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Guggenheim: YouTube Play

"YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video aims to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. Developed by YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with HP,YouTube Play hopes to attract innovative, original, and surprising videos from around the world, regardless of genre, technique, background, or budget. This global online initiative is not a search for what’s “now,” but a search for what’s next"

BATHTUB IV, 2009

Keith Loutit

BIRDY NAM NAM – THE PARACHUTE ENDINGS, 2009

Steve Scott

DIE ANTWOORD – ZEF SIDE, 2009

Sean Metelerkamp

I MET THE WALRUS

Josh Raskin (Director and Animator), James Braithwaite (Drawings), Alex Kurina (Computer illustration), Jerry Levitan (Producer, Story and Voice)

THIS ABORTED EARTH: THE QUEST BEGINS, 2010

Michael Banowetz and Noah Sodano

Visit youtube.com/play to watch this year's top videos and learn more about the project.

George Ripley was a 15th century alchemist who produced alchemical works containing rhymed criptic verses describing the process to create the legendary Philosophers Stone. In the 16th century the Elizabethan polymath John Dee created pictographic scrolls based on Ripley's verses. The figure at the top of the scroll is alleged to be Hermes Trismegistus the mythical founder of alchemy and patron of Hermeticism.