heh. No offense taken, D. :) I understand what you're saying, and I think an anti-super-bowl vlog would be interesting. All the teams in the NFL are in the USA, so there's really no reason that anyone else should be interested in it. Also, the ads have been the point for quite a while. There's often more buzz around the water cooler about what someone heard BMW's going to do this year or the graphics on the new M&Ms commercial than anything having to do with the teams involved in the game.
MSM in NYC is a bunch of copycatters. It's "funny" how you don't hear for years about someone beating up a priest, but then as soon as one channel reports that something like that happened, for the next few weeks, you can count on everyone scrambling to find more instances of the same crime. Then, when the fad's over, you don't hear about it again for years..... I think that's the benefit that we have right now with videoblogging. You can express yourself, and if someone wants to watch it they will, and if they don't want to, they won't. It's not like you're sitting there in Italy, and your "voice" won't go any farther than your actual voice, or maybe whomever you can call on the telephone. I think there are a number of anti-super-bowl vlogs that could be really interesting and informative. Actually, I realized that in my haste to get out the door, I didn't really say what I was heading out to do. :) I was on my way to a "Super Bowl party", which really was a party that was thrown with the excuse/reason being that the Super Bowl was on. I don't think there was an avid football fan in the apartment at all. Especially considering where we are (NYC) and the two teams involved were from completely different places, lines were drawn by "lesser of the evils" rather than a team that someone actually wanted to win the game. Probably the most telling feature was how one team would be rooted for and then another team, based on which team had the chance to provide the correct score numbers for whomever to win their betting pool. :D Even being at a "Super Bowl party" was really an anti-super-bowl party. When the commercials came on, the music went up, loud. We could see them, but couldn't really hear them. The music went off so Prince could perform, but there was a lot more socialization chatter than attention paid to the halftime show. Some people left during halftime to go party-hop. I didn't see one person there that was upset or even happy with the outcome of the game... I mean, unless it related to their betting pool. :) So, yes... I didn't actually go to vlog "The Super Bowl". I went to vlog the ritual gatherings of people on one particular Sunday evening with the excuse being that this highly-publicized football game was going to be played. Actually, it was really noisy, and there really wasn't any theme to what was going on. It was like any "normal" NYC situation where everyone's in the same place, but you really only socialize with the people that you knew before you came to the party. I ended up recording next to nothing..... which was pretty much what was going on. :D -- Bill C. http://ems.blip.tv --- In [email protected], "Deirdre Straughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I should do a vlog about how the rest of the world is so f*ing BORED of > hearing about the Super Bowl - and all the ads which seem to be the entire > point these days. At least we (ROW) have the courtesy to hold the World Cup > only once in four years. > > Nothing against you, Bill, I've just been noticing lately how all the > traditional AND non-traditional news outlets I read every day talk about the > same damn stuff (how many articles about the iPhone does the world really > need?) and most are incredibly US-centric. Even when I set Google to not > show me sports news, the damn Super Bowl still comes up as the first > headline in my browser. > > And, now that the US media has finally deigned to notice it, global warming > is somehow more "real" than it was a week before. Argh! > > > On 2/4/07, Bill Cammack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes Sir... Cutting Edge. :D > > > > About to go vlog the Super Bowl. > > > > > -- > best regards, > Deirdré Straughan > > www.beginningwithi.com (personal) > www.tvblob.com (work) > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
