MySpace proof

When someone gets popular on MySpace, they run the risk of getting fake profiles made about them. The solution is posting a video of yourself on your profile page reciting your MySpace URL I.D. number, offered as "proof."

Artists BRAD TROEMEL and RANDI HEYLEK cut together a series of videos of MySpace girls authenticating their identities. The resulting montage is like a shopping list of commodified online personas, revealing the twist of a new kind of personal branding.

Baby, don't forget my number.

Journal for People

What makes the difference in video art is often the ability to transcend the medium and the software. Since so much of digital video art is automatic and clichéd, it takes a lot of hard work and talent with software to make work that stands out, especially in the highly aesthetic world of pop.

Tokyo-based electronic composer and video artist TAKAGI MASAKATSU manipulates video footage with painterly digital effects, and in this video for his song GIRLS he utilizes a hand-painted look that is both resolutely human, yet totally dependent on digital processes. A rare feat, and a rich viewing experience.

What do you think Ferris is going to do?

A group calling themselves PROJECT BUELLER is planning on recreating the famous TWIST AND SHOUT parade scene from JOHN HUGHES' classic 80's film FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, during the Sept. 6th DEITCH ART PARADE.

Will it come off? The website posts this rather low-quality (and French-dubbed in the beginning) YouTube clip, calling for viewers to recreate the extras in the Chicago-land scenery. Hopefully you'll be able to distinguish the right outfit for your version of "Evelyn," or at least have time to practice your choreographed stair dance.

Giant white glove

This video is from a 2007 project called White Glove Tracking, in which a collective of online users collaborated to produce a source code tracking MICHAEL JACKSON's white glove from the footage of his legendary BILLIE JEAN performance.

TIM KNAPEN, the artist here, uses the data to greatly expand the white glove, to surreal and comical effect. A new classic.