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Lessons learned post about the Visitor Video Competition for all the colleagues out there who might be thinking of doing something similar. (more…)

As the Brooklyn Museum means so much, and in so many different ways, to our audiences, these videos are an extraordinary reflection of both this diversity and of the enormous talent of our competitors. I’d be proud to have the Museum, its collection, and First Saturdays represented by any of the submitted videos, and I am thrilled by the selection of Mr. Cool, the Art Thief, and Off the Wall as our first winners! I am also deeply grateful to our volunteer judges, Christina Norman, Danny Simmons, and Patrick Amsellem for their great devotion to this difficult task. Congratulations to all and to all my sincere thanks. —Arnold Lehman, Director

First Place
Mr. Cool at the Brooklyn Museum
by Andrei Severny / Charles Grantham

Second Place
Brooklyn Museum - “Art Thief”
by Matthew K.

Third Place
Off the Wall
by Ralph Favilla / Louise Tiranoff

Runners up (in the order the date they were submitted) (more…)

On the eve of the announcement of our judges’ decision, Brooklyn Museum staff wanted to share some of our own thoughts (ranging from the “I-have-to-smile moment” to “the wow feeling” to “sleeper hit artworks”) with the filmmakers who created these videos. Good luck to everyone! Click the ‘more’ link to see our thoughts. (more…)

Entries for our Visitor Video Competition are starting to roll in. We’ve created a YouTube playlist which can be seen in this post and we will keep updating it as entries are submitted. If you were filming that night and plan to enter, just a quick reminder that the submission deadline is October 29, 2007. See contest rules to ensure qualification.

On another Target First Saturday note, the Visitor Video Competition was shooting and we spotted a bunch of cameras, which was pretty exciting. From what we were seeing, it looks like we may have a variety of entries from folks shooting with high-end cameras, pro-sumer models, still cams and cell phones. It should be fun to watch the results of this roll in over the next several weeks. More on this soon…