Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Lonelygirl15 - Wikipedia:
ok they've got an article up now.
On September 7, 2006, a message was posted on www.lonelygirl15.com's forums under the name 'The Creators', stating that lonelygirl15 is fictionalized.[2] The message was posted in a new category entitled 'Message From The Creators'.
ah, didn't know that. Only the forum administrator has the authority to create a new category, so this suggests that 'The Creators' is the administrator or at least enjoys direct co-operation from the administrator. The statement by 'The Creators' describes the lonelygirl15 project as 'the birth of a new art form', a phrase which had previously appeared in a New York Magazine article, 'Hey There, Lonelygirl' (in the August 28 issue). [3] yeah I kinda don't like that they said that (without mentioning the NYmag article)
Whether or not this website is affiliated with the user Lonelygirl15 on YouTube is currently unknown. However, it should be noted that lonelygirl15.com was registered on May 12, two full weeks before the first video aired on YouTube (May 24) which either suggests pre-emptive knowledge by the website owner of the lonelygirl15 username, or extraordinary luck.
I like that. it's funny. not inaccurate just funny.

As of September 9th, 2006, new videos appearing on Lonelygirl15's alleged website featured advertisements at the end, but this is because whoever is running the website switched from using direct feeds of the YouTube videos to uploading them to Revver, a service that allows video creators to make money from their videos by having ads automatically inserted after their videos.
The video quality seen at lonelygirl15.com appears to be larger and sharper than on You Tube, however it is unclear whether this means lonelygirl15.com has access to original footage, or whether lonelygirl15.com took footage from You Tube and digitally enhanced or sharpened it. Additionally, the video is in Quicktime format, which is not available through YouTube, suggesting that the higher quality video is being provided to lonelygirl15.com by the person or persons in posession of the original recordings.
huh, ok.
The website was down for several hours on September 11, 2006 displaying the message "This IP address cannot be used for browsing."
hmm - currently also. oh. that is currently.

Video #27 "Poor Pluto" was made in response to the recent re-classification of Pluto to "Dwarf planet" status, which sheds some doubt on Brian Fleming's speculation that all of the videos were produced at the same time. oh yeah huh, I tht probably were all made at once (if not, why haven't they been more interactive w the media? seems like it wld be fun to throw in some comments from Bree in response to all or at least a bit of the hubbub about her - I suppose the creators may prefer to keep hers a separate world ~ we can go to her but not vice versa ish)

Another YouTube user, by the name of LonesomeOctober, has started posting videos starring many of the stuffed animals we've seen in Lonelygirl's room. oh neat. I didn't think that the purple monkey was likely to be the same purple monkey. I'm glad if he's in on it and we can expect more. that purple monkey press conference was fun.
The very fact that LonesomeOctober has come out with such high quality videos, in such a short time, and has no other presence on YouTube, oof awkward loong subject Igottaputacomma- is suspicious in and of itself. As is the username itself, since it invokes both the month of Crowley's birthday, October, as well as "Lonesome"--a word which pairs quite neatly with "Lonelygirl". The novel A Night in the Lonesome October, by science fiction writer Roger Zelazny, is also a story of occultism and prominently features "Familiars", which in the novel are animals raised to human-level intelligence. Purple Monkey, a stuffed toy which appears in both the Lonelygirl15 videos and those by LonesomeOctober, would fit the novel's general definition of a Familiar.

LonesomeOctober's video "Lonelygirl15 Cthulhu Interview" (Cthulu is an element of H.P. Lovecraft's series of horror stories) points out several elements of the lonelygirl15 video named "Poor Pluto" in line with Lovecraft's stories.
Speculation exists regarding the music choices through out the video series; namely, the use of smaller unsigned bands to score each film. The addition of Band Name, Song Title, and Band website added to each video description further points sure to the assertion that these films are a marketing vehicle, not for a movie, but rather for CAA's unsigned music acts. The videos are simply a viral method to develop a fan base and following making acts more appealing to large label R&D executives. The eclectic nature of the music – strong variance in style, genre, and tempo, is in stark contrast to a girl who is homeschooled and otherwise insulated from the workings of pop music culture.
Brand-name products, copyrighted images and music, trademarked symbols, and famous living people are conspicuously absent from all videos, a difficult and unnecessary feat for an ordinary teenage girl and her boyfriend - but an essential part of making a big-studio picture. int.

Hollywood Agency Connection - According to the LA Times, an IP tracker was placed on a myspace page to which the user lonelygirl15 was lured. According to this tracker the person using the lonelygirl15 username did so from a server of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a powerful Hollywood talent agency based in Beverly Hills. While some question whether such a sting actually took place, it is known that discussion of an impending one was done at the lonelygirl15.com message board in late August and some members knew that one was being carried out.
In the same LA Times article, a CAA spokesman "could neither confirm nor deny" that the agency is representing whoever is behind lonelygirl15. All other agnecies contacted by the newspaper denied any connection.

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