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Perhaps you have heard of The Battle Of Krugar, which is a video of some lions attacking a baby buffalo in Africa. Except the Lions are challenged by an alligator just before the buffalo herd decided to come back for a triumphant and victorious ending allowing the calf to escape the predators. Just the scene out in the wild is fascinating enough, but then add to that the fact that it was shot by a tourist from Texas who claims he barely knew to work the video camera. Humble words for a video that was sold to National Geographic to be added to the ranks with some of the most historic wildlife footage ever captured.

Or maybe you've seen or heard of a home movie posted on you tube that was later purchased for big bucks by some advertisers. These were individuals that weren't seeking fame and fortune, they just wanted to share their home movie with friends and family. On the other hand there are people posting videos online that have every intention of getting noticed and hopefully making it big.

These professional youtubers, vidcasters, and vloggers use the internet as a way to stretch their muscles as directors, actors, and cinematographers. My personal favorite is Julian Smith who got his big break with the popular "25 things I hate about Face Book" video. More recently he did his own spoof of the rising youtube star Susan Boyle from Britain's got talent. Looks like we could have another rising star here.




This post originally had embedded links galore, but after trying countless times to get it to all work properly I finally gave up. I don't know what the deal is, but if you are interested in checking out any of the videos I mention just copy the URL's listed bellow.

Battle Of Kruger- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

The Battle Of Kruger Documentary- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/arts/television/10kruger.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

Article on Laughing baby and other commercials- http://www.slate.com/id/2180950/pagenum/all/

25 Things I Hate About Face Book- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVA047JAQsk