Update

Ok so quick update - I am running a little behind because I have been finishing thesis - interviewing for jobs - and other things as well. But I have not forgotten my quest to uncover celeb 2.0.
So the video is coming along. I am having a harder time with this one - I have a hard enough time editing text - Cleaning up the video is way harder -

Here is a sweet blog about celebs and twitter and such brought to my attention from The Church a mini celeb of his own. He has been documenting his relationship with A Day in the Life of The Church & The BWWLMFSR series - and recently his blog was hit up with an imposter counter video by Lil Mo.


I created my own netvibes to gather all my web stuff - and I officially decided I am sick of twitter. After being tweeted constantly as I brush my teeth, go to the bathroom, anything and everything I decided perhaps phone updates was going to far. Twitter offers some unique features - such as following and search but really is pretty annoying otherwise.


I was thinking about this class as I was working on my thesis. I was attempting to find out information about my Great Grandmother Lula Grace Bell and her family from Whiting, ME. So I looked through census reports - searched every combination of all the members in our family that is gathered on ancestry.com - from work my little brother did before. I went crazy attempting to find something - a story was what I was looking for, a picture, something besides census data and annoying returns on google searches that are just websites that connect a million words for no reason other than I suppose they make money and research about how content is associated.

So how should content be associated? On more layers, and not just dry stats - thats what good about people uploading content. Facebook - and all the social media linking and blogging may help create content that will tell a better story. But I just want to figure out some new ways to connect - that is not driven by $$$. Because if google and the architects of the internet focus too much on efficiency and advertising we may miss the story.

Celebrity 2.0

This is the second version - if you have any suggestions or comments please let me know!

1st draft video - Take 2

Tag Cloudsss

Kelzzz has been asking me how I found this fly moving tag cloud that you see to the right of your eyes as you read my words. Well from this website click here it looks more complicated then it truly is. I did not mess with the edits just put it in, follow the directions carefully and make sure to back up your layout before you try! Go on and create your words into pretty moving clouds -

Logical Argument?

As audiences entered the film theater the lights dimmed and they looked into a screen together as an audience - this audience becomes united in their viewing/perspective

The film actor breaks the control of production and enters the screen - they create the culture

The Mood was one of Illusion - An illusion of intimacy with celebrities - fan mail - gossip mags etc. (para-social)

With TV things changed a bit - The film entered our living room and the ordinary became featured, news - talk shows - reality TV - everyone got 15 minutes of fame - Warhol

But still there was a unified TV audience and it can is still passive, watching not producing, waiting not seizing

Then things change - The mood gets a bit more errie - ambient
With laptops - cell phone texting - instant communication

All of sudden fame is at peoples fingertips - people connect with friends family and meet new people through loose but deeply felt ambient intimate relationships-

In this environment of ambience all identitiy is felt a tid bit like a celeb -

Our houses are no longer built of walls with a one way window (TV) blasting culture - instead we create a house of glass - an image of ourselves that we anyone can see in so that we can look out -
Our glass houses reveal that the neighbors are human - as are we - all too human - Our city is moving and fluid and mourning the architecture of place

We see failures, beauty, dreams of each other and we see that we are not the same because we look out the same window, but rather because we all have thousands of different windows, we can create something new, creation itself becomes the image - craftspeople of culture - who find joy in the labor instead of the product -

****I think this is how the assignment is supposed to be********

Video Script 1st draft

Video Begins with image of people in lit movie theater -
lights dim with following quote
"in the end light is always the key protaganist - light itself is glamorous" Vincent Peters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-e9zzWw-0
show screen with image of Jean Harlow

-Voice over -
"Cult of celebrity created an atmosphere of illusion breeding a cult of cultural consumers - the audiences saw themselves as a part of a homogonous culture
para-social relationship with celebs helped cure the feelings of alienation of industrial life
Play clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQe-lVm7L4 Harlow saying in the future machinery take over everything

Transition to living room - On TV set same old images

Andy Warhol-15 minutes of fame comes on the TV

Fame became about getting your time - We were all alone but we all had a chance

show image of sleeping person with old screen stars displayed on them (Technolust if I can get permission)

Voice over "The Mood Is Changing"--back to living room change lighting-ambient lighting


Show crowds of people texting - using computers - iphone etc.

twitter interrupt sleep clip ---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zljqn5eOUc

Image of person creating an image of self comparing to old movie star
Voice Over -We become producers of our selves - of ourselves as celebritys images
Use clips from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AxLyS4fj0E


"ego is attachment to things around 5.30 "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDjXix6ONk

Lilly Allen on Celeb Culture - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLKhnKPgGRI

sped up video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uls7Rnq-puc

Our images desire a home
"invisible man clip asking for a room"

Clip of Hive----http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HplsGiSmnJI



Voice Over-
Our images of ourselves find home in glass houses - online we are exposed

"what gives a glass house a sense of place..."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A18pzPVp29A
Read Chaucer House of fame poem excerpt
clip play image of dragonfly in jar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMnbu98AmqI
"its all been created as a sense of illusion" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A18pzPVp29A

"Cixous - on - why talk about cities - everything needs a stage, city is a theatre first 30 sec"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDbHLMKkps4

City of Ambience plays in background

As the city changes - their is translation "continue cixous quote translation resignifies the signifier"

Lonely Girl 15 response

FAme- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJHjuhCYos -


Anonymous appears telling us that we have a faulty foundation
"faulty foundation of the ego mock him demand his qualifications"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDjXix6ONk


Bowie - - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpOlaLTXP4E



Can we create something new?

Ambient Intimacy
----talking about this---image of networks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PU--GqGPFk - voice "ambient intimacy - twitter greater ability to stay in touch network - cultivate loose ties form new relationships draw anaology to the village"


Currently working but will post now so can get feedback etc.




Video Clips To Used for Ideas/Video-




Quote "the light itself..." at 1 min at 1.50 protaganist is light



"isnt it enough entertaining people - i'm miserable - those people are my friends"



http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/alison_jackson_looks_at_celebrity.html