Friday - March 5, 2010

As we get geared up for the weekend (though my weekend is just like part of my regular week), I am jamming to some tunes by an internet sensation, one Mr. Ronald Jenkees. Ronald was a YouTube phenomena. He created videos of his music and ended up being a hit. One of the things that set him apart was that he came across as a very weird almost mentally challenged personality.

After researching Ronald Jenkees a bit more, I found out that he's an act. He is really a guy name Ben Feltes. The Ronald Jenkees persona is a marketing experiment, and guess what...It worked. Ben had to find a way to set him apart from everyone else. His music is great, but there are a lot of great musicians out there. So he brought in the Ronald Jenkees character to grab everyone's attention. Since he had their ear, he could now play his music, and people ate it up.

Even after knowing that it's all an act, Ben's music is still something I listen to a lot. Here is a sample of his music from Youtube.

Other things I've found of interest today:

This video is just funny on so many levels:

Finally, this video isn't very funny. It's on the amazing side. It is a time lapsed video of Hawaii and the Milky Way as seen from there.

The White Mountain from charles on Vimeo.