Putting the videos on youtube is definitely part of the idea, where it started out, but it's also, as I said, "to map out the taboo line", to find exactly where the acceptable meets the unacceptable. to go that far and no further. The idea is that the Taboo Line is where the rubber meets the road, the place where the tension is. An interesting wrinkle is that, in 2020, the decision of what's acceptable is made, at least initially, by a logarthm accessing an artificial intelligence program. It's the machine that decides, where I have to hide the salami.

Is YouTube becoming more commercial?

The SITE is an interface to a vast DATABASE of media. It's useful, in my opinion, to think of the site and the database as two different, but interrelated entities.

YouTube is always what it is. The SITE arguably becomes more and more commercial, as the algorthm gets better and better at representing the corporate interest, but YouTubew is always a vast and growing database.

A few years ago, I found a website that would randomly go to a youtube video, totally, by chance, no algorthm, at least that was the claim. What would happen is that, about 90 per cent of the time, I would see a gaming video. So, assuming that the site was really random, the hypothesis one would draw is that 90 percent of the DATABASE is gaming videos. This is not what the version of the site that I'm getting looks like.

In the past four years, I would argue that the quality of youtube content on MY version of the site has improved tremendously, thanks, I believe, to crowdfunding, e.g. patreon. HBomberguy, Lindsey Ellis, Big Joel, and Contrapoints are creating some incrediibly smart content that is often very entertaining, and discusses fascinating stuff in a kind of depth that I've never seen anywhere before, outstide of a book.

But the economics are always bad for content providers. The vast underground ocean of content grows and grows and grows, and so the simple law of supply and demand means that most providers are going to find that the value of their product is ever diminishing.


Making a living in YouTube is a losing proposition for just about everybody, but I'm old enough to be thrilled to find myself living in a world where I can upload almost anything, and it can be viewed by almost anyone, for free! My videos (many of which are pretty derivative) have been viewed more than a million times. (My most popular channel is called omgitsmikegravel". Maybe as much as two million. That's probably nothing special, and I don't consider that to be a testament to how great they are. They actually vary tremendously in originality and quality, and usually it's years before I decide whether I can decide if I like them. I upload it all.

The future that Andy Warhol predicted in 1968 has come and gone. Instead of being famous for fifteen minutes, everybody is famous forever.

It is different how you censored it, when most would use mosaic squares or a blur, but, artistic purposes can't be wrong.

I think I know what you mean by being right where 'the rubber meets the road', I'd probably call it the knife edge, the turning point where something is about to be seen or experienced. Thinking along these lines, some animal transformation literature is based on the tension at the knife's edge.

A theme could be that someone has received a curse, or a drug that is going to start to change them into an animal in a short time, and they're also going to do something very important in front of others, like a business presentation or be on live TV. They're well groomed but know they may start to transform at any time and become beastly, and ruin the event, and be looked down on forever in the eyes of their peers and bosses. The changes start to happen, and they're pulling their cuffs down to try to cover it, all the while hoping they can get out in time. It's all the suspense of a Noir film in a fantasy story!

I know for the anthromorphs I like looking at, I find some of the best are a half and half mix of Canine and human, done just right, they become my favorites. It only can take a little difference in detail to throw it off.

I like those tensions, maybe contrasts is a good word too, existing in the same creature or concept.

I kind of threw it out there that YouTube has become more commercial, as a general observation. I think back to when I first started to watch YouTube, 2005 or so, after we got high speed net at my place. I remember it well because it was my first contact with this new and exciting site. It was grainy videos, then later there were many videos made on Flip camcorders.

That's my frame of reference, and when I go there now, the suggestions are often to purchase movies, watch a network, watch their TV, and there are more videos with high view counts thrown my way, and the same click bait looking video suggestions every time, all with millions of views, which must be some kind of promotion going on. Some of it might be from using Private Browsing and other blockers at the site, so cookies are being destroyed, but I don't know.

You're right, if you look, you can find the underground, I guess it's just that I see it as less of an underground site than even a few years ago. I can still find so much obscure music and movies there that aren't even on other sources, and also the livestream music channels that are unregulated so far.

Thanks for the links to your other videos. I didn't even know that Ed Wood made adult films, but my knowledge of his work ended at about Plan 9 From Outer Space.. I just read a bio on IMDB, scandalous in itself, and I've heard of a few of his other movies and yes, I've seen the movie on him, Ed Wood, almost forgot that.

I see many B-Movies, but mostly Dog related, by BC Furtney (from my hometown) and Dingo productions The Brave Husky, a German version of Balto. I'm trying to find the full cut of that one. There's Abner, The Talking Dog, done in the best tradition of low budget, for the love of it film making. Oh, and BC Furtney (BC Fourteen) had been making a new movie about every two weeks.

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Boomer, thanks for your interest. It would have been heartbreaking to have all my months of hard work crawl down to the bottom of the page unstarred and uncommented upon. I think to some extent, I feel like I've done you a disservice by responding from my prepared artist's comments instead of addressing you, and that's a shame. We all know that you're a brave, interesting motherfucker, andd as much an artist as anyone in here.

>>>I kind of threw it out there that YouTube has become more commercial, as a general observation.

As a general observation, it's completely valid. My point is that there is more than one way to see youtube.

>>>It is different how you censored it, when most would use mosaic squares or a blur, but, artistic purposes can't be wrong.

I think that they can be, but not this time. I wanted to do something original, and I wanted to something that was beautiful, in that purely aesthetic, Jackson Pollack kind of way, a splash color for the sake of color "it's sort of like a bed of flowers" is something I seem to remember him saying in an article that I read in highschool, about a hundred and fifty years ago. What i did was use chroma key ("green-screen" technology, where a certain color is replaced with a superimposed image. If you get the basic idea of a green screen, you get what I did. ) I superimposed squares of blue, green, pink and yellow over the original 11 minutes of footage, and then i replaced the squares with a synched-up version of the same footage that I had treated with various editing effects": tinting, turning up the grain noise, "charcoal" dissolve... whatever I could find. I probably parlayed my eleven minutes of porn into a half a terabyte of crazy colored footage. Ironically (a slightly questionable use of the word) nearly all of my footage was lost last night when my biggest, oldest, and dumbest cat knocked the computer off the desk in the middle of the night. The computer survived, but the plug connecting the hard drive to the power source was ruined.

>>>A theme could be that someone has received a curse, or a drug that is going to start to change them into an animal in a short time, and they're also going to do something very important in front of others, like a business presentation or be on live TV.

You're making me think of the Disney Shaggy Dog movies, with Tommy Kirk and Dean Jones. You must be familiar, right?

I'm a cat person myself, and I consider the relationship between humans and animals to be one of the great gifts of nature, and if you want to say "God", i won't argue. Cats and Dogs allow us to be more innocent. We allow them to be more articulate and intelligent.

Good to hear how you did the process as Chroma Key, seems like it would give good flexibility to do exactly what you want in every frame, so you could get right up to the level you want to in what's shown.

Thankful that you got it posted before your kitty knocked things over with your production drive.

It would be the Shaggy Dog movies that inspired the way the tension is set up in these newer transformation fan stories, taking them to a more modern and a bit more adult level, like a business meeting rather than your friends seeing you become a Dog at the country club dance.

I'm almost too familiar with the Shaggy Dog series by Disney! All I knew is I liked Dogs and got along with them well, then the Shaggy DA showed me how much I wanted to be a Dog, and gave me a blueprint for it.

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