--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Brook Hinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the link, John, I will look forward to seeing it when.... > if.... it ever finishes reaching my computer. > > "> But what's wrong with being an avant-guard artist?" > > What does making something difficult for people who aren't immersed in > the tech world to obtain have to do with being an avant-garde artist? > Most avant-garde artists spend a lot of effort fighting to get their > work seen, not hiding it. >
I don't claim to be an avant-garde artist. And I don't take the word artist lightly. I was responding to Verdi's line: "It's a little like the poor avant-guard artist who complains that nobody (i.e. the "mainstream") understands his work." I get what he's saying but that line doesn't have any sting to it. If someone called me a poor avant-guard artist, I'd say thank you. > "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. " > > So let 'em stop watching. How does this prevent you from continuing? > Why does exclusive distribution through bit torrent change the fact > that they said these things? Sounds like what you actually want is a > safer context in which to show your work. That's pretty much the > opposite of avant-garde. It's preaching to the converted. > > "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? " > > OK, you're saying the audience should pay the performer or he'll pack > it up and do something where.... there are "slim chances" that the > performer (ok, different medium) will be paid. I don't get it. Pay me > or I'll do something where you probably won't pay me? You seem to be > arguing with yourself here. > > Maybe it will be clearer in the video. > I think it will be clearer. Right now I'm pretty much arguing why I chose to use bittorrent instead of making it easily accessible. This isn't what the video is about. Bittorrent is technology I want to push. That's really all there is to it. I also wanted to give my audience the thrill of getting something that wasn't easy to get. Like back in the day when you had to send well concealed cash to a punk rock record distributer and then wait for the magic to arrive. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > Brook > > > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab >
