Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Music videos
I took off from "work" today in order to wait for me camera's arrival. It was a pragmatic decision once I calculated the fact that otherwise I would have to go all the way to Roanoke to get it and I have paid vacation to use.
So I love when the infomercials for music from the 70's or whatever come on the TV and they play the clips of your favorite artists performing in their prime and they go from one to another in short bursts. The edits really lend to a shallowness that allows me to overflow with nostalgia. So much better than having to sit through the entire song. So I'll watch the informercial cycle like twice, and then I thought, "man alive, shouldn't there be something similar to what MTV used to be on the internet? the one machine?"
So I started looking for a stream of videos. And found it quickly. Videos I'm enjoying actually, as I have a browser window open with them as I type this.
MTV.com has a stream http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/358688/black-lips-say-farewell-to-the-subterranean-viewers.jhtml#id=1607334
it's so nice to just enjoy videos passively.
There's one by chairlift (who I've never heard of before, which is one of the great purposes of music videos) and the effect is so brilliant. I was just so inspired when I saw someone using what is usually viewed as an imperfection of a new technology as something to recreate in explosion. I even found a site of people agreeing with me:
The internet is like the best art movement ever.
solipsism desist
I'm gonna go ahead and say fuck it, I've never been much of a purist. It leads to judgementality which is my largest vice.
This is great because anyone blessed enough to read my quandries of discussion as to the purposes of my intent, can now not only enjoy it in scanned ink quantity, but in type too. I will now cease to be too soliptic to only include my own art on me blog. It's organic, it mates.
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