if you want to make videos out of a love for the form, to express yourself and romanticize your life, it doesn’t really matter who sees them maybe… feel like ive been interested in making youtube videos for a while but dont want to be a “YouTuber”™️ necessarily, and this has always felt like a great option for that. send your videos to people you love, make them and watch them back for yourself, and if you want to someday, publish them on your channel to the general public :)
feel like picking up a camera and recording yourself is already challenging, letting an internet company that creates a convenient place for advertisers to run ads and give you a number score for how “good” your video was based on how many ads it ran will not make that less challenging. creating a vlog for your friends eyes only until you make a video you feel like you want to share with the world feels much more inviting / requires much less of a thick skin than the alternative
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If youre nervous or embarrassed about starting a YouTube channel, don’t be! for the past 4 or 5 months I’ve been working to curate and edit videos for a vlog channel of me and my bestfriend and it’s been so much fun! Editing is almost therapeutic and it feels so rewarding when everything comes together in the end. Do I know if this channel will become anything? no. But am I going to work hard to stay consistently uploading anyways because it is something I ENJOY, yes!
Feb 2, 2025
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use your youtube channel as a way to store memories you find beautiful and meaningful. whether recognition is guaranteed or not is fine. but what will be is your outlet for creative expression and growth. use youtube to document every moment you find sacred.
Feb 9, 2025
Here is a piece that I am livestreaming indefinitely on youtube. It’s footage from basically everywhere I’ve been in the past 3 years or so. All over America. YouTube is really a blessing; even if it was _just_ a storage platform for video it would be above and beyond anything else. I really recommend finding ways to make stuff for youtube.
Feb 10, 2024
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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