Decontextualized video comments become modern pieces of poetry.

Daniel says:

The idea is just to de-contextualize serious or crappy video comments, collecting them like in an isolated art gallery.

We also made a typographic presentation video.

Decontextualized video comments become modern pieces of poetry

[#1 posted by buddy66 , August 18, 2008 5:42 PM]

Yes, I know what the idea is, and I've heard the rationales and explanations for such things, but the result at best is always little more than a curiosity. Boredom is not an intrinsic quality of things, events, and concepts; it is created and resides in the eye of the beholder.

Behold:

[#2 posted by Mark Frauenfelder , August 18, 2008 6:19 PM]

I hear you, Buddy. But don't you think Ape Lad could do one hell of a drawing of the Rabbit Guy's predicament?

[#3 posted by teckels , August 18, 2008 7:08 PM]

That was like-I didn't know you could-It makes me suffer every time I-What makes them think they can just-Bunch of crap.

[#4 posted by Ape Lad , August 18, 2008 7:30 PM]

Mark, I've actually been toying with the idea for some time now: taking random comments (specifically some of the more inane ones on youtube) and illustrating them out of context. Maybe there's a flickr group waiting to be born.

[#5 posted by darlin_nikki , August 18, 2008 7:51 PM]

ape lad, mark, get in touch with Poetry.

[#6 posted by darlin_nikki , August 18, 2008 7:54 PM]

this is what I mean: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/

[#7 posted by jesushootscores , August 18, 2008 9:14 PM]

Thanks for that link DARLIN NIKKI !

[#8 posted by soupisgoodfood , August 18, 2008 10:27 PM]

Sometime garbage is just garbage. Or maybe I'm bias because I've never been a big fan of poetry.

[#9 posted by IWood , August 18, 2008 11:04 PM]

Goddammit would everyone shut up. I'm trying to think.

[#10 posted by squib , August 18, 2008 11:35 PM]

I think this idea has merit but the sentence about the rabbit is annoying me because it should be 'then he' not 'than he'. Shouldn't it?

[#11 posted by madjo , August 19, 2008 12:46 AM]

No quack. (for the TDWTF readers among us)

[#12 posted by saint_al , August 19, 2008 6:55 AM]

"make songs when high are cool"
-comment, Beatles' "Helter Skelter".

Yep. Poetry.

[#13 posted by buddy66 , August 19, 2008 3:59 PM]

Mark,

For my eye, Ape Lad could illustrate the phone book or a BB thread and knock me out.

Wait a minute . . . illustrated BB thread comments . . . hmmm.

[#14 posted by the specialist , August 20, 2008 12:24 PM]

keyword: crappy.

[#15 posted by busby , August 26, 2008 11:37 AM]

Busby Seo Challenge hhmm. It's not much of an issue afterall . I think...