TrueFansTM always find reasons to retain their devotion: I almost never comment on YouTube videos, but I did on this one, because the assertion that the Prequels merit critical rehabilitation, as a consequence of the audience having the Wrong Expectations, needs to be smashed with a hammer. When people are Fans of a thing, they… Read More The Prequel Effect Is Just Fandom Coping
Never meet your heroes. I’ve mentioned Red Letter Media before. They’re a YouTube channel that discusses film in a serious way, but with lots of jokes – spoonfuls of sugar to make the medicine go down. They’re different from most cinema nerds on YouTube in that they’ve actually undergone the process of making movies themselves… Read More William Shatner, Red Letter Media, and What Everyone Gets Wrong About Fandom
Currently, I’m trying to launch a brand. I dislike that phrase but there it is. I’ve set up the following things: A Patreon A Podcast A YouTube Channel A Twitter A Gumroad (soon) Additionally, I’m producing content for the next issue of UJ (out next month), and I’m trying to grease the creative wheels on… Read More Managing the Flow
When I say “critic” I don’t mean “someone who gives you feedback on a piece of art”, I mean “someone who applies a formal critical assessment to your work”. You know, the nerds. This video, worth watching in full (it’s less than 9 minutes), discusses well two things: That authors/artists don’t necessarily follow a logic… Read More When Critics Don’t Help, and When They Do
We’re three episodes in on this endavour now. Below is the most recent episode, recorded in March. We planned to do it monthly, but circumstances have gotten in our way. Recently via Skype we planned out our next set of episodes, so we should be able to turn them out at a regular clip once… Read More Shallow & Pedantic Podcast.
Here’s a YouTuber’s take: The argument is that beautiful and sublime are central to art. They could almost be called the yin and yang of aesthetics, but they’re not entirely opposite to each other. Delight and Awe are not mutually exclusive. One could make an argument, however, that Low Art seeks delight (beautiful), while High Art,… Read More The Beautiful and the Sublime
I find it interesting how “podcast” has evolved from “micro-radio show on your iPhone” to “people talking into a microphone on YouTube”. Now this is a satrical podcast, but what it’s satirizing is very real. There are in fact, entire YouTube channels that exist for 30-year-olds to talk like children about popcorn movies under the… Read More Merry Podcasting
… it’s not actually about Alexander the Great, but some nonsense tertially related to Alexander the Great. Normally I like Crash Course, because it doesn’t take itself too seriously and usually provides some kind of interesting take on historical events. But this one is trying so hard to be Woke that it ends up saying… Read More This Crash Course is the Last Christmas of Alexander the Great YouTube Videos…
This is fascinating and worth the watch.
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