Crowdsourced Music Video
Naimark here. Remember (oldsters) that I had been lobbying for a class project which enables online cinéastes to contribute to a group thing where cinematic continuity was the glue? My (purely academic) example was passing a "red ball" in and out of the frame, from different people in different locations.
That was then. Some unevenly cool examples have happened since, like the Google Gmail video released in August 2007, ostensibly made from 1,110 submissions, and most recently the Eternal Moonwalk tribute to Michael Jackson.
Here's the coolest, released this month:
and the story behind it, which came out yesterday. Kevin Kelly writes "More proof that the hive can make art, when directed."