‘Internet People’ Creator Dan Meth to Get Freddie Award
From Wired:
‘Internet People’ Creator Dan Meth to Get Freddie Award
By Jenna Wortham May 21, 2008
When animator Dan Meth released “Internet People,” a high-octane spin through web celebs, last year, the video went viral with nearly 3 million views. The hit clip is part of The Meth Minute 39, a surreal series of pop culture shorts hosted by user-generated cartoon site Channel Frederator.
Next month at the second annual Channel Frederator Awards, Meth will be taking home top honors — a special juror prize dubbed the Vanguard Award.
“We’re honoring the filmmakers, like Dan, who whose animations have been totally embraced online,” said Fred Seibert, founder of Channel Frederator and former head of Hanna-Barbera, in a phone interview. “Which takes a lot more time than putting Mentos into diet soda and filming it.”
At the inaugural Channel Frederator Awards ceremony in 2007, David Karp, who helped spawn the idea of an online portal for user-submitted animation, took home the honor. Shortly after, he created the wildly popular microblogging platform Tumblr.
Meth’s catalog of clever, spastic spoofs have tallied a collective 20 millions views. He’s currently at work on a “super top-secret project” to debut on Channel Frederator next month.
