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                                                VEDA Criticism 04/21/2009
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                                                Have you heard about that Vlog Every Day in April challenge thing going around?  Honestly, I think it's a bunch of horseshit.  If, however, you're participating in it, to you I say: kudos on your ability to, um, follow silly trends!!!

                                                I'm writing this because I just left a comment on my friend Emily's blog.  She had challenged herself to blog every day in April (a cunning variation on the former) and concluded that she had epicly failed at this task.

                                                First: I'm an ass without much sense of tact.  I should offer my apologies to Emily before I actually say anything, pointing out that above all, I simply want to encourage her creative efforts.

                                                Second: trending challenges are horseshit.  I told her, in my opinion, whenever something like VEDA comes along, a creative person's goal should be to, invariably, say this:

                                                "Pfft, whatev.  Vlog every day?  I already do that. How about something that actually stimulates and challenges my creativity? Like, for example, Blog Every Day as Sex-Deprived Baptist Cow Wrangler with Attention Deficit Disorder and only one eyebrow.  Bitches."

                                                The challenge can never be to sit in front of a camera and talk.  Anybody can do that and YouTube did a good job proving it.  The challenge is to turn sitting in front of the camera and talking into something interesting and engaging ... and if you're a self-proclaimed creative genius (like I am) the challenge has to be to take it to the next level, whatever that may be, so that you know in your gut that you're not contributing simply "more of the same".

                                                Stay creative, guys ... and remember that I'm watching ;)

                                                 


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                                                Jen link
                                                04/21/2009 11:44am

                                                FIRST!!!!

                                                And secondly, I do get what you're talking about. Forced vlogs are absolutely horrid. I will stop vlogging the day it starts to feel like some obligation as opposed to something I WANT to do.

                                                I highly doubt it'll ever get that way though. I honestly can't think of any reason why I'd stop.

                                                Oh, wait. I thought of one: death.

                                                I'll stop then.

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                                                krumbine
                                                04/21/2009 11:47am

                                                You know, what that is an excellent way of nailing it down: obligation.

                                                A trend should not obligate you to create, but your creativity should obligate the trend.

                                                ... right?

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                                                Ibrahim link
                                                04/22/2009 4:12am

                                                Yuck. One of the major reasons I have been all but AWOL from Youtube recently is that I just don't feel like making videos right now.
                                                I want to, to be honest, but I'm facing a massive video-maker's block, if there's such a thing.
                                                So yeah, big fuck you to trend vlogging. I hate stupid fads (which begs the question: "Why the FUCK are you studying Business, Ibrahim?")

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                                                Heather Maria Lueck
                                                04/22/2009 6:31am

                                                oo oo Ibrahim I know this one!

                                                Its cuz you're Asian!

                                                and Im apparently racist.

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                                                Ibrahim link
                                                04/24/2009 7:16am

                                                HAHA!!

                                                Would you be even more tickled, you little racist, if I told you I was actually studying Business COMPUTING? =P

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