I havent seen the video yet, waiting for the link to arrive. But I step up onto my pedestal and rant like a bastard, cuz a ranting bastard is what I am.
RE: art for payment Good for John for trying to make a living from his art. Anyone decrying him for doing this would surely not decline payment for their works of art. And I'm not talking about corporate whoring paid to produce either. I'm talking about ART. Like the paintings you see in the gallery. Painted by painters. Or the novels in Barnes and fucking Nobel. Written by artists. Who are getting paid for their work. No one pays for media? Balls. Like Quirk, I pay for media, micro media, mass media, teeny tiny piss in the ocean media. If it has some value to me and I can afford it (yet to spend $2000 on that great gallery painting) I'll chip in and support a fellow artist. I pay for TWiT. I pay for Adelphia. I pay JunkieXL for his music, directly. I paid for The Big Issue. I'll spare a few pennies for John if I feel his work is worth supporting. RE: torrential distribution Who cares how this dude distributes his work. If you dont get it, dont get it. True if there are not enough seeds we wont see the true benefit of torrenting. But as a means of keeping off the beaten track, unsearchable, untrackable, it sounds cool. Another analogy; the M25 raves of the late 80's. You had to be in the know to know who where and when the party was going down. Take control. Talk about 'get your audience'. RE: tracker portal project As usual i am impressed with the ability of members of this group to just get things done. Visionaries and genius. I look forward to see what you create. RE: audience schmordience This thread has been a boot in the arse for me. Tried for the past 2 years to build an audience for my retarded 'daddy vlog' and random rantings, with zero fucking success I might add. Because you know, it was the thing to do. Keep up with the 'movement', get comments, be popular. Web2.0. New media, social media. Fuck it all. I personally cant wait for the next bubble to burst and all the social media poseurs move on to the next 'big' thing. Who knows, all the true artists will survive doing what they always did, what they do. All trading torrents, sharing their are free of comments and trackbacks. Like net beat poets. Me, however, I've been a corporate fucktard for too long i think I've forgotten how to be an artist. But this thread might be anathema to my artistic atrophy. I should quit trying to appeal to some idiotic notion of audience, to social fucking media, to you lot. Start doing shit for me again. And I wont ask for a penny. Until I'm popular. I know this thread, this forum is a public discussion and everyone is airing opinions and voicing feelings. But really, who gives a shit. Torrent? Who cares? Money? Who cares? There are bigger arguments to fight over than these.
