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MICROCAST: An Essay

Jan 17, 2004 20:25

(Simulcast from BRAINPOWERED, my weekly column on artbomb.net)American Big Media has recently announced the last dark little gem in its triple crown of doom for 2003. First, the music industry registered a major downturn. Then the movie business released reduced figures despite increased ticket prices and some of the widest release patterns in ( Read more... )

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wyldkyss January 17 2004, 20:30:32 UTC

Hmm. I think I'm going to take a break from your usual bone and chew on this for a while...

mistersleepless January 17 2004, 21:18:54 UTC

You are a bad woman.

wyldkyss January 18 2004, 17:56:27 UTC

But you know you love it.

sideshowjoe January 17 2004, 20:50:45 UTC

We have to be self-selecting. It's the only way we'll be us. Or to at least cultivate the person we think we would like to be.

As for creating our own media, I agree. The tools are ours now and we use them. I belong to a group of young comic book creators called Working Title Comics. It all started out as a group of people on the Millar World message boards saying that they wanted to make comic books their way. So they did. I stumbled on to the group shortly after they had opened shop, so to speak, and I'm going to have my first comic published by the end of this month. (If my artist gets moving.) They saw what they wanted to do and did it. It borders on Nike motivation. Dig?

And if you use Kazaa, you should use Kazaa Lite. Much better version. No spyware, adware or anything else in their except the downloading program. And it's got unlimited searches so you know you'll be able to find exactly what you're looking for out there in the ether of computers. It's a pirated version of Kazaa for people who didn't want all that extra crap. ( ... )

panzerkunst January 18 2004, 06:14:46 UTC

I'm sorry, I'm distracted, is your LJ pic a picture of a tit or a doorbell?

sideshowjoe January 18 2004, 07:56:21 UTC

Bit of a tit. Nip to be exact. Doubles as a great attention getter.

panzerkunst January 19 2004, 01:37:15 UTC

Well, mission accomplished, then.

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grosely_clerx January 17 2004, 20:51:24 UTC

Also, the music industry's insistence that a consumer downloading 100 CDs worth of songs equates 100 CDs worth of lost revenue is specious, dumb and nobody really buys it. The media just regurgitate it because they and the RIAA (and its bedfellows) are themselves kissin' cousins. Anyone with half a lobe left can tell that media "theft" is a fancy way of trying to make copyright infringement an ethical issue.

Copy Right thesheryl January 17 2004, 22:19:33 UTC

Dude! Like we weren't all copying each others' vinyl onto cassettes when we were in high school...

Re: Copy Right deeteeuk January 17 2004, 23:19:37 UTC

Nice quote taken from www.theregister.co.uk

My great grandfather was born in 1870. He learned to build crystal radio sets to listen to the earliest radio broadcasts in the 1920's. He would invite the whole town of about 500 over to listen to them.

My grandfather was born in 1899. He purchased one of the earliest tape recorders to make copies of radio broadcasts for his friends in the late 1950s.

My dad was born in 1924. He had a collection of 78's that he passed around for many years until he died last year.

And now I am using the Internet to assemble an MP3 collection of all the tunes on all those LPs, cassette tapes and CD's that I've been buying since 1959.

I'll be damned in hell before I accept the notion that I and my ancestors who love to listen to the audio arts are in any sense guilty of anything that is illegal, wrong, evil, immoral or improper.

Quite frankly, people sharing their culture with each other should not be a crime.

Re: Copy Right thesheryl January 19 2004, 00:49:55 UTC

Damn straight! I was reading about a case in US of A where a twelve year old kid with a single parent on welfare was fined 3000 dollars for downloading 'copyrighted' music. If I had an adress I would have sent them the money because the whole deal is so seriously fucked on a basic sociological level. What the hell is wrong with some people?
As for your user pic; you look a lot like my ex, Spencer. Stop it.

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darkcryst January 17 2004, 20:52:24 UTC

"If you want better media, go make it."

I plan to Warren, I plan to ;)

mistersleepless January 17 2004, 21:40:51 UTC

If I had a quid for every time I've heard that over the last twenty years, I'd be living on my own satellite by now.

darkcryst January 17 2004, 21:47:18 UTC

hah! Yes, fair point there. Sadly too true that often people think about things.. but never do them.

The internet however is a great tool for promoting this media, be it web comics, new fiction, artists, animation...

I plan to take advantage of it, and if I do not at least TRY to I shall humbly submit myself to you for a prompt asswhooping ;)

Or give you a pound, I dunno, which would you prefer?

azurelunatic January 18 2004, 00:45:58 UTC

I'm hoping that my fanfic writing will cultivate a taste in my readers for whatever I write.

Sneaky fanfic writers, taking niche markets and using them as free advertising!

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Big media thesheryl January 17 2004, 22:14:50 UTC

If technology can bring us all together, it stands to reason that we will divide ourselves up into little sub-niches. If there are 998877 people using LJ, I doubt anyone would want to read and interact with everyone's posts.
When I grew up, we had 20 channels on teevee. Now my roomates and I can get 500 channels with satellite. I didn't like teevee when I was growing up and having 500 channels doesen't make me like it any more. It is truly amazing the amount of Crap I can bring into my home with just a touch of a button. And, as Mr. Ellis has already pointed out, almost all of it is Crap.
I'm going outside for a walk, even if it is minus holy fuck out there. Maybe I'll see some geese...