Currently running in theaters

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Starring Resminé Atis. In a bizarre form of self help, a 17-year old girl put leeches on her body, letting them suck her blood to ease the pain of her life. While her sexually charged Russian mother insights her to use her beauty to achieve the American dream. With the arrival of a handsome gardener, a potent male energy is released into the already tense female household, creating a strange triangle of sex, jealousy and horrific manipulation.

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The exclusive teaser trailer from the noir gang thriller "Splinter," starring Edward James Olmos, Tom Sizemore, Resmine Atis, Enrique Almeida, and Noel Gugliemi. Directed by Michael D. Olmos. In a chaotic nightmare world shared by cops and Latino gang members in Los Angeles, a killer is loose.

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presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result.
more info: http://mediatedcultures.net

0:00 Introduction, YouTube's Big Numbers
2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams
5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape
12:16 Introducing our Research Team
12:56 Who is on YouTube?
13:25 What's on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc.
17:04 5% of vids are personal vlogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why?
17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and "networked individualism" (Wellman)
18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community
19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation
21:18 YouTube as a medium for community
23:00 Our first vlogs
25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is ("context collapse")
26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)
27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers
29:53 Aesthetic Arrest
30:25 Connection without Constraint
32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture
34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity
34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio
36:55 YouTube's Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl15
39:50 Reflections on Authenticity
41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System
43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture (featuring Us by blimvisible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =_yxHKgQyGx0
47:32 Networked Production: The Collab. MadV's "The Message" and the message of YouTube
49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World
51:15 Conclusion by bnessel1973
52:50 Dedication and Credits (Our Numa Numa dance)

The Numa Numa quote is from *Douglas* Wolk (not Gary Wolk as I mistakenly said in the talk).

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Directed by The Purchase Brothers. (David and Ian)

UPDATED:
Part II is still in production. A preview will be out at some point. The Purchase Brothers are currently making a feature film that requires quite a bit of their time.


Made as spec 'advertainment' for their demo reel.

Filmed guerilla style. No crew. First two episodes made on a $500 budget, not including previous capital. Valve flew the brothers out to Seattle last year. and mentioned they were 'blown away' by the project on Steam.

1.5 Million hits in three days. 2 million in a week.

#1 Top Rated video of all time on YouTube in one day. Stayed at #1 for a month.

www.anonymouscontent.com,
www.purchasebrothers.com,
www.sonsandaughters.ca,

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Cadbury's Dairy Milk Advert of a Gorilla emotionally drumming to Phil Collins song "In The Air Tonight"

brandrupublic.com--"Cadbury has unveiled a £6.2m campaign for Dairy Milk featuring a gorilla playing the drum solo of Phil Collins' track 'In the Air Tonight'. The 90-second film, which was written and directed by Sony Bravia 'balls' creative director Juan Cabral of Fallon London, launched during the 'Big Brother 8 UK' final on 31st August 2007.

@Cadbury

http://www.glassandahalffull.c om/
http://www.cadbury.co.uk/


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OTHER FUNNY VIDEOS:

Bonnie Tyler "Gorilla Drummer" Ad
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v= 0eJfNVBL50c

Ziggy The Dancing Cat!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v= lCNsNoiZdnc

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