I can’t really explain what is so wonderful about this video to me, but it is.
I suppose part of it is just seeing people from an older generation, who have their own charisma and rawness at that, respond to contemporary pop music. I also like the way it gives some insight into their lives, however contrived the situation may be.
I know, I know, this really isn’t that different than cable access TV. But the difference is that I don’t have to live in whatever town this is being produced in to be able to see it. I’m also able to share this with other people much easier than I would if I were watching it on TV.
Occasionally there are these Zen-like moments of mystical harmony, pleasure, and peace that I experience when surfing the ‘Net — this set of synchronized videos is one of them. This is the junkie’s high that sustains my gambling spirit. This is the immanent God that we have wrought with our own hands. This is postmodern religious art.
Part of what I find so beautiful about this is the incredible number of informal and decentralized collaborations that were necessary to make it possible in a holistic sense.
Please note, though, that I am not directly praising technology in any naive or uncritical sense. I enjoy this in just the same way that I am critical of religion yet enjoy the classical religious art that was created in the past.
Via Boing Boing.
Related: Wesch’s An anthropological introduction to YouTube.
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