Thanks to all who posted encouraging comments about my first foray into video. The piece is coming along, it's now down to 50 MB and I jury-rigged a way to sync the audio. I was able to save a thumbnailized, super compressed copy at 9.5 MB, but it looks like, um, shit.
Many of the comments were about trying to get me to switch from a PC to the Macintosh ecosystem. I have more to say on this subject, but in brief, I don't know how I can continue to claim, in my artist statement, that "My work proudly inhabits the 'lo-fi' or 'abject' end of the digital spectrum" if I am using the ideal, "hi fi" system. I wound up in PC-land quite by accident, but it's the way I think most people end up there: it's the computer of choice of managerial types in the American workplace. At a certain point I had so much PC-made work on floppies (done on lunch breaks, of course!) that when my old Mac SE no longer cut it at home, I had no real choice about what to buy to replace it. But this is boring. I also perversely like being outside the orbit of the Mac fetishists, where things tend to look and get done a certain way. I've kidded elsewhere about the laptop chic of New York art events--part of me wants to join it, but there's also something to be said for using the tools of the proles. Think Carl Andre in his carpenter overalls. Oops, not a good example.
MAC will win!! :-)
If you get am imac it's not as if you're using the same machine that Spielberg has access to. Imovie is still pretty crappy. It seems like if crappy lo-fi nostalgia is your thing you should be working on an Amiga. They were great, and you could pick one up for cheap. Okay maintaining a blog at 14.4 might be problematic but it seems like a small price to pay for being truly lo-fi.
I do understand wanting to avoid buying a new machine, and I can understand not wanting to jump on the” Apple cart”. But apple still has less than 4% of the market. And they really do make the machines and software best suited for being an artist. To me it seems like saying, I want to be a hockey player, but if I get my own stick everyone will think I’m really good. Get the stick, you’ll still suck.
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Thanks, Dave.
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Thanks to all who posted encouraging comments about my first foray into video. The piece is coming along, it's now down to 50 MB and I jury-rigged a way to sync the audio. I was able to save a thumbnailized, super compressed copy at 9.5 MB, but it looks like, um, shit.
Many of the comments were about trying to get me to switch from a PC to the Macintosh ecosystem. I have more to say on this subject, but in brief, I don't know how I can continue to claim, in my artist statement, that "My work proudly inhabits the 'lo-fi' or 'abject' end of the digital spectrum" if I am using the ideal, "hi fi" system. I wound up in PC-land quite by accident, but it's the way I think most people end up there: it's the computer of choice of managerial types in the American workplace. At a certain point I had so much PC-made work on floppies (done on lunch breaks, of course!) that when my old Mac SE no longer cut it at home, I had no real choice about what to buy to replace it. But this is boring. I also perversely like being outside the orbit of the Mac fetishists, where things tend to look and get done a certain way. I've kidded elsewhere about the laptop chic of New York art events--part of me wants to join it, but there's also something to be said for using the tools of the proles. Think Carl Andre in his carpenter overalls. Oops, not a good example.
- tom moody 11-13-2004 7:10 pm
MAC will win!! :-)
- twhid 11-13-2004 9:26 pm
If you get am imac it's not as if you're using the same machine that Spielberg has access to. Imovie is still pretty crappy. It seems like if crappy lo-fi nostalgia is your thing you should be working on an Amiga. They were great, and you could pick one up for cheap. Okay maintaining a blog at 14.4 might be problematic but it seems like a small price to pay for being truly lo-fi.
I do understand wanting to avoid buying a new machine, and I can understand not wanting to jump on the” Apple cart”. But apple still has less than 4% of the market. And they really do make the machines and software best suited for being an artist. To me it seems like saying, I want to be a hockey player, but if I get my own stick everyone will think I’m really good. Get the stick, you’ll still suck.
- joester 11-13-2004 10:10 pm
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- dave 11-19-2004 8:31 pm
Thanks, Dave.
- tom moody 11-20-2004 1:21 am