Thursday, June 26, 2008

I Want More Feelings on YouTube

So, I started this HeartNote Series because I wanted to express the way some of the videos make me feel. When you go to a movie, you can go with a friend or even if you go without that friend you can call them and ask if they saw the movie and discuss how it makes you feel.

But not with YouTube. On YouTube I send videos to other friends but rarely do I follow-up with a conversation “How did it make you feel?” The type of discussions on YouTube are passionate, but rarely about feelings, they are about opinions. Even if someone starts a conversation with the words, “I feel…” they are not talking about feelings, they are talking about their opinion, which may not last as long as the life of the video posting.

Through art I can quickly, cheaply express something that is moving through me.
That strong reaction that could sit in my body and disturb me or I can grab the Derwent tin and some paper and go, go, go.

My youtube channel is JazznJava look for the HeartNotes Series