A review for July- Comic... I mean Vidcon!

I don’t want Vidcon to be Comic-Con.

If I ever meet Hank Green, one of five question I’ll ask him is “Do you think Vidcon will be like Comic-con?” because I want to know if Hank wants to go down that route.

Comic-con is more TCA press release for fans. People from the media show up and share stories and their upcoming something. It’s all the same.

Sure, there’s some community involved but Comic-con is just too big. Why people go to comic con anyway?

Vidcon is little bit different. Most people go for the community and friendship more than seeing YouTubers.

In fact, I like the variety in the YouTube conventions.

(Sorry for the rough segway, I don’t want to get ranty and I wanted to get to the main point.)

The three big con in US have their own quirks.

Playlist Live in Orlando is for the fans. They set up the room like there’s celebrities and fans and fangirls just swarm to see people. So if you just want to fangirl, then Playlist Live is the place to go.

Vidcon in Anaheim is more community based. Talks are more Comic-con like but other activities are to strengthen the community between the fans and creator (and the people in between!) Vidcon will try to make friends and have a happy atmosphere then just to idolize people.

Vloggerfair in Seattle is spontaneous. I don’t if the thing was supposed to be spontaneous but I like that it’s spontaneous. People can doing anything, provided the equipment and people can create weird stuff that came out of nowhere... I like that about Vloggerfair and they should take note on that.

The three fairs are also located in the corners of USA. Seattle in the NW corner, Anaheim in the SW corner, and Orlando on the SE corner.

Perhaps a different con based in New York and Boston, perhaps specified in structure and adventure, like the MP3 Experiment, will complete the four corners of YouTube.

Seattle (NW) Spontaneity, New York or Boston (NE) Activity, Orlando (SE) Celebrity, Anaheim (SW) Community UNITE!

With the four combined, YouTube becomes a stronger place, bringing happiness to the world!

Okay, but seriously... coordination between the three (or four) will be nice and also keep down the audience number as not to over-inflate like Comic Con has become.

Hope Hank or John or any of the event organizers see this and take it into consideration.

Thank you.

And thank you to sticking with me for the past month or some of the month if you’re like that. This experience made me more excited about YouTube and media in general and perhaps give me courage to pursue it further... Thank you.

A review for July- I Give Up, You Are Worthless (There's context)

You know what. Serious post was yesterday.

If I had editing skills, I will just cut between Charlie eating cereal and Hayley eating a burrito and therefore make the most awkward date ever.

(Also, This Is Me reference.)

Just think about that. Also, someone go do it.

A review for July- Regret

What’s with all this wonderful videos flooding my sub box?

I told you I was going away for a day!

At least, I have a topic in my head.

I regret a lot of thing.

I regret what I done and what I should have done.

But you can’t go back in time.

I regret a lot about YouTube.

I wish I could find this wonderful community sooner.

Most wish that, I guess.

But, least I’m here right now. Talking to you.

Regardless, I’ll be here.

Still regretting, still missing opportunities

I have to catch up on the video and I’ll come back tomorrow.

Wonder what I did was right.

What I shared, what I explored.

I tend to behind on stuff.

Like the universe is just few moment faster than me.

Perhaps, that’s that.

So, again see you tomorrow.

And hope you won’t regret many things.

As I did

(PS. Do you like this style?)

A review for July- Bump

Another short post today. Tomorrow will also be short, so there will be two more real post in the series.

I will also lament how I can’t every part of YouTube as there’s so much niche is YouTube including Beauty, Gaming, Elevator Videos... there’s lot of weird stuff in YouTube.

In the early days of YouTube, I found lot of community on YouTube.

First, there was the atheists, which were more thriving back in 2007- 2009. There were precursor or science community we know today and premier source of scientific information back then. Now people have either left or turn to vitriol and anger like the rest of the religions. I sigh.

There’s brief foray to Let’s Play, which was fascinating, but it was too much of a time even then.

Then, there was this person who made toy videos that thousand videos and people mentioning each other like little community, which made super curious as to other ‘secret communities out there.

Game show was the first type of media that I piqued in and there’s lot people who upload and store those precious rare videos, all gone in archives now. Well, they are mostly on YouTube but you know gone in VHS Format or the like... there were community based around it, okay?

There was, are and will be many more communities on YouTube and I can’t possibly cover in one month of daily posts. So let’s acknowledge the missing and hopefully I can get back to you on tomorrow.

A review for July- Sorry update

As July peters out to August and the Summer is heading towards our memories, I don’t know what to talk about.

So, let’s talk about August.

As before, I’ll traveling around the Puget for month of August, in series of day trips... hopefully, I can make videos and show it to you in my first blog at davidkimlive.blogspot.com

I want to start 12 episode anime series again, there’s two episode out and the third is lost... sorry! but hopefully this 12 episode series will end happily.

Speaking of reviews, I want to do some review in video form... in all different medias... hopefully, it’ll be fun.

I don’t know. I’m shouting things here. I’m bored and I have nothing else to do.

4 days left. Hopefully I have topics to cover.

A review for July- Elders of YouTube

First, the shoutout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEEDKLfcyjo

Now, the video. Mickeleh is one of those person who I want to meet in August.

Actually, Mickeleh is one of the person I want to be in the future.

He worked with Apple but sadly lives in Seattle area and now making videos... intermittently.

Now, his videos are usually frequent but sometimes there’s big gaps somewhen.

So, by having this little shoutout will help.

I like Mickeleh’s ideas and his ingenuity... he gives a fresh spin to the idea and make my thoughts go in different places.

When I’m older, I hope I’m still cool enough like Mickeleh to relate the new with the old and continue searching for the new and changing world.

There’s small but significant part of elderly in the YouTube sphere, including Mickeleh’s friend, Bill Elder.

As a radio man, probably best approximation of YouTube in the olden days in terms of accessibility and content, he is cut out of YouTube and makes thought provoking videos on topics wishing around YouTube.

Of course, there’s Peter, geriatric1929 on YouTube. He has amusing insight of his life and ideas on his long life ahead. He was the top back in 2006 and he’s back in a little corner, quietly making videos.

So, two short recommendation and one long one. How’s that for today.

So, as the event arises, this is a not sketch video... (I have written one in July, though... find it yourself...(sorry for the cranky behavior he’s upset about something... (no I’m not!) There, there you’ll be fine... sorry for any inconvenience it makes.))

But maybe one more in the following week... gosh, only 5 blog post till this project is over!

Thanks for your support. Hopefully I’ll be making few more post on all my blogs.

(Also, have you noticed how the description bar shifts to share when the video is finished?)

(Sure it might be helpful but I have no other places to share! My I’ll steal my sister’s tumblr....)

A reviews of July- That weird line...

I always liked to play with characters. Groups of people, you know. When I was a wee child, I \’ll go looking at people and shouting out what I thought they thought as they passed by. Little rude, but I was 5 or so and I didn’t knew a lot of modesty back then.

Now, I’m spending a month talking about some random people I found on the streets of the internet. In a way, that anecdote above was what internet feels like sometimes. You’re walking along a street and there’s some guy just babbling about your life as if he knows you or something and you don’t even notice that much and you don’t care for it, except for those who care for it are extremely embarrassed.

I don’t know. I just want my brain to less of the ideas of above because this amount to nothing in real life, right. Okay, I was being little rebellious there, but there’s still stuff in my head for scripts of YouTubers.

Ideas putting YouTuber in some way and making a script about it like I could ever meet them. They are not celebrities or normal people; they’re quantum manifestation of both and I am uncomfortable at the both sides.

For them as celebrity, I feel like I’m wasting time with these random ideas and for normal people, well it’s awkward to walk up to some random person and say ‘Hey, I know you!’ It’s a weird feeling for the both parties involved.

So what do I do? I like to write them but I get frustrated and embarrassed about it. Being the observer has its benefits, of course. But since observing is interaction and it’s a very awkward interaction, I always get skived.

But I guess as people does fanart and fanfiction, I guess I can write my script about some random dude I know from the internet.

So, maybe in the next few day, ideas not impending, I’ll write some of the scripts in my head and hopefully you’ll enjoy them.

Also, July is almost over and I am going around Seattle and it’s surrounding region in August. It’ll only be a day trip at most so steal my stuff or something.

Recommend me some place I could visit. Hidden places, to be more exact.

Also, write comments. I just want to see if people here are not just spams.

Sorry for all these extra thoughts. I sometime have a compulsion to fill the page in the word document I’m writing this on.

Here, there’s an unnecessary line break! And to top it off, goodbye!

A review for July- Hoaxes and Whatnot

As human have begun to walk the earth, there has been frauds and hoaxes.

Internet just made it more fun.

And so today... sorry, I won’t write like this anytime soon.

Anyways, Hoaxes. They’re on the internet. And people fall for them, but I don’t because I have this banana.

Sorry, I was definitely ripping off frigginboom that time. Sorry, again. (He’s just great, you know. There’s so much to discover on YouTube.)

Okay... To talk about hoaxes on the internet, you must talk about two things.

First is Lonelygirl15. It was first narrative phenomena on YouTube and basically set up what web show will look like on YouTube.

It had some clever plots and the slow unravelling truth behind the production was fantastic and it added the aura that was LG15. Show made us realize something of importance of web as beyond the box and that production can play with the settings to create some meanings.

Second is The Beast. First ARG, the only good thing that came out of AI, basically. I mean I seriously think Kubrick just died at the right time.   Every great movie director must go downhill somehow and Kubrick defied that by dying. Best way to leave a situation, obviously.

Spielberg took the fall, also clashing of Spielberg and Kubrick made a little cushion. (Oh, it was just Spielberg trying to be Kubrick, it could never work... that kind of a thing.)

I just think that ARG in part is fascinating and fun to follow. The puzzle are hard to solve and people behind it is so admiring to me, trying keep this in bay.

But, that’s outside of YouTube... third type of hoax are not-hoaxes, programs that uses the tropes of hoaxes, which more like sexynerdgirl or MyMusic...

Anyway, a short episode, just talking a little break.

Tomorrow will be something completely different.

A review for July- SCIENCE!

Long, Long time ago, I was searching through weird periodic table (like this one)

And I came across this site and I was fascinated by it.

So I watched all the videos in two sittings (God, bingeing through chemistry videos? I’m such a nerd) and discovered the world of Brady and Professor Martyn and his crew doing all sorts of experiments and stuff. I naturally continued to the physics department, Sixty Symbols, and enjoyed more professors and their quirks.

Then I encounter the Britain video that went viral and the man behind it, CGPGrey and minutephysics which was bubbling up and Vihart, which was recommended by the Vlogbrothers.

Along with Vsauce which was becoming more scientifical, I suddenly had lot of science people on YouTube.

Then, it slowly merged together. When this video came up, I was confused and shocked.

...

...

... WHAT!

You know that feeling you get... let’s say you know a neighbor down at the street and...

You know what just watch the first thirty second of this...

So, people started to come together in a weird way. There was this STEM conference and YouTube EDU thing and the community was certainly catapulted to our YouTube sphere.

That’s the thing I like about YouTube and science. Both inevitably results in collaboration... that’s the goal, to share and create great ideas together.

No wonder internet and the world wide web had a scientific purpose in the beginning. Purpose of quicker sharing of information to large groups of people.

Most people forget what internet and world wide web is about but these science have proved, the system still works.

Internet is there to inform not to desensitize.

There’s more to this information, look at HowToBasic and this channel explaining pronunciation...

Like how to say angina. Wait, that’s not how to say angina.

What’s with the wrong pronunciation? And what’s with this?

What’s going on? What’s the latest video? What?

What is going on here... (that’s not even the latest video!)

A review for July- Fine Brothers (and more...)

To me, Fine Brothers is an excellent choice for talking about YouTube going mainstream.

Fine Brothers had their hits, first the Lost Parody (Which was when I first came in) and then Kids React.

Also Fine Brothers is the showrunner for MyMusic, first sitcom experiment in YouTube.

Now, Fine Brothers always wanted to make a show in the tele-sphere. Or television as most people call it, and that is an appreciable dream, but there’s something about the web that works with the Fine Bros.

If you see MyMusic and its goals, it’s clear they’re not bringing TV to YouTube but rather the opposite... The brothers created a YouTube place for the TV show to breathe.

MyMusic, as the Fine Brothers wanted, goes canon with the other web shows. They want to create ‘The Illusion of Reality’ because the web as we know it is so linked to our reality that fiction on the web can’t remove themselves from the reality.

Some say that’s the best part about the web series. And I don’t have to agree to make the case but it does imply that making a show on the web is fundamentally different.

I talked about this few months ago, but the web series’s relation with reality is confusing. In television, you’re a visitor, seeing a world through a lense. A limited experiment granted by ‘God’ There’s sense of remoteness and separation that comes from watching television or listening to a radio.

Only books causally poked to our reality and audience addressed us but there’s still uncertainty as to who you are. Web makes the fiction a two-way street. There’s influence on the audience as much as the characters. Some say you are the characters yourself. But it’s more like visiting angel than anything.

Audience participation is core of what makes Web unique and people going to television need to remind that they mastered a different art and they need weld a different sword to be on television.

People think the theatre of the absurd or any postmodern book is confusing for student, but the reality is that people are breathing in the postmodern world.

I remember my teacher saying, “We have a created a generation that questions the idea of life itself.” And this is what we should have in mind as we study the internet.

One of the speeches I gave, I stressed the importance of written communication and the removal of the non-verbal language as a fundamental change in our society.

Writing is preserved for the future, not meant to be spoken like a language. It doesn’t have weight to it. Writing is bare and minimal like jerky or canned peaches, all the freshness is sucked and replaced with preservatives. When words are spoken, there’s so much more that people understand as the signal present themselves as extra information.

In writing, you have to remember what the person was and try fill in the gap of the word and its placement. (That’s why grammar is so import in writing, its placement is the only clue to your feeling about the sentence.)

We have replaced our tones and arm expression with arms and emoji but still, text lack a significant image.

Snapchat and YouTube is starting to change all that but people still use text for short-term communication.

Going back to the point, web is a different beast. Shaky relationship with reality, shaky communication leading to more primal urges and both going both ways.

We started to think reality as more fiction as we start to think of fiction as the reality.

We go around thinking about our image and our appearance (both outside and inside) as if we’re being watched or critiqued... we focus on sculpting our mediated persona than, ourselves really.

To some, the concept is ridiculous but most can perceive the importance of fame and somewhat beauty rising and fortune being corollary to fame.

I am an observer, watching our changing world. These loose thought are coming back again, and my creative juice is starting to flow. I think I can make it till the end of July. So stick around and come back tomorrow for another post like this. (Is that good or not...)