Chainsaw Craft
I don’t know quite what to make of the last 24 hours. It seems to be that I am a web sensation and I’m finding it all a bit confusing. Perhaps I should have paid more attention when my friend Murdo from DesigningScotland.com said it was about time to straighten out the internet side of my business.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that I found out that I had a YouTube page when a pal stopped me on Argyll Street, Dunoon to tell me that he’d seen my video. Murdo insists that he told me, but it must have gone over my head, as most things do when conversation turns to the internet. So it was hardly surprising when I got a call from Murdo yesterday, that I didn’t quite grasp the enormity of being the number 1 featured video on YouTube. After 160,000 people viewing the video Murdo shot, receiving over 900 comments and emails, radio features on the video and an offer to buy the video from an LA television station, it is starting to sink in.
Murdo was a wee bit slow on the uptake too. It was about 4 o’clock in the morning when his phone started buzzing every minute to tell him he had an email. Thinking it was junk mail, it was after 9 o’clock before he realised what was going on, staring slack jawed at his computer for a good half hour.
We’ve been busy since. For a start, I’m making use of this blogging thing on my website. There are lots of stories and photos to be put up here. We are also in a filming frenzy. We shot the thank you video yesterday, and Murdo’s going to film me making another sculpture today, so please keep checking the YouTube page.
Be sure to subscribe to the rss feed? on this blog? No idea, Murdo told me to mention it. It apparently lets you know as soon as I’ve added a wee story to my website.
Cheers, Andy.
YouTube is a hugely popular video sharing website. Recently acquired by Google for $1.65 billion, it lets users upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was Time magazine’s "Invention of the Year" for 2006. The website is a phenomenon, making quirky characters cult figures and chainsaw sculptors in Argyll wonder if machines that run without petrol might be useful after all.
Wednesday, 6 December 2006
We've been YouTubed!
