What’s In Your Hand?

“What’s in your hand?  What do you have that you’ve been given?  Talent, background, education, freedom, networks, opportunities, wealth, ideas, creativity?  What are you doing with what you’ve been given?”  -Rick Warren

Although this quote and painting really have nothing to do with each other, I found that they both have a similar meaning.  First, I think the quote is pretty self explanatory.. I can relate to this quote because I feel like I’ve got all these things at my fingertips that I’m capable of accomplishing.  Check out this 20 minute speech by Rick Warren that I heard the quote from here.  The image above is from a set of paintings by Nate Frizzell portraying different emotions.  This one is about being “shallow in every sense of the word. One definition of the word is “lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge”. Not only is the boy in the painting standing in shallow water, but he still finds a way to drown himself in it, ignoring the affect he has on his surroundings.”  I can relate to this because sometimes I feel like I’m drowning in my own thoughts…  Although I don’t feel like I’m never not trying to improve at certain parts of my life or what I like to do.  It feels like I’m constantly searching for perfection within myself but never reaching it is the continuos struggle and motivation of this goal.  Anyways, the quote reminds me what I’ve got at my hands and the painting is motivating to keep at it!

FUCK YOUTUBE

FUCK YOUTUBE.  And FUCK TV.  Today I came across a little subject title in my email: “A copyright owner has claimed content in one of your videos”.  I’m sick of this copyright bullshit.  At least 50% of all videos on youtube has to have copyright material in them.  I thought it was called YOUtube?  Where people have some sort of freedom to post something they’ve created with the possible help of music.  What are we supposed to do post nothing but video blogs (vlogs)!?  What is the point of youtube if these companies are going to force youtube to remove your video?  I’ve had this notice multiple times and half of the time I’m allowed to keep the video up so long as they can advertise a banner on my page, or I have to completely change the audio.  Change the audio, to an edited video, to an “allowed” copyright song that doesn’t match your video?  That would pretty much ruin the feeling or emotion the user wanted to create from the video in the first place.  Why not allow the user to advertise a banner of your company on there youtube page?  or play a mini-commercial before our uploaded video?  If you browse 10 videos right now with music content in them you will find at least 1 person asking in the comments, “what song is this???” so what the fuck?  The only reason this pisses me off is because I was actually anti youtube about 3 years ago and I was sucked into it only to find out the youtube rules are a piece of shit.  What’s next, no cursing in a fucking blog?  or if there’s a coca-cola can in my video they are going to remove it??  I guess this just pisses me off because I feel I might actually contributed something worth watching to youtube compared to some little kids dancing to the latest famous artist single.. which is still a form of advertising for any artist or company.  Don’t these companies or corporations understand the downfall of CD purchasing, pirating movies, and that some people don’t even listen to the radio anymore?  The worst part about this stupid e-mail is that if I did re-post my video I would then get another notice saying “Account Warning” and guess what, I already have one of those and next my account along with all 140 videos of mine uploaded are erased!  Well fuck it, thats my youtube rant.

PS:  TURN OFF YOUR TV OR GET RID OF IT.