X-Jimmy
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Aug 11, 2001, 2:07 AM
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Re: View my Action Trailer! No budget, one camera (Hi-8) 4 months
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: I see John's point on "why not post some of your work" bright and clear. Show what you mean, a picture says a thousand words and such.
What a remarkable ability you have for glossing over the substance of an argument. "Show what I mean"? I said what I meant in the original post. What, specifically, were you confused about? "A picture says a thousand words and such"? That can't even be described as a coherent thought!
: Your reply to that, Jimmy, is mainly based on the prospect of your work being viewed the same way you view the work of other's, but what grounds for that assumption do you have?
: To my knowledge you are the only one here who tends to be harsh with his comments. Everyone else seems very diplomatic about what they say. John is obviously going to be a reasonably critical viewer, he gave you his word on that, so he's only going to discredit himself by being overly critical. Kioko is in no position to nitpick at a piece with professional lighting, script, acting and the like. And he's admitted that. As for anticipating some general criticism, well you get that with any audience. Might as well not show your work at all. And you always have the now unquestionable "show your own work to support your rude comments" rule on your side.
"Now unquestionable"? Rule? Are you being serious? Anyway, you seem to have missed the whole point of my post on ad hominem attacks, so I'll do a little repeating for you. My comments are valid or invalid based on their own merits, regardless of who I am or what I do. It doesn't matter if Joel Schumacher or Francis Ford Coppola said them. They are specific criticisms of certain aspects of the video, and they can be either supported or refuted with facts drawn from observing the video. Since you supposedly have already viewed the video, you can make a decision by analyzing my comments with respect to what you saw.
But you don't want to do that. Either you want to be able to discount my comments by deeming my work bad, or you want to just accept my comments by deeming my work good. Either approach makes you a mindless follower, devoid of indepentant reasoning ability. Of course, maybe you aren't either of those things. Maybe you just want to see it in order to attack me personally and even the score for my "rude" comments. This is the most likely motivation. Your hope is to extract some righteous vengence on behalf of Kioko so that you can play the hero in front of your newfound message board pals. Don't you think it's pathetic that you want to be the hero of a message board?
Furthermore, I think you're missing the whole point of the Internet message board. It's a free, anonymous zone where we don't have to be so encumbered by diplomacy and manners. This might come as a shock to you, but we don't have to be friends just because we both use the Internet.
: So we're left with "its a hassle." Are you telling me that you never put your stuff on the web? If you do, it should be nice and ready, almost no hastle at all, just post a URL. And if not, unless you're using really out of date software, it really is no more of a hassle then writing a few posts.
I don't post things on the internet, so it would take time for me to figure it all out. Even if the process were as painless as you suggest, I certainly am not interested in taking one extra second to try to impress some people that I don't know and don't care about.
: So unless what you do is not that superior to Kioko's trailer I don't see why you wouldn't show it.
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