Early release of my "How to tell a Jewish Joke" video!
Added 2022-02-15 16:29:55 +0000 UTCLemme know what you think! I'm planning on premiering it on friday woooo!!! I would have released this a few weeks earlier but I shared my video with a treasured source and they told me that I completely got side tracked by my rag/dishcloth obsession and forgot the thesis of my video! So I filmed a whole new scene nearing the end to give more context. You will know which scene it is because i'm a different character.
One thing i've been struggling with is knowing who my videos are for. I am very obsessed with the normie podcast "Stuff You Should Know" and I find it an honourable existence to teach people strange and interesting things. This concept however, feels directly contradictory to being an artist. At least, my schooling of being an artist. I find when I make a video where I want to teach people something I try to abstract my thesis and muddy the waters so it feels more like "art" to me. This does not seem like a healthy relationship to art and I want to repair that. I think the only way to do that is by affirming that "art" is whatever I say it is. I have an easy time doing that with silly things, but for some reason when I am being sincere and want to teach something real, I feel embarrassed or like i'm being "cringe". If I am cringe, so be it.
Side note, I am currently reading the Sabriel book series and am blown away by it!
- your non abstract very literal rat
Comments
Wonderful as always! I wish your little landlord the best of times.
Kalolof
2022-02-18 18:16:39 +0000 UTCThank you so much for saying that! I really did want to bring the two together and this topic has been on my mind for so long. I also have always adored shmattas so it was really fun to just play with the materials of rags, dishcloths and doilies
Maya Ben David
2022-02-17 16:41:34 +0000 UTCTeaching and art are both efforts to communicate something important - art is more immediate and emotional, while teaching is often more intellectual and abstract. This video does a wonderful job bridging the two, a primer on interacting with Jewish culture as soft and unassuming as a shmatta. So if this is where your work is taking you, I'm here for it!
Jerfling
2022-02-16 20:17:14 +0000 UTCThank you so much Blake!
Maya Ben David
2022-02-16 16:10:08 +0000 UTCI found the video to be very insightful
Blake Rothwell
2022-02-16 03:49:17 +0000 UTCThank you so much that means a lot. I'm really excited to publish it :D
Maya Ben David
2022-02-16 03:03:23 +0000 UTCmaya this video is fantastic!! nice work!! and the volume is fine for me.
veedub
2022-02-15 19:50:38 +0000 UTCoh also, is the volume too low in the video? I thought it was fine but found that other youtube videos pitch theirs way louder
Maya Ben David
2022-02-15 16:31:07 +0000 UTC
