Webby Congrats to “Here Comes Another Bubble”
BoomTown was the first to put up the hugely popular spoof video called “Here Comes Another Bubble,” by the San Francisco-based Richter Scales.
And, the first to report on the controversial story of it then being taken down by YouTube (GOOG), in a fight the group had with a local photographer, Lane Hartwell, who objected to the use of a photo she took that was in the video without her permission or payment to her for its use.
The Hartwell photo was removed, and the copyright controversy eventually died down. And the video still remains very funny and even more realistic than ever, given the series of crazy Web 2.0 funding valuations of late.
And now “Bubble”–which opens with a BoomTown interview with investor Peter Thiel, who denies such a thing as a bubble in tech–has won a Webby Award for Best Viral Video.
Well, congrats to the creators of the video, which mocks the current Silicon Valley culture with affection, set to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”:
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So good I’m going to blog it again, and again and again.
Posted by Mac Beach at May 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pmThanks, Kara! Your readers can see the Richter Scales live tonight (Thurs 5/8) 8pm at Palo Alto Arts Center, 1313 Newell - FREE. We’ll be singing the Bubble song, as well as a bunch of other hilarious originals and some covers. Hope you can make it!
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Posted by Tom Shields at May 8th, 2008 at 1:21 pm