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 (age 46) |
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | Utrecht University |
Occupation | Video artist |
Years active | 2012-present |
Website |
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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.
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]
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]
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 (age 46) |
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | Utrecht University |
Occupation | Video artist |
Years active | 2012-present |
Website |
www |
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.
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]
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]