CompuServe Messages

<<it's a LOT harder to objectively discuss what content is valid (& LOTSA censorship issues arise from that!)>> <blush> Whatever it is they're talking about; it's always sex or money. I've been in love too many times to have any money left. And the temptations I used to labor so hard to avoid when I was young — are all avoiding *me* today. So, I guess I'm left with the non-topical <g>. <<artists–have a hard time understanding at first just what the new technology can do for them>> My mileage varies (undergrad degree in fine arts). The computer technoids explain gizmonics to us as, "… the processor communicates information as a series of ones and zeroes, and imagine this brick with a cord is a paint brush." Right. All the while the creative is thinking, "… who cares how it works; let's drive!" Execution is everything. Tim, DTV has introduced so many challenges to the rules everyone learned. For example, (preaching to the choir) shots are jump cut into scenes, 'transitions' (dissolves, fades, etc) are employed to convey the passage of time, characters, or venue between scenes. But the modern MTV producer places a transition between every shot! Neutering its effect on the viewer. Just like the term 'system'. Tossed about so cavalier; the falling-sheep wipe is meaningless today. Or did the visual arts just fantasize transitions as meaningful to the viewer? There are horizons here. DTV is destined to push video into the realm of personal correspondence. Reaching in here, the old rules are doo-doo! "Viewer, I know thy name"; something no one in the big post production houses has ever encountered. Audience of one. "How does one produce for that", you ask Avid, Data Translations, Radius, RasterOps, et. al ? Reply? "The processor communicates information as a series of ones and zeroes… 60 fields, 640X480…" When shall we say, "… who cares how it works; let's drive?"