Content questions for a new era?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Rafael Amador] “The truth, Jeremy, is that have been a mistake of me to tag this guy as K-Pop.
The video is funny (and well done) and the music, I think is OK for a party.
But just the age and look of the guy do not fit on the average K-pop.”

Age has nothing to do with it, really. As a matter of fact, this is probably the best that K-Pop has to offer at the moment.

If Kylee Minogue can be considered mainstream pop, so can Psy! 😉

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Bill Davis] “I don’t read much about production outside the US. But what I used to think of as something pretty much centered in Hollywood, NYC, London, and Mumbai – is now pretty diffused across the planet. Big change over a single generation.”

no.

wrong.

how many fingers am i holding in front of you davies? truffaut, eisenstein kurosawa, reifenstahl (yes her) and god knows how many others . film has been everywhere for ever.

[Bill Davis] “I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes a little bit like the Beatles cultural revolution in the US. Not as powerful nor long lasting, certainly, but a bit of a cultural invasion none the less. Beatles to Graceland to K-Pop. Niche cultures that are less niche the more they succeed in media – but today we don’t need George Martin or Paul Simon as the enabler. We’ve got YouTube.”

mental point and utterly meaningless. horribly, horribly meaningless. who needed george martin? who ever thought thought that things happened by the grace of god with the right people coming together? was martin’s relationship with the beatles something to be superceded by a h264 stream?

but yes, of course, we have youtube and FCPX – an editing system, I might remind you, that no one asked for, represents no advance, that I idiotically paid for, and that no one is using.

I boot it up every couple of days Bill, I try to get some semblance of mojo pushing stuff I shoot on my own time with it with a favourite track, but it is a horrible editing system bill.

there are no revelations, there is nothing to be discovered, it is simply a stupid, badly formed, unresponsive, drop shadow, chrome heavy, piece of stupid glitz that we need to forget about. all of us. there is nothing to figure out in FCPX, there is no insight it presents on its secondary storyline bull that I do not want to forget. immediately.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Bill Davis]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “no.

wrong.

how many fingers am i holding in front of you davies? truffaut, eisenstein kurosawa, reifenstahl (yes her) and god knows how many others . film has been everywhere for ever.”

Do you even READ english?

Did you notice the “I read” part of that. Or the “I think”

The english language is funny about things like this. When I say “I think” it’s kinda stupid to respond “wrong” since only ONE of us actually knows what “I think.”

I also admire those directors. But *I* have not been exposed to them at anything close to the level I’ve been exposed to Hollywood – or to NYC producion via daily network news and soaps. Or to the BBC (who’s work I’ve admired via PBS for decades. Or to the Bollywood stuff I looked closely at for some parody stuff some years ago.

As much as you’d LOVE to assume that everyone is as enamored by global production diversity as you are – I’d wager that the truth of the matter is that most of the world wide viewership audience is VASTLY more parochial than most folk working inside the industry. My view is mine.

And just because you admire Leni over Orson (or anyone else foreign compared to Americans working in early film) isn’t a particularly compelling argument against the fact that South Korea hasn’t been anywhere close to the top of the global list of “production powerhouses” at any time in history. But now they’ve got a “number one with a bullet” piece of pop content.

In fact, there was a really cool piece on-line the last few days comparing postwar photographs of the South Korean landscape used in the Psy video to it’s present form. It shows a pretty radical process of modern development – and clearly shows how SK has outstripped NK as a developing nation.

That’s interesting to me. The fact that 50 years ago, a handful of other nations had exceptional movie makers isn’t particularly relevant to that observation. I’m sure it’s the language barrier, but I don’t see hordes flocking to my local cineplex to watch modern german or dutch films.

I do see eyeballs flocking to the internet to view this South Korean one. That’s pretty interesting… and read this closely…. TO ME.

(BTW, I know you operate on a level where details don’t concern you, but there’s no “e” in my last name. Ray Davies was a very cool pop musician, but not a relative.)

Take care.

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