Thursday January 17, 2008

Mr. Bubble

A feature I wrote about Web 1.0 character Josh “Pseudo” Harris for the February issue of Radar is now online. I spent time tracking Harris this fall as he tried to get his latest venture, Operator 11, off the ground. As a bonus, Radar has posted the concept trailer for We Live in Public, a documentary-in-progress by filmmaker Ondi Timoner (she made the rock-doc DiG!), which she has been working on since Harris hired her to film his massive millennium party, Quiet. The trailer, which is about 12 minutes long, includes lots of great footage of the party-cum-social-experiment and various interviews with Harris, including his famous proclamation—on 60 Minutes II—that he hoped to put CBS out of business. It’s a reminder for those who survived the last boom and a cautionary tale to those who hope to weather this one.

We live in public trailer from RADAR on Vimeo.