you see a post like this and you say to yourself:

"Hey, I can do that!"

"Hey, why didn't I think of that"

"Hey, I should have bought that camera and shot my film already"

anyway, I'm sure that the THOUSANDS of aspiring Filipino Indie film makers will be inspired by this story! And we know it works because we've been able to raise money to shoot a Bollywood mockumentary through BLOGGING alone ... woo-hoo!

"How does a micro-budget movie get major Hollywood attention and spawn a spin-off television development deal, before it’s even had its first public screening?

With an eight dollar a month website, a few YouTube clips and "a few hundred bleary eyed nights" in front of his PowerBook, writer/director/actor David Hewlett has taken a core group of Stargate fans and forged them into a publicity force to be reckoned with. "People used to joke that on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog", says Hewlett, "thanks to "A Dog’s Breakfast”, on the Internet, everyone knows our dog!" Hewlett is laughing all the way into season four of Stargate Atlantis, where he plays geek-cult favorite Doctor Rodney Mckay."

I've been pitching Web 2.0 the last few months to those who are willing to listen. It's hard to pitch a concept that's actually an aggregation of different technologies and methodologies so I'm going to explain it through the Miaarose story.



Here's a good link regarding Web 2.0

Who's Miaarose? Here's her site but I'm going to show you how collaboration works through a series of Youtube videos.

Miaasose started posting her Youtube videos doing cover songs like Crazy Girls, Kiss Me, I'm Like a Bird, L.O.V.E., and Heaven. It was just a matter of time before she posted a Youtube video of her OWN SONG called Husband to Be. Here it is:

But it doesn't end there, one Youtube subscriber gets the idea to put a drum track to her video and here's the result:

That's pretty awesome! But it doesn't stop there, someone else decides that there's some gaps in the collaboration so they add what they think are missing and here's what happens:

Whoah! These are musicians that have never met face-to-face before and now they have a full-blown video of their collaboration courtesy of Youtube! Now that's Web 2.0 for you!

BONUS:

Here's another of Miaarose's original songs called Never on my own:



The same guy, Tom Engelhardt who put the instruments on Husband to Be then adds extra instruments to this wonderful song and even adds voicing! Nice! Enjoy!



Tom Engelhardt comments on Miaarose on his own site:

"Fun on YOUTUBE!

I've been having alot of fun on youtube.com lately.  There is this wonderful singer named Mia Rose who posts videos of her singing and sometimes playing the guitar.  Well, i took the liberty of adding some more instruments to a couple of her orginal songs.  The response to that has been amazing!  So many people, including mia herself, love the finished product.

I am also going to begin posting some of my original music on youtube soon, so stay tuned."

and surprise, surprise! Tom Engelhardt just became the WORSHIP LEADER of The Vine in Woodstock, IL.

UPDATE: Jeremy Owyang of Web-Strategist.com blogged about my post! Thanks Jeremy!

Noah Kalina takes a shot of himself EVERYDAY for 2356 days from January 11 2000 up to July 31 2006.

Now that's what you call dedication! The haunting music is by Carly Comando

Available also on Vimeo, here's the YouTube clip:

 

Now that's what you call dedication.