U.S. National Ad Contest: "Obama in 30 Seconds"

Soniclight wrote on 3/13/2008, 3:56 PM

I'm only posting this as an FYI for those possibly interested in creating something. I say "only" because...

I am aware that just mentioning a candidate could devolve into a pro/con, left/right/etc. political discussion in any number of directions here, and that's fine if so desired. I'm not going to engage in any such debates.

I'm just passing on the recently found info appearing on various media. The link below takes you to the actual contest homepage.

"Obama in 30 Seconds"

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 3/13/2008, 4:41 PM

Amazing how much work people are willing to do for free on the Internet, from "open source" to Wikipedia to YouTube. Andy Warhol's "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" quote (Wikipedia reference) has turned out to be far more prescient than either Warhol or anyone else of that era could have imagined. I think that is the driving force behind this: people crave attention and fame so much that they are willing to work long hours for nothing just to know that, briefly, people will notice and care.

Not a bad thing, but at times somewhat surprising.