“Video Diary NYC” by Yianni Stamas was launched more than a year before “The Real World” which is generally thought of as the first “reality” genre program. Yianni wanted to find out what would happen if he started to film his life and creative process with TAFT Club Collaborators in a cable TV show experiment in reality. This creative collaborating process was a continuation in New York what he had begun doing with creative performing artist friends a decade earlier in Hollywood, CA.

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