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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-C-LVPiqEg

That's probably the worst song on that compilation.

This thread is the worst song on the ILF compilation of life

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SFFRaIUisY

There is something heart warming about being in a JHS thread and talking (posting) about penises.

Fuck JHS and that dude (a polaroid of himself holding the pedal? really?) but I've watched some of the videos because he's talked about a few things I'm interested in and all I can think is why isn't someone more interesting doing videos about those topics? Maybe they are and I just haven't come across them. Somebody on ILF start doing videos about these things so I don't have to see his smug face.

Penis

zeravla wrote:all I can think is why isn't someone more interesting doing videos about those topics?

I don't think we're ever going to hit a platinum standard with gear demos or nerd history videos. You need someone who is a perfect mixture of creativity and charisma, combined with a lack of ambition. If someone is truly gifted in composing music or crafting stylistic visual media, then they're likely aiming higher than becoming a social media darling. (touring, scoring film, directing, producing)

Making gear demos would just be a temporary stepping stone for the ideal individual. It'd be over just as people were starting to discover them. ---Not to take away from the people who are steadily turning out gear demos, but it's more of an accidental/slow process for most. A hobby became a means of reduced-stress living.

Josh Scott can make these anytime, because it's not like he's tinkering away in his mad scientist's lab. The company is rolling along with a built-in audience, so he's got plenty of time for vanity vlogging.

Honestly, I just read other people's, who post here, posts. I'm missing a bunch but for starters 1. Echorec (above), 2. Whoismarykelly and 3. Lord Galvar. Honorable mention would be Oscilateur but he doesn't post here much any more, and if he does it's in the modular thread. He's not so much a generalist so to speak but an expert in anything he owns.

There's a hundred others I look at but I agree. I would be very into more of a "Gear Archeology". There is no Foucault of the gear world... yet. There are exceptions (Trevor Pinch's Analog Days is a fantastic book... I am also yet to read The Prophet of Silicon Valley, but it's on my list).

My wet dream book would be an oral history kind of like AMERICAN HARDCORE (the book and movie). Then some more hyper specific books (like WHAT YOU WANT IS IN THE VAN and LAUREL CANYON).

Obviously Muff's too... but for using forums, you can't verify the 'primary source' is in fact a primary source. You sort of have to read between the lines and read their whole oeuvre of posts. This is time consuming (I actually do this for yelp... when someone "does not like the service at a place" I can profile them to see if they are like Long Island wasp or some shit). And again, you can't verify if they actually owned the gear, or if this is like the ending of St. Elsewhere are just completely imagined.

Like, imagine if UC never ACTUALLY owned a seppuku pedal and this was all a ruse?

echorec wrote:Making gear demos would just be a temporary stepping stone for the ideal individual. It'd be over just as people were starting to discover them. ---Not to take away from the people who are steadily turning out gear demos, but it's more of an accidental/slow process for most. A hobby became a means of reduced-stress living.

Tfw you remember knobs started out as a nerd on ILF.

$harkToootth wrote:Honestly, I just read other people's, who post here, posts. I'm missing a bunch but for starters 1. Echorec (above), 2. Whoismarykelly and 3. Lord Galvar. Honorable mention would be Oscilateur but he doesn't post here much any more, and if he does it's in the modular thread. He's not so much a generalist so to speak but an expert in anything he owns.

There's a hundred others I look at but I agree. I would be very into more of a "Gear Archeology". There is no Foucault of the gear world... yet. There are exceptions (Trevor Pinch's Analog Days is a fantastic book... I am also yet to read The Prophet of Silicon Valley, but it's on my list).

My wet dream book would be an oral history kind of like AMERICAN HARDCORE (the book and movie). Then some more hyper specific books (like WHAT YOU WANT IS IN THE VAN and LAUREL CANYON).

Up until a few years ago this was ilF

jrfox92 wrote:

echorec wrote:Making gear demos would just be a temporary stepping stone for the ideal individual. It'd be over just as people were starting to discover them. ---Not to take away from the people who are steadily turning out gear demos, but it's more of an accidental/slow process for most. A hobby became a means of reduced-stress living.

Tfw you remember knobs started out as a nerd on ILF.

Yep, and he's turned demoing into consulting and traveling. Nobody's endgame is to become the Scorsese of gear demos.

echorec wrote:Yep, and he's turned demoing into consulting and traveling. Nobody's endgame is to become the Scorsese of gear demos.

I sort of have aspirations to become the John Waters, Hershall Gordon Lewis, Abel Ferrara, or Andy Milligan OF gear demos

$harkToootth wrote:

echorec wrote:Yep, and he's turned demoing into consulting and traveling. Nobody's endgame is to become the Scorsese of gear demos.

I sort of have aspirations to become the John Waters, Hershall Gordon Lewis, Abel Ferrara, or Andy Milligan or gear demos

Out of all those, you should definitely become gear demos.

I meant "of" whoops!