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Post by eliseharris on Nov 12, 2015 12:02:22 GMT
I am poor at the moment and can't go very far or do very much that requires any money at all, but if anyone wants to suggest subjects for future videos I will consider them, or at least acknowledge the request!
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 12, 2015 14:36:44 GMT
I think you should make videos about the trick or treating shaving cat!
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Post by eliseharris on Nov 12, 2015 23:28:40 GMT
Aw. poor cat! His fur is growing back now at least.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 13, 2015 0:22:18 GMT
Then it will be a happy story of recovery to health and happy kittiness.
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Post by CampKohler on Nov 13, 2015 7:42:14 GMT
How about something interesting seen in your neighborhood or somewhere else on your travels? Nothing fancy; a train wreck, plane crash or a body in the gutter will do. (No dead cats, though, so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of a certain long-eared, pink-nosed visitor.) Even if you are not in the mood for a video, you could post a link in the forum to a Google Streetview scene showing an interesting tidbit if the item has been around long enough to show up there. I did something like that on this site. Too bad you can't embed a SV frame like a YT video; you either just post a link to the SV frame or embed a screenshot of the frame you have posted at a photo service. You know I think I will ask Proboards if there is some way to do it without having to use a screenshot of SV as a link to it like this (click the pix; it works!):  Seeking out the free parking downtown, I have walked by this spot a hundred times. Someone long ago cut out a chunk of sidewalk and placed a drain in it. It is not obvious where the drain flows to, and the inhabitants have no idea what it is for. It is the only drain I have seen set in a sidewalk in the county, much less the city. Maybe it is a vent for Hell. Oooh! Oooh! I just thought of one. You video yourself sitting on the Spike Milligan bench holding a tin cup in one hand and a sign in the other: "Donate to the Bring Spike Back to Life Fund." You video the reactions of passersby when you explain you need the money to pay the accrued cold-storage fees and pick up the body. If they ask how you are going to restore life, you say you haven't figured that out yet, but first things first. |
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 13, 2015 10:09:04 GMT
When you wrote "long-eared" I was worried you were talking about me, but then you wrote "pink-nosed" and I realized you must be talking about somebunny else! Does this nose look pink to you? Am I bovvered? I ain't bovvered. Maybe Elise should think of one of the projects she's always intended to do, and create a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money for it. www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/film%20&%20video?ref=footer |
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Post by CampKohler on Nov 14, 2015 5:45:55 GMT
Underneath, we are all pink.
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Post by eliseharris on Nov 14, 2015 9:05:02 GMT
I am not sure about Kickstarter campaigns. There are so many of them and some of the bigger ones seem a bit wrong (funding the Veronica Mars movie, for example, if they couldn't get legitimate funding maybe they should have just realised it wasn't going to appeal to a wider audience anyway).
Maybe I will change my mind if I can think of a way of providing value for those funding it.
As for the Street View project - good idea. A bit like video geocaching. Something to consider.
The bunny is cute no matter what colour the nose is!
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 14, 2015 12:50:26 GMT
It's official!The bunny is cute no matter what colour the nose is! After making that suggestion, I took a closer look at Kickstarter and Gofundme, and I rather agree with you. The fees seem to pile up to more than the 5% commssion that I had the impression they were, and the biggest project that had raised like 1.5 million dollars, was to bring back MSTK3000, a commercially funded series that had been on for 20 years or so, and frankly wasn't as clever as its fans make it out to be. Their rules should probably exclude projects like that which have already had substantial funding from the established networks. Their goal should be to provide funding for small people who couldn't otherwise get funding.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 14, 2015 16:26:59 GMT
Ok, here's a suggestion for what to make a video about.
Talk about what you would want to do if you suddenly had enough money, say 10 million pounds, to do whatever project you wanted to.
Heck, who knows, you might be able to do your own direct crowdfunding just from your own viewers, without any commission being taken.
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Post by CampKohler on Nov 15, 2015 20:30:13 GMT
Floppy: What makes you think her viewers have two ha'pennies to rub together? Maybe if we got together, we could construct a giant "HOMELESS! HUNGRY! ANYTHING WILL HELP" cardboard sign. (Of course, if the sign was too big, passersby would think, "If they can hold up a big sign like that all day, they mustn't be that hungry.") Maybe one of us will hit the lottery and engage Elise to do projects for us. Elise: Do a video of you walking up to this place to ask for a job. (Notice those brackets that support the wrought-iron fence between the posts? I never saw anything like that before. One would think a stouter post would be more appropriate. Is this something common in Britain? Oooh! Clicking Create Post just took on a new meaning!) |
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 16, 2015 1:08:50 GMT
Because I'm a bunny, and bunny rhymes with money.
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Post by eliseharris on Nov 16, 2015 10:59:00 GMT
I rather think CampKohler is right! Who has money these days?
And unfortunately Number 10 is surrounded by fences and policemen!
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 16, 2015 14:54:12 GMT
So, Elise is now aligned with the Kohler camp . . . Well, I'm just a dumb floppy bunny, but it seems to me that if it costs basically nothing to produce and post a video, then what would you have to lose by posting s few to test the waters. If there ARE people who might donate, then you won't find that out unless you try, will you? You know, I remember when just to produce still photographs cost money every time, you had to take the film to a developer place, and wait days or weeks for photos to be printed, and pay for that process, and pay again for replacement rolls of film. And that wasn't even mentioning the costs of buying and developing super 8 movies. And there was NOPLACE like the internet to get anybody to ever watch your films even if you went to all that trouble and expense. Your little film project might get shown once to a couple dozen film students at a school presentation, and never seen again. Anyhow, the advice now is to use PayPal Donate, instead of Gofundme or Kickstarter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPdUuJbjD3s#t=7m38s |
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Post by CampKohler on Nov 18, 2015 0:00:07 GMT
Hey, wiseguy! It's CampKohler, not Kohler's camp. ---- Elise: At the end of whatever videos you produce, like Fantasy Football, you could announce a Fantasy Heir, in which you designate some person of the world you wish to recognize by setting them up for a large chunck of change (assuming any cash is at hand then). Maybe it will go viral: "ELISE HARRIS BEQUEATHS TIRELESS MILLIKAN STATUE POLISHER £50,000."
"Said Mulvin Punkett of East Finchley, a long-retired door-knob polisher at 10 Downing Street, 'Well, I am out here rain or shine, you know, goin' on a year now, and I provide all the cleaning supplies gratis. And I don't just slap it on; I get into all the nooks and crannies like I know Spike would want me to. It is nice to be finally recognized for the important work I do.' Miss Harris could not be immediately reached for comment." |
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