Jason Unger

Teens Beat Girl on YouTube: But Why?

Posted by junger - 04/10/08 at 01:04:55 pm

The case of these cheerleaders who recorded their beating of a fellow teenager, 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay, and then posted the video online, has received a lot of attention in the media.

And it should. There's obviously something wrong when a bunch of kids attack another and then promote it as some sort of badge to be proud of. (I'm not going to post the video, but it's easy to find on YouTube.)

The coverage, however, seems to be only focusing on YouTube and MySpace and whether they should block these kinds of videos. The father is even "blaming the Internet" for the beating, which is about as moronic as blaming the telephone for prank phone calls.

But the fundamental question lacking in this entire storyline is an easy one: why?

Why did these teens beat up the other girl? Was it completely unprovoked? Did they do it in order to post a video and get their "15 megabytes of fame"?

(On a side note, that's the dumbest phrase ever. Seriously, stop trying to be punny, people.)

I don't know the answer — the only thing I can find is that "[the] suspected teen attackers claim the victim had been threatening them through postings on her MySpace page," according to WESH, the local NBC affiliate. The cops say they filmed it so they could put it online, but how did it come to that in the first place?

Look, obviously I'm not advocating beating up people and posting videos of it online. It's stupid, and you're going to get arrested. Cyber-bullying is a serious thing, as the family of Megan Meier tragically found out.

But the media isn't doing their duty here. Following the Internet storyline is one segment of the coverage, but every one is making the assumption that that's why they beat her up — to post a video online.

Can we get the real facts here, please?

April 10, 2008 | In Web | 4 Comments

Waterbed For Sale

Posted by junger - 03/12/08 at 08:03:41 pm

All it costs is your humility.

Why are all the most ridiculous viral videos from foreign TV shows? Hollywood, take note.

PS – sorry for the shorter posts. These tradeshows take up a lot of my day, and when I do have time to relax, the last thing I want to do is sit in front of the computer.

March 12, 2008 | In Life | No Comments

Stop Motion + Super Mario + Legos

Posted by junger - 01/29/08 at 04:01:08 pm

Stop motion videos never get old. I have amazing respect for the people who can film these, edit them and make it look flawless.

Lego Mario might not be as in-depth as Tony vs. Paul, but literally every single frame of this has to be shot.

It's pretty impressive.

January 29, 2008 | In Web | No Comments

Alaska Pictures and Video Now Online

Posted by junger - 07/25/07 at 04:07:33 pm

We just spent two and a half weeks in Alaska on an amazing trip. I'll recap the trip in a separate post, but here are our pictures and one of the videos we shot.

I've got about two and a half hours of video I need to edit for the complete trip video — watch for that soon.

Video of us dogsledding on the Punchbowl glacier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKQEzBTPemU

Debbie's pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debbieunger/sets/72157600859734676/

Jason's pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jungerpants/sets/72157600884116515/