All Eyes: The Shins

i looove the shins. this is a cool video! i want to come back to Current to watch cool bands...

i have lived in rio rancho (literally right next to albuquerque) and remember the night my sister snuck out to see the shins play years ago when they we're a local band... fond memories.. one of my favorite bands ever.

I think this is more interesting for the technological and social implications than for the footage of the song (which I thought was just okay). We're working towards a world where we will have a searchable and retrievable mass memory of important events.

The implications are surely immense

You bring up an interesting point Goldenwending.

It is amazing that nearly every fan at a concert is walking around with some type of video camera in their pocket. Does the digital photo and mpeg video start to replace our own memory?

Yes, they did, afox. I wish we'd stop trying to take credit for being the first to do this, when the Beastie Boys put out a feature-length film doing the exact same thing before the Shins piece came out.

Makes us look...kinda silly.

We never said we were the first one to do anything like this, what we think is unique about the All Eyes series is that the barrier to participation is much lower than that with the Awesome I Shot That. For example, anybody attending The Shins concert could submit video and get on TV. With the Beastie Boys you had to be one of 50 selected fans who were given a video camera.

Also, I think a lot of people don't realize that the Beastie Boys weren't the first ones to come up with a fan-shot project. Bon Jovi for one did it 20 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYc64BDCWhg

Sorry Alex, but the following:

<The first and only Audience Created Concert Film of it?s kind>

pretty much makes it sound like we're saying we were the first. The details might be different, but the messaging is pretty clear--and has been since we put the pod out. I think it's misleading.

And thanks--I was trying to think of who it was that I remembered doing this a long time ago! Bon Jovi--of course...

Sam Kinison in a Bon Jovi video, that's pretty cool.
Looks like to shoot the Bon Jovi video you had to be a hot babe.
Thanks for the link.

awesome

best idea ever!!!

I like this but I am going to be critical here for a second because I think we need a reality check.

I find it fascinating that this is being treated like some brave new medium for producing a concert video.

It's a gimmick. It's like the Blair Witch Project. If you kept making these the technique would get old as hell really fast.

This is well done and it is a neat concept to get everyone involved but it seems to me like it is going to have a very short lifespan as a production technique.

I also wonder how concert footage is supposed to be Current's way of redefining the media conversation in this world. Broadcasting the same old kind of thing with a new coat of paint is hardly the brave new media. Yay. . . we all have cell phone cameras and we went to a concert. Lets pat ourselves on the back for reshaping the world. . . . How many pods about real subjects by other people could have been purchased for the in house price tag of this?

By the way. Because Current, in it's infinite wisdom, broke every embedded video link posted across the web over 2 1/2 years in order to have their new website, the Wired article about your efforts now shows empty video boxes where the videos used to be.

I like this song and the band too...
This pod is awesome!

That was amazing. I love The Shins and I am jealous that you had the opportunity to work so close with them.

But the pod was such a creative idea and was woven together very nicely. I liked the random shot of pee in the toilet haha.

And an amazing song, too. How do you even start to meet and get the process started of meeting such big name musicians for a project like this?

Dammit, webcam!! Why won't you work?? That being said, this is the best idea I've seen on Current thusfar. I love the idea of seeing a concert from hundreds of different angles. I've been to a ton of concerts and everyone always has their cell phones or digital cameras out. Now I know what they're all shooting! However, I think the best part of this pod is that you aren't watching the work of one person. Everyone at this concert has a small part of this pod in their name. Everyone that submitted a video gets to see a little bit of their work on air! How awesome! I really love this pod, and I wish it could be done for every concert!

It was fun. Something by and for the fans. Nothing wrong with that.
The one on "My Morning Jacket" was just as fun.

You guys did an excellent job putting this pod together. I bet everyone was really excited to see that they were able to contribute to a concert film.

This was pretty cool. i felt like it was a slightly more amateur version of the time the Beastie Boys handed out cameras to fifty fans at a Madison Square Garden concert. The makers of this pod did some cool stuff with editing though to keep it from dragging too much. I liked, for instance, when a bunch of different shots were used to make the screen into a collage of angles. I feel like it would have a been a little more interesting if the song was higher energy, or if they would have made more cuts on the beat or something. They had the music built in, work with it a little more. Nice job in the beginning explaining the background of the project, though, not to mention a good gimmick to get people to sign up for Current =).

That was a really cool idea! The video sort of made me sick, just because there was so much going on, but it was definitely still awesome, and a great way to include tons of people! Some of the video that people got was really entertaining and interesting.

This is such a fantastic idea!! Bravo!