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I think this argument could be settled if Andrew
simply pointed to other outstanding vlogs. I find that three out of four,
even five out of six of all the vlogs I decide to watch (which is only about one
or two per page on Blip TV) are very disappointing.
If someone spent two or three hours watching every
vlog posted, one after the other, the result would be tedium and a splitting
headache.
I find vlogging is somewhat like panning for
gold. You sift through a lot of stuff and here and there you find
something that really sparkles.
And, yes, certain vloggers are almost always
outstanding and interesting even when tackling dull subjects. So, one
carefully selects the books one reads. You don't run into a library or a
bookstore and grab something.
That is why we need a Vlog Digest. It would
be a sorting place where people who were interested in art vlogs could find a
selection with a couple paragraphs description attached.
This happens a wee bit with comments.
However, few people leave comments. That is the real shame. Some
great work goes unappreciated.
Whenever I see a vlog that really has a spark in
it, I leave encouraging feedback. I rarely leave negative remarks.
In fact, I think I posted my very first one yesterday on a video entitled "Eat
Shit" that had terrible music but also contained great footage of fancy
skateboarding--complete with great camera angles catching the
action.
Yes, there is Vlogdir and Vlogmap and the
aggregator engines. However, they all just gather all the leaves falling
from the video camera tree when capturing the vibrancy and color of the leaves
is a more complicated and compelling task.
Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:42
AM
Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Stop this
petty Squabbling
I haven't seen any of these interviews, and only occasionally
watch Rocketboom, so I haven't got upset about it. Okay, maybe Andrew's gone
over to the dark side. But, to be fair, many others have made this kind of
comment as well, and every time this group has leaped up to defend our
artistic merit.
With all due (and serious) respect to Michael and
everyone else, perhaps we take ourselves a little too seriously?
Sure,
videoblogging in general is important as an _expression_ of the fact that
EVERYONE can "make TV". There is real power in that, and as a phenomenon it
will have major impact on the world.
But, to be honest, when we look at
individual vlogs, most of us (myself included) aren't that good at making TV.
There's a reason why the folks in Hollywood get paid the big bucks: they're
professionals.
Over time, some of us will learn to make equally
compelling content. But most of us are playing to niche audiences, and always
will. I know that my videos are mostly interesting to my friends and family,
people who like to look at images of Italy, Indians nostalgic for rumali roti,
and a few other very small categories. That's fine with me. I'm making them
mostly for fun and to see what I can do with the medium, not to prove a point
or gain a large audience.
There's nothing wrong with being out on the
long tail, but we shouldn't feel dissed when someone points out that that's
exactly where we are. My niche media may not appeal to you or yours to me, but
we can each be sure that it appeals to someone out there.
Most of us
would agree that 99% of the "entertainment" available to us today is crap
(though we don't all agree on which 1% is the good stuff). That proportion
isn't going to change just because there's more of us making it.
On 11/22/05, Verdi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
And
it's not like it was just one comment that was just not worded as
well as
he would have liked. He does it over and over
again. It's
got to stop. But read the other
thread. Andrew doesn't see a
problem here. He says
he stands by everything he's said.
Personally, I worked too hard and
I've watched many of you work too
hard to have to put up with that
crap. It would be one thing if he
was just voicing his
personal dislike of a particular thing. But for
the creator of
the most downloaded videoblog to, time and time again,
dismiss most of
the rest of us every time he gets interviewed, well
that's got to do some
damage. Don't you think?
--
best regards,
Deirdré Straughan
www.beginningwithi.com
(personal)
www.tvblob.com (work)
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