linkage: meta, and a vid rec
An anthropological introduction to YouTube, presented by Professor Michael Wesch at the Library of Congress.
I thought I'd put this video on as background entertainment while sketching, and it totally failed on that front as I watched the thing from start to finish. I'm not really involved in the whole YouTube culture, but I found this pretty fascinating.
Maybe of particular interest is the part at 43:37: Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture. He quotes from Lim's vid Us... which is still the most poetic and moving statement on... I guess they call it remix culture now, that I've seen. (I've watched 'Us' what must've been a hundred times by now, and I'm still getting goosebumps seeing that one Batman clip, every time. That vid visualizes my thoughts and feelings so perfectly, it's crazy. )
Audio interview with Rebecca Tushnet on fanfic, copyright, and fair use, with mentions of the Organization of Transformative Works. (ca 9 min)
This was posted before I went on vacation... I'm really behind on posting, but I figure maybe not everyone has seen the link (in spite of the inevitable bruhaha that sets in whenever OTW gets some press).
Remixing Television - Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground
Excellent interview, wherein Coppa talks about the customary marginalization of women's contribution to art, all the while providing a good crash-course in vidding history. snippet:
I started doing this work because I knew enough to try to present the vidding community fairly. If you’re going to start documenting subcultures that have been doing interesting things in the world of film and video, vidders deserve a place at the table. The stereotypically female desire to keep our heads down should not keep us out of the history books.
That’s what happened with the novel. There were women who wrote novels in the 18th century, and then the novel “went professional” and the men came. Now people will tell you that the first novel was by Henry Fielding or Samuel Richardson. This whole women’s culture that came before that got written out and later had to be recuperated by feminists. And I feel that I would rather not die out and have to be recuperated by feminists. Maybe some of us could actually articulate ourselves right now and never be lost in the first place.
And, it's through this interview that I discovered this vid: (hey, is that a good segue or what? ;o)
Too Good To Be True by blithesea
Rodney/Ronon pining
very funny vid, the editing is brilliant. Some of the edits I only realized on second viewing (during the first viewing my brain was scratching its metaphorical head, going waitaminute...). Watch it, you'll see what I mean.
I thought I'd put this video on as background entertainment while sketching, and it totally failed on that front as I watched the thing from start to finish. I'm not really involved in the whole YouTube culture, but I found this pretty fascinating.
Maybe of particular interest is the part at 43:37: Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture. He quotes from Lim's vid Us... which is still the most poetic and moving statement on... I guess they call it remix culture now, that I've seen. (I've watched 'Us' what must've been a hundred times by now, and I'm still getting goosebumps seeing that one Batman clip, every time. That vid visualizes my thoughts and feelings so perfectly, it's crazy. )
Audio interview with Rebecca Tushnet on fanfic, copyright, and fair use, with mentions of the Organization of Transformative Works. (ca 9 min)
This was posted before I went on vacation... I'm really behind on posting, but I figure maybe not everyone has seen the link (in spite of the inevitable bruhaha that sets in whenever OTW gets some press).
Remixing Television - Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground
Excellent interview, wherein Coppa talks about the customary marginalization of women's contribution to art, all the while providing a good crash-course in vidding history. snippet:
I started doing this work because I knew enough to try to present the vidding community fairly. If you’re going to start documenting subcultures that have been doing interesting things in the world of film and video, vidders deserve a place at the table. The stereotypically female desire to keep our heads down should not keep us out of the history books.
That’s what happened with the novel. There were women who wrote novels in the 18th century, and then the novel “went professional” and the men came. Now people will tell you that the first novel was by Henry Fielding or Samuel Richardson. This whole women’s culture that came before that got written out and later had to be recuperated by feminists. And I feel that I would rather not die out and have to be recuperated by feminists. Maybe some of us could actually articulate ourselves right now and never be lost in the first place.
And, it's through this interview that I discovered this vid: (hey, is that a good segue or what? ;o)
Too Good To Be True by blithesea
Rodney/Ronon pining
very funny vid, the editing is brilliant. Some of the edits I only realized on second viewing (during the first viewing my brain was scratching its metaphorical head, going waitaminute...). Watch it, you'll see what I mean.