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 [...]
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 [...]
The YouTube feature film experiment I wrote about last year is finally finished, in time for the intended premiere both at Sundance and on YouTube on January 27th. The experiment, which invited filmmakers to submit films shot on a single day – July 24, 2010 is coming to your laptop screen next week. According to [...]
The facts of the shooting of US Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen other people in a Tuscon, Arizona grocery store are simply horrifying by any account: A man enters a store armed with a gun, targets the Representative, shoots her in the head and begins a seemingly random mass killing spree that results in [...]
Our collective memory is so shallow that although we harbor a vague nostalgia for the days of going to Blockbuster on a Friday or Saturday to rent a “blockbuster” movie, it is so far away that it seems as if the concept never existed. How this could have happened to this once high-flying, formidable brand [...]
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 [...]
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