the danger in having used the word "shallow" in the first place is that it implies judgement. I apologize for letting it come off like that. i have a specific interest in work i look for on other sites and that work is usually completly unlike my own for some reason.
if "good" and "worthy" are based on measurements that you've mentioned then my site for one, would not be considered either. the site attracts a smaller number, more specific viewer. i don't add to it regularly, and for myself, it feels half baked at times. i'm not that passionate about it, and don't think "passion" is a valid motivation anyways. i'm really not sure what i want my site be about or why. but i still don't think that the meaning is there unless you put it there yourself either as viewer or maker. i'm saying that much of what i see is meaningless to ME. it often has much more import to the person who did it in the first place. i'm not saying that is wrong. if anything it may get you more viewers if you have the characteristics that attract others to view your work. self confident or even cocky or whatever. you could have some of the "worst" work online and still be so confident that others will be attracted to your vlog. if you don't give value or meaning to your OWN work then you are forced to live with that fact that all we really do is eat, sleep, reproduce, and then die. that's quite painful by itself. without meaning. you don't need me to validate your work at all.
It was beautifully said.
However, I think most of us recognized this inherent "creative"/ "life experience" value in vlogging even before Andrew had so eloquently illustrated it.
The problem is that there now exists a quantifiable measure for what determines a "good" or "worthy" vlog, e.g., notoriety in print media and within our own vlogosphere, # of unique visitors, ad sales, etc.,. In turn, it is because certain vlogs have achieved a quantifiable measure of worth, that a standard has been created, where if our own creations don't measure up to it, one is left questioning the worth or "shallow" nature of the genre.
I don't think that shallowness is intrinsic to "video blogging" but rather that it stems from our approach vs. our expectations. If you expect your vlog to be a business or a widely viewed entertainment medium, then you can't approach it from a myopic home movie perspective. Like a business, you have to focus on what your "customers" (viewers) would want to watch- not what you like; you have to be consistent with your updates-not post video whenever the mood strikes you; and you have to market your product-not stare at your computer screen waiting for a viral phenomenon to just happen. If your approach doesn't equate with your expectations, then it's not so much that your vlog is "shallow" but rather, that your approach is half-wittedly taken.
-obreahny
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>Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 13:09:46 -0400In The Myth of Sisyphus, Sisyphus, unfortunately, was in the wrong place at the wrong time and overheard secrets of the Gods fighting. So Sisyphus was punished to spend the rest of his life pushing a bolder up a mountain. When the bolder fell, or rolled over the other side of the mountain, Sisyphus must go back and start again, forever.Without a purpose for his life and without meaning for his activity, Sisyphus eventually noticed that there was a time when the bolder was on its own and he was descending the mountain effortlessly, noticing the beautiful flowers (so to speak), the birds' songs and the comfortable cool breeze and that this was his time. The determined duty was aside and the time, however absurd, was all that much worthwhile and especially, free.
On Jun 2, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Shannon Noble wrote:
You know,
sometimes I look at my own expressions and the content of my work, as well as many others here, and think how shallow and meaningless much of what we do is. We put our own meaning on it as it really has none of it's own. It is all enculturated. We make it up for or own selves to get what we want from others. I feel that way when I look at something like this:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/36871/and ponder.
-shannon
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