thread of youtubers whomst are not terrible

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

That was awesome.

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

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

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

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

any particular favorites? there's a lot!

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.

This guy is doing some good work, IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeEyncm_jQ

Just a man, his parrot and some tunes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwre2BwRfIs

Important raccoon whisperer news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I37oyWYOUM

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.

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.

Genuinely impressive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w30AdwJMVa0

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIe5GKyLPek

I can't decide if he is or isn't terrible tbh

Footage of our future overlords putting us to shame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_bEtbfB9U

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.

New Contrapoints out today.

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

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNINWMqxQQc

Harpist who demos guitar pedals

yeah she’s great.

also love contrapoints.

great thread!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U54HRmglYEA

she has some videos of people living in ancient houses in rural spain that are just so pretty

The new Hainbach video on forgotten Italian synths is an absolute delight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ-sVujDlS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mrdd5-ehb8

The Electrical Audio/Albini educational series is pretty cool

Jacques Pepin has gotten even more soothing with age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g93sAo2cFM

Andrew is so good at letting his interviewees talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HghwNhrLNP0

andrew's "mm-hm" straight face is all-time

Sohla and Ham's series is good shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybNex3XsgFc

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

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.

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.

Linus Bowman's design YT channel is so hilariously macro but compelling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPmlv7cDk6Q

oh nice thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaEQP-SiRlA

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.

Wow, that seems straight-up illegal.

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

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

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.

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

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?

yeah, that is the really weird angle!

like it’s become the concept + samples thing, but he didn’t do the samples

Gotta say I'm not familiar with many of the musicians caught out by this but benoit pioulard just tweeted that he was

well, regardless of how the rest of this goes, this seems uncool

They disabled my tracks on the streaming services without notice ; pretty cool

— Benoît Pioulard (@pioulard) December 4, 2021

A statement from Synesthesia Media. pic.twitter.com/1dCyv0wUmX

— Synesthesia Media (@Synesthesia_Med) December 4, 2021

meanwhile urbina is just straight blocking everyone who calls him out, including artists who he seems to have ripped off

Okay. Final Tweet of the day regarding this.

Here's a FAQ they uploaded (just today, after my video was released, as you can see clearly via Waybackmachine) that I've been accused of not referencing in my video. https://t.co/rrggSxKaOB pic.twitter.com/gErfC5YzaM

— Benn Jordan (@bennjordan) December 5, 2021

This might merit an ILM thread?