Jo Luijten

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Jo Luijten
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Luijten performing at the Ha Ha Cafe Comedy Club in North Hollywood
Born
Jo Jacobus Wilhelmus Luijten

24 April 1978 (1978-04-24) (age 47)
Roermond, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Alma mater Utrecht University
OccupationVideo artist
Years active2012-present
Website www.joluijten.com

Jo Jacobus Wilhelmus Luijten (Roermond, 24 April 1978) is a Dutch comedy video artist & video game developer who works with Kinna McInroe as narrator under the pseudonym of Squirrel-Monkey.

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Videos

Most of the Squirrel-Monkey videos show what social networking sites and video games might have looked like if created on the computers of the 1980s or 1990s. Since their introduction in March 2012, [1] the videos have received positive press from a number of news and technology websites, including Mashable, [2] Wired , [3] The Huffington Post , [4] CNET [5] and Gizmodo. [6]

The Nighthawk Cinema in New York City in collaboration with Daily Motion selected his Squirrel-Monkey video If Angry Birds were invented in the ’80s for the Cinema Selects cinema screening. [7] The Hungarian online magazine Urbnplyr considered the video If Instagram were invented in the '80s... as one of the best videos of 2014. [8]

Luijten also works outside of the Squirrel-Monkey productions. In 2013, as part of the YouTube Comedy Week, Warwick Davis presented Warwick Davis' Top 10 Tech Sketch Moments, which included a video made by Luijten. [9]

Games

In 2016 Luijten developed two election-inspired online games, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as their main characters. [10] The object of the game is to win the United States presidential election. [11] [12]

References

  1. ↑ Squirrel-Monkey (2012-03-18). If Facebook were invented in the '90s... (YouTube). Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  2. ↑ Wasserman, Todd (April 3, 2012). "What If 'The Facebook' Was Invented in the '90s?". Mashable . Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ Watercutter, Angela (February 4, 2014). "If Instagram Was Around in the '80s, This Would Be Its Launch Video". Wired . Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ Brooks, Katherine (February 25, 2013). "The Joy Of ASCII: Bob Ross Video Just Might Be The Strangest Painting How-To We've Ever Seen (VIDEO)". Huffington Post . Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Moyer, Andres (April 5, 2012). "Twitter, Facebook go retro like Google Maps". CNET . Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ Liszewski, Andrew (February 4, 2014). "Instagram Would Have Been Even Awesomer In the 80s". Gizmodo . Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  7. ↑ , Nitehawk Hatched, April 30, 2012.
  8. ↑ , LISTAPORNÓ 2014: az év legjobb videói , December 25, 2014.
  9. ↑ Davis, Warwick (May 24, 2013). "Warwick Davis' Top 10 Tech Sketch Moments". The Multiverse . Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  10. ↑ Fashingbauer Cooper, Fashingbauer Cooper (June 8, 2016). "Trump and Clinton star in retro video games you can really play". CNET . Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  11. ↑ Blevins, Blevins (June 3, 2016). "Presidential Blitz turns the blighted 2016 election into a fun, retro game". The A.V. Club . Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  12. ↑ Sabris, Sabris (June 7, 2016). "Presidential Blitz turns 2016 election into retro game". CNET . Retrieved April 16, 2017.


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