Adventures with the internet. Part 1 of 1.

I had the most subdued weekend humanly possible and so did some mucking around on that internet. It's a large collection of connected computers - you should take a look at it one day.
Anywho, I saw that thingamigy where the girl has taken one photo of herself everyday for the last four years, and I was like, how boring was that? I idea is brilliant, but I thought the girl could be more interesting, she didn't grow any facial hair in the whole four years, she never died her hair and although she did change glasses, she then changed back.

So, obviously, I was like, whoa! I could do a million times better than that (maybe a billion). I thought that her background was super boring also, and that it would be heaps more interesting if I could show the progression of the seasons also. I also thought I'd be heaps more interesting as I could grow and shrink depending on my enthusiasm hard cores and wanes, I might get a mega wicked scar, looking at my granddad and my mum's brothers I could go heaps bald anytime soon, I seem to move interstate all the time, I could wear a Christmas beanie, my years of eating all the food to feed my ridiculous metabolism could catch up to me - heaps interestinger!!

I got out my camera and snapped a shot of myself, hmmm, out of focus. I set it to auto everything and the shot was way brilliant - except the very top of my head was cut off.
I ended up taking a whole stack of shots of myself, every single one completely different, the lighting, where I'm standing in the frame, how close I am, how in focus I was, it's almost impossible to get a standard going.

Clearly, she had an internet camera and sat at her desk and sat in the exact same spot, but I don't know how excited I am about buying a another camera (I already have like 4) and chucking it in the least sunshiney room. So, um, to be continued..... maybe.

Actually, the point of that story is still to come. Watching that thing led me to youtube which while everyone else in the whole entire world has had a gander I haven't been so interested. I assumed it was all videos of dudes hurting themselves on skateboards.

Despite myself, I did have a bit of a click around and in my journeying found some girls online journal. It was pretty good, she had spent some time on it, and involved some teddy bears and stuff, it was cute. I click on another one where she was freaked out about being kissed. She was a bit over the top, but still pretty amusing. I kinda left it there, she seemed a bit young and it didn't seem like my place to be watching these. Goodbye lonelygirl15.

As I clicked around some more, her stuff were coming up all over the place so I clicked on her page and saw she linked her boyfriends videos. I click on one, and it was a dude just sulking and telling the girl off. I was like, whoa!, who is this guy, why didn't he just write an e-mail or
something, why isn't he even near a computer?

I didn't think more about it until I saw a title of a video called 'lonelygirl15 exposed' and it was a video of a collection of photos and her with friends and it had her real name. I was like all, whoa! bummer, one of her friends has just outted her, harsh!

So, it was all a bit odd so I googled her name and it turns out that the whole thing was a set up. Her videos had a team behind them and she was a 19 year old actress, and her boyfriend was an actor and it's this whole big thing that sucked the whole world in. There was all these articles about who was sucked in, who wasn't, were the comments fake, etc. People speculated that so many people viewed this girl's videos that millions could have been made of it, and how it worked because no one was expecting it.

The team who made the videos say it was a new form of art, but I still don't get why they bothered. Apparently the domain name lonelygirl15.com was bought before her videos started, so maybe it was just to get recognition for the series before asking people to pay? Maybe it was just for kicks.

The stupid thing is, that I'm sure I read about a very similar story in a fictional novel years ago....

It's not a bad idea though, making up a interactive website television show. Who wants in?