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Comment on Response: Lesage is in her 70s!?! by Brendan Mahoney

Brendan Mahoney — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:52:10 +0000

I couldn’t comment on the Quidditch post, so I’ll comment here. The amount of press that the Quidditch World Cup has gotten is pretty incredible, but then again, it has all of the elements of a good story. It also comes as no surprise that there was negative coverage of the event, especially on blogs, where snark prevails. I am a frequent reader and onetime contributor to Filmdrunk, and I was very dismayed by their coverage. I thought they missed the point of the event. Middlebury students came off as either arrogant, entitled jocks or hopeless nerds, which is so far from the truth. It was a little strange seeing two areas of my life converge in this one blog post, but it does speak to how we compartmentalize our lives. My film fandom and my school spirit are rarely joined, and seeing them at odds with each other made me question both.

Comment on Response: Lesage is in her 70s!?! by Jamal Davis

Jamal Davis — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:06:52 +0000

Haha, I’m kind of with you guys on this one. 70?! Yeah, wow, however I wasn’t picturing some “BABE” as my friends are claiming to dream about when they hear, Lesage. I do think that our generation does have it easier in a lot of different ways, seriously we don’t have to do half the things that it took for our parents to find out what the color’s of South Africa’s flag is. I mean C’mon son, we have lot of things at our finger tips. I’m not saying this means we don’t have to learn other things that makes up for what we gain in simplicity but I don’t think that we don’t “work as hard” in many of the same avenues that granny had to before. Obviously, this isn’t something we should feel bad about but something that we should feel great about because other’s have worked hard to find ways to make it easier for us to shorten the amount of time it takes to change the television channel or make a fanvid.

Comment on Response: Lesage is in her 70s!?! by Rajwinder Kaur

Rajwinder Kaur — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:51:32 +0000

My friend was telling me about her trip to her grandma’s friends house. There, those oldies but goodies were talking about how our generation doesn’t work as hard as they did and that we have it easy. So my friend and I dissected this a bit. It’s not that we don’t work as hard, it’s just that we do a different kind of work. I think about all the times oldies but goodies come into the HelpDesk for solutions to problems that are so intuitive, not as a “techie” but as someone who grew up around computers. Then I feel like a miracle worker until I realized that… man… it’s just a different sort of knowledge, a different literacy that I’ve acquired. Not learned, acquired. So I think it’s pretty dope that Lesage got that TiVo down. Also, you’re not alone in the idealizing of Lesage (objectifying?)…I pictured her similarly to Francesca Coppa… BABE.

Comment on My Response to all your responses! HAhaHaHAha by Brendan Mahoney

Brendan Mahoney — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 03:50:23 +0000

This is brilliant. I think this post brings up a valuable point about ownership in remix videos, in that I might have written the words “Who the hell has time for this …” but I shouldn’t claim ownership over part of your material. This is where practice and common sense clash with current law in today’s world

Comment on My Response to all your responses! HAhaHaHAha by Jamal Davis

Jamal Davis — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:51:50 +0000

Genius, well done my friend. I really like your creativity. It’s great to see how you remixed our works and made them into soemthing else. I agree with you in terms of not completely knowing what the end message is here but I think that it can be interpreted in many different ways.

Also, thanks for citing. As you have left the links live to our blog websites. I think this serves as a good citation method. It will also drive people to the original source of each of our works. This is where I think that people in the industry need look. If a remix video is good, people will want to seek out the original material and watch it.

Comment on RESPONSE: “The Evolution of Remix Culture” by Rajwinder Kaur

Rajwinder Kaur — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:29:11 +0000

BAHAHA! This is awesome… but where am I? That’s a joke, but not really. This brings to mind the idea of representation. With the imitation vids of the brat pack, we can see somewhat of a recycling of the “types” of brats.In fact, those vids had a more selective “hipster” group than the original brat pack. Who, then, is the brat pack speaking to in today’s society? Is it the hipsters in Brooklyn or is it just that those are the only responses we are seeing?

Then with other vids we saw in class, there was a focus on homosexual (slash) and feminist viewpoints. Prof Stein, of course clarified this point in class by saying it was a selection error. Nonetheless, let’s start asking questions– who is making these vids? who is the audience? Who is left out? What is not seen is just as important as what is seen. And when vids are made for public conception, is it the vidder’s responsibility to address the broader fan community? This sounds like a bit of a rant, but remember the notion of an “elite” vidder community? Elitists! How date they!?

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