A friend of mine showed me these two video clips a few months ago. The first was a video of this fat kid who was pretending to fight villains with what looks like shower curtain rod in front of a rolling video camera. This anonymous video found its way onto kazaa, and just a few days later a man edited the video by adding lightsabers on the end of teh pole and adding some stuff.
In short, it was very entertaining, especially for star wars fans who wanted to laugh at someone who was an even bigger nerd (). Anyway, the kid was identified, and the story of teh Star Wars kid and the effort to get him casted in episode III i found as an amazing story. the downloads of the video clips is estimated to be into the millions, and all completely by accident... check out the story
heres a link to the story of the Star wars kid:
(main page with comments on video)
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/04/29/star_war.shtml
(update - if you didnt see the link on the main page)
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/05/13/finding_.shtml
and the links to the video clips didnt work on that page. here is a new link if you want to watch the original clip, the edited clip, and two new spin offs of it involving the matrix and the clone wars, both also very entertaining.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/starwarskid.html
In short, it was very entertaining, especially for star wars fans who wanted to laugh at someone who was an even bigger nerd (). Anyway, the kid was identified, and the story of teh Star Wars kid and the effort to get him casted in episode III i found as an amazing story. the downloads of the video clips is estimated to be into the millions, and all completely by accident... check out the story
heres a link to the story of the Star wars kid:
(main page with comments on video)
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/04/29/star_war.shtml
(update - if you didnt see the link on the main page)
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/05/13/finding_.shtml
and the links to the video clips didnt work on that page. here is a new link if you want to watch the original clip, the edited clip, and two new spin offs of it involving the matrix and the clone wars, both also very entertaining.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/starwarskid.html
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