Comments on: Is creating art using your power for good? http://blog.nerdery.com/2008/12/is-creating-art-using-your-power-for-good/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:40:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sumpygump http://blog.nerdery.com/2008/12/is-creating-art-using-your-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Sumpygump Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:50:55 +0000 http://blog.nerdery.com/?p=114#comment-14 I will have to read the whole of Shirky's article, but I don't think we have a surplus of talent, energy and thinking because we have been storing it up by wasting time watching TV. That really doesn't make sense. I think that we have all had talent, we just haven't had a way to share it so easily. I love the idea of creating art for good... that sounds cool. Oh, and I LOVE that Thriller video! It's missing the loon call, though :( And I love the theremin sound. And the drn dnrnr drn dnrnr drn dnrnr dnrnr drn part. I will have to read the whole of Shirky’s article, but I don’t think we have a surplus of talent, energy and thinking because we have been storing it up by wasting time watching TV. That really doesn’t make sense. I think that we have all had talent, we just haven’t had a way to share it so easily.
I love the idea of creating art for good… that sounds cool.
Oh, and I LOVE that Thriller video! It’s missing the loon call, though :( And I love the theremin sound. And the drn dnrnr drn dnrnr drn dnrnr dnrnr drn part.

]]> By: Ryan http://blog.nerdery.com/2008/12/is-creating-art-using-your-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Ryan Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:57:26 +0000 http://blog.nerdery.com/?p=114#comment-13 That excerpt from Shirky's article made absolutely no sense to me until, 2 hours later, I realized the little girl was looking for a computer mouse and not a rodent. Those were a tormenting 2 hours, too, as I wondered "Why am I not smart/informed/hip enough to _get_ this?" Oh, and that video is creepy. Impressive, but creepy. That excerpt from Shirky’s article made absolutely no sense to me until, 2 hours later, I realized the little girl was looking for a computer mouse and not a rodent. Those were a tormenting 2 hours, too, as I wondered “Why am I not smart/informed/hip enough to _get_ this?” Oh, and that video is creepy. Impressive, but creepy.

]]> By: J. Edward Roddington http://blog.nerdery.com/2008/12/is-creating-art-using-your-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-12 J. Edward Roddington Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:35:55 +0000 http://blog.nerdery.com/?p=114#comment-12 Okay. This is interesting because it touches on some underdeveloped thoughts I've had for a while now about "Web 2.0." Not to put too fine a point on it, but I believe it will ultimately be the death of comedy. My hypothesis is ill-thought-out, but I need only to direct you to upstart "comedy" websites such as comedy.com or funnyordie.com to make my point. This Thriller video is pretty amazing, and I was impressed by the Bike Hero video until I just now learned it was a commercial. But there are a LOT of people out there making some seriously mediocre crap they misguidedly believe is comedy gold. And no one seems to be calling them on it. In my more optimistic moments, I like to think this will be the death of the internet as we know it. But I am no optimist. Okay. This is interesting because it touches on some underdeveloped thoughts I’ve had for a while now about “Web 2.0.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but I believe it will ultimately be the death of comedy. My hypothesis is ill-thought-out, but I need only to direct you to upstart “comedy” websites such as comedy.com or funnyordie.com to make my point.

This Thriller video is pretty amazing, and I was impressed by the Bike Hero video until I just now learned it was a commercial. But there are a LOT of people out there making some seriously mediocre crap they misguidedly believe is comedy gold. And no one seems to be calling them on it. In my more optimistic moments, I like to think this will be the death of the internet as we know it. But I am no optimist.

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