Andrea on my.opera

It's a while I wanna post about this video; it is one of the only 3 official music videos from Buckethead, and it features a poor Buckethead sent into an elaboration of some of Hieronymus Bosch's best known paintings concerning hell. I think it's a weird and truly great idea, and Buckethead's fragmented tune works perfectly with it. Of course for better appreciating the video you should know about the paintings that are used in it, and even better, you should know about Buckethead's dark irony

A note about all the violence into it : Buckethead is a fan of horror B-movies and so he is often incorporating such themes in his heavier compositions. By the way, the animators only added more blood to the original paintings, which were already scary on their own. The writing at the end of movie is obviously ironic

Watch it in HQ if you can, the quality of the work they did deserves it

Millions of people are rushing to produce photos and videos of their lifes and put them online, and I just can't understand why. I get asked quite often : why aren't you on Flickr? Some people can't realize how come "everyone is there" and I am not. That's my answer : I don't want to share my life with millions of strangers or semi-strangers. I don't want to put photos of my beautiful wife online (luckily she mostly agrees with me on that), nor photos of my family. I can see no reasons for doing so.

The same goes for Facebook : I can't understand the reason behind publishing detailed private informations and photos about our personal lifes so that strangers can go and take a look. The privacy settings are quite a silly trick, cos once something is online then it is very hard to keep it private or only allowing few people to take a look : you can maybe set viewing rights for some selected accounts, but how can u know who is using those accounts? Most internet users are quite naif when it comes to managing their emails/profiles/accounts, and the amount of em being phished is a prove. When we put something online, we are putting it there to share it with the world, and I am not comfortable at all with sharing my private life with millions of strangers, expecially when it comes to photos, videos, memories.. that's my life, and I can't accept it becomes CONTENTS in a company called Flickr or Facebook, with people downloading, viewing, using, maybe selling my life's fragments without me even knowing.

This same problem exists with the publishing of artworks of course, which can get stolen. I am (also) a nude photographer and I know that my nude photos are very probably being used somewhere on net without me wanting it. That's why I do all I can to protect the privacy of my models. But it's totally different when it comes to my life, to the ones I love, to my family, which I want to keep for me and not put online for some stranger or forgotten ex-schoolmate to see it and maybe use it.

I just can't understand this hype on "social sharing" sites, with almost everyone wanting to be there, and costantly publishing photos and videos and info about their private lifes for everyone else to see. I can understand the sites with a defined target, like deviantArt for instance, but the generic Flick or Facebook is totally pointless and even disturbing to me. MyOpera is a quite better cos it is basically a blogging platform with optional sharing capabilities (though it looks to me it is trying to move more and more close to the social network stereotype). Anyway, I hope I made my point of view clear: I can't understand the reason for sharing photos and info about our private lifes and families etc with millions of strangers. I am not saying who uses Flickr or Facebook is a wrong or evil, of course, I just wanted to share my point of view with you all and know your one. Thanks for reading.