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Bonus video: Nostalgia
🕑 Added 2022-02-21 04:43:43 +0000 UTCBack in March 2021 I shot this entire video about how video mixers work, demonstrated on a specific model I have, then trashed the whole project because I didn't have the space and hardware to do it right (and I still don't) but I found the rough cut on a spare drive today and was astonished at just how poorly I'd scripted it.
Not that it was bad writing per se, but I guess I just wasn't really thinking about the audience the way I do now. I spent the front ten minutes of the video just talking, and apart from one ten second demonstration, the actual topic of the video just sat there inert. I guess in truth I'm glad I didn't finish it, because when I do finally reshoot this video - maybe in a few months - it'll be much, much better.
But during that whole slog, I went into this diatribe about something I think about every week, what one might call "misplaced nostalgia"; our obsession with devices that are not necessarily cool nearly so much as they did cool things. Call that projecting, but hey, it's a bonus video. Just for you.
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John Wallace
I got this way with music stuff, luckily I can make music, but I have enough stuff to make music with many people, and I just don’t have the ability to make that happen. I do have plenty of video equipment as well, which sits around unless I pick it up to snap a few random photos or shoot a drum cover. I very much get the “wishing you could do what this stuff is meant to do” vibe a lot.
indrora
I'd love a second channel video of "Gravis kavetches about UNIX, nostalgia, retrocomputing, etc and on". I have the same issues with some of the Amateur Radio community, especially emcomm folks. Most of them are desperately clinging to their Windows XP boxes and even Windows 98, while modern day folks aren't interested in computers that will probably die in the next few years after being abused by pack a day smokers in their 60s.
