tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post1488481691947561040..comments2024-03-27T07:18:39.229-05:00Comments on In Medias Res: Friday Morning Videos: "Brass In Pocket"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-10958092668859976442009-07-25T09:44:49.191-05:002009-07-25T09:44:49.191-05:00In some ways I think that having fewer tools force...In some ways I think that having fewer tools forced people to make better videos. (I think that's clear with movies, too- Michael Bay being perhaps the clearest case of someone who can only play with tools, but there are lots of cases.) Maybe this is just showing that I'm old, but I still think some of the best videos are fairly early ones. Bowie's _Let's Dance_, for example. <br />I remember it being a particularly hard time in my life when I both wanted to stay up to watch Friday Night Videos (we didn't have cable and I think my mother would have refused to let us have MTV anyway) and get up early to watch the Cartoons that came on at 6pm- Transformers, maybe. Thankfully that overlap didn't last long.Matthttp://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/mlister/noreply@blogger.com