The work of Alex Tew

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The work of Alex Tew

• Million Dollar Homepage
• Net-art or not?
• Other cool ideas

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Alex Tew

• 21, m, United Kingdom
• student management Business Management,
  University of Nottingham
• Out of cash

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The Million Dollar Homepage

• Aim raise money necessary to pay for his college
  education, by selling advertising space in blocks
  of 100 pixels
• "a piece of internet history"
• a piece of net-art

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Aims

• "Everything already has been done on the
  internet?"
• "The Internet is the mother of all invention"
• Create a piece of net-art, that reflects what's
  current on the Internet and what's possible
• Copycats people are uninventive

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Is this net-art?!

• Mass-art 16 million visits / day!
• Couldn't achieve goal without the Internet
  word-of-mouth (blogs, inbound links etc.)
• Controversial
• Poster prints of the Million Dollar Homepage

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Other cool ideas

• 1000 tags.com
• Pixelotto.com
• E-book this year

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