2 Dec
2008
2 Dec
'08
9:25 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:07:46AM -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 00:29:36 Ken Restivo
wrote:
That's hilarious. And exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
I guess that explanation makes sense. Maybe YouTube's viewership is just so insanely
huge that even mundane things get huge viewerships.
But then again, I'm confused. Paper airplanes and blues guitar get huge viewershihps,
but stuff that people really work on getting right and spend money on, gets no viewership?
I have friends who've put big money and time into YouTube stuff and gotten nowhere
with it. So it just doesn't compute.
Sure, make a video of one of the Packet In songs and put it up there. I'd reckon that
you have some nice scenery around where you live that'd make a good video backdrop.
-ken
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:14:00AM -0500, frank
pirrone wrote:
It's just not that many people on the youtube scale of things. (I still think
it might be fun for Packet In to try for a youtube hit...)
Over 7,000 wanted to see my and my paper plane take on a UFO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnmzWrGoNrM
and over 23,000 wanted to see me make a paper plane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls1QealrmLk
Mind you, I understand your puzzleation as I too can't figure why the
popularities rank as they do for my stuff.
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Ken Restivo wrote:
Yeah, but that's my point.
Blues is as old as the hills, and quite possibly ten times as common. There
are great blues guitarists within hailing distance of practically everyone.
Why anyone-- let alone 16,000 people-- would have wanted to hear me play
blues, is a mystery to me. As an expeirment, over a year ago, I plugged my
fretless guitar into
my FastTrack Pro USB interface, loaded up Ardour on my laptop, set up
a cheap digital camera to film, and simultaneously filmed and
recorded myself playing some blues. It was an experiment to see how
easy it would be to sync the Ardour-recorded audio up with the video,
using Avidemux on Linux. Worked great and was quite simple to do. I
posted the results here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuE2LWLXMc
And, over the past year, that cheesy little off-hand experiment has
been by far the most successful thing I've done musically *in my
entire life*.
16,473 views so far-- more than any music I've ever made. I'm
baffled. I have no idea why such a simple, unremarkable, and almost
cliche'ed thing would have become so popular, but nonetheless it is,
in defiance of all rationality.
-ken
I dunno, Ken. Greater departure from conventional than the groovy
funkalicious stuff you've done on keyboard/bass?
Blue LEDs could have been Herbie Hancock playing, but for as
complimentary as that observation may be, folks have heard stuff like
that before.