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Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times

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Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times

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while I dont particularly understand the parent comment about people looking down on modern artists for being inefficient, they certainly didnt say they did so themselves, and even if they did it would in no way excuse this vitriolic hate filled reply. Since your account is brand new for this comment, you more than likely are aware this is the type of comment that gets an account banned, and hope that something is in…

Let me try again:

Only a supremely self-involved, judgmental, narcissistic asshole would think it's appropriate to look down on others for having different ideas about how they want to spend the short time we get on this planet.

Truly, it's hard to imagine how badly one's parents would have to fuck up to raise a child that thought that such sentiments were appropriate.

Those who might look down upon others for engaging in an inefficient activity are not just hypocrites, they are arrogant fools. They are asserting that they know the best way for every person to spend their life.

It is sad that HN appears to support such thoughtless, worthless, bigoted, narcissistic behavior.

Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times

#72

Was the aspect of using YouTube's servers so critical to the artistic quality of this project that he couldn't just substitute a shell script that encodes the video 1000 times over? Would've taken a heck of a lot less time than the year he spent.

Perhaps, in addition to the artistic aspect of it, he wanted to educate people about what actually happens to video when it is sent to youtube. This is much more relatable than saying, "I wrote this shell script..." Also, having the log of all 1000 versions on youtube is interesting as well. The other thing about art is that time is usually not a large motivating factor...

He proved that point at #100, I guess. And you really think this as an art?

Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times

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A lot of modern art is sold as a story, and for whatever reason the kind of folks who matter think that "did something by hand a thousand times" is a much better story than "wrote a Perl script." Art isn't the only thing that has stories, incidentally. Tomatoes have stories these days. (OK, the kind of tomatoes rich people eat have stories. Only poor people eat tomatoes that have no stories.)

i think products targeted at low income demographics are very much sold with a story. a kind of utilitarian "sensibleness" which facilitates contempt for more expensive products. why would advertisers neglect to exploit human psychology at all socioeconomic levels?

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Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times

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post #71

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while I dont particularly understand the parent comment about people looking down on modern artists for being inefficient, they certainly didnt say they did so themselves, and even if they did it would in no way excuse this vitriolic hate filled reply. Since your account is brand new for this comment, you more than likely are aware this is the type of comment that gets an account banned, and hope that something is in…

Let me try again: Only a supremely self-involved, judgmental, narcissistic asshole would think it's appropriate to look down on others for having different ideas about how they want to spend the short time we get on this planet. Truly, it's hard to imagine how badly one's parents would have to fuck up to raise a child that thought that such sentiments were appropriate. Those who might look down upon others for engagi…

Woah there, "mos1b". No need for that.

Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times

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post #36

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There are clear reasons why not everyone is an artist, patience and endurance is are a huge part of it.

Don't mistake patience and endurance for skill.

1% inspiration, 99% persipration.

Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times

#78

The HN community could have saved a lot of time writing a shell script to post a snide comment about writing a shell script from every account instead of forcing everyone in the thread to do it individually.

I think that, simply, this sort of art is quite different from what large parts of the HN crowd would consider artistic/beautiful.

(personally: doesn't do anything for me as art)

Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times

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post #23

I did something like this - I took an image and rotated it a couple hundred times in Windows Explorer. It gradually degraded into a blurry blob.

Which is pathetic, since it's possible to do a lossless (I mean not incrementally lossy) rotation of JPG's.

MS Windows (XP IIRC) used to warn you if you used the built in image rotation function for JPEGs that it was lossy. I've a feeling it was fixed in SP2 but I've not used MS Win for years so am not really sure.

Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times

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post #71

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while I dont particularly understand the parent comment about people looking down on modern artists for being inefficient, they certainly didnt say they did so themselves, and even if they did it would in no way excuse this vitriolic hate filled reply. Since your account is brand new for this comment, you more than likely are aware this is the type of comment that gets an account banned, and hope that something is in…

Let me try again: Only a supremely self-involved, judgmental, narcissistic asshole would think it's appropriate to look down on others for having different ideas about how they want to spend the short time we get on this planet. Truly, it's hard to imagine how badly one's parents would have to fuck up to raise a child that thought that such sentiments were appropriate. Those who might look down upon others for engagi…

I guess the irony of your statement is lost on you. Funny, though.
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