Everything about Albino Blacksheep totally explained
Albino Blacksheep is a website based in
Toronto, Ontario that posts humorous and artistic member-submitted digital media. Most of these are movies or games created with
Adobe Flash. The website also features image galleries, audio files, and text files. Additionally, there's a mobile section that provides
ring tones,
screensavers, and
wallpaper for
mobile phones. The website was ranked fourth in blogs of the year (2005) by Blogpulse.
In addition to the media available on the website, there's also a large user community that takes advantage of the
forums and
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel; members of which often offer tutorials on the production of the type of media found on Albino Blacksheep.
History
Albino Blacksheep was founded in
1999 by Steven Lerner (also known as "Sners") to promote his band of the same name, which was started in
1996. In
2000, Lerner took a
web design course and redesigned the website. This new incarnation contained rants, graphical images, and a video stream from Lerner's video camera. Perhaps Lerner's first famous work was in
2003, with his site's
Google bomb for French military victories. Since then the site has been growing in popularity, currently receiving about 1.50 million pageviews per day.
Albino Blacksheep is also famous for being a major
animutation (a Flash animation style created by
Neil Cicierega in
2001) portal, of which
Bagadada Bop!
,
JamezBond, and
Irrational Exuberance (Yatta) are the most popular. Most recently,
The Fingertips Project, a collaborative animutation with multiple animators, has increased Albino Blacksheep's image as a showcase for animutation. The website also helped the band
Tally Hall achieve some notability after posting their music video
Banana Man.
On April 1, 2007, Lerner changed the homepage to a joke homepage, designed to make people think that the site had been bought and turned into "Google Animations". The joke was reinforced by a fake blog stating that
"Albino Blacksheep has been acquired by Google Inc. for roughly $32 million in stock options. The deal was discussed over a casual breakfast in Mountain View, California between the Canadian-born founder of Albino Blacksheep and the Google co-founders and CEO. Plans are underway for Google Inc. to tie its services and software into the former Albino Blacksheep website which will go by the new name Google Animation."
Name
According to Steven Lerner, the creator of Albino Blacksheep, the name is an intentional
oxymoron; by definition, a black sheep can't be an
albino because it quite obviously possesses skin pigmentation. The name also describes being an outcast or different with the term
blacksheep.
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