One of my videos on YouTube [here's a link to my little channel] was selected among millions of others on the Internet as a TOP 10 video on Classical Music on the WeShow Awards US Edition. WeShow selects the best and most relevant videos in the whole world from across sites such as Youtube, MySpace, Metacafe, DailyMotion (among others) and categorizes them across 200 channels. The video that was chosen from my channel was actually the first one I ever uploaded on YouTube and also the one that has by far the most viewers and comments... So this Top 10 thing is pretty huge. But...
The irony of the whole story is that out of all the few videos I've uploaded, this is the only one that has really nothing to do with my ideas or creativity. It's just an interpretation of John Cage's 4'33''. I found it somewhere (probably downloaded using the mule) and thought I could share it with the world just because I liked Cage at the time... So really nothing to get excited or happy about.
To be honest, I wouldn't even keep it on my channel anymore if it wasn't so damn popular! I'm guessing that the more than 200 000 people that have watched it might also look at the rest of my stuff (not that I've dared to put up my artwork really!)... How awful of me to use someone else's work in order to promote mine! I don't even know who's the real author of that "secretly stolen selfpublicity" video. I think it's just a recording of a TV broadcast. How spectacular!
The conclusion of this story is that these things always happen to me. I get credit for the wrong things or for the things I haven't done or the things I didn't really do as well as I should/could have. Is it bad? Is it good? How the hell should I know!
In the meanwhile I suggest you go and see the great film Foureyed Monsters that I recently discovered and maybe I'll upload some new videos to my YouTube channel in order to start deserving at least a tiny bit of that credit WeShow has given me.
