The "Angry Video Game Nerd" guy did a similar thing with two VHS tapes, copying a video back and forth over and over: http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/05/26/vhs-generation-loss/
so: prior art?!
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
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
No, I'm pretty tomatoes are just sold as tomatoes. Produce is produce until you're trying to justify charging a multiplier of the base price.
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#53Does this mean YouTube's compression settings don't target a specific bit-rate but instead aim to make it "no larger than X and at least y% smaller" than what was uploaded? I'm surprised it's not just a pass-through at a certain point (if nothing else, that'd save CPU cycles).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1402382
Apparently it was himself who re-encoded the video, not youtube. Dont know where jemfinch got that info though.
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
He could work on something else during that month. Automation!
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#55I 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.
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#56Was 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.
There is a rather large spiritual aspect to mankind's creation of art.
If you look at the history of art, in the western world and elsewhere, it is strongly tied to some sort of religion.
Religious practice typically implements some sort of repetitive behavior or meditation, where the goal is not necessarily to get something done in the physical world.
If you run the process through some sort of reductionist approach, you wouldn't have art to begin with. Why even make a piece of art? What's the point?
While it is interesting to view the creation of art through the lens of an engineer, any attempt to criticize the work through only this lens is not going to stand up very well.
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#57What's the difference between an artist and a Perl programmer? 364 days and 23 hours.
The artist hit the front page.
Re: Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times
#58Was 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.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are clear reasons why not everyone is an artist, patience and endurance is are a huge part of it.
That's also the same reason many people look down on (modern) artists. The use patience to do something everyone else would do in a more efficient way.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Despite what you might think, the majority of the planet has no clue what a shell script is.
Savages.