mac. The goal was to do every mistake one could do with a video. We applied many special effect that turned out rather funny.

    Question, if I upload this video will it get flagged right away? I don’t have the original file we used to make the video and I don’t know yet out to pull out the music and replace it with something else for it’s mixed up with voices. Any ideas?

  12. leonard says: 26

    *** :twisted: ***HotForWords 3D “Do Me Babe” Rock & Roll CGI version…HotForWords -Parody “Do Me Babe”
    or more..live-wire…*** :razz: ***check the dates :smile:

  13. freebird says: 25

    WORD REQUEST: [ balsamic moon ] [ balsamic vinegar ]

  14. I was just reminded that Mother’s Day is coming!
    (Mom’s funny like that…)
    Since Gorby’s “Mama” is Marina, are there any plans for a lesson about the origin of the word [Mother]?
    It has so many valued and colorful uses…
    Mother Night…
    Mother Earth…
    Mother Nature…
    Mother Fu$@… (y’know where that’s goin’) :shock:
    Every language has a word for Mom, Mutti, Mumsy…
    How did we arrive at Mother? :roll:

  15. Marina,

    As a percussionist I thought the finger-snapping thing was neat. I also liked the sneeze. The rest, for me, was more of the same YT fodder – attempt at being profound and using electronic enhancement to cover/embellish moderate musical ability. However, you can’t ignore the videographic and computer skills.
    I totally agree that some collaboration could do a world of good for you as you strive to reach a young demographic and just expand your viewing audience overall, whether I’m into it or not.
    Heck, if you’re in it it’ll be great!

    Always.

    • hs4mm says: 23.1

      He is not really snapping his fingers is he? To me, it appears that he is just acted like he was snapping his fingers while shooting the video — not lip-syncing, but finger-syncing! Also, he might have added the sound after shooting the video.

      • Oh, no, not “live” by any stretch. I just enjoyed all the syncopation.

        • hs4mm says: 23.1.1.1

          OK. While the music is interesting, for the video to be captivating as a video, the finger-syncing must be fool proof; but the finger-syncing in the video is weak.

          I suspect it is hard to overlay music on a video as a post-production step: at least one magicians on YouTube plays music during his performance to prove to the audience that he is doing “real magic” and not using camera tricks — to prove that he is showing the audience raw footage. He says that if he used camera tricks, people would notice breaks in the music because he says it is hard to sync music to a video that is not a raw footage but an arrangement of clips.

          • I understand what you are saying about the video. I just meant I can close my eyes and still enjoy the aural experience.

          • For what it’s worth, since I sorta know the dude who did the snapping vid, the snap sounds actually are “live”. I–er, I mean, HE–set the editing timeline up with markers every four frames to act as eighth-note markers, then starting cutting up the original snapping footage and dropping different snaps in to construct the beats.

            Regardless, the video is novel at best and this Michael Aranda dude probably won’t hold anyone’s attention for very long.

          • Hey, be sure you tell that guy he has some great rhythm, and to expect his videos to do great.

  16. :idea: Heyyyy… Michaelaranda!… That sure was a shot out of the blue Marina! I’m figuring a collaboration such as that could result in some ahmazing results. Speaking of fresh talent, I’ve discovered just that. A young YouTube film maker, fresh out of Compton, nah, he’s from Portland Oregon (of all places!) does commercial work, experimental projects, etc. he’s even worked with legendary director Turd Ferguson! His YouTube name?

    EXABSURDUM :!:

    here’s a sample of his work :arrow:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmnCbecOxdw&feature=PlayList&p=8ADED38D47BBA666&index=1

  17. Jeorney says: 20

    Yuck! I got some spray in my eye :smile:

  18. leonard says: 18

    Darn, I got socked and HD rules….[dastard]…[darnel--lenrad]….I love crickets :roll:

  19. buzzword says: 17

    just finished watching some of his other videos. damn, that kid is creative. he’s got a great sense of humor. this is an example of why youtube is cool. i’d like to see a collaboration, it’d be interesting to see what the talents of marina and michael aranda would produce.

  20. A more appropriate acronym would be DGCSLINF.
    Depressed Gay College Students Living In North Flori-duh.
    Florida is quickly becoming a Mecca for all that is “gay”,
    as these videos demonstrate. I find it sad Marina is attracted to this – just sad…
    Of all the places you could have been shown, they chose a pig farm, and they present it to you as a children’s zoo?
    My younger sister went to school in Gainesville, and that appears to be where this was shot. It totally fucked her up.
    Before she went, she was happy, spirited – content.
    She came back all disjointed – just like these videos.
    Some of you will be happy to know, she thinks Obama is the Messiah, and voted for him. We haven’t spoken to each other for over ten years, but I try to keep contact.
    Anyone who tells you Obama, and his [ilk] are “great uniters” is absolutely full of shit. I agree with Bob – the sneeze was humorous, perhaps the only creative thing here. I agree with Capt Jack – nice.
    Marina – check your inbox for friend invites (you’re falling behind there, too and I’m getting inquiries). Either keep up or hire staff to do it for you, girl!
    I’m gonna go pass out, now. So much … gayness …
    sapping my enthusiasm :neutral:

  21. beevee14 says: 14

    Heres a post. I dont know where else to put it :roll: :wink:

    Just got done checking the old count down clock, and its OFFICIALLY 1291 days till next presidential elections. Disregard any previous statements made by yours truly. Evidently, and I know you ain’t gonna believe this; but I wrote that without knowing the proper date. Huummm… thats kinda like talkin before thinkin’, right? Gets me to thinking about Nancy Pelosi. In fact, she is such an artful and faithful follower of this that I think there should be a word, we’ll call it “pelosied”; which means, I don’t know: ‘engaging ones mouth to speak while ones brain has not even arrived at the conversation’.
    LATEST EXAMPLES: 1) Pelosi stated yesterday that she had no knowledge of EITs taking place at any time. A Washington Examiner article (11/07) placed her and several other top democrats at “at least 30″ meetings where these techniques were discussed and ratified. These same democratic leaders not only whole-heartedly supported EITs, they were worried WE WEREN’T DOING ENOUGH! I will sit here a minute and let you read that again. So, you could say when she spoke of having NO knowledge of ANY EITs; she “pelosied”.
    2) Pelosi and top dems pushed BHO into releasing classified CIA documents pertaining to torture and are now pushing strongly for these attorneys to be tried for torture crimes. Evidently she doesn’t realize that, because of (1); she is what is known as an accomplice and SHOULD be tried also. This is another case where she “pelosied”.
    Now I know what your asking.” But Bee, why would she blatantly, ugh, ‘misspeak’ about her knowledge of these documents knowing the truth is going to come out?” or “Hey Bee, if she pushes for these trials, she herself could face prosecution. Does she really hate Bush that much, or is she just stupid?” Yes, I believe she hates Bush more than she would or could ever admit. Lets face it, shes from ‘frisco. Where do you go if you hate America? Exactly. No, I don’t believe she is stupid. I think she has had one to many of those Joan Rivers eye jobs and her skin is so tight that it is blocking the blood from reaching the part of the brain that allows rational, coherent thought. So, in summing up; she ‘pelosied’ so its looking more and more like we’re going to get ‘Munsoned’.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t2GgN_RC7M
    Is that going to work?

  22. beevee14 says: 13

    I liked the first. Quick and funny.

  23. leonard says: 12

    :grin: impressed …[barbed wired]… [gay] and [ :lol: trump]

  24. animalntaz says: 11

    weird.

    i think anyone can figure out how the sneezing was done.

  25. Bob says: 10

    The sneeze was hilarious and DFTBA was very clever but No Swimming didn’t really float my boat. Maybe it was allegatorical and I didn’t get the point.

    • Captain Jack, are you there? I need some help with a Twitter issue. In a nutshell, I attempted to create an account months ago when Marina began using it. Ever since, when I try to log on, it says user name and password already taken. The VERY FIRST TIME I logged on after creating the account I was successful. That was the one and only time.
      I thought I would try to simply delete this and start fresh, but everything wants my USER NAME AND PASSWORD…you see where I’m going with this.
      Was hoping that with your newfound interest in and usage of Twitter you would be The Man who could lend a tired old redneck a hand.

      Appreciate any assistance.

  26. Daneel says: 8

    The first video is an example: the jupers do exist!!! This boy is a hyper-traveller!:P

  27. hs4mm says: 7

    These are the visually-clearest videos I have ever seen! One can see blades of grass!

    I like the first video best, considering it as a demonstration of a video technique.

    In the beginning of the second video, I thought he would reveal that he was shooting a miniature sand-box, but it turned out he was shooting the real thing. Anyway, in the second video, the only content I liked somewhat was the “search for the alligaTOR” part. I guess this was a spoof of “nature/wild-life TV shows”?

    The DFTBAs I liked from the video were Don’t Forget That Brains Attract and Don’t Forget To Be Awesome. I would have said: Don’t Forget To Be Aware — which is similar to something I wrote years ago: Always be in focus, including while happy.

    I am now going to be bothered until I have figured out why his videos are so clear (‘why’ meaning how he achieves such visual-clarity)!

    –Hs4Mm

  28.  
    DFTBA is an acronym for
    Don’t Forget to be Awesome.

    DFTBA comes from John’s October 2nd Brotherhood 2.0 vlog. While driving back to Indianappolis, John discusses a nerdfighter outlet mall with a Put stuff on your head, a peeps outlet, and a pineapple nerdfighting pants outlet. At the end of the vlog in a P.P.P.S., John reminds Hank to, like it on his friend Katie’s arm, DFTBA.
    http://omnictionary.com/index.php/Dftba

    • labbatt78 says: 5.1

      Hey Billy B.Wow, it did not take long for the canucks to put away the blues. Did you check out the canes getting the last second goal? Man, that was something. Martin Brodeur had after game rage! And don’t tell me the sharks are going to get eliminated in the first round again!? Especially to the 8th seeded ducks?

      • BillyB says: 5.1.1

        Are you wearing an official “hawks” jersey… cool. Yeah, it was special teams, made the difference for Vancouver. Blues had not power play, but still, they’re a good young team.
        Still don’t know who we get in the second round yet tho, but rest is nothing but good. Calgary is tuff eh. SJ has good team & no Playoff luv, too bad, I don’t like ducks LOL

  29. John says: 4

    Marina,
    …”.I want to do a video with him.?”

    DFTBA They “Define Friend “Thier Buttholes Accessible”
    Looks like a [Gopher] it.

    Casey can probably set it up for you.

    New word [Accesspool]

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pNcw3cnuQ8&feature=dir

  30. Marina, thank you for sharing Michaelaranda’s work.

    I had not come across his videos that I recall. I have watched several of the vlogbrothers videos. I like all of these videos and the third video DFTBA has a great catchy tune and video work.

    The guy Michael only lives about 15 miles from me.

  31. John says: 2

    “Everyone is a genius at least once a year, a real genius has his original ideas closer together.” – Georg Lichtenberg 1742-1799

    Like God’s trees in a forest or blades of grass in a lawn, or the transition between the two.

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