So, how do you deal with a competing 'revolution'?

--- In [email protected], Clint Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I read it yesterday.  The last addition Andrew added is a zinger!  Way
> to stick it to Rosenblum.  People like him are basically snake oil
> salesmen in my mind.  The part that's so upsetting about being on the
> forefront of a movement is how binary people are.  This will replace
> that, this is better than that, when I'm so much more likely to see the
> grey than the black and the white.  The VJ model is excellent, but
> there's no reason to replace all your two-man crews with one-man crews. 
> There's no reason the VJ concept can't be adapted to a man crew concept
> but with a cheaper production model.  I just don't see the revolution in
> what he's doing.  So he's reduced the equipment cost from millions to
> thousands?  Big deal.  I can fit the computing power it took to take us
> to the moon in a wristwatch.  Making things smaller and cheaper is
> inevitable, and he's selling it like he's revolutionizing publishing,
> when in reality the revolution in publishing is not the fact that anyone
> can create cheaply, because frankly it's always been decently affordable
> to create (although cheaper is better), but the lock has always been in
> distribution.  It was cost prohibitive to get your art and your content
> to people who would want to see and people who would pay to see it. 
> Andrew, you're spot on, but I probably don't need to tell you that
> because you already know I usually agree with you.
>
> Clint
>
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