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The internet is filled with garbage. And sometimes you think, They can’t fit any more garbage in there, right? And then twice as much garbage is there the next day! And you can’t even believe it. But then sometimes the internet provides completely beautiful things, like this animated short by Léo Verrier, and you think, How did they get this one past the garbage police? But you are grateful that they did. Because it is beautiful and charming and wonderful and looks and sounds so perfect. And it makes you feel like a real art guy. Like just for a moment you’re a guy who really cares about art, not just a guy who cares about the idea of art but not so much actually art? Let’s all watch the short right now!
That was great, right? Yay, internet! (Via JamKanrad.)
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Counterpoint:
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Why are they shooting? Excessive use of force!!!
“Oooooo. Are those the Rocky Steps?” – Tourists in Philadelphia referring to the Art Museum
This reminds me of the time I pretended to enjoy The Triplets From Belleville to impress a hot girl.
Needs more Lohan.
This was cool, I can’t wait until Disney steals the premise and adds a talking animal.
call me when it’s in ‘merican.
Also, at 5:18…. is that Gabe?
No, this is Gabe.
Don’t cry for me. I’m already dead.
same scene, different screenshot
Plagerist Artist! (JK, I’m honored)
Art.
Downvotes? You guys just wait til I die, this comment will be hung in the building by the Rocky steps.
These Gorillaz videos are just going over my head now.
I ate a painting of dogs playing poker and immediately woofed it up.
I love this, I would give you an upvote but the main reason I love it is the downvote.
Oh shoot it’s gone. I hope you get another downvote! No offense!
I’m on the case don’t worry Kelly.
I love this short, but I think he gets enough fiber without those bran flakes.
These comments are really fascinating. One of the things I find slightly disappointing about this blog is how it usually sits and comments comfortably from the standpoint of aloof irony. Rarely (not never, but rarely) does someone attempt to engage directly and sincerely with real emotions, feelings, ideals, etc. Usually it sarcastically employs a dogmatic tone, leaving the assumption that the principles being joked about are really truly important but rarely confronting them head-on (because let’s face it, that’s really uncomfortable. I certainly won’t deny that, and I don’t want to imply that I am exempt from this criticism because I avoid sincerity too.)
Kelly’s commentary above, however, comes fairly close to sincerity, and I expected the video to prompt similar reactions from the comment section. Instead, every comment so far is steeped in that trademark monster “fishing for upvotes through sarcastically sincere sarcasm.” I don’t think every comment is posted with the intention of garnering approval (and I doubt that very many have ONLY that intent) but I think that it’s really hard to avoid taking that into consideration when commenting.
This community of monsters loves to love itself, and really it should somewhat—there are precious few communities on the internet that even try to be nice—but I guess what I want to say is that we should all try to remember more that life is pretty static, and pretty unsatisfying, when we relegate ourselves to mere comfort. Growth occurs best when we are willing to engage directly (even at risk of losing your current conception of yourself) with this flawed, infinitely beautiful world.
I am legitimately uncertain whether this comment will be appreciated or not, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while and I thought that I should at least present it for consideration.
More on topic, I thought that this video was great. It illustrates really well how an artist grows: from inspiration to plagiarism to existential despair to originality. This guy should keep making movies.
I appreciate your comment and I also liked the movie. I wasn’t fishing for upvotes in my lame #dadjoke of a comment, but I also think that these threads–even before the voting system–was never a place for serious critical analysis. (Keep in mind this is coming from someone who comments once every couple months these days.) When it happens here, it happens organically. And commenting about the nature of the comments, even after just a dozen of them (before the thread is even warmed up), is actually counterproductive.
What I’m saying is, maybe you should have just posted your second comment and seen where it went before criticizing.
Good point. I think that what I posted is probably warranted less in this thread than in many others—it just sprang to mind and I felt compelled to say it.
Simpatico.
You find it disappointing that the commenters on this humor blog don’t normally attempt to engage directly and sincerely with real emotions, feelings, and ideals when they comment?
Are you literally disappointed?
To clarify: I don’t understand why anyone would come here for that. I don’t go to my friend’s house to watch football and expect a conversation about French philosophy, and I don’t come to Videogum with my hopes up that we’re going to have Very Serious Discussions.
Fair enough—this is a humor blog, and I shouldn’t expect much else. (And like I mentioned in response to Trevor, this post probably was not the best place to express these thoughts.)
However, I get the sense that sometimes it wants to be something more, and some people might imagine that it is something more. I think I mostly get this sense because for quite a while I was impressed that most commenters seemed quite genuine, and concluded that this place was unaffected by the immaturity and insincerity that is so rampant online. I was a little bit disillusioned when I realized that videogum is also pervaded by insincerity (only here it thinks that it justifies itself sometimes by pretending that it hides sincerity somewhere within.) I guess I am somewhat disappointed, because videogum is not what I thought it was, and I concluded that neither is it what it thinks it is.
If I am the only one who made this mistake, then my thoughts are unnecessary. It very well may be that this is the case; I admit that I am not as mature as I sometimes think I am (and even this admission carries the same threat against which I am pontificating—that I might be trying to prove my maturity by announcing my immaturity—but I think I’d rather accept that threat or even experience that error than be crippled by self-doubt, because the fact that we cannot act entirely without selfishness does not mean that actions are all unworthy) and consequently I might be taking issue with a doubt that you’ve already come to terms with.
I disagree that this place is insincere. It is very SILLY, which is different. But it’s real. We make jokes, but it’s not unusual for comments to be about “real” things, or to express genuine enjoyment of something.
Your comment is fair, but it seems that all the problems you have with the Videogum community are the reasons I enjoy coming here. The levity is this site’s best asset. Youtube commenters engage topics directly and clearly have not shown any “growth” as a collective being so I don’t think it’s too much to ask to leave the commenting system as it is.
Nevermind, R2D2 said it better.
Heene? Is that you again? (sorry, couldn’t resist)
Well, to get SERIOUSGUM, I really, really liked this. The part where he eats his own painting and then (SPOILER) throws it up is kind of heart braking? It is actually so difficult to be inspired and creative, and it so often ends in failure. Obviously, that was but one small moment from this short, but it still (momentarily) made me profoundly sad.
Awesome.
“Artist consumes past exemplars, but is left malnourished with attempted facsimiles, so out of frustration, is forced to invent” is a good explanation of the creative process.