king talk

There´s a lot of hype going on right now about Chatroulette. A Website were everybody can simply start a video chat with strangers from around the world. This site was developed by 17 year old russian programmer Andrej Ternowskij who is really making money with it. The idea is not really new. We saw an installation at last years Ars Electronica Festival, were you could blow air from Linz to China. There was a webcam installed and skype was running at both places. Linz had a microphone and the chineses guys had a ventilator which was influenced by our blowing power. We spent some minutes at this installation, having fun with the asian people and talked to them the pantomime way. This installation was really fun.

Anyway, Casey Neistat did a short study on Chatroulette and documented this on vimeo. I just browsed through Chatroulette to get a quick overview about the people hanging around there. Unfortunately one of the early contacts was Mr. Weenie, which caused me to close the tab and say goodbye. Some people loose their decency when they are alone in front of webcam. I´m anonymous = I can do what I want?

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