As I age and the heroes and celebrities, family and friends I grew up with die it is as if my past is dissolving faster than my present can reconstitute. Exacerbated, I must say, by the frequency of passing celebs, especially musicians, noted here in Foo. Which is reason enough to share my dismay at a loss wherein the people involved are still very much alive.
I first 'found' Taylor Ramos, Tony Zhou, and their YouTube channel 'Every Frame a Painting' via their 'Vancouver Never Plays Itself' creation. And been a fan ever since. So am saddened that, while they are still well and active (not sad about that!) their pursuits have diverged (sad about this!) from Every Frame. Fortunately, the corpus remains. Intact.
Their swan song
Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting [medium.com] via Medium rather than YouTube, 02-December-2017, is a fascinating look at the time, knowledge, time, talent, time, skill, time, that went into each of those 28 videos. And the effort required to not fall afoul of YouTube's automated deliberately false positive skewed infringement filters.
From 'How to Structure a Video Essay':
It's not about what you get, it's how you cut it and what comes out the other end
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Remember, video essays aren't essays, they're films so you want to structure and pace them like a filmmaker would
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Therefore, and but; meanwhile back at the ranch
It provides a history and the methodology followed. Definitely a labour of love.
I know that I take away viewing pleasure, knowledge and inspiration for improving my own site offerings.
Thanks much to both of them.
And a very pleasant 'Good Evening'.
