Today’s crowdsourced blog comes from an awesome brain feeder called Rebel Art. This hilarious, surreal & original short film “crossroads (what to do)” by Garvin Nolte deals with the influence of others on one’s own path of life in an abstract way…..v.cool

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So Google follows YouTube in a globally crowdsourced art/people project. Not surprising seeing as they’re one and the same virtual beast these days. Anyhoo it’s still a fun bit of Web 2.0 art to get involved in. A BIG BUT…as Google are the main benefactors from this process, surely rewarding the chosen contributors would complete the karma circle and also fulfil the Web 3.0 paradigm.

Another point to bear in mind: Google’s premise of a “global” view of the world sadly omits at least a sixth of the world’s population….

Sometimes Google takes a break from its mission of ‘organizing all the world’s information’ and decides to embark upon an artsy project that encapsulates…organizing all the world’s information.

Late on Tuesday, the search giant posted an entry to the Official Google Blog announcing the creation of “Life In A Day,” a film project that solicits video submissions from YouTube users around the world–the criteria is that they must capture some kind of moment filmed on July 24.

It’s legit. “Touching The Void” director Kevin Macdonald will edit “the most compelling footage” into a documentary film executive-produced by Ridley Scott of “Blade Runner” and “Gladiator” fame. It will be shown at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, all contributors who make it into the final cut will be credited as “co-directors,” and 20 of them will be invited to the premiere.

But, the Google blog post explains, everyone’s important! “Regardless of whether your footage makes it into the final film, your video(s) will live on on the ‘Life in a Day’ channel as a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was like to be alive on July 24, 2010,” the post by product marketing manager Tim Partridge read.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because the “crowdsourced 24-hour project” is old hat. The Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr amassed user submissions from around the world on May 5, 2007 and eventually put selections into a self-published book. This spring, The New York Times’ photo blog, The Lens, organized a similar project and published the results in a visually stunning infographic–titling it in Times-appropriate fashion, “A Timely Global Mosaic, Created By All Of Us.” To Google’s (and Ridley Scott’s) credit, this time it’s actually on film as opposed to in the form of a gigantic photo collection.

It’s also part of Google’s ongoing appeal to the independent and amateur filmmaking community. Last year, it used the Sundance Film Festival as the kickoff event for its fledgling movie rental service, and continues to court industry professionals who may otherwise have been under the impression that YouTube is best for grainy videos of cats chasing laser pointers.

via c-net

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Crowdsourcing excels as a content creation and distribution model, just look at Wikipedia. International art projects, social activism and now the UK government are all employing crowdsourcing to excel productivity. NOW Historypin is utilising this social media phenomenon to create the biggest user-generated digital photo archive in the world. Crowdsourced photographs are synced with Google maps and hey presto, a geo-search-photo-archive-engine for everyone. This opens new doors for artists. Surely painters and photographers from past and present can exhibit on the new platform for exposure delivering crowdsourced art to the History pin mix.

The idea has gargantuan potential. They’re calling it a “digital time machine” and, this being the age of Wikiality, anyone can contribute. What’s history? Whatever you pin. Selfridges and M&S have both released their archives to the site giving Historypin a rolling start & no doubt giving the two establishments an intelligent method of ambient advertising.

It is early days but developments with augmented reality could rocket Historypin’s possibilities to a remarkable dimension. Imagine taking a walk around a city or ruin, accessing a deep interactive historic tour spanning from your present contribution back……

Another Web 2.0 art project utilising crowdsourcing emerges! Snapshot Brighton is an open submission, open judging photographic crowdsourcing competition. Submit your photos and images of Brighton and Brighton life. Rate what you see on the site, viewers are the judges! The project has just started and is open for submissions and ratings until October 2010. The highest rated photos or images will win prizes! As we know artists are our pure pioneers, freely exploring the unknown long before business has the bottle. Turns out crowdsourcing art is  b-uncut’s speciality. We now have a network of over 1800 artists and offer artists a commercial gateway for their talents. Art directors, interior designers, curators and collectors use our unique Commission Art™ system to buy art from our panoptic artist community rapidly and cost effectively. We use an ethically responsible and sustainable crowdsourcing model ensuring a fair trade for all our artists.

Many art projects have found their inspiration from the spirit of social media and crowdsourcing (just see this post). Crowdsourced web 2.0 works of art have now been created cross-borders, cultures and genres. But what’s next for this wikolution? Our leap from web 2.0 —-> 3.0 is the translation from fun & novel projects —-> harnessing and monetising this effective & efficient social production. Welcome to b-uncut; the art agent 3.0. Mobilising all the power and beauty of the art collective 2.0, b-uncut has been forming the most comprehensive art agency the world has ever known.

Over 1800 artists with diverse skills are available NOW to produce the next Le Mans BMW or Louis Vuitton sculpture. Our crowd is a wealth of experience and international diversity enabling access to creative experts for any large-scale project. Original, authentic and cost-effective painting, sculpture and photography have never been so easy to source for commercial projects. And never from one source. As demand for creative guidance grows in a market thirsty for fresh thinking; we also deliver these previously hard-to-source services.

Enjoying, developing and engaging as a social art collective giant has already proven valuable to all our crowd. We are channelling their incredible skills for a business market that edges more and more creative by the paint drop. The CEO’s definition is shifting; the label innovation is being dropped for creativity. A recent IBM study found students and CEOs both believe creativity is the most important emerging competency of future leaders. That said welcome to the one stop creative powerhouse blur Group!

Jeff Koons wowed the crowds with his artwork on a BMW destined for the Le Mans. See the interview…

“Work of Art: The Next Great Artist,” a new reality series on Wednesday on Bravo, features Simon de Pury, China Chow and a competition for artists. It has Sarah Jessica Parker as an executive producer and the winner receives $100,000 and a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum. As a committed supporter of artists at b-uncut we welcome a step that will take art into the homes of millions. The traditional art industry’s aristocratic bubble is diffusing to a widespread phenomenon. Online art networks and marketplaces are the foundation for this shift. Historically, Fine Art was a joy and fetish of a wealthy elite but now, web enabled, REAL & AFFORDABLE art is available to buy from AUTHENTIC, SKILLED and LOCAL artists. b-uncut is leading a crowdsourced art revolution, facilitating access to great quality, fair priced artwork from artists that receive the fairtrade they deserve.

Well as much as we can wince at fine art getting the X-FACTOR treatment, it’s kinda refreshing to see emerging art see a more commercialised environment. “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” will conjure a wider spread discussion to what kind of art has more value. The series is a free-for-all pitting representational artists against conceptual ones and so on. Good huh? These debates and tussles were exercised readily behind a silk curtain but now released to the people to question and decide. This is cool isn’t it!? Artists…gasp the fresh air, your time has come.

The heavy artillery of the Art Industry has avoided explicit interactions with the internet revolution. Online art networks, artist galleries, art merchandise stores and much more congregate happily in this web-2.0-sphere but the big guns have remained conservative when it comes to the world wide web. Until now! The gargantuan Guggenheim is jumping into bed with internet giant YouTube on a crowdsourced coalition.

The project, called YouTube Play and conceived as a biennial event, is intended to discover innovative work from unexpected sources. It is open even to entrants who don’t consider themselves artists, and actively encourages the participation of people with little or no experience in video. “People who may not have access to the art world will have a chance to have their work recognized,” said Nancy Spector, deputy director and chief curator of the Guggenheim Foundation. “We’re looking for things we haven’t seen before.”

Applicants will be able to submit their videos (only one entry per person) starting Monday, uploading them on a channel created for the initiative, also called YouTube Play (youtube.com/play). The works must have been created within the past two years and cannot be longer than 10 minutes, made for commercial use or excerpted from longer videos. The deadline for submissions is July 31.

via NY Times