“Life In A Day” Is a Shallow YouTube Branding Campaign

storytelling 28 January 2011 | 1 Comment

In tracking the trajectory of the Life In A Day project – the well publicized collaboration between YouTube and Ridley Scott’s company, I have asked some provocative questions and made some educated guesses on how it would turn out.  So, to the question we all ask when we watch a film –What is it ABOUT?–I [...]

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Curations: Two YouTube Play Selections To Watch

Curations 22 October 2010 | 0 Comments

Over the last few months, the YouTube-Guggenheim collaboration known as YouTube Play has been a recurring subject on this blog. Now the finalists have been announced and they will be shown in various Guggenheim locations around the world this weekend (Oct 22-24). After watching the final selections, I decided to post two of the most [...]

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Seeking the Video Art Frontier on YouTube

Curations 18 June 2010 | 0 Comments

It was just a matter of time before the art gods found Youtube. In a time when the gap between the big cultural institutional powers-that-be and the masses has grown larger than ever, a reach into the wilds of the aggregated video world was inevitable. It is, for instance no surprise that the advent of [...]

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