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What can Fred teach us about video?

Started by mathewi · 7 months ago

According to at least one account, the big star of the NewTeeVee Live conference — put on by the gang at GigaOm — wasn’t the CEO of Hulu, or the head of Netflix, or even alterna-star Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing. It was 15-year-old video artist Lucas Cruikshan ... Continue reading »

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Marshall Kirkpatrick
7 months ago

ugh. u r right. i watched several just for the experience, though, won't be going back. love ren and stimpy though, btw!

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Kristen
7 months ago

This is true !! Lucas is seriously going to be the owner of his own studio one day. He already has interest in his own production company already!

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Scott
7 months ago

Have you checked out Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw? Most of his videos are on http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zer.... Other examples of people in this sort of business include the Angry Video Game Nerd. They're both smart producers with short clips and they're able to make a living off their video talents as well.

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Liz Gannes
7 months ago

You can see a video of Fred's appearance from yesterday here: http://newteevee.com/2008/11/13/newteevee-live-...

Fun stuff! He was definitely the star of the show.

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mathewi
7 months ago

Thanks, Liz -- I meant to link to that. Great work on the show, by the way. Some excellent content in there -- not just Fred, but Jason Kilar and Xeni Jardin and Felicia Day were great as well.

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adondai
7 months ago

...or he was the right kid at the right time in the right place.

I doubt he could have any more to offer than the advice you have already suggested.

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