Bugged by celebrities
Isabella Rossellini is starring and directing in a series of 8 2-5 minute shorts called Green Porno. Each of these bit videos is designed for small screens such as cell phones. The films themselves are based on insect sex; each one shows Isabella as a male insect mounting a female bug of the same species.
Ms. Rossellini is a veteran film star and the daughter of Ingrid Bergman, the femme fatale from Casablanca.
Not having seen the films, I can't comment on the contents, although I guess that I can imagine it well enough.
But this kind of property along with other highly entertaining, short videos like Will Ferrell's "Landlord" videos are perfect for the exploding world of video-capable mobile gadgetry such as cell phones, iphones, ipods and ultralight laptops.
Expect these celebrity-driven videos to flourish in the next few years. They put money (if any) directly into the pockets of the talent, they're probably satisfying to create and most importantly they begin the ultimate process of disintermediating the terminally ill media distribution companies that have been frantically clutching at legal IVs and technological wonder remedies to self-heal their dying business model.
Posted on February 12, 2008
