What I love most about viral media is it's so... long tail. Those outside of the obscura, not in the know, would ironically interpret it as niave when in fact it is the very height of visual and languistic fashion.
It's the way I've felt for a long time about a certain class of film and comedy that comes out of the midewest and canada... it's very much traceable back to the kids in the hall, but there are atleast half a dozen movies from the midwest and canada that take a departure down this road. Movies most have never heard of, like American Movie and it's counterpart Koven... or a movie I just discovered called Project Grizzley from Canada. The point is the new frontier is that universe beteween brilliance and the mundane, exploring the sophisticated side of asethetics and visual language. This is very much what the art of the remix is all about. Those not having seen dick in the box would probably not get the boob in a box remix at all. But the beutiful thing is it's an abstraction and exporation of of an aesthetical language. There have undoubtedly been dozens of remixes before and since boobs in a box and you can trace there evolution forward and backward... probably maing a study of where the lonely island guys got the idea from. Sometimes these even become an entire distinct microgenre... much like the movie trailer remix has become. It's truely brilliant. And yet to outsiders it appears as nothing more than another bad video on youtube. On 12/27/06, Bill Cammack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Irina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > the wierdest thing to get used to is all the ppl > > who take time out to tell me how much i suck! LOL > > It could have been worse! hahahaha > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=uSYw4dUVb1E&mode=user&search= > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
