Two longer YouTube posts this month – the first was another chapter reading, the other was a video discussing train sizes in a creative way. Dreaming of No Laundry I wrote this chapter ages ago and thought it would be a good sample chapter. I practiced reading the chapter aloud, making more edits in the process. When I recorded, I was more or less able to get a reading in one session where I didn’t feel I needed many edits. I received feedback from other videos that I should talk slower so I left a lot of the pauses in this one. For the visual, I used a recording of a white duvet in a washing machine. This seemed to have a soporific effect and was apropos the topic of laundry. However, the video quality didn’t seem to hold up after uploading to YouTube. However, overall, I was pleased with the result. For the thumbnail, I took a still of the laundry which happens to look a big like clouds – so the image works both for laundry as a topic and dreaming. I then added a few spinning phi logos. Trains and Barbie’s Arm I’ve wanted to present the concept of different sizes of objected managed by the next internet for a while. I remember the confusion of some people thinking I wanted to route a full-sized train in their homes. To explore these concepts, I filmed toy trains. I knew I wanted to discuss trains on a human […]
