Here's the most recent update on lonelygirl15 http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/09/07/lonelygirl15.html
On Sep 8, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Casey McKinnon wrote: > Wow... I just found the girl in question, her YouTube profile/vlog is > located here: > > http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=lonelygirl15 > > If this is real, this girl has talent. Unfortunately, though, after > watching her most recent five videos, I don't believe it IS real. The > only reason I believe this is due to her great editing, great comedic > timing and this particular episode where someone takes tons of > well-framed video footage of her swimming: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q_y0HdJ4x8 > > A lot of the swimming parts are just too high quality/well-framed to > believe that the guy holding the camera isn't a well-seasoned > cameraman. > > I could be wrong... but one idea springs to mind: LonelyGirl15 is a > lot like Hope is Emo, but more realistic (capable of happiness > SOMEtimes!). > > Whether it's real or not, I like her... how can I not, she's adorable. > Casey > > --- > Casey McKinnon > Producer, Galacticast > http://www.galacticast.com/ > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Related to the YouTube discussion, is this story in today's LA >> Times, about the identity of LonelyGirl15. Since she started >> posting videos on YT in June, she consistently gets lots of views. >> Now her "identity" could be a part of a marketing campaign... >> possibly for a movie. >> >> Because LATimes.com requires registration, I've included the first 2 >> paragraphs to the story, in addition to the link: >> >> http://www.latimes.com/search/dispatcher.front? >> Query=lonelygirl15&target=blendedsearch&first-page-size=5 >> >> ------------ >> Lonelygirl15 appears to be an innocent, home-schooled 16-year-old, >> pouring her heart out for her video camera in the privacy of her >> bedroom. But since May, her brief posts on the video-sharing site >> YouTube and the social networking hub MySpace have launched a Web >> mystery eagerly followed by her million-plus viewers: Who is this >> sheltered ingenue who calls herself "Bree," and is she in some sort >> of danger — or, worse, the tool of some giant marketing machine? >> >> No one has publicly come forward to lay claim to her work, but she >> is starting to look as connected in Hollywood as any starlet. Three >> lonelygirl15-obsessed amateur Web sleuths set up a sting using >> tracking software that appears to show that e-mails sent from a >> lonelygirl15 account came from inside the offices of the Beverly >> Hills-based talent agency Creative Artists Agency. >> >> ---------------- >> Hmmm, the next Blair Witch-type campaign? >> >> Mark >> www.1trackmind.com >> www.TVQuake.com >> > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- Steve Garfield http://SteveGarfield.com Learn Podcasting FREE at PodCamp Boston, Sept 9/10 http://www.PodCamp.org Watch Vlog Soup: A video tour of the vlogosphere http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/vlogsoup/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
