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  ISSUE 10 - MAY 2007 AND BEYOND
BREAKING NEWS BULLETIN !!! THE AMERICAN ARTISTIC DREAM IS ALIVE AND WELL !!! -- THE LANDLORD AND WikiTube

We interrupt the routine and the ordinary to bring you The Landlord http://funnyordie.com/v1/view_video.php?viewkey=3efbc24c7d2583be6925 an hilarious video. In roughly a week in mid-April it has zoomed faster and higher than the Space Shuttle Booster Rocket … 9,055,809 views with no signs of slowing … pulling a new and previously unknown viral video site FunnyOrDie into the hottest viral video destination on the web.

Behold the rocket blast performance of the Landlord on site rating system Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsjl.funnyordie.com .

FunnyOrDie has been smart enough to put The Landlord on its landing page ahead of its own home page! http://sjl.funnyordie.com/v1/landing.php.

The American Artistic Dream is Alive and Well when a creative team can connect with the global audience this quickly and directly!

Our mission at Burning Shorts is to ignite the connection between creative team and audience, and our soon-ending Year One shows success beyond our best hopes.

In a medium where The Landlord is just the beginning, our Destination is always Further. So now and into Year Two we introduce "WikiTube", the organic and innovative next step for Burning Shorts.

"Wiki": As Wikipedia says of "Wiki": "… [A]n effective tool for mass collaborative authoring." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki. We want your discoveries as link candidates for our site!

"Tube": A word that evokes the Mother of All Online Video, YouTube. The aim here is to stress that we invite you to find in the vast Raw and Unfiltered, YouTube and its sibling viral video sites, the Artistic American Dream Videos for our audience.

"WikiTube": Collaborate with us to find and present American Dream Videos to audiences!

To help you WikiTube, we offer this resource. During Year One, we compiled online/viral video sites in what we call "The Directory of the Raw and Unfiltered". We happily offer you that Directory: for each site, the Directory has the site address as well as a sentence describing creative content and a sentence describing business model. Request it, and it is yours.

Further.

 

  ISSUE 9 - APRIL 2007
And Beyond

See where you fit in the big human picture through this simple and eloquent interactive work. http://www.royalsapien.com/pop1/

The very first Burning Short of Issue One was/is "Surf’s Up", a surfer daring the most impossibly huge monster wave. Here is another surfer in a slick, seductive masterwork of performance art.  http://www.dailymotion.com/cluster/extreme/video/x14gl9_dynamite-surfing

Which leads naturally to Banksy… iconoclastic artist who defies everything including our effort at editorial comment. Drill into the site and let us know if you too are speechless. If we do not hear from you, we will know you are. http://www.banksy.co.uk

And Beyond … We … Burning Shorts, our Friends, and Allies … plan to hit the road on the "Wanted Dead Or Alive Tour", a combination of anthropological field work and performance art, all with the aim of intensifying the impact of Burning Shorts. The more Raw Unfiltered and Disposable Video appears online the more we pursue the Elite and Enduring.

Cynopsis Digital ["CynDigital"] is a fine daily emailzine which features a video site or clip of the day. Subscribe free through www.cynopsis.com. Since CynDigital has the daily vid covered, our destination … the Elite and Enduring … grows ever clearer.