Monday, September 17, 2007

A Post About Nothing?

Hmmm...
Well, this is an interesting predicament. We haven't read anything this week! What's a guy to discuss and respond to? I suppose I could reflect on my writing process for my essay. Finding articles to support the argument that Youtube is not the amazing expressive wonder that Stephens appears to think it is. This isn't to say that it could eventually become viable, but right now it's not. It just isn't! What's the last real video with some real value to it to come from YouTube? I have yet to see it. Parodies and recordings of old show seem to be the only things I actually care about on YouTube. Actually, I do enjoy watching videos of video games and sometimes you see someone show off a pretty cool stunt or talent. But watching someone climb a building from the outside isn't comparable to what other mediums of expression offer. I already wrote an essay about this so I don't really feel like talking about it right now.

I'll move on to something else literature related. I recently started reading the biography of Einstein. It's interesting, but it's kind of dull. The reading is very flat like a text book. An interesting thing I learned was that Albert was a big fan of the violin. He would play it between his thinking sessions. I really just like to imagine what it would have been like to be him. He was a real genius, but he tried on multiple occasions to have a real family life. They all failed. He loved his children , but he could never stay with his wives. They all said that he just pushed them away. Even his children said that he never really let them get close. He understood so much about the universe, but so little about people in it.

I guess lastly, I'll just post a nice video of people climbing on buildings and doing all sorts of crazy flips. It's called Free running.

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