#MTV2 Video Mod

[cruelangel94]

Silent Hill 4: The Room is 20 years old today!

Here's a clip of that one time Video Mods on MTV2 did a Silent Hill 4 and Taking Back Sunday music video back in 2004.

[goodyprostate]

Good morning but only to those who remember MTV2's Video Mods

[mirandamckenni1]

Liked on YouTube: MTV2 Video Mod - Bring Me To Life || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4gvBEJ7GLY || Evanescence Bring Me To Life MTV2 Video Mod winner

[thebreadthatcausedlesmis]

How did I only just discover this was a thing, Yoda on Drums, Anakin singing, Mace and Obi-wan on guitar and Bass. This is like a weird fever dream.

[bruised-pixels]

a gifset of sims 2 on video mods from mtv2

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[jacethegaymer]

Y’all-

Sooo yeah that’s all I gotta say

This was made by MTV2 Video Mods I believe

[simnostalgia]

MTV2 Video Mods anon here! So when I sent you the information about this and you posted the version that MTV used then. But it uses the Fountains of Wayne actual MV as well for MTV reasons... But! Get this, there's a very recent version of the same but this time without the actual band, borderless and 480p to boot! It's been on YouTube for two days- check it out! watch?v=QQeYKmd5ll8 The massues looks more like Don with brown hair on this than in the older video; here they're identical!

Oh interesting! Good find.

[pan-pizza]

[New Vid]

MTV2 Video Mods & The Lost Spongebob Blink 182 Music Video

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[dd-the-man-without-fear]

MTV2's Video Mods - VG Unity: Stand and Choose (2004)

[dailynicknews]

via NickALive!

[omniversalobservations]

VG Unity: Stand and Choose (2004)

MTV: Music Television today announced the release of "Stand and Choose," a non-partisan, animated music video created in cooperation with 12 major computer and video game publishers and featuring more than 50 video game characters encouraging young people to vote in the upcoming Presidential election. The music video will premiere on MTV's TRL and mtvU (MTV's college network), as part of MTV's larger "Choose or Lose: 20 Million LOUD" campaign, on Wednesday, October 6th. The video will also go into rotation on MTV, MTV2, mtvU, MTV.com, Spike TV, and The N, as well as MTV's video on demand on Comcast and wireless platforms. "Choose or Lose: 20 Million LOUD" aims to get 20 million young people aged 18-30 to vote this November.

From October 6th through 11th, VG Unity can be seen online exclusively at the PRElection on the Choose or Lose section of mtv.com. The PRElection, a national online election for young people to learn about and choose between Senator Kerry and President Bush, helps participants register to vote in the real presidential election through a specially-developed dual registration system.

VG Unity represents a unique effort among some of the industry's major game publishers to encourage political engagement. "Stand and Choose" was written and produced by acclaimed producer Ross Robinson who has worked with such artists as Limp Bizkit, Korn, and most recently The Cure. The music video was produced and directed by Tony Shiff, who also produces "Video Mods" for MTV2. "Stand and Choose" features some of the most popular video game characters, including the stars of The Sims, BloodRayne, Mortal Kombat, SSX3, Leisure Suit Larry, Sonic Heroes, SpongeBob SquarePants, Outlaw Golf 2, Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Unreal(R) Tournament 2004, DRIV3R(TM), Splinter Cell, Tony Hawk's Underground 2, Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, and many more.

"The 'Stand and Choose' video is a unique piece of our ongoing 'Choose or Lose' campaign," said Ian Rowe, VP of Strategic Partnerships & Public Affairs at MTV. "Video games are a great way to connect with our audience, and we're happy to have the cooperation of major video game publishers in raising awareness of the importance of voting and getting involved."

"Video games and MTV are both enormously popular with young adults of both genders, so using video game characters to encourage voting among this age group is a natural fit," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the trade association representing U.S. publishers of computer and video games. "'Stand and Choose' is a creative, non-partisan way to reach the generation that has grown up both wanting their MTV and playing computer and video games."

Bruno Bonnell, Chairman and CEO of Atari, Inc., who inspired the concept of this project by suggesting to MTV that the companies join forces for a public affairs initiative, commented, "We are excited to be a part of such an amazing music video. As an industry, we have a special relationship with young adults. VG Unity combines our reach with that of MTV, creating a unique opportunity to motivate the young adult audience to take action."

Source: Business Wire

(images via YouTube)

[supervideojames]

Sonic and Scorpion playing chess from the MTV2 show Video Mods.

[keeyawnuh]

Remember MTV2 Video Mods? I do.

[shoolis]

Can you imagine having the audacity of trying to improve upon the perfection that is the MTV2 Video Mod

[oxcjae]

My Road to YouTube: A Brief History

After producing machinimas and sharing them with the Internet for over a decade, I feel that it’s time to explain what led me there.

The spark for my hobby of producing videos was my deep interest in music and the videos that accompanied them.

Growing up, I always had an ear for music, and it has always played an important role in my life and the memories they leave behind, mostly thanks to my father. In fact, most of my memories are bound with some kind of song, album, or genre.

One of my earliest memories (from 1997) involves me repeatedly sitting next to my father’s stereo system in the living room after whatever day of pre-k. Headphones in my ears, I would jam to his CDs, such as Smash Mouth’s Fush Yu Mang, Queen’s News of the World, and so on. Another early memory involved me dancing in the backyard to radio songs playing on his boombox.

His influence stretched further when he built up a music collection on his computer within the next year. There, I’d discover a range of different genres from different periods of time, whether it was 90s’ eurodance, 80s’ electro rap, or then-modern radio hits (Backstreet Boys, Bloodhound Gang, Amber, Daft Punk, Eiffel 65, Linkin Park, etc.).

Conveniently enough, my father was also responsible for introducing me to video games. It was on this same computer that led me to play games now considered classics, such as Descent (1995), Diablo (1996), Quake II (1997), Starcraft (1998), and most importantly, Half-Life (1998) and its seemingly-endless mods and community creations. Of course, I was both fascinated and subsequently hooked into video-game culture, which would pay off down the road.

Slowly but surely, I also branched out to explore for music myself. By 2002, I was watching music videos on MTV2 every day, usually after school. I recall being fascinated with several music videos, like Linkin Park’s “Pts.Of.Athrty”, Daft Punk’s “One More Time”, and White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army”. In 2004, I learned how to find and view music videos on the Internet, mostly through Yahoo Music and MSN Music. Eventually, around 2005, I began building a CD collection both physically and digitally.

With the upbringing of Garry’s Mod and YouTube in 2005 came an influx of homemade music videos loaded with inspiration. Eventually, as an avid gamer and lover of music videos, I could no longer resist the temptation of making my own.

In May 2006, at the age of 12, I produced my first machinima on Half-Life 2 in just one evening and shared it on Google Video. Aside from that, it was nothing special, but it was my first step into both producing and editing music-based machinimas. And once I got a taste of it, I couldn’t stop.

Between May and August of 2006, I shared a load of subsequent, mediocre machinimas on Google Video, where I gathered a small following before switching over to YouTube under the name “1337CaLeB”. The rest is history, including UnKnown Moments.

Looking back, it’s amazing to see where my early interests and inspirations led me and the life-changing events that soon followed. Never underestimate the power of the butterfly effect.

[Partly revised in August 2017.]