Verdi wrote: > On Oct 31, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Christopher Ivanyi wrote: > >>My question to you -- my challenge to you would be, to stop vlogging >>altogether. If you don't need an audience, and you vlog in order >>achieve the pleasure of having done them, and you don't need the >>validation of an audience -- then just stop making them. This goes >>for all vloggers out there, especially the more popular vloggers! >>Just stop making vlogs. > > > Look, in my life, I have created all kinds of art. Some things I've > created have antagonized an audience and begged to be disliked - I > was once shouted off stage, I didn't leave, then someone unplugged my > equipment. Some things I've created defied interpretation by using > language and images who's only significance is locked in my mind > alone - the audience was understandably indifferent to this kind of > work. After 15 years of this, if I NEEDED an audience, you'd think > I'd have quit. I haven't quit because even more than enjoying being > an artist, "artist" is something that compels me to be. It's as > natural and necessary as breathing and eating.
Heh, this reminds me of the time I performed in an experimental band and we forced the audience to leave the building we were playing in before we would start. Remarkably, most of them returned. ;) This also brings up the whole idea of "people who create things can't *NOT* create things" it's just what they do. There may not be a clear and simple answer to it, but that's just how it is. Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
