--- In [email protected], "Jan McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hell, I can't even get filmmakers to vlog. Or YouTube (as verb) either.
Im fascinated by this sort of phenomenon, have you been able to delve into any of the reasons why this seems to be the case? Its certainly something that surprised me, I imagined some huge surge of thousands of people who are involved with other creative or arts stuff, , gettng excited about using internet video to showcase their work. It happens, but nowhere near ont he scale I pictured. What am I missing? Subcultures of different arts groups remaining mostly connected to their existing worlds? I have no idea what Im talking about, I havent hung around such people enough, didnt go to art school or film school or anything. Are any of the stereotypes true? And will my mind ever recover from art critics pissing on styles they didnt deem to be real art? Anybody picked up any negative emotion from any filmschool, indie film, whatever, people? Any sense that the barriers being lowered cant help bu sting some who spent years & $ learning 'how to do it properly'. But at the same time barriers they still faced such as limited distribution, have been broken down, are they celebrating that? Maybe they are using such services more than I realise but wouldnt consider it 'vlogging'? Oh I dunno, complete guesswork, maybe theres feeling that you make money either by something being really popular, or by being really exclusive and expensive, and in the middle its hard to make a living. Someone with a clue please help explain, cheers :) As for minorities, is this a USA question or global? Because obviously various races are not minorities elsewhere and may already be vlogging en mass as far as I know, but in a language I dont understand so I havent noticed they exist. Meanwhile minorities in a specific country are by their very nature always going to make up only a small chunk of the pciture. On the otherhand maybe its been more to do with class so far, Id say the bulk of the people Ive seen have been middle class to one extent or another. And as class divisions can follow racial lines, and all of these issues can get very difficult to talk about without being ignorant, I dunno what else to say or think really. Id love to see a lot more diversity of race, age, gender, class, belief, educational level and economic status. But if for practical or cultural reasons this isnt going to happen, I'll just have to hope for more projects like Swajana where I can connect with distant humans of very differnt background to myself, even if it takes white educated americans to kickstart such projects into fruition. If I actually new almost anything at all about different cultures, I could waffle on in an authoritary voice about how certain cultures may be completely incompatible with the very concepts that make vlogging attractive to the cultures that currently indulge in it, but there are vast plains of ignorami desert in my mind on such issues, so I shutup now. Cheers Steve Elbows > > There are minority vloggers here. > > Speak up! > > Not everybody is interested in this list, I'll say that. > > Lots of vloggers springing up who don't play here. > > I'm here 'cause I'm in the habit of being on this list. > > Jan
