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And possibly more interesting...

Raven Brooks — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:47:34 -0400

Blue State Digital's statement.

Statement from Thomas Gensemer, Managing Director, Blue State Digital

This afternoon, an employee at our firm, Phillip de Vellis, received a call from Arianna Huffington of "The Huffington Post" regarding the "1984" video currently circulating online. Initially, de Vellis refused to respond to her requests. He has since acknowledged to Blue State Digital that he was the creator of the video.

Pursuant to company policy regarding outside political work or commentary on behalf of our clients or otherwise, Mr. de Vellis has been terminated from Blue State Digital effective immediately.

Blue State Digital is under contract with the Obama Campaign for technology pursuits including software development and hosting. Additionally, one of our founding partners is on leave from the company to work directly for the campaign at headquarters.

However, Blue State Digital is not currently engaged in any relationship with the Obama Campaign for creative or non-technical services.

Mr. de Vellis created this video on his own time. It was done without the knowledge of management, and was in no way tied to his work at the firm or our formal engagement [on technology pursuits] with the Obama campaign.

I have spoken with David Plouffe, Sen. Obama's campaign manager, to inform him of this action and am appreciative of his understanding and ongoing support of our work.

We wish Mr. de Vellis well in his future endeavors.

HuffPo has the scoop

Raven Brooks — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:36:57 -0400

story here

Well, today I can end the guessing. Last night, we sent out a challenge to the HuffPost team asking them to hit the phones and contact all their sources. As a result, we have learned the video was the work of Philip de Vellis, who was the Internet communications director for Sherrod Brown's 2006 Senate campaign, and who now works at Blue State Digital, a company created by members of Howard Dean's Internet Team.

High Quality Copies of Updated "1984" Apple Ad Readily Available

btn — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:48:41 -0400

FYI, Apple made high quality versions of the updated "1984" spot readily available for download on their site. They rotoscoped the iPod onto the runner's waist for the special anniversary edition Steve Jobs unveiled during one of his keynotes.

Apple ad

Fred Stutzman — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:34:55 -0400

Correct, versions of that commercial are available on P2P networks in many formats, so its quite likely they didn't do a youtube rip.

Interestingly, the updated version of the ad (with the iPod) was produced by Apple - http://www.macminute.com/2004/01/06/1984

Interesting insight...

David All — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:15:45 -0400

Just to clarify, the anti-Hillary "1984" ad used the updated version of the 1984 spot created in 2004.

And I can only find one version of that on YouTube - at least through an organic search. It was uploaded by YouTube user eons:

Here's the description of that spot in the description of YouTube:

"Apples 1984 which aired at half-time of the Super Bowl, directed by Ridley Scott, this is the remake version made in 2004, added the ipod to it."

I'm not sure what the technical word is, but you'll note that this spot has some noise distortion at the beginning of the spot - which the anti-Hillary spot does not have.

In other words, I don't think ParkRidge47 simply ripped the flash file from YouTube which would be a likely tactic. Instead, they got their hands on the original.

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Headline's Right, but your "Nut Graph" isn't -- Pre-06 Web Video

politicstv — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:40:21 -0400

Just as Lamont shouldn't be overlooked, pre-06/YouTube Web Video shouldn't be, either. A brief timeline:

1998: AL Gov. Bill Riley does first major constituent video email.

2000: Steve Forbes becomes first Pres. candidate to announced via Webcast

2002: DNC's "Social Insecurity" breaks out as first Web Video attack ad to generate major free media

2004: Bush-Cheney's "Unprincipled" becomes first major presidential web video attack ad; DNC's "Faces of Frustration" montage of W @ pres. debates follows.

So, alas, Web Video has not go back as far as e-Politics (DiFi first campaign website, 1994), it's not as new as some think.

For the record

Tim Tagaris — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:48:51 -0400

I meant video like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kDKl3oRU0g

As the mini-macacca moments.

Tim