As Time Goes By: VIDEO

Noah Kalina has taken a photo of himself every day for twelve and a half years, starting with this one.

Watch him age more than a decade, AFTER THE JUMP...

The Allegedly Amusing Misadventures Of Two Fictional Closet Cases: VIDEO

This video, which seeks to be (and, some say, succeeds in being) hilarious, is from Jermaine Fowler, star of the soon-to-be resurrected In Living Color, and comic Kevin Barnett, of New York City. It's part of an in-progress web series called "Homo Thugs," which promises a "real look inside the lives of two homophobic, in-the-closet gangsters." Funny? 

Readers at work, please note: The language is coarse.

Watch AFTER THE JUMP ...

Filmmaker Jeremiah McDonald Is Interviewed By His 12-Year-Old Self: VIDEO

Thirty-two-year-old Filmmaker Jeremiah McDonald has been making movies for a long, long time. On his YouTube channel you may find, among other things, his nine-year-old self battling ghoulish puppets on Super8, and his re-enactment, at age 14-ish, of a critical scene from Lord of The Rings.

When he was 12, McDonald recorded one half of an interview to be conducted with his older self at some point in the future. That was 20 years ago; McDonald has now resumed the conversation. The results are fun. Watch AFTER THE JUMP ...

Straight Guy Celebrates Life with a Gay Couple: VIDEO

Turns out there are plenty of benefits. Kasey explains what living with his gay housemates Will and RJ has been like. And there is plenty more to discover as they're all YouTube vloggers.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Why Do YouTube Views Freeze at 301? - VIDEO

In which an age-old mystery is cracked wide open.

Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP...

Chris Crocker Doc Premiers MONDAY (UPDATED)

(UPDATE: Mea culpa. This thing's premiering Monday night, 9 p.m. Not Tuesday night, as previously reported. Read on. - BKT) 

As Andy reported in May, Chris Crocker, internet celebrity and creator of uniquely diquieting YouTube videos, is the subject of a documentary entitled Me @ The Zoo, which premiered last winter at Sundance. It's been picked up by HBO, and debuts on that channel on Tuesday, at 9 p.m. It looks extremely cool -- a meditation on internet celebrity from two whip-smart fiimmakers who know exactly what they're after, and who may be seen discussing their film AFTER THE JUMP.

To plug the film, Crocker chatted this week with HuffPo's Noah Michelson. As always, he's a lot saner in interviews than his videos would suggest. A sample:

HuffPo: With the documentary coming out, some people are saying this is your second chance at fame. Some are even calling it your last chance. How do you respond to that? Are you plotting how you can ride the current interest in you to the next level?

Crocker: That’s so funny. I think that people -- especially people I work with and that are around me -- they want me to be more strategic, but I genuinely did this documentary because of the therapeutic relief of just needing to be understood as a person. It was never for the fame in the beginning and it’s not about the fame now. It’s so interesting because, yes, I have played up being this "fame whore." And I’ve played up to that because I knew that’s what people thought of me, so I wanted to be in on the joke. But the whole time it’s never been about fame for me. It’s literally been an outlet. I do consider myself an entertainer and if entertaining people happens in the process of having therapy, then great.

I’ve met with some really amazing people recently -- I was just at John Waters’s party in Provincetown -- and I’ve really been encouraged by people who it’s so hard for me to even walk into a room with because there’s all these preconceived notions about me wanting to be famous and these preconceived notions of me not being genuine -- like I'm this 15-minutes-of-fame, desperate person. That kind of gets to me. It’s like, if I do have any ambition about me whatsoever, that’s perceived as me being a fame whore. If I do something I want it to really be grassroots -- maybe an indie film? I’m not sitting here wanting to be on tabloids. It’s not what I’m in it for.