We Live In Public. I thought it was some mockumentary like Paper Heart but with some stalking and pixelated visuals. Instead it transformed into a serious doc about the internet and this man Josh Harris the artist/geek/genius etc etc etc. I don't even know what to call him. It begins with the internet taking shape and Harris' investment into the future of video and chat on the internet. It seems too business oriented with stocks and companies fighting to develop this new project, but that's only the beginning. After about 20 minutes, it cuts to Josh, in the middle of a rave with tons of ladies and crazy installations surrounding this party. It turns out that Josh gains 80 million from his projects and he decides to take it to a new level. He builds the first hotel that is free (free living, free booze, free food) and constructs it so that every section has a camera and monitors. Everyone and everything is videotaped and viewed at the same time. With over 100 people living there it becomes too intense. There is more to the DVD but I rather not ruine it. I just keep cutting back to the weirdest images from the hotel. It comments on Facebook and Myspace and yes it's eerie but I was fully unable to turn it off as it's that facination of the gaze. The observer and observed in the same building in a constant circulation of feeding information. Mad creeps and yet a really interesting, well documented film. I suggest you watch it while someone watches you watch it while someone watches them watch you watch it and so on. It's kind of like the cam at the FB... you never know what's going to turn up.

Out!

Niki Diamonds (and Red Frog)