please oh please oh please oh please keep it up i want to lock this thread so bad oh my god oh my god oh my god
I'm surprised you haven't already, not because of the subject matter but, rather, because of the way the quality of the "debate" here has rapidly degenerated. I keep expecting to find a big white lock next to this thread every time I come back, especially after a certain pre-edit retort that was in questionable taste.
Everything is extremely criticized around here so I have decided against posting another commercial, at least not on A.I. Instead I will post my video/pictoral review of the mini when I get it. From unpacking to plugging in, I'll show all of that. Yeah, I guess that even means I'm going to have to make an appearance.\
Tip: Grow a thicker skin. You put a work out on the web for others to see and comment on (presumably since it's on a BB). Did you only want praise? My bad.
If it helps, I know the piece was a harmless goof, and meant to just be humorous, and it is, albeit in multiple ways you might not have intended. As such my criticism can hardly be entirely serious. More accurately, my criticism is however serious you meant your movie to be.
If all you got were tastefully worded, positive criticism (which is often just cowardly and insulting pats on the head) then you wouldn't see what needs to be fixed. You need something to make you motivated to prove the bastards (like, say, me) wrong, by improving your work.
I'm sorry, I guess I should have put in the ubiquitous smiley to suggest that my venom wasn't meant to be scathing. But I don't do that. I leave it to the reader to either take it with a grain of salt, shrug it off or put up decent defense.
Everyone is so in fear of the flame war or the scolding of others that no one really says what they mean anymore.
But honesty doesn't need to erupt into hostile arguments. Honesty can lead to better outcomes than meek false praise.
- I love the, ahem, doilies and tchotchke on, er, "your" piano... (near the very end)
- The edit while you pull the wallet out. I'm piqued, I want to see the Director's cut - now. DVD?
- I was sold at the wallet, but then Chapstick? Tre magnifique! But the gum and watch really sealed the deal. Apple! One iPod mini please! It meets all four of my requirements! Smaller than a wallet? Check. Thinner than a Chapstick? Check. Same green as a pack of Extra Winterfresh? Check. Nothing at all like a clunky watch? Check.
- Stanley Kubrick and Richard Strauss are both spinning in their graves fast enough to power a small city.
But seriously, as far as concept, the part where you show iTunes is such a visual cacophony that anyone not yet using iTunes would want to scurry back to the safety of their old tapes and boombox.
Your intent and the actual delivery conflict outright.
You needed to use the busy sped-up camera work/editing on the old music methods and realtime, calm shots of the modern "easier" way of iTunes/MP3/iPod...see?
P.S. Only one "s" in comparison. No one else was going to tell you.
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Originally posted by murbot
please oh please oh please oh please keep it up i want to lock this thread so bad oh my god oh my god oh my god
I'm surprised you haven't already, not because of the subject matter but, rather, because of the way the quality of the "debate" here has rapidly degenerated. I keep expecting to find a big white lock next to this thread every time I come back, especially after a certain pre-edit retort that was in questionable taste.
Surely no one could have predicted that Quicktime, iMovie, Firewire and .mac would be used to perpetrate such a crime on amateur video-making.
Still, it is the best kid-walking-in-slowmotion-with-a-paper-iPod-mini-on-his-shoulder video I've ever seen.
(Was that too harsh? I'm criticizing the work, not the person BTW)
<insert "Let's see what you can do, mister know-it-all critic!" retort>
Sometimes it's more important to know what one cannot do well. Then don't do it.
Classical Ballet master Willam Christensen.
Tip: Grow a thicker skin. You put a work out on the web for others to see and comment on (presumably since it's on a BB). Did you only want praise? My bad.
If it helps, I know the piece was a harmless goof, and meant to just be humorous, and it is, albeit in multiple ways you might not have intended. As such my criticism can hardly be entirely serious. More accurately, my criticism is however serious you meant your movie to be.
If all you got were tastefully worded, positive criticism (which is often just cowardly and insulting pats on the head) then you wouldn't see what needs to be fixed. You need something to make you motivated to prove the bastards (like, say, me) wrong, by improving your work.
I'm sorry, I guess I should have put in the ubiquitous smiley to suggest that my venom wasn't meant to be scathing. But I don't do that. I leave it to the reader to either take it with a grain of salt, shrug it off or put up decent defense.
Everyone is so in fear of the flame war or the scolding of others that no one really says what they mean anymore.
But honesty doesn't need to erupt into hostile arguments. Honesty can lead to better outcomes than meek false praise.
Originally posted by Messiahtosh
Ok, and over 670 people have seen it. I have garnered more praise than criticism. Thanks.
Excellent. See, it's best that way. You say what you want. I say what I want. No one holds back or lies. All is good.
Kudos for psgates for actually giving usable criticism, whereas mine was more just opinion than anything.
Originally posted by johnq
psgates
Ouch!
Originally posted by crazychester
Ouch!
Unintended but funny
I always have read it that way?kind of a freudian dyslexia I guess??
Sorry!
Originally posted by pscates
psgates? Ouch? Freudian dyslexia?
Play on words???
Freudian slip + dyslexia
"PC gates" is what my subconscious sees
I'm not saying a damn thing
my brother had a watch that was the thickness of 2 CDs and it had arbitrary alien simples that appeared from time to time.
2:45am
"Can I speak to DEE-HUGE please?"
- I love the, ahem, doilies and tchotchke on, er, "your" piano...
- The edit while you pull the wallet out. I'm piqued, I want to see the Director's cut - now. DVD?
- I was sold at the wallet, but then Chapstick? Tre magnifique! But the gum and watch really sealed the deal. Apple! One iPod mini please! It meets all four of my requirements! Smaller than a wallet? Check. Thinner than a Chapstick? Check. Same green as a pack of Extra Winterfresh? Check. Nothing at all like a clunky watch? Check.
- Stanley Kubrick and Richard Strauss are both spinning in their graves fast enough to power a small city.
Your intent and the actual delivery conflict outright.
You needed to use the busy sped-up camera work/editing on the old music methods and realtime, calm shots of the modern "easier" way of iTunes/MP3/iPod...see?
P.S. Only one "s" in comparison. No one else was going to tell you.