The Beastie Boys upped their coolness factor
(like it can go any higher) when they broke the concert video mold by giving hand-held video cameras to 50 fans and
told them to shoot at will. The only instructions were to start when The Beasties hit the stage and stop when it was
over - anything in between was up to the filmmaker. The end result was "Awesome: I F--kin' Shot That!"
(that's the name of the video) which debuts this Saturday at Sundance
and will be released by ThinkFilm in March. The democratization of filmmaking continues...BTW - if you're on MySpace, they'll soon be having a contest to create a video of one of two Beastie Boys songs, "Sabotage" and "Shake Your Rump" so stay tuned.
[Via The New York TImes ]
1. The Deadline for the contest already passed, actually...
http://www.genart.org/film.event.htm?itemid=1341
Posted at 6:40PM on Jan 22nd 2006 by Billy D.