on 26/5/07 8:27 PM, Patrick Mc Manus at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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I see this discussed in the NYTimes by Virginia Heffernan, thus:
PETER OAKLEY, A K A GERIATRIC1927
Last August Peter Oakley, a British pensioner, posted a video that he
promised would contain grumbling and griping under the screen name
geriatric1927. In fact, it was a love letter to YouTube, and an expression
of hope that the video blogs he was planning to post regularly would
interest users of the site. In record time the entries, which tell the story
of a widower, blues fanatic and former radar technician in the British Army,
inspired a tribute video from a hipster admirer, who dubbed Mr. Oakley ³The
OG of Blogging² ‹ that¹s original gangsta.
A grandpa who knows about radar? What techie kid doesn¹t dream of that? Then
came the imitators: Right, I¹ll have a go myself, resolved jimsan1, another
YouTuber who appeared close to Mr. Oakley¹s own age. (Mr. Oakley turns 80 in
August.) Before long, Mr. Oakley¹s videos were attracting a million views
and more, and his series of videos are among YouTube¹s 10 most heavily
subscribed to. Now the senior-citizenry of YouTube regularly posts video
oral histories in serial form, talking straight into the camera without
pyrotechnics or theatricality in tribute to the understated style of the
master.
Mr. Oakley can now be heard singing with the Zimmers, a vast rock group
formed of elderly retirees and overseen by Mike Hedges, the U2 producer. The
band releases its first album, ³My Generation,² on Monday, but its first
music video ‹ a performance of the Who¹s ³My Generation² with Pete Townshend
‹ was uploaded to YouTube last month.
[now I understand. Max]
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