Internet Media

The media we watched in class had something blatantly simple about it. Media is a digital art form bores me. Yes, I do understand that it may be the future of media as we know it but there is something too common in all the videos we watched. Not that all this media is simple but the fact that it can be made on a computer without lifting anything but a series of fingers shows me that the passion of cinema has been demeaned to a simple, easy state. I enjoy the idea of editing together found footage and adding a meaningful score to it to make it more madernly relevant but there have been too many spoof videos that I have experienced on the world wide web that show me there is no knowledge of the history of cinema necessary to make a popular video. YouTube has mage this from of media banal and pointless. It has reverted back to a state where any bored fourteen year old can make a video in Quicktime Pro and post it online and be credited for creating the newest popular swill. There is online media that I have appreciated over the years and still do to this day (explodingdog.com)but there are also sites that reward internet users for being lazy and unintellectual. There is definitely media on the internet, especally in the experimental form, that I believe is still advancing the art form but it is too easy for these artists to come back to make flash animation videos of hampsters dancing or a Quicktime video of a computer's memory. I just ask that this media makes use of the contemplation of where experimental cinema is going.