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James Howard (jbhoward@gibbs.oit.unc.edu) wrote:
:  I saw the "pathetic documentary" and believe me when I say I am 
: being kind in my description.  Utter *CRAP* is the review I would
: give it if I weren't so kind.  Bouncy camera, blurry image, terrible
: camera work, utter crap, crap crap.  If it wasn't based on a politically
: correct theme the piece would have never seen the light of day.

I disagree with you. I liked the video (it was by Sadie Benning, I finally
remembered the name).  My partner said her father is a well known video
artist and she actually had access to very nice gear.  She chose the Pixel
Vision because of the way it changes the image.

: >
: >To acheive the same results through processing would cost more for 3
: >hours of studio time than the price of the PixelVision!  THATS why many
: >artists want them.

:  What?  You must be joking.  Considering the current scalping price
: for a pixelvision is approaching 300 bucks, you could *EASILY* buy
: a 10 dollar filter to remove the chroma signal from any camcorder
: in existence.  You want reduced resolution?  Put a diffuser lens
: in front of it.   The image is cropped because the audio tape
: doesnt have the bandwidth to produce an entire screen-full.  Just
: put a matte box in front of the lens of any camcorder and there
: you have it.

A difuser lens does NOT pixelize the image.  My point was that I have
seen my partner spend $50/hour on studio time to do similar processing
to her video.

:  People that love the pixelvision are the same kind of idiots who
: enjoy new music that has "static and pops and hiss" inserted to
: make it sound more "folksy, downhome, _honest_, real, etc."

Well, you got me there pal.  I make music with static and pops and hiss in
it.  What an idiot I am.  Thanks for pointing that out to me.

:  The pixelvision sucks, and any filmmaker or videomaker who relies
: on its cheap gimmick effects for their work obviously has nothing
: worthwhile to say.

Sadie Benning has nothing worthwhile to say?  I sure thought she did.  She
said a lot about how she feels.  She was 15 years old when she made her first
video.  I was moved by her work.

I understand if you didn't like it or it didn't touch you.  But I think you
are over generalizing, and you are acting like your opinion is true for
everyone.  What kind of video art did you make when you were 15?

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