The best part of Ridley Scott’s video pitch for “Life In A Day” is him slipping into the fact that a vodka martini makes him happy. This precious nugget, at 1:07 in the clip below might had been missed had it not been for the weird and suddenly useful subtitling provided. Before you throw me [...]
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 [...]
At Saturday’s conference The Conversation, I moderated a panel called “Product Placement and Marketing Partnerships: Where Content Meets Brand” in which we discussed the various modes of brand-artist collaboration, and the nuts and bolts of seeking and obtaining such partnerships. Time was short but I promised that I would post a followup with video and [...]
No one can argue that some of the most socially and even politically transformative ideas to come out of the technology boom of the last ten years were a) social media and b) the attendant proliferation of user generated content. There was MySpace, then YouTube, then Facebook, Twitter followed by every other niched and slightly [...]
One of the interesting results of the proliferation of web video has been that whatever special distinction independent filmmakers felt they had is kind of over. The truth is, right now, in January 2010 most of the visual storytelling–series, one-off videos and even features you’ll find on content sites (outside of the Netflix and Hulus [...]
