lemur wrote:quoted from the personal webpage linked to (why do so many artists think speaking of themselves in the third person is in any way good?) :
but youre gonna need to work on the whole 'whats in it for me' mindset that many will see when youre out there begging for cash.
Really? It appears to me he met his goal. Sounds like he did something right.
as is? i dont see much more than a self entitlement project...... perhaps a snazzy video watched on a computer can win over some people, and maybe some people feel that $14000 for a video is actually something the burning man community needs... but i dont see it.
Sounds like if you don't see it, that's your problem, not his. Your blindness is not caused by him.
and frankly? i dont care what makes yours different. because at this point, we done seen it all.. we've reached maximum capacity and ya know.. these videos dont change anything and i dont see giving people the warm fuzzies as worth all that much in terms of time/effort... it dont matter how good the video is.
Oh, you mean you're jaded. That's your problem, not his.
and what do we get?
Man, you sure have a sense of entitlement. "What do we get?" Why do you think you're owed anything? You've made, in as caustic and internet troll-y a way as possible barring swearing at him in all-caps, the fact that you don't want to donate to his Kickstarter. That's fine. So why do you ask "What do we get?" as if you're owed something?
some bullshit about how its for us, we get to watch it.. once..... twice if we're really damned bored and..... then burning man stays the same as it ever was.
Sounds like every piece of art on the playa. We see it for a few days, then it goes away, and BM happens the next year whether it was there or not. Should people stop bringing art to BM as a result? Maybe we should all sit in a circle while you regale us with tales of how we should help the community by doing something "that matters"?
want to do something for the community?
I and the others that enjoyed his video are part of the "community" too. I felt he did something for the community. You don't. That's fine.
14,000$ coulda bought lotsa /something/ that we could actually use.
Wow, again with the radical sense of entitlement. Why do you feel you're owed something by this fellow or by the people who -donated- to support his project?
theres more to giving back to the community than building some sculpture
or giving out booze
or making some fuckin documentary.
Well that's true, but there's certainly a lot more to giving back to the community than attacking someone who is celebrating Burning Man.
imagine if you used that money to help defray the costs of people who got helicoptored out!!!!!
Oh, you mean, you want him to defraud the people that -donated- money to his project by spending it on something else entirely? That's what you want? Him to commit fraud? You're quite a piece of work.
Hey, here's a suggestion: Since you're so keen to "make a difference" why don't you donate all the money you're going to spend on BM this year to people who need it? Nobody needs to go to Burning Man. Lots of people need food and clean water. Oh, what's that? You'd rather go on vacation to the playa or spend your time being a douche canoe on eplaya? Shocking.
or for some shit that actually makes a difference.
His film made a difference to me. I watched it, I enjoyed it. Difference made. Or at least, just as much difference made as every piece of art that's at Burning Man makes.
Oh, and to the OP: Your video rocked. Well done.
