| Finally the entire award-winning feature documentary is available on youtube! -- About this film: Inspired in part by the 1927 documentary "Symphony of a City" and TS Eliot's "The Waste Land", this guerilla indie was put together in 2003 entirely (crew, music, etc) from a single free post on craigslist. There is no central narrator; instead the various users of craigslist tell their stories-- from the mundane, to the hilarious, to the profane-- in their own words. -- About craigslist: In 1967, the US Department of Defense, in order to ensure communication in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack, started construction of the ARPAnet, an experimental computer network system which would soon evolve into what we know today as the Internet. That same year, in San Francisco, it was the Summer of Love. In 1995 craigslist.org was born in the Bay Area: a free, down-to-earth and uncensored bulletin board that revolutionized the ease and speed with which people could communicate, exchange goods and services, and create community. Primarily focusing on housing, jobs, items for sale and personal ads, the site soon became a hub for San Francisco's wired community. 2003. Craigslist is big. Really big. Over 1/3 of all Bay Area internet users utilize craigslist on a regular basis. Outside of the Bay Area, craigslist has spread to 31 cities across the globe, with no sign of slowing. In San Francisco alone, the site receives over 23000 posts daily, with page views close to 29 million daily ... |
