College Colleague Collages – The Doritos Ad’ Winner

I didn’t actually see “Tribe” :

http://media.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/news/july8/grads-ad-out-of-this-world.html

screened on the telly. Its rum victorious [mainstream-media] run was so curtailed that jogging memories of its brief broadcast mayn’t long be passably possible for those who (doze an’) didn’ take an active int’rest in the competition’s digital denouement.

I watched (in line) online as “Tribe” scooped the early accolade of : “Weekly Winner” and, in consequence of this considerable conquest, picked up the publicity that MUST have influenced why so very many more, amongst the contest’s 900+ (special ?) offerings, were also directed in the pains-taking stop-motion style.

An opponent finalist (the impressively slick short of an unseizably sizeable product pack poster being assembled from hundreds of component shots, criticised, in part, for doing more to promote photo’s than Doritos) was slammed for smacking of “professionalism” (probably by narky amateurs, hobbyists and other go-it-alone, self-taught, no-chance types who might have dreamed that their lives could have been turned around by the tiniest amount of encouragement/support/recognition generated via venerated webular exposure) not that I think there was anything in the rules prohibiting entries from ANY quarter.

The Triumphant Team certainly weren’t without the s(n)ort of sound grounding that should ensure they are never found starving in a garret…….. as the above link shows.

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Online Creative Arts Collaborations

Sprung in the spring and still young, Poetry Visualized launched its alpha site by encouraging submissions from members as solo or mutual efforts thus allowing poets, performers, readers, writers,  musicians, film-makers and animators to play to their strengths individually or as co-operative powerhouses.

Collaboration is also key to a current contest at (the soon-to-be re-launched) artistic community Tailcast.com,  whilst “Ask the English Girl” YouTuber Paperlilies is making staggering, wide-(died/dyed)eyed, strides with a Zombie movie that’s creation is being documented, in a 17 week-long series, by the BBC.

Now, via a YouGov survey, and much to my delight, I have discovered a fresh fledgling film project at http://www.coproducer.org/ . Its ultimate output will either be DIRECTLY developed or EXTREMELY influenced by signerererupperers.

I unhesitatingly became one and am eagerly awaiting a response…

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Weak Poetry

It has been a week for Poetry. “Visualized Poetry“, a new(ish) site, currently “in Alpha”, cyberspace and on a BIG recruitment drive, is running adverts suggesting it is a MONTH for Poetry. They state that they want to be a “YouTube” for the art form, somewhat overlooking the fact that “YouTube” could, would and, no doubt, WILL be just that as soon as it decides to respond positively to campaigns such as the soon-to-close : “Do you support the Arts on YouTube ?” Contest.

As of this morning, after two months (of Poetry (plus Painting)), AND with a ca$h incentive, the competition appears to have “drawn” less than 100 entries. Indeed, the “Spoken Word and Poetry” category present, in the past, at the initial inpixelation of mp3.com – a site founded and $old by the same team now emerging as “VP”‘s V.I.P.s – generated minimal interest.

I wonder if it is “Visualized Poetry“‘s determined marketing that has stirred the true original pre-YouTube ~ YouTube for Poetry ~ site : http://www.poemranker.com/ to drive itself back into the collective creative consciousness.

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