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A lot of people have asked me if I was upset with Microsoft’s ad campagne for their KIN. Friends have told me that Microsoft stole my idea. I really wasn’t all that upset, which does surprises me a bit. I was, however, able to keep things in perspective.



I’m interested in art because it’s more innovative than the commercial world. Art tests and challenges people. The commercial world feeds people what they want. The purpose of my roadtrip documentrary was to feed people what they want in order to gain interest in my actual art project, and it served it’s purpose. I am a little saddened that making a buck from the documentary would be much more difficult, but I took heart in the fact that I did it a year before Microsoft did. On a personal level it also proved to me that I kinda know what I’m talking about. My mind was in thew right place, and it was there for the right reasons. I entertained as well as challenged. I did also get nervous that it would be forgotten and over shadowed by the KIN’s marketing, but Mashable was nice enough to give the little social media artist credit.

“Social media road trips aren’t a new concept. Last summer, Graham Smith and Josh Baron made a grad thesis and short documentary about a Facebook road trip.”

A few months afte I saw that first Hulu ad the KIN is now failing and I look forward to seeing the ads disappear, but that’s not founded in spite. I’m just tired of seeing something I created in order to get people to reflect on their lives embedded in social media, used to sell social media devices (whatever that means).