Youtube videos

[extrapenguin]

A random assortment.

I'm not really into Chinese Cooking Demystified's style (too clinical and polished), but I really loved this video of the wife's father sharing the recipe for Gai Yong Yu Tou, and a restaurant cook demonstrate Cantonese Fry Roast Chicken. (I'm also not one for video recipes, but. Well. Let's see.)

Also, Li Ziqi, this time with potatoes. She's like ... visual ASMR, I guess? about traditional farming and cooking. Very relaxing. (If you enjoy her, you might also like Dianxi Xiaoge, who does actually talk to people in her videos? Rose petal jam example video.)

I came across some stuff by Folding Ideas, too – a brief overview of cut types and the Kuleshov Effect (or, why movies work) were pretty cool from a vidding perspective.

I'm currently watching a video on YouTube Corporate Propaganda while trying to slap words onto a fic.

And finally, have a colorful tit.

Comments

[starandrea]

I love that colorful tit! A true rainbow borb! ♥.♥ Thanks for making my day better!

[extrapenguin]

Supremely colorful birb! I'm glad it improved your day.

[trobadora]

I've been really enjoying your meal/recipe blogging! Yeah, I'm not much for video recipes either, though I can appreciate the illustration sometimes. Text is so much easier! I have no idea why this trend of turning everything into a video seems so popular.

I like Li Ziqi, too. You're right, she's really soothing.

And finally, have a colorful tit.

Awwww! :D

[extrapenguin]

Sometimes the recipes can do with video accompaniment, like demonstrating the pleating technique in carrot ginger pork baozi, but videos are so hard to glance through and one basically has to memorize everything from it before starting.

I have no idea why this trend of turning everything into a video seems so popular.
Facebook falsified statistics on how much people were watching videos, creating a huge movement to "pivot to video" which has infected absolutely everything. Slate has an explanation.

The shift from text to video was never about what normal people wanted, for Facebook or the media companies that followed its lead. It was always about what advertisers wanted: the captive attention of consumers.

[trobadora]

but videos are so hard to glance through and one basically has to memorize everything from it before starting.

Yes! And recipes are hardly the worst offenders. Video essays and the like? UGH. 99% of the time the format adds nothing, but only detracts. No, I'm not going to spend 40 minutes watching you talk when the same thing in text form would take ten minutes to read at most, and five to skim! It just makes information less accessible if it's hiding in some video.

Thanks for that link - I'd vaguely heard about something but didn't know the details. It's astonishing to me that so many people are going along with this "trend" even now, since it's so counterintuitive ...

[tinny]

Ha, the Cantonese is basically indecipherable for me. The only things I got was "gai" and "dan". :D

I hate instructional videos for basically everything, but that was fun to watch - probably because I have no intention of cooking it, myself. :D

And videos are definitely the medium of choice for movie theory. The Kuleshov effect is another interesting thing that I did not know (the name of).

Thanks for the links!

[extrapenguin]

Well, Cantonese is a separate language. It'd be like trying to understand Icelandic based on one's knowledge of English.

Videos have their place, and that place is for audiovisual items, like movies. It's natural there, what with the thing being talked about also being a video. And yeah, the Kuleshov effect is pretty cool.