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Albino Blacksheep
Albino Blacksheep (albinoblacksheep.com) is an animation website created by Steven Lerner in 1999,
The website was originally created in Toronto, Canada on January 4, 1999. The website provided movies, animations as well as games: Mostly created with Adobe Flash, there is a "prank" section which contain screamers, The website also features image galleries, audio and text files. in addition, there was a mobile section that provided ring tones, screensavers, and wallpaper for mobile phones.[1] they also sell plushie of the sheep as well.[2]
The site now emulates flash after the shutdown of the flash plugin.
History
The website was founded on January 4, 1999 by Steven Lerner, to promote his band of the same name, with a little bit of information on the band Albino Blacksheep exists. In 2000, Steven took a webdesign course and redesigned the website. This new incarnation contained rants, graphical images, and a video stream from Lerner's video camera.
In 2004, Lerner's first famous work was first surfaced, with his site's Google bomb for French military victories. Between then and 2006, the site had been growing in popularity, receiving about 1.50 million pageviews per day.
Albino Blacksheep is also famous for being a major portal for Flash animation and animutation (a Flash animation style created by Neil Cicierega in 2001). The popular Web game Musical Lantern can be found on this site.[3] 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 site as a joke homepage, it was designed to trick 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."
As of March 2020, the site changed the logo with the same sheep but wearing a face mask.
Etymology
According to Steven Lerner, the name is an intentional oxymoron; by definition, a black sheep cannot be an albino because it quite obviously possesses skin pigmentation. He also points out that "black sheep" can also be interpreted as "outcast" and that the site's title could be interpreted to refer to an albino outcast.[4]
Notes and References
- ↑ The Mobile Version for Albino Blacksheep.
- ↑ The Plushie of the Sheep.
- ↑ albinoblacksheep.com/flash/lantern
- ↑ The Meaning of the title.
Links
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albino_Blacksheep
- Albino Blacksheep Category
NOTE: The following website contains lots of screamers!
- Flash Pranks: albinoblacksheep.com/flash/prank
