An EPIC Zapruder
When I was in Boston, I went to the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and near the end I was confronted with the short movie realized by Zapruder. This movie is now famous for being the first home made film broadcast over the world. It seems a drop of water in the Youtube ocean, but this was a major event.
last week I came accross an article published by Michael Hirschorn in the Atlantic online using zapruder to introduce the best disruptive video I have seen over the last two years : EPIC. For those who missed it here is the article using EPIC to comment on the futur of journalism. Here is a quote from teh article :
As a piece of pop futurism, EPIC 2014 is
both brilliant and brilliantly self-subverting (at once inevitable and
preposterous). But what’s remarkable is how many of its ten-years-out
predictions have already come true—if not materially, then de facto:
the mass migration of everything to the Web, the explosion of blogging,
the near-instant embrace of social media (see YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Wikipedia), the growing sophistication of Google’s AdWords and AdSense
(the latter soon to be extended to user-customized RSS file format and
other feeds), the TiVo-ization of television, and on and on. Instead of
buying Amazon, Google bought YouTube, an Evolving Personalized
Information Construct that didn’t exist in 2004—GoogleTube instead of
Googlezon. Thus does two-year-old futurism already seem hopelessly
recherché.
and here is the youtube video of EPIC 2015:
I think EPIC 2014 was a bit better …. but maybe because it was more cynic thus more realistic (I listed the changes in a previous post /in french/).
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