I'm in total agreement with you, Brook. The idea behind Moneythong is not too neccesarily have gazillions of people downloading, but really I'm thinking of it as a video store on the corner of your block ( like Lost Weekend or Mondo Video) where you can hopefully find recommended torrents/videos you may have not heard about.
Like that store filled with VHS tapes that never made it to DVD. Once you try out a couple vids, you may come back for likeminded art. On 8/5/08, Brook Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only people I know who torrent are some people on this list and on > twitter who have said they do, a tiny fraction of my students, and > some friends who work in tech and who have towers at home that stay > on all the time. > > Also, many ppl I know who are biased toward things underground and > obscure not only aren't online enough to bother with a torrent but > have to really be pushed to investigate online video in the first > place, though once they see the good stuff they go back to it. > > When I was doing Trace Garden I had more people who wanted me to email > them every time there was a new video than I had subscribers - I > couldn't even get them to bother with the automatic RSS-email > approach. Even RSS was too techy-geeky for them, and these were people > who would have been happy to watch a new episode every day. > > My STUDENTS - mostly late teens and twenties and a few early thirties > - don't use RSS and very few use torrents - and when they do, it's to > get software. For them social media means facebook, except that they > stay on myspace for info on their favorite bands, online video means > youtube, and finding out about cool new things happens via text > messages. Those who are more in the know on this stuff are the ones in > their thirties. This may be an inaccurate sample - these are art > students (though they are primarily media arts majors, including a > sizable number of net art people). > > I think we get a distorted picture of how many potential viewers > inhabit the web the same way we do. > > Brook > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat
