Video 44

A comment to Patalab.

This post was made as a response to the text of a videopost by patalab on blip.tv. I began to edit the responding film and checked back to patalab's post. Now it was edited and the part which I intended to comment was cut out!

I thereby produced a response to a statement not existing anymore and the video obtained a crippled character as a semi-response.

I asked Sam Renseiw about the text on his major videoblog, where the video was posted as well (with the "altered" text).


Here follows the conversation on Spacetwo: Patalab:

kristian nilsson said...

The video post had a different text on blip.tv and I began to edit a response to the discussion in the text about the role of a video.

Now, the "response" seems a bit off-topic if it responds to the current text!

Will you re-publish the "original" text on your vlog?

Maybe I'm only getting confused in the revolving world of texts and videos and have lost your text somewhere – if it was your text from the beginning or if it was only some kind of coinsidence.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:33:05 PM

sam said...

Hello Kristian,
Here is the original text, first posted at blip.tv, as appendix to the uploaded video:

"Every video, it is said, should inculcate a media message and by this moral is the media merit of the work to be adjudged. We have taken it into our heads that to film a video simply for the video's sake, and to acknowledge such to have been our design, would be to confess ourselves radically wanting in the true poetic dignity and force:--but the simple fact is that would we but permit ourselves to look into our own souls we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this very video, this video per se, this video which is a video and nothing more, this video written solely for the video's sake"

The text is an an altered quote from Edgar Allan Poe's essay from 1850 "The Poetic Principle"; link >
http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Poe5/00000021.htm
Intended, at first to start a fruitful discussion about vlogging... But I then decided to leave the videos speak for themselves... together with the "absurd" linkings...

The original text was only posted for a short time. Funny that is has been noticed at all. Thanks for the reply. Would appreciate eventual comments.
best regards
sam

Thursday, May 11, 2006 9:50:50 AM

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Patalab's original text has re-entered the public domain again, but I think that my video post should remain as it was when the original text was absent.