{"id":965,"date":"2010-01-27T19:07:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T00:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2010\/01\/27\/bill-gates-bing-flunk-at-sundance\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:27:24","slug":"bill-gates-bing-flunk-at-sundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2010\/01\/27\/bill-gates-bing-flunk-at-sundance\/","title":{"rendered":"~BILL GATES &#038; BING &#8211; FLUNK at SUNDANCE !! BIG TIME !!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/BING_bombs_at_SUNDANCE.jpg\" width=\"327\" height=\"450\" alt=\"BiNg BOMBS At SUNDANCE\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;MICROSOFT-SHOE&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;BILL GATES BOOGIES AT SUNDANCE&#8221; by STEPHANIE SMITH and LUKAS I. ALPERT\/NEW YORK POST<br \/>\nPage 3 &#8211; Wednesday, January 27, 2010 (nypost.com).<\/p>\n<p>FILE THIS UNDER: SOMEBODY&#8217;S INTERN IS GOING TO BE FIRED !!<\/p>\n<p>or: WHO DROPPED THE BALL &#8211; THE NEW YORK POST or the MICROSOFT P.R. TEAM ??!!<\/p>\n<p>in a big full page spread on this year&#8217;s SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2010 &#8211; in today&#8217;s NEW YORK POST, on Page 3 &#8211; no less !! &#8211;  BING &#8211; THE TRENDY NEW MICROSOFT &#8216;SEARCH&#8217; ENGINE ?? &#8211; and &#8211; BILL GATES &#8211;  THE NEWLY &#8216;SWINGING&#8217; TECH NERD and BRAND NEW INDIE MOVIE FAN &#8211; and &#8211; THE NEW YORK POST &#8211; and I guess,  IT&#8217;S SO-CALLED &#8211;  &#8216;MOVIE&#8217; TEAM &#8211; ALL LOOKED BAD &#8211; witness &#8211; second paragraph up from the bottom. quote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At another bash, GATES chatted up filmmaker ONDI TIMONER, the auteur behind documentaries &#8216;DIG!&#8217; and the upcoming &#8216;We Live In Public&#8217;, sources said.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t they have fact checkers at the POST &#8211; for this kind of stuff ? &#8211; I mean &#8216;We Live In Public &#8211; not only isn&#8217;t<br \/>\n&#8220;upcoming&#8221; &#8211; but it goddamn won !! &#8211; last year !! the 2009 GRAND JURY AWARD FOR BEST U.S. DOCUMENTARY !!<\/p>\n<p>hope they didn&#8217;t rely on a BING &#8216;SEARCH&#8217; to come up with that faux-pas !! so, who takes the fall here ?<br \/>\nprobably the MICROSOFT P.R. team &#8211; the POST can&#8217;t seriously be expected to know what&#8217;s happening in the &#8216;cutting edge&#8217; arts. in fact &#8211;  they didn&#8217;t even post any serious coverage on last year&#8217;s 2009 festival  &#8211; except for maybe 2 PARIS HILTON\/CHEESY CELEB SWAG stories !! if I had to guess &#8211; since from all appearances &#8211;  MICROSOFT &#038; BING are ($$) footing the bill for the POST&#8217;S new found interest in Indie filmmaking !! &#8211; !! LOL !! I&#8217;d say &#8211; that it was the MICROSOFT P.R. TEAM who dropped the ball !!  in their &#8216;communication\/for immediate press release&#8217; &#8211; re:  all things BING &#8211; SUNDANCE party blitz &#8211; !! don&#8217;t look too good for a &#8216;SEARCH&#8217; engine, esp the new trendy one &#8211; to get simple, important and basic facts like that &#8211; all wrong !!<br \/>\nif it was the POST &#8211; who blew it &#8211; wow &#8211; guys: where are you &#8211; in the ICE AGE ? &#8211; just another New York City player playing big shot &#8211; without a full deck. what else is new \/ you&#8217;re a whole year behind the rest of the world &#8211; even the NEW YORK TIMES &#8211;   that so-called &#8211; by the POST &#8211; gray lady &#8211; gave &#8216;We Live In Public&#8217; &#8211; and, ONDI TIMONER !!  and JOSH HARRIS !! &#8211;  tons of press last year !! SHAME SHAME SHAME &#8211; for making  BILL GATES and  BING &#8211; look like the &#8211; real &#8216;cutting edge&#8217; losers !! &#8211; they probably &#8211; really are. not that I am a big fan of google &#8211; but that&#8217;s another story !! !! <\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER #1: <em> TEKSERVE<\/em> &#8211; NYC&#8217;S largest independent APPLE STORE &#038; REPAIR SHOP &#8211; (as in Mac !!) &#8211; is a proud long time sponsor of this site &#8211; but the views expressed on this site &#8211; are (always) clearly our own !! <\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER #2: NANCY SMITH &#8211; the editor of this site and &#8211; the author of this post &#8211; was a paid employee of JOSH HARRIS\/PSEUDO.COM &#8211; the subject of the film &#8211; &#8216;WE LIVE IN PUBLIC &#8211; at the time the filming took place (1999-2000).<\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER #3: NANCY SMITH &#8211; the editor of this site and &#8211; the author of this post &#8211; also appears in the film &#8211; &#8216;We Live In Public&#8217; &#8211; as a participant. I was a founding crew member &#8211; of the &#8216;QUIET&#8217; MILLENNIUM BUNKER ART PARTY &#8211; and part of the in-house production team &#8211; and, ok ok &#8211;  &#8211; I&#8217;m <em>the<\/em> crew member who &#8211; surprise surprise &#8211; !! &#8211;  got into a fight and kicked out !!  I also got  &#8216;a last word cameo&#8217; (another surprise, NOT !!)  at the end of the film &#8211; when Ondi came back for a follow-up, several years later !!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m the one in the black hoodie &#8211; who says:  &#8220;Josh has set sail on the sea for places unknown but far away&#8217; &#8211; without really knowing why &#8211; but I was right. (surprise. surprise. duh.)<\/p>\n<p>ok ..  I even made the trailer !! towards the end, well after mid-point &#8211; I&#8217;m the one &#8211; in the green-and-yellow puffy North Face jacket !! having a (teary) fit !!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Nancy_in_Trailer_.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"344\" alt=\"nancy in trailer \" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nyep &#8211; that&#8217;s me. JERSEY SHORE &#8211; &#8216;SNOOKUMS&#8217; &#8211; move ov-er !!<\/p>\n<p>you can find the trailer &#8211; right there on the home page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com\/\"> WE LIVE IN PUBLIC &#8211; official website &#8211; !!<\/a><br \/>\n(watch out for ALFREDO&#8217;S SHOOTING GALLERY !!)<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s another trailer &#8211; it might be the original &#8211; uncut &#038; uncensored &#8211; rowdy !! one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/verify_age?&#038;next_url=\/watch%3Fv%3DmG5N40upF58%26feature%3Drelated\"> because &#8211; oops &#8211; looks like its been censured for content  &#8211;  on YouTube !! LOL !!<\/a><br \/>\nif so &#8230;  it was first posted by Josh Harris on RADARONLINE &#8211; before they re-booted &#8211;  as whatever the hell &#8211; a babyfood celeb sheet ? &#8211; they are now.<br \/>\nbut, it might just be the official one &#8211; censured ?? dunno. I gotta find my (adult) google password !! yikes. <\/p>\n<p>in fact, here&#8217;s another really cool clip:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XCC1yNiCSxQ&#038;feature=related\"> &#8220;ONDI TIMONER\/MEET THE ARTISTS&#8221;\/WE LIVE IN PUBLIC\/YouTube !!<\/a><br \/>\nthe guy naked in the see-thru communal shower ? JOSH HARRIS, of course !!<br \/>\nthe next frame &#8211; the woman &#8211; with the rosy aura &#8211; in the bunker with her young son &#8211; yo, that&#8217;s me !! it was the bunker built for the 100+ live-in artists at &#8216;QUIET&#8217; &#8211; and it was wired with multiple cameras &#8211; pointing in <em>all<\/em> directions for 24\/7 surveillance &#038; each &#8216;pod&#8217; had &#8216;live&#8217; feed\/real time screens. JEFF GOMPERTZ designed and built the &#8216;Japanese&#8217;-based pod hotel bunker. OWEN BUSH designed and built that (gorgeous !!) &#8216;bubble wrap&#8217; communal dining room. <\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t believe me ?<br \/>\ncheck out SUNDANCE 2009:  <a href=\"http:\/\/festival.sundance.org\/2009\/film_events\/films\/we_live_in_public\">WE LIVE IN PUBLIC \/ ONDI TIMONER &#8211; WINS !!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WE LIVE IN PUBLIC &#8211; STILL RULES !! . . . and, WE DID IT FIRST !!<\/p>\n<p>read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/movie\/2009\/08\/27\/we-live-in-public\/\">JAN ALBERT&#8217;S REVIEW\/artlovers !!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;MICROSOFT-SHOE&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;BILL GATES BOOGIES AT SUNDANCE&#8221; by STEPHANIE SMITH and LUKAS I. ALPERT\/NEW YORK POST Page 3 &#8211; Wednesday, January 27, 2010 (nypost.com). FILE THIS UNDER: SOMEBODY&#8217;S INTERN IS GOING TO BE FIRED !! or: WHO DROPPED THE BALL &#8211; THE NEW YORK POST or the MICROSOFT P.R. 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