October 2011
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“…we want people to come out of it thinking, “Wow that was really...”
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Blake Whitman, Vimeo VP of Creative Development
10/18/2011, 11:30AM at the IAC Building in NYC
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“…we know that we want it to be cool, funky and different.”
– Blake Whitman, Vimeo VP of Creative Development
10/18/2011, 11:30AM at the IAC Building in NYC
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The [updated] Narrative
With over 8 million registered users, Vimeo is the world’s largest network of amateur filmmakers. Over 10 million people in the U.S. alone visit the site each month and 70% of the user-base is located internationally. Many of its users are concentrated in dense urban areas, such as London, New York and Los Angeles.
Recent developments in communication technology and network theory have...
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TYPOLOGY
Our point of departure for this project is that Vimeo has produced a radical shift in our experience of film. The passive viewer of the hollywood film has become an active user, who is at once viewer, filmmaker and critic. This means that a physical venue for the Vimeo experience calls for an entirely new spatial typology.
To discover the space of Vimeo, we started by an exhaustive and rigorous...
September 2011
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THE NARRATIVE
With over 3.7 million registered users, Vimeo is the world’s largest social network of exclusively user-generated videos. Over 8.5 million people in the U.S. alone visit the site each month. Recent developments in communication technology and network theory have aroused a vast sum of creative capital, which Vimeo has harnessed to fundamentally reorganize film culture around the world. Vimeo...
