Re: FLUXLIST: Fwd: FYI...radical software

[VoicesNtheHive]

This may be a long letter. you may want to skip it.   Hey great link to radical software!!!! Video is a passion of mine. and reading about radical software has reinforced my inner feelings in a time when I have difficulty in finding the words. I hate explaining to people why I do what I do, and how do you find a market. It's tough. whats really tough is dealing with people who do video professionally. I wonder if they know or care what  frank gillete Micheal shamburg beryl kerot nam jun paik meant. In a Nutshell video was a radical Idea to create TV for yourself. And now that I've only been doing this roughly 4 years i really noticed the time I spent making things and the less amount time spent watching tv.   As Non pro as I am. I saw video really as a way to let images happen on their own. Like moving collage.  I suppose I could be expressing myself. But i don't know if I am nor care at this moment. How this is happening is I'm working with video tape. Snobs look down on me. well at at least one does. At thats because i'm not one of his students. I don't know how to use Final cut pro or avid and so on. i'd like to if I could get the feel that i could edit spontaneously. yes anolog doesn't have the fantastic resolution as digital. But Can't I at least be respected for being more old school? I'm not trying to cut in their territory. they can have their digital world. Two years ago I had the worst exhibition ever with another video artist. It was so competive I hated it. he was pro and worked for a production company. Me of course with my ratty old tv sets and my videos playing on the second level of the gallery. to be brief, my work was messy scratchy and noisy. but most of his stuff looked like common everyday screen savers on you computer screen. The horror stories can go on and on but I won't bore you with the details.   Again I'd liked to end the note by saying thanks for the radical software page.   Craig