increased appetite for Content, bigger audience->bigger production budget->ostensibly better videos, gotta take more time out and thank the patreon supporters, etc.
― class project pat (m bison), Thursday, 22 April 2021 12:10 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I get that with, say, ContraPoints where there is actual set design, but with a lot of others the difference seems to be entirely graduating from "here's me talking to a camera for 20min" to "here's me talking to a camera for 2 hours".
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 22 April 2021 12:27 (three years ago) link
I don’t watch youtubers who make videos that long, but considering YouTube’s upsell pitch is “audio keeps playing even when the video isn’t being displayed” I think a lot of people basically use YouTube as a podcast app
― circles, Thursday, 22 April 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
I also assume lockdown has made watching never-ending videos a less off-putting prospect than usual.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 22 April 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
Contrapoints has said the algorithm rewards longer videos, I think.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 22 April 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
I was aware of this channel (Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't) before but hadn't watched much until a friend sent me a link to the videos he made in the UP of Michigan, where I grew up. Having lived in Chicago I find the heavy accent mostly hilarious, it's like watching one of the Superfans talk about botany and geology. Other people might find it a bit much but I dunno.
This is one of his UP videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfGETxg2ofU
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 24 April 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
That was awesome.
― lukas, Saturday, 24 April 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
2 Minute Papers looks entertaining, thanks!
I like to watch old episodes of Only Connect on Youtube -- by far the most fun gameshow I've seen.Here's a playlist of season 10
― Øystein, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link
An old standard with one of his funniest yet. His brother is like the stoned version of him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrsnnFgHZaA
― imago, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
I mentioned forestyforest in here a bit more than a year ago, but really want to highlight him again as his videos have only gone from strength to strength in that time and he remains the most fantastically awesome and wholesome seeming guy. His drone shots of driving through the Canadian backcountry and from various mountain summits are fantastic to see and his wry sense of humour comes out in his wee edits and interludes. My overall favourite YouTuber nowadays, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 15 May 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
Urgh, I was trying to share link to the channel in general, but that doesn't seem to have worked very well. Try below instead...
forestyforest on YouTube
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 15 May 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
any particular favorites? there's a lot!
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 15 May 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
I'll try to find some of the ones with more outdoors and mountain summit stuff, as those are the really good ones for me. Recently quite a few videos have been more van life oriented while he tweaks his new larger 4x4 van, which are probably not the most exciting or indicative introductions to the channel.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 15 May 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
This guy is doing some good work, IMOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeEyncm_jQ
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 28 May 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link
Just a man, his parrot and some tunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwre2BwRfIs
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 5 June 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
Important raccoon whisperer news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I37oyWYOUM
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 19 June 2021 05:52 (two years ago) link
GeoWizard profiled in the Guardian, which spoiled the ending of his Scotland trip despite him asking the reporter not to. People in his patreon getting worried the media coverage might lead to lawsuits - which I think is prob inevitable down the line anyway, if he continues getting more popular? Enjoy it while it lasts is I guess what I'm saying.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 19 June 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
Seems like he's recently had a visit from the police, and as a result he's had to edit one of the Scotland videos to remove the part where they cross a railway line.
― AlanSmithee, Monday, 5 July 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
Genuinely impressive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w30AdwJMVa0
― pomenitul, Saturday, 10 July 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
lol i bullshitted my way to getting 4 of those right! (1, 4, 5, and 6) but i would have very little way of explaining why i got them.
― class project pat (m bison), Saturday, 10 July 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIe5GKyLPek
I can't decide if he is or isn't terrible tbh
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 10 July 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Footage of our future overlords putting us to shame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_bEtbfB9U
― pomenitul, Saturday, 17 July 2021 12:47 (two years ago) link
We worked with Keaton Patti to make a bot watch over 400,000 hours of stand up comedy and then write its own special. Here is the best it could do.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 17 July 2021 12:49 (two years ago) link
New Contrapoints out today.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 7 August 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
Kirsten Dirksen, makes very loose videos about people who have built or renovated unusual homes all over the world, they're very simple and the lack of polish is actually quite complimentary.
They're obviously heavily reliant on the subject so not all of them are zingers, but a lot of them are worth your time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcovbvpRdr4
― Maresn3st, Monday, 9 August 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link
I've been waiting for Contrapoints to get into more psychoanalytic territory for a while, so was thrilled by the latest video. Amazing as always, though I might have expected a little more Kleinian theory given that she's kind of the authority on the subject. Would have loved to hear Natalie applying split object theory to politics. Being someone who struggles greatly with an even more archly recursive and hostile form of 'not like other girls' syndrome, I was hoping for more of an envy-solving prescription in the summary than say yes to everything!. How does one cultivate such a permissive attitude to oneself and others in the face of an all-consuming paranoia for example, a friend might ask...
The Nietzsche quote about forgiveness being appositive to slave morality (ressentiment) and aligned with master morality felt like a false equivalence. Like, I get that not being compelled to take revenge is less contemptuous and more desirable, but forgiveness feels like a stretch. Is empowered indifference the same as forgiveness? Maybe it is. Maybe I need to read the book. This isn't the thread for this.
Anyway, I hope she gets to take a break now. Who could even edit a video like that?
― tangent x (tangenttangent), Monday, 9 August 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNINWMqxQQc
Harpist who demos guitar pedals
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 16 August 2021 02:49 (two years ago) link
yeah she’s great.also love contrapoints. great thread!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 August 2021 06:28 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U54HRmglYEA
― Maresn3st, Monday, 16 August 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
she has some videos of people living in ancient houses in rural spain that are just so pretty
― criminally negligible (harbl), Monday, 16 August 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link
The new Hainbach video on forgotten Italian synths is an absolute delight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ-sVujDlS8
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mrdd5-ehb8
The Electrical Audio/Albini educational series is pretty cool
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
Jacques Pepin has gotten even more soothing with age
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g93sAo2cFM
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
Andrew is so good at letting his interviewees talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HghwNhrLNP0
― DJI, Thursday, 2 September 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
andrew's "mm-hm" straight face is all-time
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 September 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
Sohla and Ham's series is good shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybNex3XsgFc
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 September 2021 23:57 (two years ago) link
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't had this out-of-the-ordinary episode recently, many funny moments but the sea shanty is the best part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uAkqsDRrIw
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 1 November 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Featureman
featureman: an old man named tom willett who was for many years an extra in Hollywood (his biggest role was a recurring non-speaking part in the Judd Hirsch sitcom "dear John"). eats food, mainly terrible looking stuff - a can of spaghetti with hunks of onion and spam was the most recent one I watched - and tells stories about his life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIix6MklfJ
Country Life Vlog. an Azeri couple cooks, and does other things like chop wood, make tea gather berries, in the the outdoors.
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 1 November 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
yes, i am subscribed to country life vlog and i love it. there is another similar one but i forgot what it was--will probably come up in your recommendations.
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Monday, 1 November 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
Linus Bowman's design YT channel is so hilariously macro but compelling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPmlv7cDk6Q
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
oh nice thanks
― Spottie, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaEQP-SiRlA
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 28 November 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
Not always a big fan of Benn Jordan’s videos but this one is great.
This one is important. How A NYTimes Reporter Collects Royalties From Hundreds of Musicians:https://t.co/W6GxIrUPCm— Benn Jordan (@bennjordan) December 2, 2021
Ian Urbina’s book is legitimately good (assuming the reporting is trustworthy) so it’s wild to see him running something that looks objectively like a massive scam.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 3 December 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
Wow, that seems straight-up illegal.
― DJI, Friday, 3 December 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
looked up Ian Urbina on apple music and the first thought I had was “well, this page is taking suspiciously long to load” what a scamming shithead
― mh, Friday, 3 December 2021 18:43 (two years ago) link
huge bummer because urbina seems to do genuinely good and important work
Please take some time to read this article in the @NewYorker by @ian_urbina, from The Outlaw Ocean Project, which sheds light on the shadow immigration system stopping migrants before they reach Europe’s shores. https://t.co/Ka5YGPzFlG— Peter Gabriel (@itspetergabriel) December 3, 2021
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 December 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
yeah, I don’t know how things got to this point, but it’s just… a really weird situation?
I ran across a profile on the project where he seemed to imply that the music project would help fund his investigative reporting work, which would be cool if everyone was on board with that, but it sounds like the musicians were told something much different.
― mh, Friday, 3 December 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
I think the only thing that really pushed me from “kind of dodgy” to actually irritated was this second project’s webpage:https://thenoamchomskymusicproject.com/
So did they license Chomsky lectures and interview clips or… what’s the deal here
― mh, Friday, 3 December 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
And if you click through to the EPs for that project, once again Urbina is named as a co-artist - presumably for supplying the Chomsky clips?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
yeah, that is the really weird angle!like it’s become the concept + samples thing, but he didn’t do the samples
― mh, Friday, 3 December 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link