You Can't Stop the Signal (part two)

I have a round-a-bout way of thinking. Most of the times I will think of something which will lead to something else which would lead to something completely different which will lead to something entirely not related to the original thought but it will still kinda make sense and be connected, well at least to me.

So 'you can't stop the signal'. It's a line from Serenity, the big damn move (Firefly tv series reference). Firefly, created by Joss Whedon. I could go on and on about the show but this is not what the blog is about. It's not about Serenity, the movie that the fans of Firefly helped bring about. Nope, maybe some other time. No, this blog is all about 'you can't stop the signal'. No matter how they try to stop you, you can get your message out and you can make yourself heard.

For example, this video below

I created this video with and for my fellow F' Yeah/ Cincy Tekken players. It was a group project that I threw together after watching some of our Tekken footage. I noticed we were breaking a big amount of throws and I had an idea to do a montage of us throw breaking to the sounds of Linkin Park's Breaking the Habit. I was able to take some existing footage of us plus some new made for the video stuff and edited the hell out of it. I premiered it at our weekly gaming gathering MNT (Monday Night Tekken now Monday Night Thrashings)

It was pretty successful and everyone liked it. I was able to combined the look of 'Breaking the Habit' (which is an anime video with rough drawing art style) with pictures of Tekken I found,using the same type of artwork. It had a theme and at certain moments the lyrics would come up on the screen.

Then Warner Music Group (WMG) and YouTube had there falling out. WMG began to music claim every video on YT that had any WMG songs in it, snippets, full songs, whatever... they claimed it and soon, videos were being taken down, left right and center. Needless to say, Our 'Breaking the Habit' video was a causality of this little war that WMG has on YT.

So as it stood, YT muted the audio on the original video and now it exists on YT as a mere shadow of it's former self. I had to use Evanescene's (one of the few bands that actually allow YT to use their music indiscriminately) 'Going Under' so it just wasn't footage with no sound. But as it stands, I am displeased with the final result. Don't get me wrong, I love Evanescene. I have used there music in other projects and I am happy I at least have something I like accompanying the old video. However the video that exists on YT is not what I envision or intended to be seen. The pictures I used no longer have a reason, the lyrics on screen no longer match the song. The concept no longer makes sense.

Hence here we are on Blogger, a place where creatively is not stifled and restricted. Where a cold war between two companies do not affect the people who sustain them.

You can't stop the signal... don't even try.

pP