If you frequent Digg, you may have already seen this, but it’s worth sharing in case you missed it.

Most Popular Seansense of 2008

• Post: Sony HDR-SR11 First Impressions Review with 5,706 views.
• Video: Sony HDR-SR11 First Video with 8,940 views on Vimeo.
• Photo: Unknown (I don’t have a good way to track this since I switched galleries mid-year. The most viewed photo in the new gallery is currently Road to the Campsite with 49 views. Weird.)

Most Commented Seansense of 2008

• Post: Sony HDR-SR11 First Impressions Review with 37 comments.
• Video: A Day in the Life of Anini with 40 comments in various places.
• Photo: Unknown. (Again I don’t have a good way to track this.)

Least Popular Seansense of 2008

• Post: Photography - The First 90 Days with 1 view and 0 comments. (There are others, but this is the only one with original content and more than a couple minutes work put into it.)
• Video: Hellhole Canyon with 188 views and 1 comment.
• Photo: My Pizza Fail utterly failed to impress anybody, even though we thought it was pretty funny.

Sean’s Favorite Seansense of 2008

• Post: Fifty-Five Hours in Israel - This was a fascinating journey and probably my best writing of the year.
• Video: NIN - Discipline (Unofficial Video) - Although this video wasn’t a huge internet sensation (804 views, 13 comments across various places) and gathered mixed reactions from friends and family, I put the most amount of work into it, and it came at the biggest cost; the camcorder’s screen was accidentally scratched while recording and we wasted quite a bit of perfectly good food to get all the shots.
• Photo: This is a tough one, but I think this picture is probably my favorite of the year, just because it makes me happy to look at it.

Sean’s Worst Seansense of 2008

• Post: In retrospect, I feed kind of bad for lambasting smart cars. After all, as far as fashion statements go, they are (were?) a positive trend.
• Video: My Torrey Pines Time Lapse experiment is rather headache inducing to watch. (Not recommended for epileptics.)
• Photo: Again it’s a tough choice, but this one is pretty bad.

Please share your own stats and best (or worst!) post, video, and photo of the year!

Happy 2009 to all, and thanks for reading, watching, and viewing!

Here’s the video from our Hawaii vacation…

Every so often I’ll hear a song and immediately picture in my head what (I think) could make a great music video. Now that I have the right tools to actually do something about this, I decided to give it a go. After a fair amount of daydreaming, a couple weekend evenings playing around in the garage with Mel and a bunch of editing, this is the result.

The song is “Discipline” from Nine Inch Nail’s new album “The Slip”, which I wrote about previously. As I mentioned, the album is licensed under Creative Commons, which encourages this kind of use. I think the whole Creative Commons thing is awesome, and I think it’s great that NIN are paving the way in rethinking how music is distributed and licensed in the 21st century.

Amazing animations… rather entrancing. Found on Digg.

Number 1

Number 2

From our friends in Japan…

I found this on Vimeo. It’s a little long, but it’s worth watching. The HD version is even better.

Cinco De Mayo Carnival from Andrew Curtis on Vimeo.

Okay, just one more video. Found on Digg…

… So true, so true.

Thanks for sending me this, Erik!

Who among us didn’t dream of climbing into that blasted claw machine and grabbing all those awesome prizes? Turns out maybe it wasn’t such a good idea.