Kirsten Dirksen, makes very loose videos about people who have built or renovated unusual homes all over the world, they're very simple and the lack of polish is actually quite complimentary.
They're obviously heavily reliant on the subject so not all of them are zingers, but a lot of them are worth your time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcovbvpRdr4
― Maresn3st, Monday, 9 August 2021 11:03 (three years ago) link
I've been waiting for Contrapoints to get into more psychoanalytic territory for a while, so was thrilled by the latest video. Amazing as always, though I might have expected a little more Kleinian theory given that she's kind of the authority on the subject. Would have loved to hear Natalie applying split object theory to politics. Being someone who struggles greatly with an even more archly recursive and hostile form of 'not like other girls' syndrome, I was hoping for more of an envy-solving prescription in the summary than say yes to everything!. How does one cultivate such a permissive attitude to oneself and others in the face of an all-consuming paranoia for example, a friend might ask...
The Nietzsche quote about forgiveness being appositive to slave morality (ressentiment) and aligned with master morality felt like a false equivalence. Like, I get that not being compelled to take revenge is less contemptuous and more desirable, but forgiveness feels like a stretch. Is empowered indifference the same as forgiveness? Maybe it is. Maybe I need to read the book. This isn't the thread for this.
Anyway, I hope she gets to take a break now. Who could even edit a video like that?
― tangent x (tangenttangent), Monday, 9 August 2021 23:27 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNINWMqxQQc
Harpist who demos guitar pedals
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 16 August 2021 02:49 (three years ago) link
yeah she’s great.also love contrapoints. great thread!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 August 2021 06:28 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U54HRmglYEA
― Maresn3st, Monday, 16 August 2021 12:04 (three years ago) link
she has some videos of people living in ancient houses in rural spain that are just so pretty
― criminally negligible (harbl), Monday, 16 August 2021 12:15 (three years ago) link
The new Hainbach video on forgotten Italian synths is an absolute delight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ-sVujDlS8
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mrdd5-ehb8
The Electrical Audio/Albini educational series is pretty cool
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
Jacques Pepin has gotten even more soothing with age
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g93sAo2cFM
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 00:50 (three years ago) link
Andrew is so good at letting his interviewees talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HghwNhrLNP0
― DJI, Thursday, 2 September 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
andrew's "mm-hm" straight face is all-time
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 September 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
Sohla and Ham's series is good shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybNex3XsgFc
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 September 2021 23:57 (three years ago) link
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't had this out-of-the-ordinary episode recently, many funny moments but the sea shanty is the best part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uAkqsDRrIw
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 1 November 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Featureman
featureman: an old man named tom willett who was for many years an extra in Hollywood (his biggest role was a recurring non-speaking part in the Judd Hirsch sitcom "dear John"). eats food, mainly terrible looking stuff - a can of spaghetti with hunks of onion and spam was the most recent one I watched - and tells stories about his life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIix6MklfJ
Country Life Vlog. an Azeri couple cooks, and does other things like chop wood, make tea gather berries, in the the outdoors.
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 1 November 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
yes, i am subscribed to country life vlog and i love it. there is another similar one but i forgot what it was--will probably come up in your recommendations.
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Monday, 1 November 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
Linus Bowman's design YT channel is so hilariously macro but compelling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPmlv7cDk6Q
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
oh nice thanks
― Spottie, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaEQP-SiRlA
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 28 November 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
Not always a big fan of Benn Jordan’s videos but this one is great.
This one is important. How A NYTimes Reporter Collects Royalties From Hundreds of Musicians:https://t.co/W6GxIrUPCm— Benn Jordan (@bennjordan) December 2, 2021
Ian Urbina’s book is legitimately good (assuming the reporting is trustworthy) so it’s wild to see him running something that looks objectively like a massive scam.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 3 December 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
Wow, that seems straight-up illegal.
― DJI, Friday, 3 December 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
looked up Ian Urbina on apple music and the first thought I had was “well, this page is taking suspiciously long to load” what a scamming shithead
― mh, Friday, 3 December 2021 18:43 (two years ago) link
huge bummer because urbina seems to do genuinely good and important work
Please take some time to read this article in the @NewYorker by @ian_urbina, from The Outlaw Ocean Project, which sheds light on the shadow immigration system stopping migrants before they reach Europe’s shores. https://t.co/Ka5YGPzFlG— Peter Gabriel (@itspetergabriel) December 3, 2021
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 December 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
yeah, I don’t know how things got to this point, but it’s just… a really weird situation?
I ran across a profile on the project where he seemed to imply that the music project would help fund his investigative reporting work, which would be cool if everyone was on board with that, but it sounds like the musicians were told something much different.
― mh, Friday, 3 December 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
I think the only thing that really pushed me from “kind of dodgy” to actually irritated was this second project’s webpage:https://thenoamchomskymusicproject.com/
So did they license Chomsky lectures and interview clips or… what’s the deal here
― mh, Friday, 3 December 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
And if you click through to the EPs for that project, once again Urbina is named as a co-artist - presumably for supplying the Chomsky clips?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
yeah, that is the really weird angle!like it’s become the concept + samples thing, but he didn’t do the samples
― mh, Friday, 3 December 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
Gotta say I'm not familiar with many of the musicians caught out by this but benoit pioulard just tweeted that he was
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 4 December 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
well, regardless of how the rest of this goes, this seems uncool
They disabled my tracks on the streaming services without notice ; pretty cool— Benoît Pioulard (@pioulard) December 4, 2021
― mh, Saturday, 4 December 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
A statement from Synesthesia Media. pic.twitter.com/1dCyv0wUmX— Synesthesia Media (@Synesthesia_Med) December 4, 2021
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 4 December 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
meanwhile urbina is just straight blocking everyone who calls him out, including artists who he seems to have ripped off
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 4 December 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
Okay. Final Tweet of the day regarding this. Here's a FAQ they uploaded (just today, after my video was released, as you can see clearly via Waybackmachine) that I've been accused of not referencing in my video. https://t.co/rrggSxKaOB pic.twitter.com/gErfC5YzaM— Benn Jordan (@bennjordan) December 5, 2021
This might merit an ILM thread?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 5 December 2021 03:54 (two years ago) link
YouTube has started turning off the comments on my channel. I tried to find out why but nothing really makes sense. I upload songs from lounge records that most people don't care about. Is the issue the original songwriter credit?
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 5 December 2021 04:09 (two years ago) link
that’s a shame
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 December 2021 07:05 (two years ago) link
This sounds fascinating but I still can't really bring myself to watch one of these Rick Beato ass Fantano ass videos where some dude talks at you.
(I guess I did watch one or two Ott videos, but that's p much it)
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 5 December 2021 07:09 (two years ago) link
That video showed up in my Twitter timeline, and I made a snarky reply to the effect that I'd rather read an article than watch a video, and a bunch of Jordan's fans(?) called me rude and ungrateful. The video seems like it is probably good, but I don't know who tf Benn Jordan is.
― jaymc, Sunday, 5 December 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
I watched that whole video because of you guys. I suppose in prnciple I'm supposed to care about musicians not being given a shitty deal. Never heard of him either but he clearly put a lot of time (the value of which being the point) into filming himself talking in front blinken iights euroack and a green screen. I guess that's what he does and prodution values help to get views.
Years ago I licensed a track for a softcore b-movie spoof and was pretty cautious about the contract. I've never seen a penny for that but fuck it.
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Sunday, 5 December 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
I had the thought that I’d rather read an article but then reversed it and thought about what I’d think if I saw someone saying “could you make this a video? I’d prefer it to an article” and I kept quietinevitably someone will probably write an article and probably have better excerpts of the contract, etc.
― mh, Sunday, 5 December 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
there's an article about it here:https://www.inputmag.com/culture/ian-urbina-new-york-times-spotify-music-royalties-benn-jordan-youtube
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 5 December 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
the video is much better than any of the articles so far
tbh tho i suspect urbina's own photos of himself are doing at least some of the heavy lifting in his disfavour
― mark s, Thursday, 9 December 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link
https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/fact-checking-the-ian-urbina-music
🤷🏻♂️
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
the tl;dr of that piece is p much yes urbina did everything ppl say he did but if you assume he did it in good faith then it's clear he did it in good faith!
― mark s, Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
fair. both actors here seem untrustworthy. the journalist for obvious reasons (his own photos!) and then the youtube guy for his rather febrile twitter account. i guess i could dig into the facts but on the other hand i don't care haha.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
this jeremy arnold character is irritating
― mh, Thursday, 9 December 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
he rules
is this the guy who wrote a furious defense of billionaires against ProPublica and just fucked up over and over— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) December 7, 2021
ah yes, that's the one. hilarious number of corrections on this guy https://t.co/jkwxahz6kK— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) December 7, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
I’ve been mildly prodding him on twitter and he’s really obstinateshould I ask him if he ran his substack terms and conditions past a lawyer before publishing on that platform?
― mh, Thursday, 9 December 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Friday, 10 December 2021 05:51 (two years ago) link
somewhat glib youtuber: so! all this opacity! it might hide nothing, i'm not at all saying something suss is going on, but if nothing suss is going on, why all the opacity? very easy to clear this up ian! easily nettled urbina defenders: the opacity means we cannot see if anything bad is going on so nothing bad can be going on, no of course we did not ask follow-up questions why is that relevantian urbina: *the maddening mask-like smile of the most prolific song-composer in history intensifies* massed freelance plebs of the internet (me) all too familiar with how this always goes: !!! #️⃣ ⚡️ 💣 !!!
― mark s, Friday, 10 December 2021 10:33 (two years ago) link
otm
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Saturday, 11 December 2021 00:27 (two years ago) link
anyone got any new recs? not of tubers strictly but anything good on tube
i've been really into this wisconsin dude who trims injured and infected cow hooves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NatetheHoof
generally not into gross stuff or body horror video, it's not really like that (there's also a scot who does the same thing but he's insufferable and puts crap music on his shit)
― goole, Saturday, 15 January 2022 07:47 (two years ago) link
ok that blew up the link
― goole, Saturday, 15 January 2022 07:48 (two years ago) link