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I run an independent film/animation/music/interactive studio- I have never owned any mobile phone and don't use any social media except for youtube. Our studio
by imaginationra 6y ago
I run an independent film/animation/music/interactive studio- I have never owned any mobile phone and don't use any social media except for youtube. Our studio is not on any social media platforms. We are the counterculture.
Our studio has released torrents of media over the past 15 years that I would classify as counterculture but you would never know because we aren't hustling on Zuckerbergian platforms or playing the "please look at me" game on Youtube etc.
Trailerjacked trailer for counterculture game that makes animations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrMEQPtMO4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrMEQPtMO4c
Scene from a counterculture animated feature film in progress made in a game engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgMeIaqjRvY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgMeIaqjRvY
Counterculture is not dead, its just not playing in the sandboxes everyone else is playing in, because those sandboxes are lame as fuck.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> its just not playing in the sandboxes everyone else is playing in Where is it playing?
- greenonions 6y agoYoutube apparently. (This was sarcasm)
- wussboy 6y agoAnd it was good sarcasm. The enemy isn't you tube. The enemy is the algorithm.
- imaginationra 6y agoYou are correct fine onion- This is youtube in 2084 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3fOdorpCQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3fOdorpCQ Great sarcasm by the way- its going to inspire generations of smart asses with the smooth chill it was written with. Snarky and effortless. Its like they were so confident in their sarcastic wit they had to include the parenthetical phrase- oh wait that was added out of fear of being misunderstood by the faceless crowd- quite the brave figure. Build a 4k video platform and we'll use yours.
- SuoDuanDao 6y agoI too would like to know this. I realize there's a rule one of the internet issue, but it's worth asking all the same.
- yowlingcat 6y agoNot the OP but I'll bite -- I've seen some incredible counterculture emerging out of what I like to term the IRC revival, or Discord communities. Discord and Roblox have fueled the communities creating a ton of the more interesting music I've discovered over the past year.
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- smolder 6y agoYeah, but discord is centralized and comes with all the related problems. IRC you can host yourself and it's not really dead, being a protocol.
- yowlingcat 6y agoWhat is a protocol, really? In a literal sense, you can say only something that's IRC compatible is IRC. But in a more figurative sense, aren't Discord communities merely using Discord the way folks use to use IRC? Isn't Discord just centralized IRC, then, because that's how people use it and what they're using it for? Centralization poses censorship and control risks that IRC doesn't, for sure. But it also adds ubiquity. That's key for a community.
- airhead969 6y agoSpecial sandboxes with purple sand surrounded in velvet ropes only the cool kids know about. And with unlimited fresh lemonade, chocolate milk, and warm chocolate-chip cookies. You can almost see one during the winter solstice.
- imaginationra 6y agoThis is where the cool kids hang out- at this concert in Funland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tk5REKdZso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tk5REKdZso
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> where the cool kids hang out- at this concert in Funland https://www.youtube.com/watch https://www.youtube.com/watch... YouTube? No own ground? Sovereign space? This is the same sandbox everyone else is in.
- lozaning 6y agoNot OP, but I feel like I come across more and more art house style stuff thats only on Vimeo. Which to be fair is still pretty mainstream.
- SyzygistSix 6y agoThere are lots of unique, fun subcultures in out of the way places an even on Youtube. But that isn't the same as counterculture.
- imaginationra 6y agoYou have to pull to find it- we live in a push world now and that's why all you see is the same old crap- because people aren't searching new works out- they are just sitting around letting curators and algo's push it to them.
- aembleton 6y agoHow do you "pull to find it"? If I search on DDG then an algorithm orders the results. Do you expect me to type in random urls to see what comes up?
- keiferski 6y agoYouTube is filled with so many interesting little channels. I wish the algorithms highlighted them more. I remember one channel of an old guy just smoking a cigar for an hour. Said nothing, just sat there. There were thousands of videos of him doing this, going back years. I don’t remember the name of it, unfortunately.
- the_duke 6y agoCan you share a few? YouTube always seems to stick me in a bubble and never recommends any worthwhile new channels.
- keiferski 6y agoI think you just have search for something, then go to the later pages of results. Not sure I’d call it obscure, as Nick Knight is pretty well known as a photographer, but I really love the ShowStudio channel. They experiment with film and fashion in really interesting ways. https://youtube.com/user/SHOWstudio https://youtube.com/user/SHOWstudio
- Y_Y 6y agoKaztalek Eastory William Maranci 2SICH Syrmor
- bobsmooth 6y agoShane O'Brien MacDonald. He makes videos on Japanese food from a Western prospective.
- temp0826 6y agoOrdinarySausage?
- colordrops 6y agoTry vimeo.com instead. Lots of artists, quality on average is much higher than youtube.
- dylanblanchard 6y agomight you be thinking of Adolfo Mateo? https://www.youtube.com/user/SMOKERSOFCIGARSPIPES/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/SMOKERSOFCIGARSPIPES/videos
- airhead969 6y ago> We are the counterculture. Isn't that a tad bit arrogant to stick a flag in all of it? See also: https://youtu.be/uEx5G-GOS1k https://youtu.be/uEx5G-GOS1k Youtube is "lame as fuck." Release everywhere to not be arbitrarily silenced because anything good is controversial, by definition. Why abuse the word "counterculture" so many times? It comes across like you're trying too hard. Good luck and I hope you find an audience rather than make at obscurity for the point of staying in obscurity.
- bobthechef 6y ago"anything good is controversial, by definition." No, it isn't.
- imaginationra 6y agoIts not arrogance- it is confidence. We've been doings like this for twenty years. We made Potato Phones in 2002 before a potato phone was a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo3StA3INws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo3StA3INws Youtube is lame- our work is also archived on Internet Archive and other places- this is a 172 gb master of one of our films https://archive.org/details/heartstringmarionette https://archive.org/details/heartstringmarionette Flag? I don't see a flag. I see text. The "try too hard" stuff usually comes from weak people who are wannabe creators but lack the guts to do it, let alone stick with it for several decades while remaining original and independent.
- Flowsion 6y agoYou literally had to link to YouTube to show us your work.. You don't see the irony in that?
- scubazealous 6y agoWe should be considered lucky he shares his work with us at all. HN likes to hate youtube (rightfully) but there is no better platform for discovery, sharing, and analytics.
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- Mediterraneo10 6y ago> I have never owned any mobile phone Eschewing a mobile phone has been pretty counterculture these recent years, but I think we are close to a point where it will no longer be sustainable, at least for anyone wanting to cross borders – or depending on the country, even enter a restaurant or concert. Several governments have announced that their vaccine passports will exist as mobile phone apps, because paper certificates are too easily forged.
- JasonFruit 6y agoAt that point, countercultural starts looking like the only game in town, at least that is worth playing.
- dmitrygr 6y agoWait till they see how easy it is to make a lookalike app :)
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoThe apps are expected to generate limited-time QR codes with the respective country’s digital signature (just like the biometric data in your passport), so no, your suggestion won't work.
- Nasrudith 6y agoUnless they somehow figured out a flaw in thr crypto that allowed for spoofing countries in which case holy shit why are you using it to fake vaccine certificates?
- dmitrygr 6y agoYup, because lowest-bid contractors are well known for producing bulletproof code, never copying bad samples from StackOverflow, and never rolling their own crypto instead of using proper libraries. Yup
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- JacobSuperslav 6y agohow is youtube counterculture?
- dylan604 6y agoThe fact that you can post pretty much any video you make for people to watch is totally counterculture the media studio TV programming culture that has lost viewers to platforms like YT. It has become so big itself that it is now pretty much the defacto culture.
- imaginationra 6y agoIt's just a platform and for now we can put things like this on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3SDNrxe-1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3SDNrxe-1M