This is my first youtube poop so it’s been tough to work out how make it seem right. For my mind it’s a bit too contrived - the farts work (there make me laugh) but the video bits don’t work as well as the cartoons. Being as I’m old and boring it seemed right to put in clips that had significance to me but somehow they don’t seem to gel with the other poops on here. Everyone has their own style I suppose but that that still make this a poop?

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I handed in my final ‘homework’ today and with it the last vestiges of hope that my time spent at the AIB would be worth while.

All around me the others, who I wish I could call my friends, but can’t, were delighted and relieved. But they always seemed to be delighted about something - whether it be some pitiful excuse for a short film or a new ‘opportunity’ to work and some mindless worthless tat that they hate but ‘may lead on to other things’.

So, feeling like a complete emo I just walked away - cursing “fuck you all” to them as well as myself. No one noticed - they’re probably used to it by now, able to filter me out.

There’s something terrifying about the fact I identify much more with the Virginia Tech gunman than anyone else I know. Once I used to identify with film makers - people like David Lynch and Terry Gilliam - now I’m fairly sure I’d despise them just as much as almost every other film maker I’ve had the misfortune to meet.

Though that’s not to say I haven’t learnt anything in the last three years. Far from it. I’d argue that faced with such misery and fury I have really pushed myself to come to terms with what it is I’m not and what I do and do not like. Good mistakes worth making. A process of elimination that has help me identify systems, processes and cliches - how they all work - why I don’t work within that context and how and why people adjust themselves in order to fit in. Like an advanced class in playground mentality.

I’ve also learnt that the more money is spent on something the more people are fooled into believing it’s a good thing. That the rich really do rule the earth in all matters. That academia is a business like any other and ones work within it has an impact to the value of that business.

Shit - I feel like I’ve just spent three of the worst years of my life in the worst town at the worst college doing the worst course. And yet I’m ashamed of myself more than anyone. I’m left asking myself how I could be deluded enough not to see through it all from the start.

It’s meant to be a conversation - the two way flow of information. An idea sparking off another idea - being fed back into ones work - at worst it becomes an in joke - at best a universal truth - correct - true.

Yet I’ve not been able to have that conversation. They don’t even know my fucking name. To them I’m 10026582. My work is valueless because I have not been able to ‘evidence’ the fact I can manage the complexity of best contemporary practice demanded by rigourously applied specialist knowledge.

And unless - like last year - they can’t be bothered to fail me - I’m not even going to have that final validating bit of paper that proves I went through three years of it. i think I understand why prisoners all hate each other rather than having any sense of community. They hate being reminded of where they are and what they have been turned into.

If some keen young kid came into my prison cell these days I probably would rape the living shit out of him.

I feel so institutionalised I probably would stay another three years if they asked. Maybe I would serve as a reminder of what film makers became if they refuse to play ball.

No. I couldn’t - here’s why.

I’m going to do my best to prove to myself that they were wrong.

That in fact I do have some artistic/creative/technical ability. That one doesn’t need to be able to write business plans, proposals, and reports in order to create something of any worth - and that that worth is measured by appreciation much more than being able to convince a committee of investors.

Even if it means making shity little videos from my hospital bed/prison cell - I don’t care - this medium chose me - giving it up would be like giving up English - and no cunt or committee of cunts are going to stop me.

Fuck you all.

Oh - yeah - and if you’re hiring I still need a job - thankx

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Youtube Poop is a genre that has been disowned and is despised by the person who is credited/blamed for coining it. It has only very tenuous legitimacy and is referred to on wiki as an internet meme.

To find out more I conducted an email interview with a Pikiwii - a contributor to the genre, who you may recall from last week’s top 10 videos.

“I use the term ‘your work’ with regard to your youtube poops - do you
consider them ‘work’ or just a something done for fun?”

Umm, I like to consider both.

“I’m assuming, due the lack of pretentiousness in either the film info
or your youtube profile that you don’t consider you work as ‘art’.
What are you feelings on the artistic merits of your work?.”

Well, it allows me to unleash my rather insane creativity into reality, resulting in crazy, non-sensical onslaughts most appreciated for their randomness, not to mention the fact that I can do the massive crossovers of sorts that I always wanted to see.

“The term youtube poop - is that term of your own or a genre that I
don’t know about? Is it a statement of to disregard (as in the films
are poop) or a description of the process (that by making them you are
completing a necessary bodily function)?”

It’s the latter and the former, respectively.

“Are you posting your work mainly for your friends or for the outside
world (people like me)?”

Ah, mainly for myself and the outside world.

“There are plenty of comments for the films - are these mainly people
you’ve met or know - what kind of feedback do you appreciate?”

Only a few of them are people I know. The kind of feedback that I do like happens to be… any kind.

“Are there messages or jokes in there which only you and your friends
would understand - are these in reply to other people’s work?”

Nope to either.

“Have you seen other films like this - has it influenced your work?”

Oh sure, I have seen a real lot of them since the genre has become real popular (much to its creator’s dismay, as can be read in this topic, which also reveals the origins of the term “Youtube Poop”: http://www.protoman.com/Forum/index.php/topic,16.0.html). And yes, it did influence my work.

“There is a strong tradition of appropriation like this in the
audio/music world - artists like cassette boy or wayne butane - are
you aware of them - if so what’s your opinion of their work?”

Nope, I’m not aware of these two.

“Your films are at times very funny - is that a priority or a side effect.”

Hmm, I like to think that it’s a side effect of the absolute randomness.

“Do you find them funny yourself?”

Yes.

“Ten minutes of such relentlessness media can be quite tough for an
average viewer. Do you think of your work as endurance test for it’s
viewers?”

Nah, I prefer to think of that as going overboard with the genre, which also explains the mass amount of gore, vulgarity and spoiler scenes from various medias (By know, everyone who has watched my videos now know that Sonic the Hedgehog dies in his horribly glitchy and rushed (for Christmas) Xbox 360/PS3 game.)..

“I find that I recognise about half of the clips seen. Do you thin it’s
important to use/abuse familiar clips and faces (such as Mario).”

Well eh, that’s just what about every Youtube Poop maker do. Though I do find it important for myself to use/abuse sources that no one else did just for the sake of variety (as well as standing out from everyone else)…

“How do you source your footage - are they from clips found elsewhere online?”

Oh sure, all of them are found online.Nearly all of them are taken from Youtube except for the Mario episodes, the CD-i games clips and everything from all To Heart series except for ~Remember my memories~ , The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Black Cat, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, most Kingdom Hearts clips and Series 3 (Season 29 if you want to stay consistant with the classic series) of Doctor Who, which is currently running in the UK (though I live in Canada, where it will start in June if my memory serves right.).

“Is there anything that would like to make but don’t have the resources for?”

Nope.

“Before I made films of my own I started in this way - of using found
footage - it’s something that I’ve not done for ages and rather miss.
Do you think it’s a media form you willl stick with or do you intend
to start producing your own footage/films.”

I do not intend to be a filmmaker and it’s something that I do for fun, so I think I’ll stick with it.

“Which of these do you identify with most identify with:

a) a crazy geek with a temper
b) a visual artist with a wacked sense of humour
c) a msn junkie killing time
d) a keen enthusiast of post modern artistry in the digital landscape
e) just like any other youtube user
f) an edit monkey
g) a moveable feast
h) a cracked egg”

Ah, I’d most liken myself to B and E. You see, I’m sort of a visual artist since I do put up my visions into a non-sensical videos (Not to mention the fact that my first poop became one of the most populars of its genre, as well as a bunch of people praising me on the field) yet I still consider myself an average Youtube user everywhere else, including the MUGEN community on Youtube (Though I’m getting more attention from higher-profile Youtube users in that latter community on the site as of lately…).

“Do you find this kind of attention encouraging or inappropriate?”

It’s hard to anwser this but I sorta like this kind of attention, you know. So, I’d say encouraging.

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