Best Youtuber: NATALY DAWN vs NOAH KALINA
NATALY DAWN
Natalie Knutsen (born October 29, 1986), known by her stage name Nataly Dawn, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is one half of the duo Pomplamoose with her husband Jack Conte and has released three studio albums and four EPs as of April 2021, in addition to numerous collaborations with other artists. Born October 29, 1986 in Sacramento, California as the daughter of missionaries, she spent her childhood in Europe and attended schools in France and Belgium before she returned to the United States to study art and French literature at Stanford University.[1][2] At Stanford, Dawn met Jack Conte and formed Pomplamoose, eventually performing, recording, and editing songs and videos in their Northern California home.[3] Their first song "Hail Mary" was featured on the front page of YouTube.[4] In 2009, the duo began releasing cover versions of pop songs like Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" and Michael Jackson's "Beat It".[5] On May 18, 2021; Dawn released a personal update on the Pomplamoose YouTube channel in which she stated she has a basal-cell carcinoma (form of skin cancer) which was caught early. Along with the health update, she stated that she would be recording a new a solo record in the same month. After her procedure, she stated she would be taking a few months off.[15]
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NOAH KALINA
Noah Takes a Photo of Himself Every Day for 6 Years (as titled on YouTube), or Everyday (as shown on the title card), is a viral video produced by New York photographer Noah Kalina. It features a fast montage of thousands of pictures of Kalina spanning a period of six years all played sequentially. Kalina began taking a photo of himself every day starting on January 11, 2000, at age 19. The video Everyday shows the photos chronologically, six per second, with an original piano score by his ex-girlfriend Carly Comando.[1] Throughout the compilation, Kalina's face remains emotionless in the center of the frame. Kalina uploaded the video to Vimeo on August 8, 2006, and YouTube on August 27, 2006. Everyday was featured on an episode of VH1's Web Junk 20 and on commercials for Time Warner Cable's Roadrunner service. In a New York Times article, William A. Ewing, director of the Musée de l'Élysée, was quoted as saying, "Noah’s video represents a phenomenal amplification not just in what he produced and how he did it, but how many people the piece touched in such a short period of time. There is nothing comparable in the history of photography."[2] As of June 21, 2020, Everyday has over 27.1 million views on YouTube.[3]