20 days of vidding meme: day 17; irony
Day 17 - A vid you wish you had made
This is a hard one to answer. There are so many vids that I love, but do I wish I'd made them? Mostly I'm just happy that they got made, and grateful that I wasn't the one who had to endure the painstaking creation process and yet still retain the benefit of seeing the finished product.
Pressed for an answer, I come up with The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by absolutedestiny, Oldboy.
It's not quite clear to me why I'm setting this one apart from the rest of absolutedestiny's intimidating body of work or the many other vids that I love and adore, but there's just something about it - something visceral, with such raw energy and violence and smirking tongue-in-cheekness - that makes me really, really, really wish I were the person who delivered all that. I still entertain the notion that one day I may pay homage to the vid, in a roundabout way, with my own vid to Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.
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Today in deeply ironic news,
A day after Oliver Stone issued his mea culpa over saying that Jews dominate the media, billionaire mogul Haim Saban and über-agent Ari Emanuel have teamed up to demand that CBS president Leslie Moonves pull Stone’s upcoming Secret History Of America series from its sister channel Showtime.
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Haban blasted Stone’s apology as "transparently fake," then added, "I respect his First Amendment rights. I hope he respects mine." Which would be fine if Saban were merely speaking out about Stone's "consistent anti-American and anti-Semitic remarks," instead of trying to pair up with one of the other most powerful Jewish voices in Hollywood in order to, you know, do the exact thing Stone was complaining about.
Full text and links here. It's certainly no excuse for Stone's comments in the first place, but, wow, irony.
This is a hard one to answer. There are so many vids that I love, but do I wish I'd made them? Mostly I'm just happy that they got made, and grateful that I wasn't the one who had to endure the painstaking creation process and yet still retain the benefit of seeing the finished product.
Pressed for an answer, I come up with The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by absolutedestiny, Oldboy.
It's not quite clear to me why I'm setting this one apart from the rest of absolutedestiny's intimidating body of work or the many other vids that I love and adore, but there's just something about it - something visceral, with such raw energy and violence and smirking tongue-in-cheekness - that makes me really, really, really wish I were the person who delivered all that. I still entertain the notion that one day I may pay homage to the vid, in a roundabout way, with my own vid to Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.
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Today in deeply ironic news,
A day after Oliver Stone issued his mea culpa over saying that Jews dominate the media, billionaire mogul Haim Saban and über-agent Ari Emanuel have teamed up to demand that CBS president Leslie Moonves pull Stone’s upcoming Secret History Of America series from its sister channel Showtime.
...
Haban blasted Stone’s apology as "transparently fake," then added, "I respect his First Amendment rights. I hope he respects mine." Which would be fine if Saban were merely speaking out about Stone's "consistent anti-American and anti-Semitic remarks," instead of trying to pair up with one of the other most powerful Jewish voices in Hollywood in order to, you know, do the exact thing Stone was complaining about.
Full text and links here. It's certainly no excuse for Stone's comments in the first place, but, wow, irony.