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27/02/2009 by
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Viral Friday: The Crisis Of Credit Visualized

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
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This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to The Crisis Of Credit Visualized. Jonathan Jarvis gave form to the credit crisis in this video by quickly supplying the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. The runner up spot is for Edgar Müller with his Making Of 3D Street Art. For the “Festival of World Cultures” Müller transformed a huge slice of pavement into a dramatic ice age scene. Beate Uhse Child Lock completes this week’s top 3. At first you may feel like you visit a psychiatrist, but you’re obviously not. Do you see it?

Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 5? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!


1. The Crisis Of Credit Visualized

Jonathan Jarvis made the above video as part of his thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His goal was to give form to a complex situation like the credit crisis by quickly supplying the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. Jonathan also made a “Part 2” which can be watched in the embedded YouTube playlist above.
(Source: crisisofcredit.com)

2. The Crevasse – Making Of 3D Street Art

Edgar Müller, a German “3D Pavement Artist” uses the street as a canvas. If one looks of the right point of view, its three-dimensional painting becomes the perfect illusion. For the “Festival of World Cultures“, which took place in Dún Laoghaire, Müller transformed a huge slice of the East Pier into a dramatic ice age scene. The time-lapse making-off video got viewed over 520,000 times in just under two weeks.

3. Beate Uhse Child Lock

Hamburg based advertising agency kempertrautmann made the above commercial for Beate Uhse, a German industry group with focus on selling adult entertainment. The video got over 310,000 YouTube views in 20 days. At first you may feel like you visit a psychiatrist, but you’re obviously not (and if you don’t see “it”, you must be a child).

4. BBoy Joker

Patrick Boivin is a French Canadian autodidact director who also made the YouTube Street Fighter video, now made a new amazing video; an interactive breakdance competition in stop-motion featuring The Joker and Batman. Enter the competition choosing either one of them and try to make the correct moves! The main video on YouTube got almost 300,000 views since David uploaded it two weeks ago.

5. Loewe: Extremely Realistic Sound

Loewe, a German electronics manufacturer, produces television sets which produce “Extremely realistic Sound”. To promote this extremely realistic sound produced on its television systems Loewe and advertising agency Scholz & Friends Berlin made the above commercial featuring a choir directed by remote control. The commercial aired in December 2008 and got over 180,000 YouTube views since 17 February.
(Source: The Inspiration Room)