YOu said: "And they had demands. They wanted me to make videos like my old videos. They wanted me to make videos like my new videos. They were saying I had lost it... I felt burned out and I stopped making videos."
I think that's the problem. What do you want to do? Make money? Then by all means, try appeasing the masses and make the videos THEY want you to make. Or are you making videos because it's your hobby/your art/your punk-rock-statement? Then you are making videos for YOU. IF others watch, well then - that's dandy. But the enjoyment is in the MAKING - not in the money. And that's my goal - to have fun (which I am). David King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:00 PM, ractalfece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haha. That's good. > > But what's wrong with being an avant-guard artist? > > Before online videos, I was making zines and performing at poetry > slams and open mics. I believed in starving for my art. > > Something changed though. It was after I got featured on youtube. > Now I had an audience. Not a large audience by some standards. But > huge for me. > > And they had demands. They wanted me to make videos like my old > videos. They wanted me to make videos like my new videos. They were > saying I had lost it. > > I felt burned out and I stopped making videos. > > And after about two months I figured out the problem. > > I was still starving for my art but now I was also dealing with the > hardships of fame. And as much as I tried to ignore my tiny piece of > fame, it still had an effect on me. > > Why am I making videos? Do I want to attract advertisers? Is it > because I'm hoping for some sort of immortality years down the road, > as a pioneer in this medium? Even if I had such dreams, who's to say > videoblogging isn't a fad? I have no faith web 2.0 is going to last. > And that what's coming next is going to be better. > > The radical idea in "Information Dystopia" is this: The audience > should pay the performer. Otherwise, the performer is going to pack > it up and do something else. I'm thinking about writing novels that > have slim chances of ever getting published. Why should I have to > deal with people and fame and starvation? > > I'm emailing you the torrent, Verdi. Or you can just grab it off the > link someone else posted. > > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <john%40totalvom.com> - > > > > > > > > I don't get this locking your videos up in bittorrent thing. Sure > > offer that as yet another way to get your videos (especially long one) > > but why make it hard for people. It's a little like the poor > > avant-guard artist who complains that nobody (i.e. the "mainstream") > > understands his work. Either be happy with the audience you have or go > > get fucking get the audience you want. > > > > And yeah, I kinda talked about this 2 years ago too - > > http://michaelverdi.com/index.php/2005/07/20/the-yang-of-vlogging/ > > > > Verdi > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
