Turns out Pat Kenny isn’t a plank, he’s made of plastic!
Published August 17th, 2006 in PersonalThe Late, Late Show is one of Ireland’s popular television programmes. Its current presenter, Pat Kenny, is sometimes criticised for being a bit wooden, hence his being called a plank.
Not everyone is turned off by his performance as one avid RTE fan can attest. In last week’s Sunday Business Post, Adrian Weckler wrote an article about YouTube and highlighted the following video. It’s a case of Consumer Generated Media at its most extreme as someone painstakingly recreated the RTE building and studio that is home to the Late, Late Show with Lego.
While it’s heaps of fun, it does beg the question how many people have the time and the patience to make videos like these? Here’s two and a half minutes of the show entirely through plastic.
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Piaras,
I believe it was a 22 year old who put the vido together. it strikes me that the YouTube site and other consumer generated sites, when combined with the plummeting cost of video production, offer those who are willing to put the time in, a perfect vehicle to showcase their talents and get noticed.
Certainly if said individual were to present himself for a job in a creative shop anytime soon in Dublin, he’d get a response that would more than justify the time input. I know of one Dublin publisher who is about to produce a very expensive video for upload to YouTube in the next couple of weeks, not expecting that there is a quantifiable payback, but rather seeing the vehicle as a perfect showcase medium for their main revenue generating publication. So YouTube is begining to be taken seriously by the more enlightened.