From a comment on youtube
One of the exciting things about youtube is that we don't have to follow traditional rules and can experiment with new organizational forms.
For example. Motion Picture Film was invented in 1888. For the first twenty years of motion picture production, nobody moved the camera. The camera sat on a tripod and actors moved in front of it like a theater play. It was not until 1909 and "The Great Train Robbery" that anyone even thought of parallel story lines, and camera pan and tracking. TWENTY YEARS before they started to understand the aesthetic of modern film. Similarly, youtube was invented in 2005 -- we have not yet seen the full impact of that event and we still have not seen the final accepted conceptual aesthetic form of the youtube video. Most everything that is produced on youtube looks like an example of the antiquated television programming aesthetic to me.
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William Schaeffer
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