January 2012
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Channel Spotlight: Nature's Imprint
As we go through our days it’s easy to get pulled into our work, to-do lists, and balancing everything else in life. Aneeta’s “Nature’s Imprint” channel on Redux is a beautiful reminder of the expansive natural world that’s beyond the little bubbles we live in. It’s refreshing to see and learn about animals and environments from across the globe, both on...
Happy New Year!
Hope your 2012 is filled with great times, great videos, and great curation!
December 2011
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Caught on Tape: Best of 2011
If you look at the statistics of social media platforms like YouTube and Twitter you will notice usage percentages are continuing to increase. With the acceptance and popularity of smartphones more people are connecting to the Internet than every before. In the past half-decade the way people interact with media has been changing. Status updates and video uploading are functions that are more...
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Rides: Best of 2011
Read any of Hotlap’s captions in Rides, and there will be no question in your mind about how smitten this expert curator is with his subject matter. You’d be lucky to get a love letter from your significant other that’s written as poetically and romantically, assuming you’re as seductive as an Art Morrison 3G 1960s Corvette, Bentley SuperSports coupe, or a GT-R.
1st...
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SkatePALS and RADBMX: Best of 2011
Csvizzero is a skateboarder and filmmaker himself which translates into the visually and technically pleasing content he posts into his SkatePALS and RADBMX channel. It’s a great destination if you’re looking for footage of and interviews with the best up and coming skaters and BMXers.
SkatePALS:
Grit & Chocolate Trailer
Girl and Chocolate have been putting out some of the...
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Rock Live: Best of 2011
One of my favorite things is going to concerts and music festivals. There’s just something inimitable about listening to the raw sounds of a live guitarist. And, I’ve had some pretty ‘interesting’ experiences at concerts- like getting trampled on in mosh pits or having whisky spilled on my face at intimate gigs. But, it’s all worth it. Watching a musician perform...
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Go Big: Best of 2011
Madrone Tree curates the craziest jumps, flips, and tricks ever to be attempted by mankind. His Go Big channel never ceases to amaze me with the insane things people try and and actually succeed in. Here are his top five favorite Go Big moments from 2011.
First Ever Rally Car Rail Slide!
Can you grind a car on a log, just like a snowboard on a rail? These guys aim to find out, and it’s...
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Exploration: Best of 2011
The year of 2011 was full of amazing discoveries and big scientific experiments. For the first time in human history we had the opportunity to observe collision of the particles at the highest speeds. This year also was marked by our achievements in space exploration, especially on Mars, and many other achievements on the field of science and exploration. We explored in-depth a number of...
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Orso: Best of 2011
I have learned SO much over the past year as a curator that I can honestly say I would be a different person today if I had never started. I am extremely proud of my shares and sincerely hope they entertain and inform an audience who appreciates them as much I do. From the beautiful, inspiring videos about saving the planet in the Earth Hackers channel, to the always entertaining, sometimes...
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Tech: Best of 2011
Efren keeps the Redux Tech channel updated with the latest gadgets and innovations that are disrupting the scene. He shares some of his favorite finds from 2011 here.
Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary
To celebrate the launch of critically acclaimed video game DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION, Square Enix has commissioned filmmaker Rob Spence aka Eyeborg (a self proclaimed cyborg who lost an eye...
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Underground Comedy: Best of 2011
DirtyNerdy’s hilarious and addictive Underground Comedy channel is not for the easily offended. A comedian himself, he throws in everything from Juggalo News to him rapping with his Grandma. Check out some of his favorite clips from 2011 here.
Suicide Girls Suicide Hotline
Well kids 2011 is almost over. Oh the laughs we had. Well, it’s time to revisit some of my favorites. First up...
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Drift Culture: Best of 2011
Carlitotron’s Drift Culture Channel on Redux is pure heaven for all you drifting fans out there. He covers the underground sport with fast-paced and visually stunning videos that will have at the edge of your seat and wishing you were out on a track. He shared his top five favorite videos from the year with us which you can check out below.
HBTV - Tale of Three Cars
So today I am excited to...
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The Loft: Best Indie Music Videos 2011
We all know that the radio is shit, the top forty is a laughing joke, and pretentious indie blogs promote crap for the sake of “obscurity.”
So here’s my choice for the best indie music videos and indie rock artists of the year unfiltered by corporate control and snarky music critics:
Best Artists of 2011:
Ty Segall- Finger
This is a great song. I love the juxtaposition of...
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The Bassline: Best Electronic Videos of 2011
Electronic music has gotten a bad rep in America. No, it’s not all about repetitive trance, glow-sticks, or cheesy mainstream house.
Electronic music is a diverse and varied genre that still hasn’t gotten the same mainstream attention as hip hop and rock in the United States. Because our technology is growing so fast, new innovative music that we never thought was possible is...
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Look: Best of 2011
This channel is as ambiguous as my interests. There’s no real concept here beyond stimulating those rods and cones that hide at the back of our eyeballs. If the films make your pulse race, your brain buzz or your eyeballs stop blinking then I think I’ve accomplished something. In recent years the cost of filming high-quality video has fallen dramatically and these days most anyone with a little...
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Street Level: Best of 2011
This year my mind was enhanced by all the great videos I got to watch. It’s amazing the kind of visual awesome that is created and shown just because someone felt like it just had to be made. It’s real and amazing and the love shows through in the quality of the content. Not only was the quality of visual story telling beautiful, but the subjects themselves...
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Reanimation: Best of 2011
This was my first year working with Redux and running the animation channel has been a fantastic voyage. I’ve been truly amazed by the level of talent out there in the animation community. I’ve laughed, cried, cheered and been genuinely surprised. Animators are a special breed who work in an extremely difficult field that requires patience, diligence and copious hours of work. The result is a...
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Modern Sex: Best of 2011
Finding videos about sexuality has always been an interesting challenge. There is a lot of sex out there, but not all of it needs sharing. Some of it absolutely warrants being shown to the whole world, but it can get a little heavy and, at times, seem preachy. These five are a representation of some of the more entertaining and thought-provoking videos from the Sex_Love_Intelligence...
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Inside Fashion: Best of 2011
Our Inside Fashion curator Roberto Piqueras sent over his top five videos he’s posted in his channel in 2011 and I’m happy to share them with you here. For those of you not familiar with Roberto, he’s a designer who hails from Spain but currently is living in London. His channel is a great glimpse into the world of fashion that has always seemed way beyond me. It’s a great...
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Comic Appeal: Best of 2011
2011 has been a landmark year for comedy. With the internet smashing any barrier to entry that may have once existed, content saturation is higher than ever. And that’s a boon to a comedy lover like myself! With greater quantity inevitably comes more chances to come across comic productions of great quality - which was certainly the case this year. Even top comedians like Louis CK have...
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Comedy: Caught On Tape: Best Of 2011
Social media doesn’t seem to be slowing down and proof can be found all over the web. Video hosting and blogging platforms, status updates and location-based networking are broadcast mediums that have increased in usage in 2011. I’m not sure what this all means to the ‘big picture’ and it may not take much brainwork to enjoy most social content, but a byproduct of our love...
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Music Backstage: Best of 2011
1969 had Woodstock. A decade later, punk music started a revolution. 1991 brought us Nirvana. And, 2011 exposed us all to the great musical prodigy that is…Rebecca Black?
Okay, so 2011 didn’t bring us the next Jimi Hendrix, but it was still a memorable year in music. We witnessed the death of Amy Winehouse, Pearl Jam turned a whopping 20, and David Lynch released an album. (Who...
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Cinematheque: Best of 2011
Over the next couple weeks Redux curators will be sharing their favorite five posts from 2011. I’m going to get us started with some of my favorite short films I’ve posted in my Cinematheque channel this year.
When I first began to peruse my channel to pick my top five I came to the realization that a) I’ve watched at least over 1,000 short films this year and b) out of those...
Anonymous asked: i would like to know how can i find a video that i watched
November 2011
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Channel Spotlight: For the Love of Food
I love food. Like a lot. My friends and I can spend an entire evening talking about food we’ve eaten and want to try (although I still haven’t figured out if that’s because they love it as much as me or I’m incapable of talking about much else). The great thing about food is that, although there are snobs out there, its requires no knowledge or expertise to appreciate and...
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Channel Spotlight: Cinematheque
When I was a film student in college, I had to endure hours and hours of silent cinema screenings in order to “understand” film history. These were the classics, my professors urged. If you ever have to sit through Birth of a Nation, you’ll soon realize the price you have to pay to be “cultural.”
I was taught to analyze film from a “critical...
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Connected TV vs. Prime-Time: Unexpectedly, Right...
We launched our partnership with Google TV earlier this summer, and as we’ve been growing, we’ve been tracking everything to learn about our audience. And, we noticed something peculiar. On the web, Redux traffic peaks during the weekdays, with big troughs during the weekend. But, on Connected TVs, Redux is seeing the opposite – big traffic peaks on the weekend!
And, during the weekdays,...
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Curation Trend: Sex!
Sex. It’s the world’s most controversial topic. This blog is probably banned in some countries just by the mere mention of the word. As a society, we’re obsessed with it. We’re afraid of it. We dedicate temples and gods to it. We pay big bucks for it.
And, most importantly, sex sells. You see tits and ass plastered all over TV commercials and advertisements. You see...
October 2011
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Curation Trend: Halloween
I woke up today and totally forgot it was Halloween until I saw a lady walking across the street dressed as a bumble bee. I quickly became nostalgic for when October 31st marked the commencement of a two week sugar high. Although all the Halloween parties already happened this weekend and my front door is inaccessible to trick or treaters, I figure its better to get into the spirit than reminisce...
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Redux and Storyful pioneer Curated Global News for...
We’re excited to announce a new partnership that will bring Storyful’s high-quality, vetted, and up to the minute global news curation to Redux in a lean-back video channel, perfect for consumption on your living room TV. Today, Broadcast TV stations are a common way for many people to learn about current and global news on their living room TV. But broadcast TV can’t keep up...
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Curation Scout: Barcelona's Music Documentary...
In-Edit Beefeater (Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Musical de Barcelona) is my idea of Mecca. Okay, so the name may sound kinda weird and anti-vegan (Beefeater is the name of London Gin), but what’s in a name?
I’m a huge musicphile, and so are the creators of this Spanish festival who are music fans that celebrate the union of film and sound by curating the most compelling,...
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Curation Trend: Occupy Wall Street
My aunt, a fervent TV watcher, called me the other day, and she said “What’s all that noise? It’s hard to hear you.” I replied, “Oh, It’s the Occupy Wall Street protestors in the background.”“What’s that?” she asked. I was shocked. “Haven’t you heard of Occupy Wall Street? Isn’t it all over the news?” “The...
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Channel Spotlight: Inside Fashion
I’m sure most of you have heard of Danish singer-songwriter Oh Land and have seen her latest music video for “White Nights.” Once you got past how gorgeous she is (this may have taken more than one viewing) you may have noticed the wonderfully whimsical outfits. One of Redux’s very own curator’s Roberto Piqueras is the man behind the beautiful pieces. Roberto is a...
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Curation Scout: Portable
My curation crush this week is on portable.tv. Actually I’ve been crushing on them for a while and this is the first time I’ve decided to open up about my feelings and share their amazing content. Let me break it down for you. Portable curates articles around videos in fashion, film, music, and art. They’re never super snobby about stuff and I can always expect honesty and humor...
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Curation Trend: Music and Comedy
I’ve always thought that music is a topic that’s taken way too seriously by pretentious music critics and snarky music journalists. Sure, some musicians believe that their art is untouchable, but it’s always a good thing to laugh at yourself and find humor in even the most serious of professions. I came across a bunch of funny videos this week on Redux that seamlessly combines...
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Channel Spotlight: Reanimation
Until I was introduced to Redux’s Reanimation channel I thought that, besides the occasional Pixar film, my animation watching days were over. This is because in my adult life I haven’t been super into animated tv shows or movies, but the channel’s curator archicize has shown me that the world of animation has much, much more to offer. Archicize has some impeccable taste and...
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Curation Scout: Whore Church
Yes, I know what you’re thinking. With a name like that, you’re going to read this blog post for sure or you might think that I’m part of a crazy cult.
No, the Whore Church isn’t some demonic cave where animal sacrifices are performed for the great lucifer. Nor is it a porno movie where a bunch of chicks dressed as nuns perform salacious acts (which does exist by the...
September 2011
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Curation Scout: Oobject
Been thinking about the Cabinets of Curiosities we posted the other day? Well then you’re in luck because we have the “modern day” version to share with you today. Wunderkammer is the German word for Cabinet of Curiosities, literally meaning wonder-room, and it’s how oobject describes its site.
Oobject.com is a site that curates visual lists of unique man-made gadgets and...
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Curation Scout: Cabinets of Curiosities
Whenever I explain curation to my friends I reference museums. “You know like what museum curators do with art? That’s what I do with short films I find on the Internet.” In my mind museums were the beginning point. I honestly never gave much though about curation pre-museums until Ben sent over this wikipedia page about Cabinets of Curiosities. It turns out that curation’s been...
June 2011
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Redux for Google TV – Discover socially curated...
When our Google TV arrived, we tingled with excitement – the living room TV is one of the last digital screens in our lives to be connected to the Internet, and it’s the screen where we watch the most video. There are many great video repositories we use to watch video on Google TV such as Vimeo, Netflix, and YouTube, but with millions of incredible videos available we didn’t know where to...
April 2011
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We Are Connected
As hard as we’ve been trying to keep our latest moves in the Internet-connected TV space under wraps, the radioactive glow in our excited faces is drawing attention. This isn’t just due to all of the 1080p energy we’ve been absorbing, but also because we have iterated our way to what we feel is the next era of home entertainment discovery.
Most recently, we dropped by a secret underground...
March 2011
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Clicker’s acquisition and the dawning age of the...
Two products that help users find & discover television content on the web were acquired last week, by two very different companies. Clicker was bought by CBS, a company that generates the bulk of it’s revenue selling ads against content it licenses or produces, while Sidereel was bought by Rovi, which primarily generates revenue through the licensing and sale of intellectual property and...
February 2011
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Redux Makes the Connection
We’re a month into 2011, and a only a few months into the development and launch of our Samsung TV app for their connected online development platform. Based on the reaction so far, it seems we’re doing something right. After scoring a win in their recent app competition and getting invited to speak at CES earlier last month, we’re now fully invested in taking this intriguing new paradigm to new...
January 2011
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A Trimmer Profile
Redux has made a few New Years resolutions of its own for the coming months. Not unlike its developers, the site picked up quite a bit of extra mass over the holidays, mostly thanks to the entertaining contributions of our presumably bored-with-the-relatives community. However, the time has come to trim the fat and get into shape, and we’re happy to announce two bold new areas of muscle for 2011.
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December 2010
3 posts
Community Hits that Didn’t Break Out (A 2010...
Let me first say that preparing for this post was a long, exhaustive, and thoroughly enjoyable process. So many posts, so many great conversations, so many memories, all unique to our own community. Having said that, it’s that time of year for retrospective lists.
However, rather than compile the same list of top viral memes you’ve already seen, I thought I’d do something a bit different and...
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Google TV, Reduxed
Hot on the heels of our Samsung TV app, we’re remixing our Discover home TV experience for one of the most exciting development platforms ever fit for your living room: Google TV. It’s still in development with an as-yet undetermined release date, though if youask us nicely, just maybe you’ll get access to the secret URL to try it out.
In the meantime, here are some teasers:
Configure your...
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Discover Redux Discover
We haven’t been exactly secretive about courting the television. From concepts like TV Mode to our partnership with TV-ready Boxee, we’ve been exploring ways of making Redux’s pool of entertainment available to a wider audience, and through a wider variety of formats. One of the most significant steps we’ve made to accomplish that is Redux Discover, available for free on Samsung’s new...
October 2010
2 posts
Behind the Profile: JanetB
Continuing with our veil-lifting series of interviews, our next subject of study is the most prolific contributor Redux has yet to see. Simply, she is the queen of our community, and she’s earned that title both through relentless longevity and her charming virtual charisma. Most impressive is that as soon as you think you know her, she’ll start a new channel completely out of leftfield, and have...
Behind the Profile: Gioser
To the Redux faithful, Gioser needs absolutely no introduction. If his 3K shares weren’t impressive enough, his unbelievable tally of nearly 12K props indicates that quality takes precedence. Considering that every 10 props gives you a Superprop, this guy is basically your supreme overlord, and someone you should be following if you aren’t already.
However, like everyone else in our midst, it...