Blogarazzi and the truth of porn, two of my favorite topics. They are both symptoms of the Expectations society, where you are never better than your next performance. The truth of porn suggests that one should not give away things too quickly, and that one should never, ever, give everything. Blogarazzi (which I will soon get back to) are our modern version of soap operas - next operas: Always pointing toward the next post, “there’s more”, “stick around”, “press refresh!”
They are reactions to the fact that, whereas it has never been easier to become famous, it has never been more difficult to stay famous. In the world of any, it is almost impossible to stay in the limelight. Expectities succeed, but most people (and businesses) are doomed to 15 microseconds of fame. With the world at everyone’s sticky fingertips, anyone, anywhere, can do something more interesting, exciting, outrageous at anytime than what you just did. Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame existed in the old millennium, in the new millennium we are down to 15 microseconds of fame.
This week is a tribute to the 15-microseconds-of-famers, (ever so quickly forgotten) icons of our time!
Starting off – Eva Nazemson!
Remember her? I am sure the name rings a bell, although you’ve probably forgotten her already. Ringing a bell is actually on the spot. Hosting a night-time call-in word jumble show (which nobody watches), Ms. Nazemson managed to attract about ten million viewers world-wide and be invited to TV and radio talk shows, in Europe, America and Asia at almost the very instant she vomited live when talking to a caller. Some media experts even suggested that she would be up for a brilliant TV career (somehow, that career has failed to materialize yet).
Eva Nazemson is a nice 15-microseconds-of-famer, giving example of how anyone can attract the world’s attention with anything (even managing to project a brilliant future career in some experts’ minds) and be gone just as quickly.
Enjoy this youtube clip, one of 48. If you have nothing better to do, challenge yourself to add all views of the clips together and count the millions.
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Isn’t it nice that not even a couple of million views on Youtube means anything in the new millenium? I’m curious about the content of the clip that will break the one billion barrier on Youtube. Who will be the star?
Thank you for 15 seconds of your thoughts.
Micke – you made me curious, too. In the inflated world of any, millions of views do not mean much. Billions would be a more interesting count. With all the 15-microseconds-of-famers around, I cannot even imagine what’s going to do the trick?
I invite everyone to predict the billion barrier-breaking clip! Submit your predictions, I promise a great reward to the winner!
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