The Practice team love a good Vine that can make us chuckle, gasp in awe, and generally ask- “just…how?!” Granted, we’re not the most talented videographers, but that doesn’t stop us from having a go at creating our own! So in celebration of the Vine, today we look back on our favourites from the past month.

Anything featuring disappearing food or food art has us hooked, and this one, from General Electric, cleverly ticks both boxes:

The Swan Lake #foodballet

Another top pick this month has got to be from professional Vine artist, Pinot, whose sketch of a passing train is just extraordinary:

Perhaps more creatively, and shunning the traditional flip book and food Vines, is this video entitled “How to watch every single episode of Lost.” Vine user, Papa C Los, created this by capturing a single frame from each of the 121 episodes of the hit series fit into the 6-second time allocation:

Aside from our favourite individual videos, there was one Vine incident which really captured our attention this month. July’s most talked about and crazy Vine stunt saw legendary Vine user, Kyle M.F. Williams, (known as Keelayjams), tweet his password and username in an experiment to see what could happen if his fans accessed his account. Almost instantaneously, Keelayjam’s account was bombarded with an overwhelming amount of Vines as fans responded to his probing tweet, urging them to “ruin” his feed. Attempting to replicate his signature style, which often features videos of saxophones rolling down hills, rotating “ceiling fan” shots and “pizza parachuting”, for example, fans started posting an array of randomness, from a “John Cage influenced” vine, to creative shots at home and on the street.

Yet in a twist of fate, users changed his display name, avatar and password (effectively locking him out), whilst others unsubscribed from those he followed, subscribed to more users, followed themselves, and “revined” anything they felt like. The results were ultimately devastating to Keelayjams’ reputation; he ended up losing around 3,000 followers from his 64,000 in the space of the night, and although he managed to reset his password, he was bizarrely redirected to another user’s account every time he logged on. Luckily, he managed to get in contact with a Vine developer via Twitter who finally reset everything back to normal, and after regaining control, uploaded all the hacked videos to a tumblr page. Although an interesting experiment, it’s certainly a lesson to all of us that the online community can quickly turn nasty given the chance!

Do you enjoy creating Vines, or are you more of a YouTube/Instagram video fan? And do you have any all-time favourites worthy of a mention? We’d love to hear your thoughts and top picks, so please tweet to us @PracticeDigital, and share them on our Facebook page. And don’t forget to check out our Vines too!