--- Richard BF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm especially interested in the new members'
opinions, as they
probably haven't had a lot of the citizen media,
fuck big media
rhetoric we used to go on about here a year ago,
but now tend to no
longer bother about.
i guess you asked for it, and
Richard-- I don't think the Four Eyed Monster videopodcast is merely a promotional tool. If there were no film, the vlog would be just as good (possibly better). It is its own art.
Re: LJMany people use livejournal for fiction, and they're nothing wrong with that. Blogging is the
tool.That
Hi Richard,
I've been thinking about this a lot recently since I've been teaching
some videoblogging classes.
There are a lot of things happening in the video space which are
diluting the meaning of the term videoblogging.
Everything seems to be called videoblogging these days including 'video
The point of the recent Four Eyed Monsters discussion seems to have been how to use the Internet to promote your more traditional film, which I'd argue has jack to do with this list.
[snip]
What do you think?---I've been putting video on a blog since October '05,
Personally, I don't see why Four Eyed Monsters wouldn't be considered a vlog. While the central theme may be the film, the focus is clearly on the filmmakers themselves, That is the primary difference between FEM and other film-based vidcasts such as Kite Circuit, or what's going on for Clerks
Old timers on this list are gonna love me bringing this up again.
Newbies are probably going to love me even more for disturbing the
mainstream media lovefest which seems to have taken over this email
list in the past few months.
I received some offlist emails about my Four Eyed Monsters post,
