There’s been a real peak in interactive music videos made with user generated content (UGC), pulled from different social media platforms. Talking about a niche! Here’s a little overview of the best ones yet, all selected by our music video heaven 2Pause.
Documentary maker Elaine McMillion made a splendid interactive documentary about the brain drain of McDowell County, West Virginia and how its people deal with this and other hardships. Thanks to a Kickstarter campaign and the Tribeca Film Institute’s New Media Fund , she helped locals to tell their own story in ‘Hollow’. Take a look and take … Continued
Roel Wouters sure knows how to engage his audiences and make a spectacular crowd-sourced interactive music video. Remember More is Less? Together again with Jonathan Puckey and joined by Luna Maurer to form the fantastic trio Moniker, they direct a swan song for the computer cursor – a function which is bound to be soon … Continued
You might already have seen the latest interactive music video ‘Do Not Touch’ by artsy design studio Moniker, from Amsterdam. Because that thing is pretty viral by now. We did an interview with Roel Wouters from Moniker because who’d ever come up with crowd-sourced cursors?? Add your own cursor here.
One of our 2Pause very favorite music video directors, Holland hotsuff Roel Wouters, has just launched a super-fun mega crowd-sourcing collaborative uber project called Now Take A Bow. Described as “a self-portrait of the audience”, it invites the crowd (that’d be you) to take directions from the charmingly Nether-accented Mr Wouters himself, to become part … Continued
Hollywood’s number one enemy and torrent source for the masses The Pirate Bay, has a Court of Appeal hearing coming up to contest the one-year prison sentence (and 4 million fine-bucks!!) of it’s founding fathers. One year in the slammer for some harmless file-sharing? We’re all over that appeal! But the reason we write: there’s … Continued
A motley crew of no less than 500 zombie-, gore-, horror-, dungeon-, and dragon-inspired creative souls collaborated on this crowd-sourced remake of the 1968 cult classic, re-interpreting their favorite scenes by any animated means necessary. Style and process were no object, and the result is a glorious mish-mash of monochromatic melodrama. At least that’s what … Continued
Aah, trusty old chatroulette! An endless source of weirdness and time-wastery, social experimentation, and artistic ingenuity. Narcissus is a cultural endeavour which pays homage to the myth of Narcissus (a.k.a his inability to recognize his own pretty face in the mirror), using bespoke software to divert the incoming chatroulette video feed so each person sees … Continued
Along the lines of the crowd-sourced splendor that is the video for More Is Less by C-Mon & Kypski (pride of the Netherlands) or the pioneering 2008 Supernatural Superserious REM vid by Vincent Moon, allow us to introduce The Johnny Cash Project – a collaboration between über-hotshot director Chris Milk and the don of data … Continued
The man behind Jawbone.tv – where non-linear dreamz are born – just shared this intriguing oeuvre-in-the-making with us: a dark, gory and compelling crowd-powered, interactive graphic novel-type project in which you get to kill and kill again the world’s deadliest killers. Keyword: kill :-) The project is *transmedia*-tastic, combining gaming, books, animation and live action … Continued
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