What are you watching on YouTube now ?

[Comrade Ceasefire]

I was thinking that this common event of missing the weird/out of place signs, acquires a similar form and yet a different purpose in something like reading literature. Because there, more often than not, one will also focus on schemes and connections which are in the work, but on their own could not perhaps command one's attention if it's only granted under strict conditions of fitting one's already formed views.

OTOH, it could be a red herring.

 

[Kyriakos]

OTOH, it could be a red herring.

Or it could be a red herring for a red herring (the latter red herring refers to 'deliberate ambiguity' or post-modernism), or an unwitting red herring and thus primarily the reader's. There was a quote by (I hope it was at least "by", and not "about", but read it when I was 17...) Ionesco, about "a philology of a philology of a philology of a philology". It can go on indefinitely, but we have to assume that at some point it diverts from any given interpretation, and thus loops back to the reader.

Speaking of red herrings and things of external level dictating importance: https://www.color-hex.com/color-palette/65312
A set of shades of red getting named after a metaphor, that is to say something which is not red if real, and not real if red.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Or it could be a red herring for a red herring (the latter red herring refers to 'deliberate ambiguity' or post-modernism), or an unwitting red herring and thus primarily the reader's. There was a quote by (I hope it was at least "by", and not "about", but read it when I was 17...) Ionesco, about "a philology of a philology of a philology of a philology". It can go on indefinitely, but we have to assume that at some point it diverts from any given interpretation, and thus loops back to the reader.

Sounds suspiciously like 'pataphysics to me.
You probably know it as: τὰ ἐπὶ τὰ μεταφυσικά, i.e. without the leading apostrophe (which, despite the etymology, was first used by a Frenchman!)

BTW, I'm finding it hard to imagine a cooler deathbed request than Alfred Jarry's - a toothpick.

 

[Kyriakos]

And then Metaphysics already is called thus just because it is after the Physics. There's a story by Borges where a muslim scholar tries to understand - and fails and creates his own fantasy - what Aristotle's Poetics was referring to. Because he had no notion of a theatrical play.
Those who do, would be certainly more bounded, but possibly less prone to focus on the entire text.

There's likewise the vulgar american saying about everything looking like a nail if all you have is a hammer; but complimentary to that is the problem of things potentially being picked up as intricately and up to infinitely interconnected, if you don't have set values for them.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

There's a story by Borges where a muslim scholar tries to understand - and fails and creates his own fantasy....

If you go down the 'pataphysical rabbit hole further, you'll find that Buenos Aires was one of the first to cities to have a 'pataphysical institute.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Because Gori the Grey reminded me how much I love Rich Hall's docos...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5rS0uoLkgxXTtvuT4_2SfMlYnSZiiszn

 

[BenitoChavez]

For all the 3-Body Problem fans out there

 

[Narz]

I feel ironic sharing this somehow

Around 5min in most interesting

Crazy photo from the same spot where people were watching a performance, people have gone from observing to constantly sharing to be observed observing

In feeling the constant need to share we ironically become ever more lonely and disconnected from our own experience

 

[warpus]

I don't usually listen to country music, but Willie Nelson is awesome so I checked out his latest release

I KNEW IT

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Another beautifully explained and illustrated geometrical problem from Mathologer.

 

[Kyriakos]

It is on my to-watch list. Although Conway, as a character, wasn't exactly pleasant ^^
Mathologeric videos never fail to deliver.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Who would have thunk that life processes are far more complex than thought of even 10 years ago.

 

[warpus]

Hmm this movie looks interesting

trailer is 100% SFW

 

[Narz]

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

 

[warpus]

Does anyone remember this show from the 80s?

This is a show that we used to get on TV in communist Poland. I am 100% sure if that, the music brings me back.. and the dudes with the elk heads were also definitely in the show.

But nobody in north america I've shown this to has ever seen it. It's an English show it seems, did it just not make it over to the U.S. and Canada?

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

 

[Dhoomstriker]

Watching on Invidious is like watching on YouTube but without most of the tracking. Video links and even playlists from YouTube can instead be added in the same location within a URL on an Invidious instance website.
Adding &local=true to the end of a URL removes even more of the tracking, but sometimes the page will have to be reloaded after a minute if the video has not yet been downloaded to that server.
There are even some cool addons / extensions, such as Privacy Redirect for Chrome https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb and for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/, which can take care of building these links on your behalf.

Here's some information about your car and your phone which everyone should watch. It's a very informative 15-minute video:
https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=eIryvRwxp9A&local=true

Other Invidious instances:
https://docs.invidious.io/instances/ (try to avoid the ones that use the Surveillance Capitalist known as Cloudflare--they are marked)

Other video sites and an analysis of their privacy practices:
https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/en_US/privacyhub/youtube-alternatives/

Perhaps this thread's title could be renamed to replace "YouTube" with "Online Video Sites"?

 

[EgonSpengler]

Does anyone remember this show from the 80s?

This is a show that we used to get on TV in communist Poland. I am 100% sure if that, the music brings me back.. and the dudes with the elk heads were also definitely in the show.

But nobody in north america I've shown this to has ever seen it. It's an English show it seems, did it just not make it over to the U.S. and Canada?

I do remember that show. I didn't watch it much, but it did air here. It was probably on PBS, which is where we usually got British stuff like Monty Python, Doctor Who, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

 

[dusters]

The video is about the fact that to create means to reflect on the world within yourself, which is created by interacting with the world around you.

I don't have many artist acquaintances at the moment. Once upon a time there was a graphic artist who lived close to me, we talked now and then about how it is to want to do things that are not paid for in Latvia. What it's like to work a non-art job to be able to afford to spare time to do them.

This video highlights several things:

Creative people:
1) Are very sensitive
2) Feel the need to give to the world
3) Create such analogies in their inner world about processes, events, feelings, emotions that logically thinking doctors can consider them mentally ill
4) Has a strong need for alone time

It concludes with a mention of the Japanese book and concept Ikegai, which says that a person is able to live in society if he has found a thing that

1) He has talent for
2) He likes
3) is paid for and can pay all the bills
4) society needs

At the same time, it was mentioned that a large number of artists who do not know how to do anything else but create, do not want to live in society at all.

And that's why it's unfortunate, because a person can't fully live without society in a healthy form and for a long time.

I found the video really depressing. A person can let go of his identity as an artist and live with a different feeling if he has at least one other community, profession, position, society to which he belongs.

I coach chess, for example, and chess coaches are different from writers.
I teach Latvian and English, translate, and linguists are different from chess coaches.
I fix computers, and IT specialists are different from linguists.

Therefore, my self-esteem does not depend so much on whether someone liked my latest story, or whether one person said that they read a new way of looking at the world there, and it excited them.

At the same time, compliments don't boost my ego so much, because I know that growth and excellence is a gradual process over many years, and in the humanities and arts, it's also a bit relative.

I do something because I love the process. The end result is never meant to be 10/10, never perfect. I will get wiser and do better. It always happens.

The most important thing for a creative person is to understand himself. Because you are your first critic, first fan and supporter.

@Kyriakos There is Kafka in the video