Newsletter #132 - About That YouTube Channel
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As I mentioned in #131, I started a YouTube channel.
Starting isn’t exactly the right word for it. I’ve had this channel since 2006. Remember my everyday project? I had only used this YouTube channel for posting updates of that video. For decades I thought that was all it would be. I didn’t want to taint it with other things I was making. Besides, nothing could ever be as big. The channel was art.
Well, I changed my mind.
In the first new video “Welcome to my YouTube Channel” (January 11, 2024 ), I introduce myself and explain what’s going to happen.
The shots featured in the video are of me talking into a microphone in my studio. I wanted to set some expectations for people who might have been following the channel because of my everyday videos.
So what’s going to happen? Good question. I say stuff like:
There seemed to be a mix of excitement and disappointment from the crowd on YouTube.
After posting this video I lost 500 subscribers.
Not to be deterred, I returned the next day with “You Have Comments. I have reactions.” (January 12, 2024). I had changed my mind. We ARE going to talk about everyday. Listen, it’s not atypical for me to do a complete 180 in less than 24 hours. I found a bunch of comments that had been left on my videos and responded to them.
Disagree!
Why do people say this— I look nothing like him?!
An opportunity to express my feelings about unsolicited feedback.
But, of course, there were plenty of moments to express my gratitude for how much that project has impacted people’s lives. I am unironically grateful for these types of reactions.
You should watch the whole video, I think it’s fun, even though I do screw up the audio five minutes in.
I figured I’d mess something up. You gotta get those mistakes out of the way early.
We grow. We change. We get better.
Hopefully.
You can now explore the entirety of the everyday project in photos on a dedicated website here: everyday.photo
If you’re new here, or to my work in general, I have written about everyday a few times.
Try these links:
09/16/2019 - #9 - Everyday & Serial / Obsessive Projects
01/13/2020 - #22 - Everyday - Twenty Years
01/27/2020 - #23 - Everyday - The Aftermath
07/19/2021 - #94 - 7777 Days
And I will never do it again!
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