idea channel formally stopped posting videos in 2017 (like - they announced they would stop posting videos and had a set rollout schedule for their final episodes) but the re-watch value is through the roof, and while it was coming out it was so cool / formative for a younger me to tune in every week and see how the stuff i liked could also be thought about critically. i think "intellectualizing pop culture" has become a hyper-polarized internet culture war battlefront but i think that this kind of applying formal processes to current events and new media is something the current internet landscape is definitely missing (especially as the youtube meta has changed over and over again and as such creators have had to create content for the algorithm)
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Recently re-subscribed, and it honestly rocks. anything on there is better than 99% of what i usually end up doom-watching on Netflix or Hulu
Feb 7, 2024
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Early thirties. Open YouTube. Check out the daily PBS news hour. And it feels so fucking good.
Sep 13, 2024
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Hear me out. Twitch is synonymous with gaming - mainly advertiser friendly content targeted at teens and children. But for me, its real value lies in the illegal streaming of movies and television. No cable, no problem. There’s Bobygamesdotcom who’s Calm Crazy About Movies series started my love affair with Jerry Lewis. An expert on pre-code Hollywood, and forgotten gems from the 50s, and 60s - a wealth of knowledge on everything from von Sternberg to slapstick. Who needs film school? If you like cult horror, sci-fi, and anime - look to Bakoon who streams almost every night. The real shit that got me through quarantine though? Non-stop Anthony Bourdain from my man Pedro from Brazil, who started this channel in March 2020. It’s fucking Tony, man. 24/7. What more is there to say? RIP Moviepassed aka Hollywood Entertainment.
Aug 17, 2021
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024