YouTube killed the TV star
HBO brought together the superstars of viral video: Gary Brolsma of Numa Numa Dance fame; Stephen Voltz, “who has captivated millions with elaborate fountains created by dropping Mentos in Diet Coke bottles;” Charlie Todd, “from Improv Everywhere, a New York-based website that recently created mass havoc when they sent a team of hundreds to move in slow motion through a Home Depot store;” the Urban Ninjas, “famed for dazzling leaps from the tops of buildings;” Marco Tempest, the Virtual Magician, master of head-scratcher camera-phone-taped tricks.”
The organizers said, according to the LA Times, that they’d been seen by 300 million people.
Tags: Exploding_TV
December 3rd, 2006 at 8:48 am
Can’t read the story because I don’t feel like hassling with LAT registration right now (got a login somewhere … )
But … Gary Brolsma predates YT by at least a year, if not more. If anything, he was proof of concept …
December 4th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
This line from the story cracked me up:
>>All this, however, is merely a setup for a top secret Gary [Brolsma]-centric project in progress. “All I can tell you,” said his manager James Egge, “is that it won’t be released for more than a year, and it will be shocking.” Pressed, he insists the shock will not involve nudity on Gary’s part.
And that’s probably for the best.