AMVs brought up on ANN

Org Profile · Post by **GloryQuestor** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:25 pm

JudgeHolden wrote:I do love how his own logo at the top is involation of U.S. copyright law ....

I was just thinking that, myself, Judge...

I was disappointed at the narrow view he presented ... not surprised, but disappointed.

To me, it seems like he hasn't done his research, and Zac Bertschy has been around in the anime scene for quite a while -- he's been doing Answerman since January 14, 2001 (unitl January 1, 2003 and then picked up again on September 9, 2005, but I remember seeing him doing Wizard's Anime Insider Magazine in between that gap).

In all that time being an anime "guru", he didn't happen to notice the fact that AMV contests and panels end up being big draws at most conventions? Didn't he ever notice the fact that the apporpriately-named "Video Art" rooms and convention video rooms at conventions fill up with people wanting to see AMVs?

After reading his stuff lately (his AMV article, the Haruhi Suzumiya comment he made before that "girls wouldn't like it", and the mess he made of his columns-full of his opinion of lolicon), I have agree with Kionon -- he needs to go back to Journalism School. Or at least make sure to investigate something before offering a critical opinion on a "trusted anime news source".

Org Profile · Post by **GloryQuestor** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:27 pm

appropriately-named "Video Art" rooms and convention video rooms

Fix'd

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:46 pm

Just out of curiosity, have you guys tried posting your responses into this thread? It just bothers me that you guys tried to find counterpoints on what Zac said despite the fact that he or any of the regular ANN readers are checking these out.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:46 pm

ANN is notable for their deafening silence on the subject of AMVs. I get the impression that those behind the site are none too fond of them.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:18 pm

Kalium wrote:ANN is notable for their deafening silence on the subject of AMVs. I get the impression that those behind the site are none too fond of them.

I get the same feeling.

I didn't know about that thread, but I don't care to share my opinion with them.. here is fine, then I could discuss it with the people I care about and not have to deal about far left and far right fights(which is one of the reasons they banned political talk at the doom9 forums, keep the peace.

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x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:23 pm

Also I don't go there that often, if I started to post there all the sudden on this matter, I'd feel like I'm just going there to preach if they want to hear about our arguement, they can go here, someone just go there and post a link to this thread or something. I remember a long time ago some amv topic came up there, and a huge percentage of posters in that thread were brand new members that came over from this site just to attack them.. F 'em.. live and let live

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:46 pm

I just lose more and more respect for ANN as time goes on. The only time they ever mention AMVs is when events are going badly for us. Anything else, and mum's the word.

AMV_4000 · Post by **AMV_4000** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:56 pm

Kalium wrote:I just lose more and more respect for ANN as time goes on. The only time they ever mention AMVs is when events are going badly for us. Anything else, and mum's the word.

never had any respect for them. Although the kinda have a point... some videos are really unoriginal... and yeah, almost anyone could put an angel song to an angel anime, or a fighting song to a fighting anime... and yeah, we some people do bootleg stuff... but WE dont! Thats why we have rules here... although we treat them more like guidelines... but yeah, i didnt waste my time reading what they had to say, i just read quotes from others... i get the idea though... and in the end their right... were just harmless people with a different type of fan art... so we dont draw or cosplay or write fanfics... we edit... If you wanna say something bad about amvs, you should remember that its just our way of expressing our fandom and creativity.

and I'm going to stfu before i start sounding too serious...

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:59 pm

Not to mention that the Belinda Carlisle/AMG video referenced is probably a decade old, to boot...

AMV_4000 · Post by **AMV_4000** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:06 pm

Kalium wrote:Not to mention that the Belinda Carlisle/AMG video referenced is probably a decade old, to boot...

lol, good point.

Why didnt he reference something recent? like euphoria... oh wait Euphoria is almost 4 years old! even if he had seen something more recent, it was prolly a you- a girl with pretty eyes video... meaning crappy, low quality, and random song, random anime, random clips...