that's life - you edit it, and you die - Hugh MacleodLast night, while I was at this concert with Casiokids, I was thinking about life. How we all live it. And some of us edit it. Edit the stories of our lives, and present it to the world. Now, I just noticed this, linked to from here. Shannon Noble is one of my early inspirations in terms of vlogging. I had not always followed his work, just like there are so many others whose work I have not followed faithfully, and like many people don't follow my work. Shannon had a pleasantly different take on vlogging, and that was exciting to me. He stood out in the crowd. Now, this message: vlog::banal being the only one on his site is interesting. Some people on the yahoogroups are concerned about Shannon stopping vlogging, and part of me also sees this as a shame (I still don't have all his videos downloaded) But the question remains: Is vlogging banal? If so, why? Let's first look at the word banal. Hmm, lacking originality, freshness, or novelty . Yes, I can see what Shannon means. Me talking to the camera about whatever is really lacking originality, freshness, and novelty. Mea culpa. But still, does that make it not noteworthy? Does that make it less ... Well, I guess it does GIVE people less. There are not grand new ideas, no fascinating manifestos. Sometimes I do make attempts of being different, feeble attempts of being original, but most of the time I am very lax, and I hardly edit my work. Is that less interesting? Is it trite? Conclusion: Yes. Then the question remains: How to make it less banal? What best practice do we have? How can I make something not banal even though I am not a good filmmaker? And no, I doubt I will have time to spend hundreds of hours on one short movie. Or maybe I should do that instead of all these snippets? Hmm, loads of issues.
