Albino Blacksheep

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**Albino Blacksheep**


URL	http://www.albinoblacksheep.com
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Entertainment website
Registration	Optional
Owner	Steven Lerner
Created by	Steven Lerner

Albino Blacksheep is a popular website based in Toronto, Ontario that posts humorous and artistic member-submitted digital media. The most popular of these are movies or games created with Adobe Flash. The website also features image galleries, audio files, and text files. Additionally, there is a mobile section that provides ring tones, screensavers, and wallpaper for mobile phones.^[1] The website was ranked fourth in blogs of the year (2005) by Blogpulse.^[2]

In addition to the media available on the website, there is also a large user community that takes advantage of the forums and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel; members of which often offer tutorials on the production of the type of media found on Albino Blacksheep.^[3]

1 History
2 Name
3 Notes and references
4 External links

[edit] History

Albino Blacksheep was founded in 1999 by Steven Lerner (also known as "Sners") to promote his band of the same name, which was started in 1996. In 2000, Lerner took a web design course and redesigned the website. This new incarnation contained rants, graphical images, and a video stream from Lerner's video camera. Perhaps Lerner's first famous work was in 2003, with his site's Google bomb for French military victories.^[4] Since then the site has been growing in popularity, currently receiving about 1.5 million pageviews per day.^[5]

Albino Blacksheep is also famous for being a major animutation (a Flash animation style created by Neil Cicierega in 2001) portal, of which Bagadada Bop!, JamezBond, and Irrational Exuberance (Yatta) are the most popular. Most recently, The Fingertips Project, a collaborative animutation with multiple animators, has increased Albino Blacksheep's image as a showcase for animutation.^{[citation needed]} The website also helped the band Tally Hall achieve some nobility after posting their music video Banana Man.^[6]

[edit] Name

According to Steven Lerner, the creator of Albino Blacksheep, the name is an intentional oxymoron; by definition, a black sheep cannot be an albino because it quite obviously possesses skin pigmentation. The name also describes being an outcast or different with the term blacksheep. ^[7]

[edit] Notes and references

^ Mobile Section on Albinoblacksheep.com.
^ Top Blogs from Blogpulse.com, retrieved January 31, 2007.
^ Tutorial Section on Albinoblacksheep.com
^ French twist from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, posted March 25, 2003.
^ Site Stats as of March 23, 2006.
^ Quirky Michigan band pops into Rehoboth by Kim Silarski of the Gannett News Service, posted December 17, 2005.
^ The Meaning by Sners of Albinoblacksheep.com.