metametametablog

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I forgot about lunch.  Now we are getting out of chronological order.

Today, while in the midst of this project, I ran into my friend Rocio.  It was very nice to see her and hear her opinion on the entire business.

Here’s some more commenting again from the outside list

I dont think it failed actually
and I dont think it has anything to do with ze frank apart of using the blog format and of course the blogging culture in general
I havent had a chance to watch everything yet
but apart of thinking that the videos where funny,
it made me feel very weird as I was watching someone I know in his day
it made me feel like I was spying on you and I was about to leave a comment but I couldn’t
so no I dont know what you were aiming but I dont think it was unsuccessful.

thanks!  And then:

I meant to suggest that you just keep posting videos about you commenting about the video you just did.

I mean, lets get as recursive as possible here, I want to see the previous video playing the previous video while you’re video taping it.  That’d be my particular flavor of meta,

Yeah, that makes sense.

The idea was to use documentation as content for the 5-in-5 project.  I knew that I had nothing going for me starting this, but I thought I’d end up with more than I have at this point.  Video takes a long time to shoot and edit and upload, even when it’s done poorly as is the case here.  But what is the documentation of?  There has to be content to document.  Otherwise all I am doing is make-em-ups.  I understand the draw of contentless recursion for this, but that seems like just as much of a one-trick-pony as what I’m doing here.  In the end, then, I believe this might just turn out to be the worst that unfocused, undisciplined technique and concept has to offer.

Back to it.

Feeling that old feeling again

Some more comments were made off this blog that I wanted to bring in here.  This is from a list that I subscribe to that keeps me in contact with many of my old colleagues from NYU.  I posted the following:

Quoting Andrew Schneider:
andrewjs.com/metablog
I am open to anything.
One day only.
-Andrew.

Someone responded:

i don’t get it.

To which someone else responded:

see “ze frank”… but not as coherent / broad and orchestrated… i
like andrew’s hair though…

To which I responded:

“i don’t get it.”
Yeah you wouldn’t…
well…ok
yeah, I don’t really get it either anymore.
Ah well.  It was an experiment.  That failed.  But you know, better to fail in front of people than alone.

Wait.  …no…no wait that’s not true at all.

Thanks Timothy!  Just got it cut!
Andrew.

I’m exploring my original motivation as much as I can in between posts.

I followed Kristin outside on this beautiful NYC summer day to get some documentation of her making some urban shadow line drawings.  Kristin had said she did this when she was a kid, but not in an urban unvironment, rather at the beach.  She and her friends would make up tabletic scenarios and trace the shadows of their outlines into the sand.

The Whetherman, an old project of mine from my first year at ITP and a project I have since neglected got a chance to see the light of day for this specific 5-in-5 project.
Here’s my explanation of the Whetherman:

Here’s the Whetherman’s site:

And here’s the actual video:

The Video is self-explanatory