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243/196 music video in body
69/12 politics in body
151/72 cute in body

active vids (intitle:searchterm site:videosift.com inurl:story "this video is ranked")
discarded (intitle:searchterm site:videosift.com inurl:story -"this video is ranked")
52/26 colbert in title
53/15 daily show in title
23/11 simpsons
27/19 family guy
16/16 guitar
36/39 music video

Just an idea. (maybe half sift or sift on other side
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2249/t1li0.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6702/t2os1.jpg

these are some early concepts,
if you like em I'll go ahead and make some for the other 3 categories.
http://mwhite.slowchop.com/images/vs_cute.png
http://mwhite.slowchop.com/images/vs_music.png

Been playin' around...

http://home.mchsi.com/~marianne/vstrans/cute.png
http://home.mchsi.com/~marianne/vstrans/tech.png
http://home.mchsi.com/~marianne/vstrans/comedy.png
http://home.mchsi.com/~marianne/vstrans/music.png
http://home.mchsi.com/~marianne/vstrans/politics.png

and if any one has any better ideas....
http://home.mchsi.com/~marianne/vstrans/blank.png

edited to add: ah, I just saw 'to go in the header'. I was thinking sidebar or navbar...so nevermind. lol.

i like those mlx, i'm not sure i first read it as navbar ico's aswell but joedirts images made me think it was meant for logo

What category are you going to put pranks, stunts, accidents, injuries, explosions, mother nature, caught on video in?

OMG, sift-kitten is absolutely hilarious - ren, genius!

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Good stuff all. Yeah, not a navbar .ico, but something for the header area (the grey area at the top) to distinguish the category. I like Ren's idea with the Sifter with various things leaning against it or inside of it, that would work well for the logo.

We would also like a small icon similar in size to the nsfw to sit under the votebox for videos that fall into categories, so something like what mlx provided.

Lucky suggested prank.videosift.com too. I don't know though, is it the kind of thing people would like to single out? I'm open to it.

I've uploaded the base psd(photoshop) file so people can create their own logo's using the sifter and submit them

http://mwhite.slowchop.com/images/vs_category.psd

wont be able to work on some more logo's until later this weekend as I have to reinstall 3dsmax after my latest computer explosion problem. Plus have some clients breathing down my neck.

good luck

yea, what about sport?

We need a dailyshow.videosift.com

Also, does anyone know a decent, free photoshop?

you can demo photoshop for 30 days off the adobe website.

How do i upload them? It dosn't resize them properly so you cant see it on Flickr.

just post the flickr link here. or upload to imageshack or something.

Here's one with the sifter for the tech category...

http://home.mchsi.com/~marianne/matrixsifter.png

[shrug]

I've made some more, I couldn't think of what to do for the politics one.. and the comedy one was equally as challenging.

http://mwhite.slowchop.com/images/vs_samples.jpg

Feel free to give me any suggestions and i'll do some more mockups.

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Awesome Ren! I think the politics one is particularly inspired.

(voice of Fowler from Chicken Run)
good grief! the kittens bought it!

Thats a left handed sifter. I cant work with a left handed sifter.

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My only suggestion, is that as these sifters would be scaled down quite a bit - the accents could be a bit bigger for some.

Can we make the kitten a bit bigger in relation to the sifter, also I didn't recognise the bluetooth headset at first glance, this might not scale as well. For the tech one, what if we put a DVD-Rom bezel and a power button on the front? so now the sifter is a wicked PC case mod.

Also, great work on adding the shadows for the accents.

yer thats cool, I was thinking of adding a lcd screen to the tech one and dropping the bluetooth, but I'll try the PC case idea first
the kitten can be enlarged, i was just worried about the top of its head getting cropped off at the time but now that i've made the others large it shouldn't be a problemo

http://www.scopenews.com/borat2.jpg
Luckily I'm not being serious..

hahaha

ren, i like it. Here's my suggestions. If I was better at PS, I'd give it a whirl.

For tech --> layer blend with borg texture like from one of these: borg cube - locutus - borg stuff... If that doesn't work, I like dag's idea. Put a power button on the front and a power cord off the side.

For music --> I think the guitar is too small. Maybe a Violin/Viola might be large in the same space (smaller neck) so it can fit larger.

For politics --> it's ok, I like a donkey head and elephant sticking out either side. But blue/red works. Maybe you can stick a ribbon on it. I think that would be hilarious.

I think we'll also need a cartoon version. Animation or something like that. I'm not sure what to do about that but put mickey mouse gloves and feet on the sifter.

alright cool, maybe a donkeys head and an elephants ass? or is that getting too political?
I'll try the ribbon out and maybe a violin etc.
Borg is possible, computer is easier.

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Ribbon idea - very good.

I know there are other categories that we would like to do, but we might do this in 2 rounds - as it's a pretty significant change to our structure. We'll release these first ones let them settle a bit and then expand to more categories.

http://mwhite.slowchop.com/images/vs_samples.jpg (updated)

Looks good. I scaled it down to proper size and everything looks pretty good, except the music notes are just too small. Maybe wrap a bar of sheet music as texture across front of sifter. And, tech texture is too detailed and dark. If you use same texture scaled by 2x or 2.5x and maybe slightly more contrast would look better when really small, but the rest look great.

dag, come on, animated / cartoons is a huge category. Or at least tv shows. That's a lot of the submitted stuff. Could just wrap a NTSC color bar around the front of sifter and put on rabbit ear antennas.

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Yeah, but I see animated stuff fitting across all the categories potentially. I'm serious about a second round. I just don't want us to get too fractured yet.

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Love the Borg one Ren. Very nice texuring!

I have a new pic for the cute kitty --> (pic)

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Oh man, that's scary. :0

We could combine Cute and Tech:

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=9036&where=index

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Hey Ren, can we have PSDs of your latest batch? I think they're good to go - love em.

One small suggestion, it's kind of a US-centric thing, but have you seen the magnetic "support our troops" ribbons? They are a huge thing in the US (and quite a polarizer) if possible could we try one of those in place of the blue ribbon? It might be a nice little tongue-in-cheek chuckle.
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B2GGGL_enAU176&q=magnet%20support%20our%20troops%20ribbon&sa=N&tab=wi
If not, then let's keep it, cause it looks good.

can't wait for the religion category. It has to be a jesus fish and a FSM logo

"stick a yellow magnet on your SUV"..

Ok I slapped the ribbon in. I'll just give ya the PNG files not the PSD if thats cool? cos its all in one PSD and is kind confusing with all the hidden layers

http://renbo.net/images/vs_cute.png
http://renbo.net/images/vs_tech.png
http://renbo.net/images/vs_music.png
http://renbo.net/images/vs_politics.png
http://renbo.net/images/vs_comedy.png

I previously had brought up a category for pranks, stunts, accidents, injuries, explosions, mother nature, caught on video. I want to suggest a "caught on video" category to take care of the unexpected things that are recorded on video - referring to all the items above.

And I suggest a sifter with a ball of fire coming out of it. Sifters seem to love seeing stuff blown up.

*cringes at the magnetic ribbon*

....a big fan of quick reference and usable, practical information, chog says, a "How To" category, is in order...inspired by handy posts like cocaine and hashish production basics, this would make a dandy addition the stodgiest of lists....