--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "chris_koehn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...an endless debate on what it really was?
Sure, but right now I'm feeling like I have to argue on behalf of cinema in general. Crazy stuff... > I even once left > this list because I was causing trouble by criticizing folks who spammed up the place with > pseudo-philosophical ramblings about the nature of videoblogging rather than simply > making content. It was kinda funny how some people who never really made anything had > the energy and insight to define it... I agree with a lot of what you have to say about people videoblogging for self-serving purporses (but, then, a lot of people do a lot of things for self-serving purposes; it's the nature of people), but I think this here is a little wrongheaded. Non-practicing critics, academics, and so on, are to some extent--a great extent, I would argue--required. You might not think so, but videoblogs are ripe for academic study (I'm going to be writing a thesis on them soon, and am currently preparing a paper on 'Chasing Windmills'; I'm also a practicing videoblogger, however, so perhaps that doesn't count). Sometimes the people in the midst of a movement lack the skills or, in your case, desire to theorise it in the context of art history, socio-political history, psychoanalysis, feminism, all these various fields of thought. You might think it wank, but so be it. Remember, Chris, the videoblogger isn't an island. While we might develop and further the form from within, we ourselves are influenced from without. Academic discourse, criticism, and so on, can help us to see where we've come from and where we might go. Pseudo-philosophical ramblings are worth something. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
