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PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW traces the Internet-assisted, cross-continental collaboration between two very different musicians: Princess Shaw, a young black woman in the American South who posts her performances of her own songs on the web; and Israeli viral-video artist Kutiman, whose YouTube-sampling compositions have earned millions of online hits.
Director: Ido Haar
Share PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW with both the dreamers and disbelievers in your life. A tale of trial and error, of glorious success and heartbreaking defeat, there is a message that resounds in us all.
Spend some time on YouTube, learning about the video mash-up culture and the potential to create artistic masterpieces online. Could you be the next great YouTuber?
Make your own musical mash-up. Kutiman’s project Mix The City is an interactive web app offering anyone the chance to mix up the sounds of Tel-Aviv. The potential to come together and create is boundless.
Follow Princess Shaw, whose indomitable spirit and devotion to her artistic pulse is a true inspiration, as she continues on her creative journey through life. Find her on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
Visit the website of Kutiman’s Youtube album.
“I’ll compare the feeling of living in Tel Aviv to the precise moment where everything goes from severe militant black and white to vibrant color in Pleasantville. It’s rare you’ll find yourself with absolutely nothing to do which makes the underground scene here so above ground you can’t help but trip over it.”
Read the full article here.
Watch the video here.
Comedians have called the EU law “brilliant”.
Read more about it here.
Report finds rising usage and high levels of satisfaction with Internet.
Read the full article at B&C.
Berserking teen girls may forever be a staple of Vidcon, but the YouTube stars they worship have done a lot of growing up in the past year. And in turn, so has their industry.
Continue reading at Mashable.
