I'm sure Youtube loved getting spammed with a 1000 very similar videos
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
#12Was 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.
Are you just making the blind assumption that he's a programmer?
One year means he could have spent 364 days learning how to program and do all the 1000 uploads on the final day of the year...
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#13The process reminds me of this post:
http://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/355-How-I-M...
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#14The "Angry Video Game Nerd" guy did a similar thing with two VHS tapes, copying a video back and forth over and over:
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#15I'm sure Youtube loved getting spammed with a 1000 very similar videos
Probably not as much as they loved an interesting story about YouTube on prominent websites.
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#16I'm too lazy to look this up, but did the video get smaller or larger with the iteration number? This is more interesting to me than the look
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#17Was 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.
Sometimes the artistic process is just as important as the final product.
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.)
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#18Was 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.
Yeah, I immediately thought of this t-shirt when reading your comment :)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations...
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#19I'm too lazy to look this up, but did the video get smaller or larger with the iteration number? This is more interesting to me than the look
Time: yes
File size: yes
Not sure why the time dropped.
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you just making the blind assumption that he's a programmer?
One year means he could have spent 364 days learning how to program and do all the 1000 uploads on the final day of the year...
I agree, but...
One day for 1000 iterations means 86.4 seconds to upload to youtube, wait for encoding to finish, then download it.
Youtube is slower than that. :-)
Better give it a week. Maybe a month.