On Friday afternoon, YouTube quietly announced its new lineup of “original content” channels – meaning not the kind of channel you create for your skateboarding videos, but the kind of channel YouTube thinks will be able to compete with television. We all knew YouTube was headed into the pro-content biz, but until now the strategy has [...]
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 [...]
In the world of visual media, entertainment is ubiquitous and philosophy a tad less so. As someone interested as much (if not more) in ideas than solely in form, I was delighted to discover this cleverly illustrated video of a talk about 21st century Enlightenment. Before I saw the video below, I had never heard [...]
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 [...]
DIY filmmakers have always inherently understood the idea of microfunding, because in some sense or another, raising a few hundred or thousand from friends and family IS essentially the same idea. And now, with social media providing the kind of community reach that would have been impossible even ten years ago, this model has become [...]
Extracted from the NewTeeVee Live archive of yesterday’s great 1 day conference, this video is long video but very worth worth watching if you’re curious what the folks in the new media video world think is coming next. Answers to the question: ”What’s The Next Big Thing” had experts weighing in on technologies, creative shifts, funding, [...]
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