andycarvin.com — A video blog purports to show video blogger Kevin Krutz dying at a party, apparently from alcohol-related causes. Is the video real or a hoax? And what does the posting of the video represent in this growing Web 2.0 universe?
Apr 24, 2006 View in Crawl 4
smp351Apr 24, 2006
Yea I understand but it's still hard to watch that as a family member and know that others are out there too watching your son's last minutes. It is a good warning though.
andycarvinApr 24, 2006Submitter
Update: Kevin isn't dead. But hoax may be too strong a term for it. It seems that the whole thing was a video blogging social experiment to see how the online community would react, and to explore the boundaries of what's acceptable and what's not in the world of vlogging. Here's an email from his video blogging teacher explaining the whole thing:<a class="user" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/39332">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/39332</a>
Closed AccountApr 25, 2006
How about avant garde performance art instead of hoax?
andycarvinApr 25, 2006Submitter
I think that's more like what he was going for. Also, this year's theme for Video Blogging Week was "the year of vlogging dangerously." That may have been a factor...