Kinda Feelin’ Fabolous, Halfway To The Future

Four years ago, I was interviewed for a New York Magazine story on the future of entertainment. The reporter could hear via cell phone I was in a crowded place, but I chose not to elaborate on the context (Spring Break, in the green room with Fabolous, just before he took the stage).

I dropped some seemingly-prophetic rhetorical bullshit on him. He was feelin me. I was feelin me, too. Fabolous was downing Skittles, about to make five thousand kids gyrate on the beach, and he could hear me rambling into my cell about some post-broadcast utopia in which we all become our own heads of programming, projecting from chips in our retinas whatever video content we like onto particles of air that coalesce to become screens only we can see. Genius!

New York Magazine didn’t publish it. They didn’t publish the ramblings of the other self-important entertainment industry asswipes that got interviewed, either. The whole article reaked of bullshit so bad it never saw the light of day. So, like most things, millions of people were not treated to my vision of the future of entertainment.

Well, we’re kinda halfway there. Take a look at what these guys are up to and you’ll see what I mean. And Fabolous, you should let them produce your next video. Premiere it on AMTV, then project it everywhere else in, like, the physical world…

The Artvertiser: Augmented Billboards. from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.


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