Not Andy Warhol

May 18, 2008 10:47 PM

15x15 is viewable artwork consisting of 15 individual screens displaying a random video clip stored within the database for 15 seconds. Anyone can contribute, from the banal to the bizarre.
posted by netbros (13 comments total)

How long until it's rickrolling viewers, do you think?
posted by msalt at 10:51 PM on May 18, 2008

I wanted it to be more compelling than it was, alas.
posted by maxwelton at 10:53 PM on May 18, 2008

I just stared at the kitten kneading the puppy.
posted by basicchannel at 11:59 PM on May 18, 2008 [1 favorite]

ok, i gave in and upload a video of my budgie dancing.

I wonder whose funding this, cause the flash app is wasting bandwidth. If you look at the "about", "be famous", or" "contact" pages, the flash doesn't pause the video, and it will still be sending 3MB/s of video to you, even though your not watching them.

Post Modern Coding?:
"I included the bug because, like, it represents the wastefulness of the Warhol society... so its really a feature of the piece"
posted by Merik at 12:40 AM on May 19, 2008

This is incredibly freaky when you play scary music in the background.
posted by spiderskull at 1:34 AM on May 19, 2008

Oh! We should leverage AskMe and add some of the video imagery linked here. With a group effort, we can make the web a weirder place.
posted by spiderskull at 1:37 AM on May 19, 2008

Should be called "5x3." I was expecting 225 videos at once.
posted by jbickers at 2:58 AM on May 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

I really like this. It's the banality of some of the material that makes it so mesmerizing when put together. I can't spend too much time there, though -- I have a bandwidth limit.
posted by loiseau at 7:42 AM on May 19, 2008

I find the 15 plain white squares on a black background that appear in my browser window when I hit the site (firefox, mac) to be trenchant commentary. But I'm guessing that's not what they had in mind.
posted by The Bellman at 7:46 AM on May 19, 2008

you should've been gone. knowing how I "made you feel." and I should have been gone. after all, your words of steel.
posted by mrgrimm at 9:12 AM on May 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

mrgrimm, there is an especially warm and pointy place in hell for persons who quote lyrics from "Oh Sherry" on the MetaFilter.
posted by Mister_A at 11:11 AM on May 19, 2008

I'm with jbickers, 15x15 is a misnomer, but as the 15 videos that are there don't seem to load anyway, I suppose it does not matter.

lolrandomvideoproject
posted by sir_rubixalot at 1:34 PM on May 19, 2008

I suspect those of you having trouble with the videos loading are using Adblock or other FF extensions. I disabled Adblock a couple of weeks ago because it always messed up embedded Flash video.
posted by loiseau at 6:42 PM on May 19, 2008