“It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.” PlayDreamKidsGamesWinningNumbersPlayerCrazyFootballCollegeVideoBunchAwardsDreams Come TrueCollege FootballPrestigiousNcaa Author:Johnny Manziel
“When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.” PeopleMenKindFacesSongNamesCollegeNeededCallingDecidedMadMovedVideoCardsThemeLinksTwistsMad MenBusiness Card Author:Allison Williams
“I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.” StillsHomeJobsCollegeWineStoresVideoOddHere And ThereConnecticutLandscapingOdd Jobs Author:Christopher Abbott
“In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.” ImportantAgeYoungUsedGuySocialTechnologyMediaCollegeKeysCamerasSocial MediaVideoExpensiveMold Author:Ronnie Dunn
“In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.” GamesCollegeExerciseVideoProgrammingPosing Author:Ken Thompson
“I don't have many expenses as a college student (mostly food) so I'm able to put advertising revenue right back into the production of new videos.” AbleStudentsCollegeProductionsVideoAdvertisingExpensesRevenueCollege Students Author:Marques Brownlee
“Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a company with a college friend where we made documentary video for museums. In that capacity, I shot, directed, edited and began to learn the vocabulary of film.” MadeEndsFilmCitiesCompanyNew YorkCollegeShotsCapacityVideoNovelistsMuseumsNew York CityDocumentariesVocabularyEdited Author:Jon Spaihts
“I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement Group artist. I was completely broke at that time, and he said to me, "Come and do some teaching" - he was head of department at Maidstone College of Art. And I went and did a couple of teaching days and practically the only person who showed up was David Cunningham [Flying Lizard's main man], with all of this finished work” MenPersonsArtSaidArtistGroupsTeachingCollegeCoupleFinishedFlyingVideoBrokeDepartmentHallsLizardsPlacementFinished WorkCunninghams Author:David Toop