Authenticity

For some reason when I thought of authenticity and what really is authentic, I thought of what authenticity isn't. I believe that there are different levels of authenticity, it's hard to say anything is truly authentic because artists are often influenced by other artists and other works and so on, I'll save that for later.

But, I thought of one of the lowest forms of authenticity: YouTube Poop. Videos often using recycled footage from movies and cartoons and remixing them in a way that are often abstract or funny, or in many cases: plain annoying!

I think of how little work goes into these, and how some show evidence of a lot of work. Usually ending in the same result, a cruddy movie that often has no point. I do see it as an art-form but in terms of authenticity, I view as one of the lowest. The author rarely puts anything original in these mixes. I doubt many have experience in how to actually edit film and the whole thing is just frustrating, even to type about.

So here's a link to some youtube poop that I actually thought was quirky, but if you click on the links that the video is related to do, you find dismal and almost unwatchable videos.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fLFnBFvU4w

It's amazing how this trend has started and dare I say it? Formed a culture of its own?