Re: pixelvision concept

[Thomas Crone <tcrone@mo.net>]

This latest debate -- the pixelvision concept chronicles -- is making me 

just a bit cranky.



Is anyone actually using a PXL for, say, video productions; i.e. is 

anyone crafting something that people would wanna watch? Or are we all 

sitting around our home laboratories, destroying, deconstructing and 

"improving" what -- when I last checked -- are toy cameras, made for 

kids once upon a time. Admittedly cool toys, but toys.



There seems to be no emphasis of late on tape trading, or festival 

notes, or anything inherently interesting to the "public" in our 

closeted PXL love. Obviously, if there are ways to make these li'l 

devils work better, great. Less breakdowns. Less hassle on shoots. Less 

money for those drop-ins who "find" this lost toy in the attic, then 

somehow "learn" that there's a list of people who'll pay top dollar. 

(Loved that $1,000 request a couple weeks ago.)



I bought such a toy because I saw Michael Almereyda's "Another Girl, 

Another Planet." A film that looked beautiful. I wanted to see other 

things like it, maybe even make something with similar qualities, 

someday. All of which is to say, let's try to share work and not just 

obsess over Fisher-Price conspiracies.



By the by, are there any, um, women on this list. It seems about as male 

as the raincoat crowd at the suburban sex-plex. Or worse, a comic book 

collector's convention.



Technophobically y'alls,

tc



Oh yeah, no offense to anyone actually fixing/improving these machines. 

They can be a drag.