the problem with speed is that things get out of control real fast and there is no stopping it, it becomes addicting and destructive. slowness might be boring, but you get used to it and at least you have time to think about what you are actually doing.
I love watching your videos. I think people can have different categories. I enjoy watching really short videos for laffs and then I enjoy channels like yours where I am happy to engage brain properly, stop what I'm doing and concentrate for 17 minutes and 29 seconds. I posted a 44 minute video that I thought no one would watch - it has been one of my more successful ones. I posted a 6 second and an 11 second video and they also did fine. Bleh. "If I had more time, I would've written a shorter comment" - Mark Twain. Maybe.
Thank you! :D Yeah, I save different length videos for different times of the day. Both long and short have their place (mainly breakfast and before I go to bed, haha).
i've always loved the way you take actual quotes from actual papers and edit the video so they're shown clearly, it's such a unique technique i haven't seen in any other video essay series. great video again!!
God bless that Footage From list Lord knows I think citing sources is boring but needed Having 17 minutes of them constantly changing must be something painful
Oh yeah, such a pain! But I agree that I think it's needed. There's also a CC option that shows you the footage titles along with the clips. :D I'd have mentioned that in the description but the footage list was so long I ran out of characters!
Really giving me a good think here, I hadn't questioned the framing of long = good, short = bad at all. The juxtaposition of slowed down film and long exposure photographs of a theater are really interesting. Also, in general your writing here is really clever, love me all those references.
Brave New World always read to me as demonizing all the superficial elements of modernity in a call for primitivism, and I've never liked it much for that (or otherwise)
Ok kinda go back to this video every six months or so. Just wanted to let you know i have watched this about 10 times by now. Love all your work but this one is really important to me. Thanks from the bottom of my psyche.
Wow, your video essays are far and away some of the best I've seen on this site. Each video is so dense with substance that I feel like I'm playing catch-up, because there's always something that resonates with me which I want to pause and consider more. As a serial procrastinator, I've watched so much analysis stuff on YT that allows me to passively listen as smart/clever/agreeable observations are chained together - but with these I feel like I have no option but to actively and constantly rethink the given topic, even when it's something I'm already very familiar with. Like for every beat in the video there's a whole other possible conversation that lies outside of the main focus but is still engaged with to some extent. That might have been laying it on a bit thick, I just wanted to say this is great and you are great
Thank you so much! :D A lot gets cut out as I'm researching/writing but I think traces of those threads get left behind, so I'm glad you think the videos still engage with those broader conversations!
Really enjoyed this video! I'm actually going to share it with a media studies professor I know because she's obsessed with the influence UA-cam has on culture. That aside, hearing you talk about the overflow and speed of news and information (especially the mention of those things as white noise) made me think of the "information-action ratio" and how so many people don't understand the implications of being perpetually bombarded with information they can't actually use or react to.
Thank you very much! :D Yeah, I think I keep my news-information-intake lower than a lot of people which I worry makes me less informed on things, but it does increase my ability to like... live my life, haha.
Don't ever stop making videos I have recently been reading a book a week. Last week when choosing a book, i decided against one because it was short, and "im looking for big ideas to move my life forward" From your video I see that this is a blind spot. Ill be reading a shorter book this week. Thank you
Such an outstanding video essay!! It reads like a train of thought slowly elaborating and expanding from one concept to the other. Regarding this particular idea here; brevity, particularly in instantly accessible medium such a UA-cam and social media, as you mentioned, creates more and leads to a tyranny of choice. This tyranny mixed with the addictive nature of these platforms breeds an interesting thirst for content that can't be quenched. I do wonder when this becomes a problem?
Thank you! :D I think it becomes a problem when you're dissatisfied with how you're spending your time (or, on the other side, dissatisfied with what you're making based on the demands of a platform).
You know it's a good video when you are filled with a sense of existential dread by the middle, and want to watch it over again by the end. Thank you for this really cool idea.
I love this video! As an art student most of my works are about the value of time and the beauty of repetitiveness, but this often makes feel very snobbish and dismissive. I feel like this video explains some of my concerns! I am going to watch this again and take notes, lol. Thank you so much for your videos.
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Cultures, and we along with them, juggle with extremes: from the onerous Victorian cutlery to the monotonous pop melodies; from fasting to all-you-can-eat restaurants. We speed towards each extreme and when we see we've gone too far, we shamelessly run the other way around; we're lost, unhappy. Great vid, as always. Do you recommend any podcasts for mind-opening ideas?
Thanks! Reasonably Sound (the podcast I quoted in this video) is really good. I haven't found another podcast that involves the same kind of philosophical discussion of culture. I also really like The Anthropocene Reviewed, though it's more autobiographical.
Something that I think could help explain a lot of the various needs for either speed or stillness is Daniel Khaneman's psychology book "Thinking, Fast and Slow". Most of it is very jargon-y with math and psychology stuff, but the basic idea/study is that the human brain has a tendency to process things either by quick and instinctive thoughts (known in the book as System 1) or from slow and deliberate thinking (aka System 2). According to the book, System 2 can take a while to process things (such as a lengthy scientific article or large book where a lot of energy has to be built up for attention) so most people use System 1 to better get down to the nitty-gritty for information (such as most comments in comment sections that are the opposite of this one, lolz 🤪😆🤪). I don't know if it's a book on your reading list, but I definitely recommend checking it out since it goes into studies on psychology, biases, and heuristics! 🤓🤓🤓
Thanks for the recommendation! It came up in my research but I wasn't able to get hold of the book. I have access to a better library now so it should be easier. :D
It was really interesting to hear about the progression of platforms like UA-cam and the increase in production quality over the years. And similarly with streaming platforms diversifying over time almost echoing cable TV. If something is successful it seems to go in the same direction as everything else and the thing that made it unique is slowly eroded. This videos are brilliant for really getting to the heart of a matter. Thank you
Every video of yours is worth the wait. You always make me think in new ways. Honestly you deserve so much more subs not just because you make great content but provide new ideas into conversations. Great video, i’ve often thought about the speed of our generation and comparing it with white noise is a great way to see it in some cases. Loved it!
I 👏🏼 LOVE👏🏼 YOUR👏🏼 VIDEOS👏🏼 I'm currently a freshman, so i'm a lil baby- but it's so fun learning about abstract themes and ideas coming from shows, movies, and InTerNeT iTsElF. I always feel like i've learned something, look at a show or movie differently (with more meaning), and feel inspired to look more into even the simplest things. Really- I mean it- you're my favorite. ❤️
not sure if it simply hit me in the right way at the right time but right now this is one of the best video essays i've watched in a long while. thanks
Grace, your video essays are amazing and thought provoking. I find your way of approaching topics truly unique. Combined with your calm voice, your videos are gold! 🤩
I've only just started watching some of your stuff. I have to say you are one of the smartest people I have ever heard. Really, you are very impressive and the content you work on is just something else. Not easy to wrap your brain around, but brilliant in every way.
What's funny is, I imagine communication as being a conveyor belt that takes a concept from a brain and delivers it to the mouth for execution; whereas my conveyor belt is made of a sieve, yours is enviably solid. I'm not sure what I want to say, or how to say it, which is a most-of-the-time ocurrance; what ᶦˢ clear, however, is that you have a knack for explaining all of these completex thoughts. You've encapsulated what I've been trying to explain when rationalizing the slow and tedious art of Popotillo which I practice and teach. Either folks are in the "aint nobody got time for that" camp, or they use "wow that must have taken forever" as a compliment lauding dedication and focus. I'm frustrated that there isn't a middle ground.
Video essay of speed and stillness accompanied with Twin Peaks The Return imagery hits home. Slowing down, and all that it will accomplish is in the heart of David Lynch. The best director alive, since we lost Stanley Kubrick two decades ago.
Adding a comment to please the Algorithm Overlords, and to commend you for another incredible video essay. It really speaks to a lot of anxieties I have about current internet culture and in turn reflects the anxieties of that culture as a whole. And seriously the production values are fantastic as always, and your style and flow of ideas are excellent. Not that popularity has to be the measure of success, but I hope your channel gets more attention little by little - i'd love for more people to be able to discuss your ideas.
Your channel will flourish in due time. This video really took your abilities to a new level and personally might be my favorite of the year. I am astonished at the density of your research and the speed you glide through your essays. It's remarkable.
That 'Twenty-Four Hour Psycho' thing reminds me of something Kyle Kallgren talked about once. In a stage production called 'Deafman's Glance' by Robert Wilson, a woman commits the murder of her two sons, but the entire act is performed agonizingly slowly, over the course of an hour.
@@isabeldaly5060 I use Sony Vegas (with the very occasional addition of After Effects). For this video, most of the footage was just sourced from UA-cam (particularly the British Pathe channel for all the archive footage). I also recorded my own screen (using OBS) for footage of social media, made some graphics in After Effects and used stock footage for the clips of the ocean. :D
I didn't remember that I was subscribed or why, but looking in your back catalogue, it was the essay for "over the garden wall". I just assumed there weren't a lot of videos up yet, so I was pumped, seeing all those essay videos on you channel :D def gonna go through those soon!
Incredible work as always! Going to recheck myself when I read long form articles now and automatically assume they are important. Looking forward to a lot more videos from you!
Wow, i love your videos!! They are so carefully crafted. I really like how you tie everything in the end and how glimpses of topics you talked about at the start reappear throughout the length of the video. I always find myself pausing to reconsider the things you said, i think there's a lot of depth in your phrasing and sometimes i'm not sure i'm grasping all of it, but i really like that feeling!! Because it allows me to keep on thinking about what you said after i´m done watching, or reconsider a re-watch. I also enjoyed the ambiguity in which you presented the ideas of slowness/long and brevity/short, because in the end, aren't they kind of defined in the context they are applied? Sorry for the rambling, i´m glad i discovered your channel!!!
I'm glad you mentioned Mike Rugnetta - i was about to comment how this channel reminds me of Idea Channel. Like an off-shoot. Something entirely it's own, but i can still sense the other channel? or something like that... Anyways i really loved the vid! I'll have to go and think about some things now lol
Well that random sub from the Kondo video sure did pay dividends with the existential crisis you just put me in at 2:30 am. Cheers, i love analysis videos like this.
The thing I wonder about is: what is coming next? How fast can it go? I don't think people decades ago, when there were only 3 TV channels and one news show once a day, could have imagined the kind of fast paced information age we live in now. I don't think I can imagine a faster world anymore. I mean, I study electrical engineering and some of the new stuff that is currently not economically viable, but exists, are total game changers... and I still can't imagine a world where that could be common. (I was specifically thinking about quantum computing here, having everything connected and "smart" is already a thing anyways) Edit: I sometimes wonder if climate change or the steps taken against climate change will forcefully make some technology defunct and forcefully slow development down.
I think the idea that people in the 19th century wrote long books because they were paid by the page or chapter is very reductive. This didn't apply to every writer who wrote long books and it certainly didn't apply to the dude who wrote one of the longest of them all, Marcel Proust. A lot of these writers wanted to depict reality and especially society in all its complexity and that's something you can't really do in short-stories, at least not in a single short-story. Length is not a sign of quality but neither is brevity. And at least if we're talking about serious intellectual work, for example an academic paper, an essay, an in-depth piece of journalism covering a complex issue, a philosophical text, etc., brevity is just not possible if you don't want to stay at surface-level.
Lately I’ve been feeling insecure about my writing. Specifically I’ve been anxious that the novel I’m writing won’t be long enough, and therefore not taken seriously. As a writer I always seem to value effective storytelling, to say as much as possible with as few words as possible. But I’ve been feeling in some ways lesser than the writers who write important books filled with 150 000 important words, and this video empowered me to feel more confident in my work, that it might not be less powerful, just shorter. Though it’s going to take me a little more time to completely unlearn the notion that time and length = quality. On another note, I know it’s probably not helpful to hear this kind of gush, but it’s my only way of reconciling that you’re probably not getting the monetary reward these videos are worth, so I have to say fuck this video is well written, insightful and not to mention funny. Intimidatingly brilliant, as always. The length of this comment is completely off theme 🤦♀️
I'm so glad to hear that this video might be able to help empower your work! :D I struggle with similar things. It's so difficult to unlearn this stuff, even when you know it intellectually it takes longer to know it emotionally, haha. Thank you so much! ❤ Never underestimate the power of flattery, it will get you everywhere!
On the subject of white noise, and the pleasure of being in the ocean, you really should look into the "oceanic feeling", and especially the psychoanalytic "Nirvana principle". Psychoanalysis has a lot to say about those things ! :^) Awesome video by the way, really
This makes me think of Barthes' description of "jet-man" pilots, and if there's any channel on UA-cam where I feel it's appropriate to comment with looong paragraphs from Mythologies, I think it's this one!* "We must here accept a paradox, which is in fact admitted by everyone with the greatest of ease, and even consumed as a proof of modernity. This paradox is that an excess of speed turns into repose. The pilot-hero was made unique by a whole mythology of speed as an experience, of space devoured, of intoxicating motion; the jet-man, on the other hand, is defined by a coenaesthesis of motionlessness ('at 2,000 km per hour, in level flight, no impression of speed at all'), as if the extravagance of his vocation precisely consisted in overtaking motion, in going faster than speed. Mythology abandons here a whole imagery of exterior friction and enters pure coenaesthesis: motion is no longer the optical perception of points and surfaces; it has become a kind of vertical disorder, made of contractions, black-outs, terrors and faints; it is no longer a gliding but an inner devastation, an unnatural perturbation, a motionless crisis of bodily consciousness." *and I mean this as the greatest possible compliment
Only you can combine Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jia Tolentino, and the Distracted Boyfriend Meme in one essay. Watching your essays is such a delight! Thank you.
I am a great admirer of your videos. And one of the many reasons, as reiterated in the comment section by others as well, is the number of references across various media that you bring to your analysis. But considering the nature of analysis, so many of the references come in such a constant flux that it is hard to grab onto them. For example, I would love to read all the essays you mentioned in this video but it is breaks the flow to pause the video every time, jot the name down and then begin again. So, would it be possible for you to state the references in the description of the video so that one can go through them after watching your analysis ? It would be of great help And keep up this wonderful work
In a related but unrelated vein, has anyone else noticed that with the proliferation of streaming media such as Netflix and Amazon, the long form show is giving way to shorter seasons? Look at all current content and you will see that almost all have been reduced to an 8 episode format. Is this an evolutionary response to our viewing habits or a financial consideration given our desire to have rapidly available content?
Also I think the generation who grew up with youtube and still like it, are coming to an age where it is relevant in their day to day life to slow down and watch some more relaxing longer videos rather than 10 short high energy clips. I think most of us were still in School or studying when it all started. Young people have another energy level and attention level. Now all the 32 Year old Ladys, with jobs an maybe kids - we need videos to wind down to.
What hurts is how advanced we’d be if we could tackled ownership in all this, because I want my son to watch this when he grows up, but that’s impossible.
16:28 Don't short things imply that even a small amount of time is significant, as you can put your short thing into it? (This does assume that the short thing has value, but if a long thing doesn't have value, it too can imply a disregard for time.)
I’m not entirely sure that I agree, most of the ideas presuppose that the brevity of online media can overwhelm you, but I’d argue the vast majority of ideas don’t hold much merit to begin with. A cute video of a cat or funny vine isn’t going to hold some great influence your life in any way, regardless of length. I agree that the reverence of length is nonsensical, the idea that something taking a while to read/watch gives it worth on its own. If anything I find it more impressive to clearly, and concisely express information in as little time as possible. All in all I think that cohesive brevity has worth due to the fact everyone only has so much time to actually consume and absorb media/knowledge, if you’re able to convey the same thing in a shorter time period what’s the reason not to?
I believe what's overwhelming is the collective of increasingly brief content. It gives no reference point, no constant, nothing to hold onto as it washes you over.
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the problem with speed is that things get out of control real fast and there is no stopping it, it becomes addicting and destructive. slowness might be boring, but you get used to it and at least you have time to think about what you are actually doing.
I love watching your videos.
I think people can have different categories. I enjoy watching really short videos for laffs and then I enjoy channels like yours where I am happy to engage brain properly, stop what I'm doing and concentrate for 17 minutes and 29 seconds. I posted a 44 minute video that I thought no one would watch - it has been one of my more successful ones. I posted a 6 second and an 11 second video and they also did fine. Bleh.
"If I had more time, I would've written a shorter comment" - Mark Twain. Maybe.
Thank you! :D
Yeah, I save different length videos for different times of the day. Both long and short have their place (mainly breakfast and before I go to bed, haha).
Jesus! you are the most underrated channel of the genre. I pray the almighty algorithm blesses you with the success you deserve.
Thank you! :D
Yeah! We should slow down sometimes!
me, watching this on 2x speed.
Have I heard it right?? Have I heard you say “the inherent eroticism of the sea”?? Just when I thought I couldn’t love this channel more
Haha, yes!
Best line of the essay
It's on the tip of my mind! What is it from?
Edit: Is it a thing Daddy Peterson said? Is it from that book with the Feminine Chaos Dragon?
@@draxiss1577 pretty sure it's a joke contrapoints makes sometimes
@@dravarian26 I figure that, but where did she pull it from?
"wow, that must have taken a really long time"
Amazing work as always!
Haha, thank you! :D
i've always loved the way you take actual quotes from actual papers and edit the video so they're shown clearly, it's such a unique technique i haven't seen in any other video essay series. great video again!!
Thank you! :D
I love your videos! The visuals always look great, and the humor sprinkled throughout is refreshing. Plus you always have interesting topics
Thank you very much! :D
I leave this offering at the altar of the Almighty Algorithm; may it bless you with prosperity.
Haha, thank you! :D
God bless that Footage From list
Lord knows I think citing sources is boring but needed
Having 17 minutes of them constantly changing must be something painful
Oh yeah, such a pain! But I agree that I think it's needed.
There's also a CC option that shows you the footage titles along with the clips. :D
I'd have mentioned that in the description but the footage list was so long I ran out of characters!
Really giving me a good think here, I hadn't questioned the framing of long = good, short = bad at all. The juxtaposition of slowed down film and long exposure photographs of a theater are really interesting. Also, in general your writing here is really clever, love me all those references.
Thank you!
Glad my compulsive need to include references is paying off :D
_Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards._
*~ Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)*
Brave New World always read to me as demonizing all the superficial elements of modernity in a call for primitivism, and I've never liked it much for that (or otherwise)
@@shreki2057 ditto
So, time travel is just a matter of time.
Funny, the first thing that popped in my head watching this was Huxley’s “Doors of Perception”
Ok kinda go back to this video every six months or so. Just wanted to let you know i have watched this about 10 times by now. Love all your work but this one is really important to me. Thanks from the bottom of my psyche.
Thank you so much! This one holds a special place for me :)
I love the edits and images you incorporated in this video. Just perfect
Thank you very much! :D
Wow, your video essays are far and away some of the best I've seen on this site. Each video is so dense with substance that I feel like I'm playing catch-up, because there's always something that resonates with me which I want to pause and consider more. As a serial procrastinator, I've watched so much analysis stuff on YT that allows me to passively listen as smart/clever/agreeable observations are chained together - but with these I feel like I have no option but to actively and constantly rethink the given topic, even when it's something I'm already very familiar with. Like for every beat in the video there's a whole other possible conversation that lies outside of the main focus but is still engaged with to some extent.
That might have been laying it on a bit thick, I just wanted to say this is great and you are great
Thank you so much! :D
A lot gets cut out as I'm researching/writing but I think traces of those threads get left behind, so I'm glad you think the videos still engage with those broader conversations!
great as always
reminded me of the saying if you can't improve on silence, you shouldn't say nothing at all
Really enjoyed this video! I'm actually going to share it with a media studies professor I know because she's obsessed with the influence UA-cam has on culture. That aside, hearing you talk about the overflow and speed of news and information (especially the mention of those things as white noise) made me think of the "information-action ratio" and how so many people don't understand the implications of being perpetually bombarded with information they can't actually use or react to.
Thank you very much! :D
Yeah, I think I keep my news-information-intake lower than a lot of people which I worry makes me less informed on things, but it does increase my ability to like... live my life, haha.
Don't ever stop making videos
I have recently been reading a book a week. Last week when choosing a book, i decided against one because it was short, and "im looking for big ideas to move my life forward"
From your video I see that this is a blind spot. Ill be reading a shorter book this week.
Thank you
Peter coffin got me here and im really glad he did great video please keep it up
Thank you! :D
Such an outstanding video essay!! It reads like a train of thought slowly elaborating and expanding from one concept to the other.
Regarding this particular idea here; brevity, particularly in instantly accessible medium such a UA-cam and social media, as you mentioned, creates more and leads to a tyranny of choice. This tyranny mixed with the addictive nature of these platforms breeds an interesting thirst for content that can't be quenched. I do wonder when this becomes a problem?
Thank you! :D
I think it becomes a problem when you're dissatisfied with how you're spending your time (or, on the other side, dissatisfied with what you're making based on the demands of a platform).
this video is great, you are great!
nothing short of inspirational. you write some of the best content i've been blessed to watch this year. tysm! x
Thank you! :D
You know it's a good video when you are filled with a sense of existential dread by the middle, and want to watch it over again by the end. Thank you for this really cool idea.
Thank you! :D
I love this video! As an art student most of my works are about the value of time and the beauty of repetitiveness, but this often makes feel very snobbish and dismissive. I feel like this video explains some of my concerns! I am going to watch this again and take notes, lol. Thank you so much for your videos.
Thank you! :D
Uh oh My girl Getting close to 50k Subscribers😂
We're almost there!!
Edit: Also Your Video Quality is EVEN BETTER in a Sea full of already Quality Videos.
Keep Up The Good Work.
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Haha, I know! That feels like a real milestone :O
Cultures, and we along with them, juggle with extremes: from the onerous Victorian cutlery to the monotonous pop melodies; from fasting to all-you-can-eat restaurants.
We speed towards each extreme and when we see we've gone too far, we shamelessly run the other way around; we're lost, unhappy.
Great vid, as always. Do you recommend any podcasts for mind-opening ideas?
Thanks!
Reasonably Sound (the podcast I quoted in this video) is really good. I haven't found another podcast that involves the same kind of philosophical discussion of culture. I also really like The Anthropocene Reviewed, though it's more autobiographical.
This is terrific. As always. Well done
Something that I think could help explain a lot of the various needs for either speed or stillness is Daniel Khaneman's psychology book "Thinking, Fast and Slow". Most of it is very jargon-y with math and psychology stuff, but the basic idea/study is that the human brain has a tendency to process things either by quick and instinctive thoughts (known in the book as System 1) or from slow and deliberate thinking (aka System 2). According to the book, System 2 can take a while to process things (such as a lengthy scientific article or large book where a lot of energy has to be built up for attention) so most people use System 1 to better get down to the nitty-gritty for information (such as most comments in comment sections that are the opposite of this one, lolz 🤪😆🤪).
I don't know if it's a book on your reading list, but I definitely recommend checking it out since it goes into studies on psychology, biases, and heuristics! 🤓🤓🤓
Thanks for the recommendation! It came up in my research but I wasn't able to get hold of the book. I have access to a better library now so it should be easier. :D
It was really interesting to hear about the progression of platforms like UA-cam and the increase in production quality over the years. And similarly with streaming platforms diversifying over time almost echoing cable TV.
If something is successful it seems to go in the same direction as everything else and the thing that made it unique is slowly eroded.
This videos are brilliant for really getting to the heart of a matter. Thank you
Thank you!
Every video of yours is worth the wait. You always make me think in new ways. Honestly you deserve so much more subs not just because you make great content but provide new ideas into conversations. Great video, i’ve often thought about the speed of our generation and comparing it with white noise is a great way to see it in some cases. Loved it!
Thank you so much!
I 👏🏼 LOVE👏🏼 YOUR👏🏼 VIDEOS👏🏼 I'm currently a freshman, so i'm a lil baby- but it's so fun learning about abstract themes and ideas coming from shows, movies, and InTerNeT iTsElF. I always feel like i've learned something, look at a show or movie differently (with more meaning), and feel inspired to look more into even the simplest things. Really- I mean it- you're my favorite. ❤️
Thank you so much! :D
not sure if it simply hit me in the right way at the right time but right now this is one of the best video essays i've watched in a long while. thanks
Thank you so much!
Your videos deserve so much more attention, they're so well put together.
Thank you very much! ❤
Grace, your video essays are amazing and thought provoking. I find your way of approaching topics truly unique. Combined with your calm voice, your videos are gold! 🤩
Thank you very much! :D
I've only just started watching some of your stuff. I have to say you are one of the smartest people I have ever heard. Really, you are very impressive and the content you work on is just something else. Not easy to wrap your brain around, but brilliant in every way.
Thank you very much! :D
What's funny is, I imagine communication as being a conveyor belt that takes a concept from a brain and delivers it to the mouth for execution; whereas my conveyor belt is made of a sieve, yours is enviably solid. I'm not sure what I want to say, or how to say it, which is a most-of-the-time ocurrance; what ᶦˢ clear, however, is that you have a knack for explaining all of these completex thoughts. You've encapsulated what I've been trying to explain when rationalizing the slow and tedious art of Popotillo which I practice and teach. Either folks are in the "aint nobody got time for that" camp, or they use "wow that must have taken forever" as a compliment lauding dedication and focus. I'm frustrated that there isn't a middle ground.
You: the age of meme
Me: :)
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Burst laughing at that moment. So good.
Video essay of speed and stillness accompanied with Twin Peaks The Return imagery hits home. Slowing down, and all that it will accomplish is in the heart of David Lynch. The best director alive, since we lost Stanley Kubrick two decades ago.
Adding a comment to please the Algorithm Overlords, and to commend you for another incredible video essay. It really speaks to a lot of anxieties I have about current internet culture and in turn reflects the anxieties of that culture as a whole. And seriously the production values are fantastic as always, and your style and flow of ideas are excellent. Not that popularity has to be the measure of success, but I hope your channel gets more attention little by little - i'd love for more people to be able to discuss your ideas.
Thank you so much!
I hope the algorithm is sated :D
Uh I know I'm late but I've had this in my watch later section for some time.Glad I've got around to it! Subscribed!
Thank you very much! :D
I have to thank Peter Coffin for bringing me here, this was legitimately one of the best video essays I've seen in a while concerning the modern day
Thank you! :D
Your channel will flourish in due time. This video really took your abilities to a new level and personally might be my favorite of the year.
I am astonished at the density of your research and the speed you glide through your essays. It's remarkable.
Thank you so much!
This is quickly becoming one of the best channels on UA-cam
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I love how your broader-scoped videos still share the same accessible style as your more focused, media-based videos. Amazing stuff
Thank you! :D
I subscribed even before watching your videos. And, after seeing them, I feel very satisfied with that trust
Thank you! I'm glad they didn't disappoint. :D
That 'Twenty-Four Hour Psycho' thing reminds me of something Kyle Kallgren talked about once. In a stage production called 'Deafman's Glance' by Robert Wilson, a woman commits the murder of her two sons, but the entire act is performed agonizingly slowly, over the course of an hour.
Great video, love your ability to digest and regurgitate topics in a interesting and engaging way, thanks !😊
Haha, thank you! I'm glad you like my topic-vomit. :D
Wow, yet another homerun. I'm always blown away by your videos.
Thank you! :D
You're an artist! Thank you!
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I'm in awe of your videos. I'd love to learn more about how you make them!
Thank you very much! I'm happy to answer any questions you have about my process :D
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutThat What editing software do you use? Where do you find your images/videos? I just love how you visually support your arguments
@@isabeldaly5060 I use Sony Vegas (with the very occasional addition of After Effects). For this video, most of the footage was just sourced from UA-cam (particularly the British Pathe channel for all the archive footage). I also recorded my own screen (using OBS) for footage of social media, made some graphics in After Effects and used stock footage for the clips of the ocean. :D
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutThat Thank you! Can't wait for your next video :)
So, you're my new favorite youtuber. I love your work!
Thank you!
Very thought-provoking, TY
I didn't remember that I was subscribed or why, but looking in your back catalogue, it was the essay for "over the garden wall". I just assumed there weren't a lot of videos up yet, so I was pumped, seeing all those essay videos on you channel :D def gonna go through those soon!
Thank you! :D
this is so, SO beautifully edited!! it drew me right into the topic you discussed! thank you for the huge amount of work you put into each video!
Thank you! :D
My favorite video essay so far
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Incredible work as always! Going to recheck myself when I read long form articles now and automatically assume they are important.
Looking forward to a lot more videos from you!
Thank you! :D
I have no idea what you just said, but I loved every second of it
Love me some Contrapoints' references 13:17
Yesssss! :D
Wow, i love your videos!! They are so carefully crafted. I really like how you tie everything in the end and how glimpses of topics you talked about at the start reappear throughout the length of the video. I always find myself pausing to reconsider the things you said, i think there's a lot of depth in your phrasing and sometimes i'm not sure i'm grasping all of it, but i really like that feeling!! Because it allows me to keep on thinking about what you said after i´m done watching, or reconsider a re-watch.
I also enjoyed the ambiguity in which you presented the ideas of slowness/long and brevity/short, because in the end, aren't they kind of defined in the context they are applied? Sorry for the rambling, i´m glad i discovered your channel!!!
Thank you so much! Giving people stuff to mull over later is exactly what I hope to do. :D
I'm glad you mentioned Mike Rugnetta - i was about to comment how this channel reminds me of Idea Channel. Like an off-shoot. Something entirely it's own, but i can still sense the other channel? or something like that... Anyways i really loved the vid! I'll have to go and think about some things now lol
Thank you! I love Idea Channel and miss it dearly.
thank you for this wonderful thoughtful piece
Well that random sub from the Kondo video sure did pay dividends with the existential crisis you just put me in at 2:30 am.
Cheers, i love analysis videos like this.
Haha, thank you!
The thing I wonder about is: what is coming next? How fast can it go?
I don't think people decades ago, when there were only 3 TV channels and one news show once a day, could have imagined the kind of fast paced information age we live in now.
I don't think I can imagine a faster world anymore. I mean, I study electrical engineering and some of the new stuff that is currently not economically viable, but exists, are total game changers... and I still can't imagine a world where that could be common.
(I was specifically thinking about quantum computing here, having everything connected and "smart" is already a thing anyways)
Edit: I sometimes wonder if climate change or the steps taken against climate change will forcefully make some technology defunct and forcefully slow development down.
The threat of the change yet to come! :O
I think the idea that people in the 19th century wrote long books because they were paid by the page or chapter is very reductive. This didn't apply to every writer who wrote long books and it certainly didn't apply to the dude who wrote one of the longest of them all, Marcel Proust. A lot of these writers wanted to depict reality and especially society in all its complexity and that's something you can't really do in short-stories, at least not in a single short-story. Length is not a sign of quality but neither is brevity. And at least if we're talking about serious intellectual work, for example an academic paper, an essay, an in-depth piece of journalism covering a complex issue, a philosophical text, etc., brevity is just not possible if you don't want to stay at surface-level.
I love your content, please continue
Thank you!
I adore your videos so much! I always get chills and I feel like I’ve just Learned something! Your editing is so wonderful!! I just love your stuff :)
Thank you so much!
Lately I’ve been feeling insecure about my writing. Specifically I’ve been anxious that the novel I’m writing won’t be long enough, and therefore not taken seriously. As a writer I always seem to value effective storytelling, to say as much as possible with as few words as possible. But I’ve been feeling in some ways lesser than the writers who write important books filled with 150 000 important words, and this video empowered me to feel more confident in my work, that it might not be less powerful, just shorter. Though it’s going to take me a little more time to completely unlearn the notion that time and length = quality.
On another note, I know it’s probably not helpful to hear this kind of gush, but it’s my only way of reconciling that you’re probably not getting the monetary reward these videos are worth, so I have to say fuck this video is well written, insightful and not to mention funny. Intimidatingly brilliant, as always.
The length of this comment is completely off theme 🤦♀️
I'm so glad to hear that this video might be able to help empower your work! :D
I struggle with similar things. It's so difficult to unlearn this stuff, even when you know it intellectually it takes longer to know it emotionally, haha.
Thank you so much! ❤ Never underestimate the power of flattery, it will get you everywhere!
On the subject of white noise, and the pleasure of being in the ocean, you really should look into the "oceanic feeling", and especially the psychoanalytic "Nirvana principle". Psychoanalysis has a lot to say about those things ! :^)
Awesome video by the way, really
BOYHOOD! IT TOOK TWELVE YEARS TO MAKE!
3:31 hey that's me!
It's kinda sad that you take months to drop a video but it's also delightful when you finally do it. :)
This video is a spiritual experience.
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friggin' heck dude that was awesome, great work!!
Thank you!
This makes me think of Barthes' description of "jet-man" pilots, and if there's any channel on UA-cam where I feel it's appropriate to comment with looong paragraphs from Mythologies, I think it's this one!*
"We must here accept a paradox, which is in fact
admitted by everyone with the greatest of ease, and even consumed as a proof of modernity. This paradox is that an excess of speed turns into repose. The pilot-hero was made unique by a whole mythology of speed as an experience, of space devoured, of intoxicating motion; the jet-man, on the other hand, is defined by a coenaesthesis of motionlessness ('at 2,000 km per hour, in level flight, no impression of speed at all'), as if the extravagance of his vocation precisely consisted in overtaking motion, in going faster than speed. Mythology abandons here a whole imagery of exterior friction and enters pure coenaesthesis: motion is no longer the optical perception of points and surfaces; it has become a kind of vertical disorder, made of contractions, black-outs, terrors and faints; it is no longer a gliding but an inner devastation, an unnatural perturbation, a motionless crisis of bodily consciousness."
*and I mean this as the greatest possible compliment
Long quotes from Mythologies are always welcome! :D
Nice, these videos are so interesting I love
Awesome video!
Only you can combine Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jia Tolentino, and the Distracted Boyfriend Meme in one essay. Watching your essays is such a delight! Thank you.
Thank you! :D
I am a great admirer of your videos. And one of the many reasons, as reiterated in the comment section by others as well, is the number of references across various media that you bring to your analysis.
But considering the nature of analysis, so many of the references come in such a constant flux that it is hard to grab onto them. For example, I would love to read all the essays you mentioned in this video but it is breaks the flow to pause the video every time, jot the name down and then begin again. So, would it be possible for you to state the references in the description of the video so that one can go through them after watching your analysis ? It would be of great help
And keep up this wonderful work
Thank you very much!
I provide a reading list for $2 patrons. It has all the texts cited, plus other stuff that I feel is relevant :)
amazing work as always ❤️
Thank you! :D
I loved this essay thank you
In a related but unrelated vein, has anyone else noticed that with the proliferation of streaming media such as Netflix and Amazon, the long form show is giving way to shorter seasons? Look at all current content and you will see that almost all have been reduced to an 8 episode format. Is this an evolutionary response to our viewing habits or a financial consideration given our desire to have rapidly available content?
Just letting you know that as a university of bristol student we're studying this video- congrats!
Holy shit, did you produce that version of WDSTF at the end? That gave me serious chills.
Yes, I remixed it from the original instrument tracks from the song. It subtly starts around 16:00. :D
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutThat Oh! It's wonderful :) I guess the copyright would prevent you from uploading it as a bonus...? Anyway, great vid, thank you!
God bless Peter Coffin for pointing me at this video.
Bless you for making this piece.
Thank you!
Also I think the generation who grew up with youtube and still like it, are coming to an age where it is relevant in their day to day life to slow down and watch some more relaxing longer videos rather than 10 short high energy clips. I think most of us were still in School or studying when it all started. Young people have another energy level and attention level. Now all the 32 Year old Ladys, with jobs an maybe kids - we need videos to wind down to.
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What hurts is how advanced we’d be if we could tackled ownership in all this, because I want my son to watch this when he grows up, but that’s impossible.
Why is every video brilliant? Please I work early tomorrow 😭
Hahaha :D
16:28 Don't short things imply that even a small amount of time is significant, as you
can put your short thing into it? (This does assume that the short thing has value,
but if a long thing doesn't have value, it too can imply a disregard for time.)
I’m not entirely sure that I agree, most of the ideas presuppose that the brevity of online media can overwhelm you, but I’d argue the vast majority of ideas don’t hold much merit to begin with. A cute video of a cat or funny vine isn’t going to hold some great influence your life in any way, regardless of length. I agree that the reverence of length is nonsensical, the idea that something taking a while to read/watch gives it worth on its own. If anything I find it more impressive to clearly, and concisely express information in as little time as possible.
All in all I think that cohesive brevity has worth due to the fact everyone only has so much time to actually consume and absorb media/knowledge, if you’re able to convey the same thing in a shorter time period what’s the reason not to?
I believe what's overwhelming is the collective of increasingly brief content. It gives no reference point, no constant, nothing to hold onto as it washes you over.
wonderful vid!
Thank you! :D
I feel like my video essays give a decent enough examination of subjects, but then I go to your videos and I feel exceptionally stupid.
This is great, you are great
Haha, thank you! :D
Yes new video!!
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So good 🌸
Oh, I always thought short stories were just short because that's how long it took to tell that particular story.
I live in the age of the long form meme.
this is great and you are great
Haha, thank you!
This was amazing.
you are the best thing happening here
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