Every so often someone will send me a link from YouTube and I’ll watch the clip then check to see where where I stand in the ‘views”…this video I was a little late on. I was viewer # 848,254. However, if you take into account that there are 1.4 billion people online I am an early adopter!
Fred and Sharon are from Kelowna and they make movies. Really lo-fi movies, really “so bad their good” movies, really sincere movies…I think. This video potentially falls under the blanket of another viral hoax but from the nosing around I’ve done they seem to be legit. There’s a good piece in the Tyee on these two Okanagan auteurs. It also falls under the concept of digital-retro chic and the story we’re working on about bringing back the way the internet was…or at least used to look like. Are there any other Fred and Sharon’s you’d like to share with us?
@Chris. Your comment reminds me of a scene in an episode of The Simpsons, where Homer gets a gig in a Lolapalooza-style tour getting cannonballs shot at his stomach. Two slacker onlookers’ conversation goes something like:
“I like him”
“Do you like him….ironically?”
“I don’t even know anymore!”
Hi, I’m not sure if we fit into this category, but we do various streaming video shows on our website at http://www.talkingdog.tv
We loved that video by the way and I think they are competition for all people doing new media in Canada.
That’s cruel.
I love how Fred "started a film company" but never made a movie, then he gets a camera some 80 years later and "starts making movies again"…which means that these movies are his first.
I am sure they are very nice people, they have a bakery called Bread and Jam at the farmers market, how bad can they be? In fact if it weren't for Fred and Sharon no one outside of Canada would have EVER heard about Kelowna, so the town owes them a debt of gratitude. Before Fred and Sharon the name KELOWNA would never have been spoken by myself let alone all my friends who have seen their videos.
More power to them, it's September of 2009 and they are getting even MORE famous as their videos are posted time and time again on various blog sites…