Wake Forest Magazine (the alumni mag for WFU, apparently) has a nice profile of the creators of Star Wars Uncut, the fan-made remake of Star Wars in fifteen-second segments.
CASEY PUGH (’06) already has a place for his new Emmy. The surprisingly heavy statuette, which he decorated with Star Wars action figures, rests on his desk. His older brother CHAD (’02), however, hasn’t yet given his a permanent home. “Maybe I’ll put it in my office,” he says. “Wait, no, I’ll attach it to a necklace.” Stressful as the decision may be, making room for an award of that stature is a problem these two natives of Naples, Fla., feel lucky to have.
The Pugh brothers got to walk the red carpet last August thanks to an idea Casey had in January of 2009. At the time, he was working at Vimeo.com, a video-sharing website. “I spent a lot of time thinking about how to get filmmakers to collaborate remotely,” says Casey. He noticed that “crowd-sourcing” — inviting a large community to join together to complete a task — was gaining popularity. So Casey started a Web project that involved a well-known movie, “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (the original 1977 classic). After splitting the film into 473 15-second scenes, he created a website and posted them all online, asking people around the world to re-create one favorite scene and submit a video to him through Vimeo.com. The incentive? He promised to link all 473 homemade scenes into one continuous Web video.
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 11:42PM