Dear Rupert I am still looking for this one... can you send me the link? best Michael Rosenblum (the human potato...apparently)
On Aug 5, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Rupert wrote: > All right, you bastards, here it is. > > Videoblogging is my hobby. I'll never make any money out of it. > > When I lived in London, people used to hire me to make videos for > their companies because I was one of the only people there who had a > videoblog. But that's not the same thing. > > And now I live somewhere much cheaper, I don't have to do that > anymore, and it's a relief. I can concentrate on my own stuff. > Without worrying about how it's going to pay. > > The reason John's so pissed off is because he thought making videos > was going to change something in his life, make him money, change the > media landscape. And then he sat through that Keynote at > Pixelodeon. So did I. Halfway through, the person sitting next to > me turned their laptop screen black and wrote in large red letters I > WANT TO DIE. > > The point is, if you want money, you have to ask yourself who's going > to pay you. Follow The Money. Consumers haven't paid directly for > media for a long time. > > No one pays for media. People don't pay for the movie when they see > it at a theatre. They could wait and watch it on the telly or > BitTorrent it. They pay for the EXPERIENCE of going out - huddling > together in the dark to feast on sugary crap and distract themselves > momentarily from the ever-present inevitability of their encroaching > loneliness, senility and death. > > Just like you pay for Chinese food when you don't want to cook and > the inside of your apartment is starting to feel like the Overlook. > > So - the only people who are going to pay you are advertisers. If > your 'content' doesn't fit with what they want, then fuck you, you > won't get paid. > > Fuck you? Fuck me. Fuck them. My 'content' is *never* going to fit > with them. So I never ever expect to get paid. Unless I change what > I do. Which I'm not going to. > > Almost all of the 60 or so videoblogs I subscribe to are produced for > nothing. It doesn't cost anything to produce them. I'm producing > my stuff for nothing, too. Except my time. Why on earth should > anybody else pay me for my hobby time? You want a hobby that makes > money? You picked the wrong one. There's too many cutthroat > professionals making media that's tailor made to make money. Go > learn how to carve arty dollshouse furniture. > > Too expensive to live in the city and make art/indulge your hobby? > You have to spend all your time working? Move somewhere less > expensive. Can't? Well - that's either your unavoidable > circumstance that has nothing to do with web video, or it's your > *choice* of priorities. Who said that advertisers should spend their > money on something they have no interest in so that you can have it > all? That MBP you just bought or want - that HD cam - are they > really the basic tools for your art? > > Pissed off that 30 million people have watched French Maid TV and > only 250,000 have watched yours? Who's wrong - the 29,750,000 people > who chose not to watch you, or you? Want to be loved by those > 29,750,000 people? Make French Maid TV. > > If I put a massive amount of effort and discipline and thought and > resources into making a long film, then I'd think about whether I > want to get something in return. And if I did, I would make some > efforts to Follow The Money, to think about HOW to get something in > return. > > But probably I'd just do it in my spare time, without expecting > anything in return. So that I didn't have to Follow The Money. > Because we can do that now. > > THAT'S the fucking revolution, people. That we don't HAVE to be > paid. The making of the thing doesn't COST anything. > > When I started making 16mm films, they were seen by hardly any people > at festivals and cost thousands of dollars to make in rental and > processing costs. Now I make better stuff on my free-with-my- > contract phone for hardly anything except time, and it's seen by > thousands. > > Everything else is bullshit. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > On 5-Aug-08, at 3:53 AM, Rupert wrote: > > either: > - hardly anyone who still reads this list has watched it > - this list has lost its edge as well as its volume > - you've said all that needs to be said > - all of the above > > brilliant, funny, excoriating, ballsy > are you the only one out there with a polemical revolutionary streak? > > On 1-Aug-08, at 4:43 PM, ractalfece wrote: > > This new video is a scorcher. I call out some of the corporate > content creators. Epic-Fu, Ask A Ninja, French Maid. I think I > called Michael Rosenblum a human potato. > > Anybody else notice how about every six months, shit hits the fan on > this list? > > It's that time again. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
