Friday, January 17, 2025

Promoting clerkmanifesto to no one for fun

 






I have a series of short, clerkmanifesto promotional films for today. These are little ai animal films shot in wide format and then crudely translated to a vertical format by my simply filming them with my phone. I sort of like the effect, but there's no music or editing in this system, and the only sound is usually the ambient sound of the back room of my library.

I post these on YouTube and sometimes hardly anyone sees them, but sometimes, mercurially, YouTube randomly shows them to 500 people. And then, even though maybe as many as 11 people will go to the trouble to upvote one of these clips of, say, a cat with its fur dyed to read "Clerk Manifesto", I'm not sure anyone has ever watched one and thought "What is a Clerk Manifesto?", and followed up by searching for...

all of this.


But if they did see a cat with clerk manifesto fur, loved it, and tracked down clerk manifesto on the strength of it, they'd really just see something like what you're reading now, which is pretty confusing. 

So I'm not sure my perverse complexity would really make these videos a big Clerk Manifesto seller no matter what.

But...


...I'm not trying to sell Clerk Manifesto.



In fact, I have been thinking lately that even giving it away is asking for too much.

And don't get me wrong. I say that as a great admirer of Clerk Manifesto. It's just, I think I'm exploring something weirder.

Also, I'm not very popular.


Although on the other hand, the very fur and hides of animals love me.




Click through the (especially crude today) pictures, as ever....

































































































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