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Austin Hall '10 Featured for Popular YouTube Video

September 18, 2007

Austin Hall '10 (Rocky River, Ohio) was featured in Los Angeles Magazine for his incredibly popular video "Daft Hands" which can be found on YouTube. Hall was also recently interviewed on "The Ellen Degeneres Show" on CBS. In his video, which has over 3 million YouTube page views, Hall spells out the words of the Daft Punk song "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" with letters written on his hands. "Daft Hands" has spawned multiple parody video and garnered Hall several film festival invitations. According to LA Magazine, the video "consciously or not features all the hallmarks of Daft Punk's visual success: anonymity, world fetishes." Hall explains, "They're known for words more than meaning and a playful sense of humor."