Personaly I don't think you have to sacrifice one for the other....I have a couple of long term projects that I want to do and one I am getting ready to start, but I think I can always find some time to post a little snippett here and there....
I think far to often, we as artists feel like everything we do has to be worthy of the time we put into it...or I guess I should say our percieved notion of what is "worthy" or "good".... It's a struggle I had often....do I only do a few good pieces or a bunch of "crap"....at the end of the day, for me....I do something when the mood strikes me, whatever that may be....and I will continue to work on bigger projects as time allows... As I have said....they are all part of the story that I am telling.... But what works for me is potato's to someone else.... :-) Heath http://heathparks.com/blog1 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <rup...@...> wrote: > > It depends on how you define "spare time". Whether you look at in > terms of a few hours in the evenings and at weekends, or all those > hours aggregated over many months or years, dedicated to one project. > > I have no idea how Chris Marker got funding back then - although I > suspect that the French had good grants back in the 60s, 70s and > 80s. It he must have taken a long time to work on it. Years, I'd > have thought. Perhaps alongside an unrelated paying job. In the > five years leading up to Sans Soleil's release in 1983, he made two > short films, one in 1978 and one in 1981. > > One of the drawbacks of social media is the pressure to keep > presenting work regularly - that publishing regularly is maybe more > important than time spent writing/producing/whatever. And it > fragments your spare time - means you produce a lot of little pieces, > spending a couple of hours on each, and stops you dedicating all that > time to a single piece of work that might not be able to be published > for months or years. > > It inspires a curious lack of confidence, that your work might not be > good enough to be seen, read or heard amid all the noise and roaring > torrent of online media, so it's more important to shout louder and > more often. If you haven't published anything on your blog for six > months, everybody thinks you've given up or died. People actually > delete their whole blogs and back catalogue because they're > frustrated that they haven't published anything for a few months, and > they think they're out of the game. It's insane. > > As a result, a lot of the films made and published online don't feel > like they've had lots of time put into them. That doesn't > necessarily make them weaker - there's a lot of great stuff that > comes from people working quickly or observing things in the moment. > But I notice this tendency to ephemerality everywhere. Compared to > work published in other media or shown in exhibitions, there's less > work online that's obviously had a lot of time and thought and > dedication poured into it, that has the self-confidence to say "I > deserve all the time spent on me" - and when you see something that > has, it often stands out. > > I'm spending a year working on one project, now - because I'd rather > aggregate my limited spare time in pursuit of doing one project that > excites me than I would spend one evening a week hurriedly trying to > publish several personal videoblog posts that I don't care so much > about but which I'm doing because I feel I should. I don't know if > it'll end up being any good - that's the risk - but it's the way I > want to use my 'spare time' this year, and at the end of it I hope > I'll feel like it's been worth it. > > That said, until now I haven't had a larger project I wanted to work > on, and it's been great to be able to use my blog to keep practicing > and working regularly and experimenting with lots of different things > - and had I not done that, I wouldn't now be doing this other thing. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > On 16-Feb-09, at 7:52 AM, Brook Hinton wrote: > > The time necessary to create significant/valuable/meaningful long > form work, > and in many cases even short form work, is why, for better or worse, > money > is often necessarily part of the sustainability equation for media > artists > and documentarians even in this age of ultra low cost tools and diy > distribution via the web. > I don't think Chris Marker made "Sans Soleil" in his "spare time", and I > don't think he could now even with an HV30, Final Cut Pro, ultra high > speed > broadband, and a waiting audience on Vimeo. > > (Which makes it all the more inspiring to see people like Jay and Ryanne > embarking on such journeys anyway.) > > Brook > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv/ > Creative Mobile Filmmaking > Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
