I have wanted to be an internet star for a while. Being that I have a face for radio, I thought it might be through the participation in a podcast, a sort of an internet radio show. We have been working toward that goal for more than 3 ½ years but there may be something good happening on the horizon. Watch this space for details about the good news or bad news over the next couple of weeks.
In the meantime, I get to live the life of an internet star vicariously through my son CollegeBoy. It seems that he and his very creative roommates and a close friend put together a song parody related to the political story of the decade and something interesting has happened. Let me tell you about it.
A couple of weeks ago we went to the southern tier of New York State to visit my son at college. While there we spent time with his roommates and a good friend of theirs. This is a very creative group of individuals. CB is into Marketing Communications, the others there are all in the creative arts – screen plays/ script writing, film making etc. One of the highlights of the weekend was seeing some film they were working on and having fun with.
So Sunday night at 11:35 pm, President Obama announced that evil incarnate, Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a raid in Pakistan. This set moving a flood of interesting events. There were wild celebrations at various college campuses across the country, a celebratory vigil at Ground Zero, the World Trade Center site. A friend of mine was involved at Ground Zero and she agreed to be interviewed on the podcast we do and in a tiny apartment complex upstate, 5 college students hatched an idea for a music video, a song parody focused on what had happened. I spent all day Monday preparing for an interesting interview. These college kids spent 12 hours, ending at 4 am writing, singing, filming and editing a video. This video was uploaded to YouTube sometime early Tuesday morning and the social networking push went into effect. There were tweets and emails and Facebook posts, likes and retweets and instant messages flying all over the internet and cyberspace. The results? As of now, Thursday morning after just about 48 hours, there have been over 7000 views of the video. These kids are internet stars and the excitement is contagious. If you haven’t watched the video yet, it is here. Lets all give a standing ovation to #17oh2, the video production company! They could be on the cusp of viral video status!
As for my contribution to this ongoing story, we are in serious edit of the interview we did with a podcast friend who was at the Ground Zero celebration. It is moving and emotional and funny and insightful and should make it to the internet on Thursday sometime. Check us out at http://www.csapodcast.blogspot.com/ to listen to it or download it from iTunes when it becomes available.
In my next post, I will address the whole issue of celebration in regards to this major event in US history…
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