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

Post by megablast » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 12:47 AM UTC

jemfinch wrote: post #35

jazzychad wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

The thing is, I'm not convinced that it's youtube's fault; apparently he converted it to mp4 on his own computer after the download from youtube, before re-uploading it. I wonder if he'd have had the same effect if he'd uploaded the same format he ripped from youtube.

Post by mos1b » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 1:25 AM UTC

kiba wrote: post #83

mos1b wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 think some people are rather contemptuous of individuals who brought art down to the standard of "simply a bunch of paints splattered on a canvas". So much so that it become indistinguishable from a mess. I could even imagine a bunch of every-day normal freelance laborers cleaning an art gallery and accidentally throwing thousand of dollars worth of art piece simply because it is indistinguishable from a mess. Art…

Post by eru » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 1:36 AM UTC

mscarborough wrote: post #94

eru wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance

Good point, but it's possible that he enjoyed the process somewhat. Recording 'I am sitting in a room' probably became a little tedious for Lucier as well, in all the time he spent from conceptualization until completion. And even if he did not enjoy it at all, patio11 makes another good point about it being a better background story for the piece.

Post by jokermatt999 » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 1:38 AM UTC

jemfinch wrote: post #35

jazzychad wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

The thing is, I'm not convinced that it's youtube's fault; apparently he converted it to mp4 on his own computer after the download from youtube, before re-uploading it. I wonder if he'd have had the same effect if he'd uploaded the same format he ripped from youtube.

Post by jokermatt999 » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 1:52 AM UTC

jerf wrote: post #50

celoyd wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

re-encoding an mp3 doesn't do much Sure it does, typically. It’s no different from video in this way: ideally, all of the image features that would get thrown out were thrown out the first time, but the codec isn’t that smart. Most implementations of lossy compression algorithms don’t have stability under re-encoding as a goal. (A few do – some image editors are smart about passing through unchanged JPEG blocks, for…

Why hypothesize? Create a directory. Copy your favorite MP3 into it as both "source.mp3" and "orig.mp3". (orig.mp3 is just for convenient comparison later.) Then: for i in {1..100}; do lame source.mp3 dest.mp3; mv -f dest.mp3 source.mp3; done Then listen to the resulting "source.mp3" at the end. Send whatever params to lame you want in that command line, though the defaults strike me as pretty good for this test. BTW…