From The New York Times, Arts Beat, The Culture at Large, November 19, 2013:
A Bob Dylan Video 47 Years in the Making
By ALLAN KOZINN Promotional video clips were hardly unknown when Bob Dylan released “Like a Rolling Stone” as a single in 1965, but Mr. Dylan never made one for the song. Now Columbia, his record label, is making up for that oversight with a newly produced web video for the song, mainly to promote “The Complete Album Collection, Volume 1,” a 47-CD set that includes all of Mr. Dylan’s studio albums, six live sets and a two-disc rarities compilation. But in the process, the company is redefining the way promotional clips are viewed.
Usually, you sit back and watch. If they’re by a performer you collect, you may go to some effort to obtain a copy. But Columbia’s new “Like a Rolling Stone,” which went live on Mr. Dylan’s website on Tuesday morning, demands not to be played so much as played with.
I wasn't able to embed the "newly produced web video" mentioned above into my blog page here, but please do click on the link provided above to see and interact with this "newly produced web video" which is truly amazing. If you don't thoroughly enjoy the experience, well, ..... I don't quite know what to say about that, you will have to end the sentence for yourself.
Click here for the rest of Allan Kozinn's piece on the making of the video.
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