{"id":2151,"date":"2010-04-06T19:27:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T02:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2010-04-06T19:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T02:27:43","slug":"youtube-as-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/04\/06\/youtube-as-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube as feedback."},"content":{"rendered":"

There is not an original thought in what follows. <\/p>\n

I often joke that YouTube is the real Pirate Bay, that only its size and Google’s stature keep it open for business. But it could be that what keeps it open — thriving — is its lawlessness. It’s the release valve for a system that has become stressed to the breaking point; namely, copyright. <\/p>\n

We just finished watching the celebrated 70 minute critique<\/a> of George Lucas’ The Phantom Menace. Apart from a few stupid, despicable moments, it’s brilliant and generous — and it would not have been as stinging or poignant a rebuke without YouTube. <\/p>\n

\u00bfWhat is the most effective response to a work intended for a mass audience if not one that is also intended for a mass audience? The sentence “George Lucas betrayed his younger self when he made a movie that undermines every achievement of his earlier films.” is provocative but it’s not as persuasive as a movie<\/em> that expresses the same sentiment; a movie made almost entirely with scenes from Lucas’ early and later movies. <\/p>\n

Not unlike the coevolution of modern democracy and the printing press, modern culture requires the mass adoption of filmmaking tools and techniques. (If the thesis is a movie, the anti-thesis must also be a movie.) <\/p>\n

What made YouTube possible wasn’t just camcorders, broadband, computers with video capture cards or the adoption of a video codec. It wasn’t even the democratic culture of the web. It was nearly a century of moviemaking and several generations of moviegoers. <\/p>\n

At its best, YouTube is not a rejection of commercial entertainment, it’s a response. It’s feedback. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is not an original thought in what follows. I often joke that YouTube is the real Pirate Bay, that only its size and Google’s stature keep it open for business. But it could be that what keeps it open — thriving — is its lawlessness. It’s the release valve for a system that has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}