The Fillet Skillet: YouTube

More on As One Melbourne

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:21:13 GMT

(Written while sitting on a plane. I actually explain this in the thing but I just wanted to be crystal. I've also left out most people's names when I talk about them, just for the sake of not talking about new friends on the internet without them knowing about it.)

I'm on a plane to Darwin and my iPod has resolutely given up the ghost at a very inconvienient time. I would sleep, but the immense difficulty the lady across the isle is having finding semi-comfort is evidence enough that such an excersise is futile. So instead of reading or coughing up money for drinks I have asked the steward for pen and paper. I'm trying to write small becasue I only have one A4 sheet. I would write on the airsickness bag, but someone has put used chewing gum in it. Lovely.

I needed the pen and paper because when my mind is left on its own it begins thinking things that another part of my mind wishes it could record. It's a bit self-important really, but if people didn't write down what they think, the world would be much worse off. Or better off, depending on how you look at it.

I was actually thinking about my trip in Melbourne and how much I enjoyed it and how utterly strange it is to meet internet people who spend their free time being odd in online videos, only to find that in real life they are very much like me. That is to say, they are normal, with similar passions and senses of humour. They might not ACTUALLY be normal, but they pass for normal in my universe, so it's all good really. I mean, it wasn't as if there were a hundred Rohans walking around chatting to one another using exagerated and unneccisary hand gestures.

*** was quite softly spoken really. He used short sentences. He kind of waited for someone else to engage him as if he would be an intrusion otherwise, or as if he was a bit embarrased at being so easily recognisable. *** was really outgoing, striking up conversations all over the place. I followed him around, limpet-like, because he broke the ice with other people so well. One guy I thought was just brilliant was ***** who after I said hello went on to drive a very enjoyable conversation about this and that. He's added me on Messenger too, so I'm looking forward to shooting the breeze with him digitally.

I've noticed that all these people are male and have one-sylable names. Tom, Rob, Steve, Lou, Nick, Matt, John, Sean. My exotically two-sylable name puts me in league with Andrew and Cory, but ev en we can't reach the dizzying heights of Damien.

There were a few girls there, but they had all seemed to have planned multiple things for the day (typical lack of focus :-p) and they all swanned in and out going to jobs or concerts or friends places, which made them very difficult to track down and actually talk to. I only really talked to three girls the whole day. One of them was Lani. Oh and her mum. Make that four girls. Not that I have been, but there are better places to look for girls than YouTube (although it worked for Nate) but I enjoy it all the same. You make good mates there to be honest. Nice people. Great day.

(Ed. Can you imagine?

Person: "So how did you two meet?"
Us: "... on... YouTube"
Person: "Oh")

No more paper left. now what am I going to do? I should have bought one of those notebooks today.

As One - Melbourne 2007

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:38:23 GMT

Aaaaah! What can I say about this day? I could just say "it was a pretty awesome day" and that would give you a general idea that it was a positive experience, even though getting to Melbourne nearly killed me. The flight down was delayed and redirected and all sorts of things. In the end what should have taken up four hours of my life instead took up eight. I was flying Jetstar too so I got no food (on Jetstar you have to pay so your airfare is cheaper, but I'm not paying for any crappy airline food).

Anyway, I got to Melbourne having had no sleep whatsoever the previous night but in the end had such a good time I stayed up until about four the next morning. For a bit we were all just kind of milling around interviewing each other. I wasn't really. I was running around with Azukar getting something to eat and conning other people to come with us. Then we all kind of gravitated into our own little groups and had chats over beers or coffees, depending on your age and preference for that kind of thing.

To be honest though, it wasn't particularly what we did that made the day such a blast, but the people we saw. Sure, going out to the afterparty at a local bar was heaps fun (and laughing at the two Americans who came and thought I wouldn't get in, being 19). There's a real sense here that I can't do this justice putting only my thoughts into words. One of the organisers, seanbedlam, has already done a stellar job at particularising his thoughts on the day. I'm gonna steal from him for a bit. K? (Caution, he swears! No! Not swearing! Noooooo! Okay, okay. So on the balance of swears, it's a pretty bad swear. But I'm still leaving it in so I can corrupt the children.)

Youtube is powerful drugs, and the gathering was a series of massive od's. So many bright, motivated people, sharing a common obsession as the very poorly designed Fed Square sucked up every erg of sun power and roasted us alive. How hot was it? Dozens of us died right there and turned to ash. We found we could renanimate these poor souls by asking if they'd like to make a video- which while to be expected was still miraculous.

Where some see attention-whores, I see people with actual personality, and the day had more personality than I could even try to deal with. Met some very Interesting Motherfuckers, the kind of people who aren't boring because they never let themselves get bored. In particular a group of teen dudes who will be your future masters in they're not careful.

And that's really the crux of the matter. These weren't just people who you say a quick 'hi' to and move on with your life. They weren't the computer nerds that people might expect to see at a YouTube gathering. Everyone had real, vibrant personality, and not only that, everyone was very open and talkative. I'm not what you would call a big name on YouTube, even in the Australian community there. Nobody cared about subscriber numbers and we all got on like a house on fire full of scurity cameras. I made some good friends there that day and I think I'm addicted.

There are whispers that there may be another gathering mid-year 2008 in Sydney, although it's all still up in the air. Based on the resounding success of Melbourne I'm inclined to set some finances aside so I can go to that too. Too much fun was had to miss out on it all happening again. Really truely.

Here is my favourite video of the day so far. It's by HalfScottishGuy, who I hung out with most of the day (although I don't feature in this video much). What little footage I took will be going up on Friday or so. I forgot to bring my video transfer cable with me.

The prancing man wasn't from YouTube. I don't know where he sprung from.

Subscribers

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:13:32 GMT

So just a month ago I made a video thanking my first fifty subscribers. Since then they've been increasing exponentially - today I just hit 141.

I believe this is for two-and-a-half reasons.

Reason 1 and 1.5
I'm now going to the YouTube gathering in Melbourne. As such, my videos have gone up on the AsOneMelbourne page giving them quite a lot of exposure to a lot of Australian YouTubers. They subscribed, their friends subscribed, and now I'm a fully-blown member of YouTube Australia - well integrated into a community I previously had trouble finding.

Also, the YouTube Australia page opened a few weeks ago. This hasn't impacted my channel directly seeing as I haven't been featured (not that getting featured on a local page gets you heaps of subscribers anyway) but it makes it easier for me to find them. When I subscribe they sometimes subscribe back, adding to my total.

Reason 2:
I participated in Mugglesam's collaboration video "The Largest Harry Potter Collab Ever". I've been inundated (that is, for someone with <1000 subscribers) with Harry Potter fans subscribing to my videos. It helped when I posted my bloopers as a video response two days ago. Here's the entire collaboration if you're interested:

So I'm in with the Australians and the Harry Potheads. It's pretty cool guys. It's pretty cool

In other news my exam went pretty good. There was one question that asked me to code a form and it was worth ten points and I've never coded a form in my life so I lost most of those I'd say. I made something up of course because it was compulsory to answer all the questions. Everything else I think I did all right on, but the majority of the marks come from paragraph answer questions and who knows what the lecturer will make of my answers!

She might be impressed, she might not. And that's all I have to say.

YouTube Australia

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:34:54 GMT

The YouTube Australia portal has just been launched today, with accompanying party which I couldn't attend, because the party was in Sydney, I was in Darwin and I had an oral presentation due at uni. *sigh* And all the videos looked like so much fun. I saw one with JohnofJordan in it, and one with riverbasil and englishteaboy. But there will be none with me in it, because I wasn't there.

*sigh*

But besides missing the party I couldn't be happier. Yay for finding really good Australian content on YouTube!

Here's the video the new people from YouTube Australia made:

Yeah!

The Hair Video

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:03:52 GMT

Jesh was nicer than expected when I came home. In fact the conversation went a little bit like this:

Jesh: Did you get a haircut?
Me : Yeah
Jesh: Well it looks SO much better than your long hair
Me : ...you didn't like my long hair?
Jesh: Nuh. No way.
Me : Oh... thanks. I suppose.
Jesh: ...is that a Mohawk?

Rohan of the Ring: an autobogette

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:53:20 GMT

Ooooh yeah! I got the stupid DVD file to convert to a DivX file! That means I could upload it to YouTube!

Ok now everyone, gather round the computer and watch my Year 12 mockumentry about someone that is kind of like me, but isn't actually me.

Shiny Coin

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:02:50 GMT

Tubing Before Work

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:44:52 GMT

Two others on my channel! Go there yourself!

I Snuck This One In After Work

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:09:30 GMT

YouTublian

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:54:57 GMT

You Want More Spy Action?

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:17:02 GMT

Video Camel Capers. Also I Am Sick.

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:30:38 GMT

Only One Video Today

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:53:05 GMT

It's about me going to the Deb Ball my church ran last Saturday. I sound quite negative in this video but that's just before I actually went.

Extra Sundayness

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:23:06 GMT

Occasionally I go to uni on a Sunday and use the internet. It's from there that I upload things using the free-to-students internet connection. It's really brilliant actually.

What's That? It's Thursday Again?

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:38:49 GMT

More Thursday YouTube

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:53:58 GMT

Video response approval from k80blog pending.

Bonus Sunday Tubing is Tubilicious

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:13:19 GMT

Here are some bonus Sunday Tubes for you. It's a good thing I told you about them, or you might not have realised they were here hey? But if you had subscribed to my channel you wouldn't have had that problem would you? Not that I'm all about subscriptions or anything, but you know, it's kind of... just subscribe.

This one is subject to Hellachella's approval of the video comment. I'm sure it'll be fine though.

This one is for Mum only, as I know she will enjoy it.

More Tubes from Me

Thu, 31 May 2007 07:46:05 GMT

Every Thursday I Doth Tube

Thu, 24 May 2007 08:30:39 GMT

Please enjoy these Tubes of mine. Also if you subscribe to my channel, I will shoot good vibrations at you.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Short Clips of Randomness

Thu, 17 May 2007 01:34:59 GMT

Tickety-boo YouTube! Tube tube!

Thu, 10 May 2007 08:21:49 GMT

New stuff on YouTube, but I don't have time to embed them ATM. You want to look at them? Go to this place.

YouTube is a Tricky Thing

Thu, 03 May 2007 08:16:03 GMT

Holy crap! I'm late for dinner! The other two scheduled videos are coming soon!

Soon soon!

Like What? Another YouTube Entry?

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:49:32 GMT

And here is one I did not do, this is Josh's

New Videos! Yay!

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:20:54 GMT

Enjoy them! Now!

Ok ok. No, not really - you don't if you don't want to. It's just... you know... I made them for you and... stuff.

I have some more that I can't post right at the moment because of computer issues (what is it with my computers these days?!?) but they will come next week.

Fillet

Video Killed the Text-Based Blogger... Star

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:37:54 GMT

What with the acquisition of my digital camera, I have now broken the world of YouTube with some thrilling videos about my life. They are absolutely riveting - as I'm sure you will find - and to save you the laborious task of clicking away from my blog, I will try and embed them in this entry. If you like, you could rate them on YouTube so they climb the ladder and draw more viewers, which equals more viewers for this site. It's not like I make my living doing this site or anything, so I guess you don't have to if you don't want to, but if you do, I will award you good vibes from me.

Below here is the first episode. Do not adjust you computer screens.

Here is the second (I got a little carried away and made two - so sue me, I like putting myself on the internet)

I really like doing these videos. I'll be scripting some soon. It's pretty difficult to put them together though if I need to do any editing because I don't really have anything better than Windows Movie Maker or a really, really old version of Adobe Premiere that isn't much better than Windows Movie. So that's basically why there are hardly any cuts or edits in these so far, because Windows Movie is slop-py.

I think this is a better way of showing you around Darwin though - still pictures don't give a very good idea of it. If you want to know about the population of the Northern Territory, then you can click HERE and see this thing I found about it. The page actually makes the Territory sound pretty lame. Still, what he says is true, and I generally like to tell things how they are.

Please forgive me if these don't work straight away, I'm new to this YouTubing, embedding, thing. I even tried to spell 'embed' as 'imbed' that's how new I am.

So yes, enjoy the sight of my moving face and the sound of my monologuing voice.

Fillet