[NewMusic] well,

[Stephen B. Hahn]

> But then youtube might just end up merely being the repository of the 
> world's
> funniest and stupidest home videos.

I thought that was the whole point of youtube.  You mean a public forum for 
just anybody's vids is intended to be high art?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah - 21 Grand" <21grand at 21grand.org>
To: "Banewmus List" <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 4:10 PM
Subject: [NewMusic] well,


> Mr. Segel wrote:
>
> but i have to say i think youtube is a bad idea. it's gonna make us 
> willing
> to
> accept the degradation of quality of visual informantion in the same way
> portable audio has. when was the last time you heard quality reproduction 
> or
> dynamic range? crap.
>
> - I'm on the fence here - there are things on youtube that I value being
> able to see - albeit in crappy low-res reproductions - rather than not see
> at all. Some of them I wish were less degraded, sure but others, for me it
> doesn't matter - the kiddie Sepultura band, the Michael Jackson's Thriller
> w/legos, the countless Snakes on a Plane parodies, videos of bands when 
> they
> were younger and the musicians in states of greater attractiveness - well,
> okay maybe in the case of the latter I'd like more detail.
>
> Certainly, some content translates better to the medium than others. But
> then youtube might just end up merely being the repository of the world's
> funniest and stupidest home videos.
>
> sl
>
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