The Guggenheim’s selection of the 25 most groundbreaking YouTube videos is on view at the museum this weekend. You can watch the videos online too. I liked the above one, Seaweed, by London-based filmmakers, Tell No One; thought it was cool and kind of dancer-ly.
Swallow Book Trailer is Live
Finally!
“Read ‘Swallow’ Instead of Seeing ‘Sex and the City'”
I’ve been spending a rather ridiculous amount of time on YouTube lately (am trying to make a short video about my book and need ideas), and just saw this. It’s author and book review podcaster (if that’s the proper term) Christy Leigh Stewart talking about several books she’s been reading, including Swallow. Ha! I love the images she used for mine!
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR? NO, MELISSA RYCROFT IS MORE LIKE A GLAMOROUS OLD-TIME HOLLYWOOD STARLET!
Well, I was on a train late last night and missed watching the Dancing With the Stars semis on TV. Now I realize how hard the show makes it for you to catch re-runs. Geesh. Rickey doesn’t have everything posted, so I went to YouTube, and they have most of the competition routines, but the sound quality is crap and subtitles (in, for example, Gilles’s visit to his hometown, Cannes, with the French interviews with his mother and friends) are cut off. And they didn’t have the full episode. The YouTube clips re-direct you to this website, but once there, they just keep making you take these ridiculous quizzes, telling you, eventually the site will be unlocked. Well, it never unlocked for me — instead they redirected me to more and more quiz websites. I hope that site’s not a scam that unleashes some kind of virus or something. Anyway, people beware: don’t try to watch re-runs on watchdancingwithstars.com.
Anyway, I at least saw the routines. I only saw the bio on Gilles. Were there bios on the rest of the competitors? If not, that’s kind of silly, interesting as his little trip to Cannes was.
So, semis consisted of: Mark and Shawn dancing Jive and Argentine Tango; Melissa and Tony Quickstep and Cha Cha; Ty and Chelsie Samba and Viennese Waltz; and Gilles and Cheryl Salsa and Waltz (although one YouTube clip called it a Quickstep).
My favorites were Mark and Shawn’s Argentine Tango and both dances by Melissa and Tony.