WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.583 align:middle line:84% And have a first person point of view, 00:00:01.583 --> 00:00:03.827 align:middle line:84% even with this sort of banal task 00:00:03.827 --> 00:00:05.910 align:middle line:84% of just surfing around and reading stuff in poetry 00:00:05.910 --> 00:00:08.498 align:middle line:90% magazines or whatever. 00:00:08.498 --> 00:00:11.040 align:middle line:84% And I think you can make a good case that it really-- there's 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:12.150 align:middle line:84% something very appealing about it. 00:00:12.150 --> 00:00:13.650 align:middle line:84% And there's something that, I think, 00:00:13.650 --> 00:00:15.570 align:middle line:84% that the web does and offer this kind 00:00:15.570 --> 00:00:19.320 align:middle line:84% of immediate sort of payback that the page often 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:20.100 align:middle line:90% does not do. 00:00:20.100 --> 00:00:24.540 align:middle line:90% 00:00:24.540 --> 00:00:26.430 align:middle line:84% That is, if it can be made fun enough. 00:00:26.430 --> 00:00:27.897 align:middle line:90% That's the key question. 00:00:27.897 --> 00:00:29.730 align:middle line:84% Is this going to be an enjoyable experience? 00:00:29.730 --> 00:00:31.688 align:middle line:84% Or is this going to be an irritating experience 00:00:31.688 --> 00:00:33.360 align:middle line:84% where we're sort of forced to have fun 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:35.340 align:middle line:90% and to make our own games? 00:00:35.340 --> 00:00:37.620 align:middle line:84% And the key is trying to get readers 00:00:37.620 --> 00:00:42.360 align:middle line:90% to enjoy the experience. 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:46.500 align:middle line:84% So given then, that the web is a commercial place-- 00:00:46.500 --> 00:00:47.640 align:middle line:90% not entirely commercial. 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:49.650 align:middle line:84% But I mean, it's really kind of gone 00:00:49.650 --> 00:00:51.760 align:middle line:90% that way, unfortunately or not. 00:00:51.760 --> 00:00:54.510 align:middle line:84% But there's a lot of spaces online that are primarily 00:00:54.510 --> 00:00:57.750 align:middle line:84% commercial and are designed to make money in whatever way 00:00:57.750 --> 00:00:59.160 align:middle line:90% or another. 00:00:59.160 --> 00:01:00.390 align:middle line:90% Amazon is one of them. 00:01:00.390 --> 00:01:02.593 align:middle line:84% But Amazon, as you probably know, has reviews. 00:01:02.593 --> 00:01:04.260 align:middle line:84% Now they have video reviews because they 00:01:04.260 --> 00:01:05.910 align:middle line:84% want to keep people on the site, user 00:01:05.910 --> 00:01:08.050 align:middle line:84% generated content, et cetera, et cetera. 00:01:08.050 --> 00:01:11.010 align:middle line:84% So the web offers us like hundreds of thousands of spaces 00:01:11.010 --> 00:01:13.985 align:middle line:84% to inhabit in whatever way we choose to inhabit them. 00:01:13.985 --> 00:01:15.360 align:middle line:84% I mean, they would prefer that we 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:18.270 align:middle line:84% talk about why this book is good or why this book is bad 00:01:18.270 --> 00:01:19.020 align:middle line:90% or whatever. 00:01:19.020 --> 00:01:21.790 align:middle line:84% But you could just use the video review capability 00:01:21.790 --> 00:01:25.530 align:middle line:84% of posting reviews of yourself in a tiger suit rambling 00:01:25.530 --> 00:01:26.730 align:middle line:90% on about poetry if you want. 00:01:26.730 --> 00:01:27.760 align:middle line:90% That's totally fine. 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:31.140 align:middle line:84% You can use it as an opportunity to interrogate 00:01:31.140 --> 00:01:33.210 align:middle line:90% the site that's there already. 00:01:33.210 --> 00:01:34.740 align:middle line:90% So the web is commercial. 00:01:34.740 --> 00:01:36.110 align:middle line:90% But that's OK. 00:01:36.110 --> 00:01:37.590 align:middle line:84% Doesn't seem like such a bad thing. 00:01:37.590 --> 00:01:39.570 align:middle line:84% I mean, I like bidding for things on eBay 00:01:39.570 --> 00:01:42.510 align:middle line:90% as much as anyone. 00:01:42.510 --> 00:01:45.930 align:middle line:84% And then many of the web's innovations 00:01:45.930 --> 00:01:49.020 align:middle line:84% are driven by commerce, or at least that strange desire 00:01:49.020 --> 00:01:53.100 align:middle line:84% to connect that we have in moments. 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:55.470 align:middle line:90% The anime porn here is-- 00:01:55.470 --> 00:01:56.770 align:middle line:90% I just picked this at random. 00:01:56.770 --> 00:01:58.680 align:middle line:84% This isn't-- I wasn't even trying to find something good. 00:01:58.680 --> 00:01:59.590 align:middle line:90% This is what I found. 00:01:59.590 --> 00:02:04.140 align:middle line:90% 00:02:04.140 --> 00:02:05.280 align:middle line:90% It's extremely disturbing. 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:07.798 align:middle line:84% But-- but it's / it makes me happy. 00:02:07.798 --> 00:02:10.090 align:middle line:84% I mean, we're looking for some kind of connection here. 00:02:10.090 --> 00:02:11.840 align:middle line:84% We're looking to participate in our media. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:13.800 align:middle line:90% I mean, Xtube is all amateur. 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.100 align:middle line:84% It's where people upload their own things, of course. 00:02:17.100 --> 00:02:19.480 align:middle line:84% Because even porn is now too fake for us. 00:02:19.480 --> 00:02:22.020 align:middle line:84% Now we need to have a more real all the time, 00:02:22.020 --> 00:02:24.960 align:middle line:84% see also David Shields' Reality Hunger. 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.530 align:middle line:84% Then we should understand that many of these spaces are ours. 00:02:28.530 --> 00:02:29.880 align:middle line:90% They might as well be. 00:02:29.880 --> 00:02:31.110 align:middle line:90% They're everyone else's. 00:02:31.110 --> 00:02:34.110 align:middle line:84% Why can't we use them for our own desires 00:02:34.110 --> 00:02:37.470 align:middle line:90% and our own languages? 00:02:37.470 --> 00:02:40.260 align:middle line:84% Well, you could feel free to make money on that if you like. 00:02:40.260 --> 00:02:42.150 align:middle line:90% It doesn't have to be language. 00:02:42.150 --> 00:02:46.770 align:middle line:84% It could be it could be audio or video or art, or art. 00:02:46.770 --> 00:02:50.490 align:middle line:84% This is a video review that I did of Patricia Clark's book, 00:02:50.490 --> 00:02:52.650 align:middle line:90% My Father on a Bicycle. 00:02:52.650 --> 00:02:56.000 align:middle line:84% I have a baby fetish thing that-- 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.080 align:middle line:90% it goes on for a while. 00:02:58.080 --> 00:02:59.580 align:middle line:84% So if you go on Amazon, you can look 00:02:59.580 --> 00:03:02.340 align:middle line:84% at-- you could look at a number of the video reviews, 00:03:02.340 --> 00:03:05.640 align:middle line:84% many of which are just poems or sort of strange beasts 00:03:05.640 --> 00:03:08.100 align:middle line:84% that I put together to be entertaining. 00:03:08.100 --> 00:03:11.250 align:middle line:90% 00:03:11.250 --> 00:03:12.780 align:middle line:84% I guess what I'm trying to propose 00:03:12.780 --> 00:03:15.630 align:middle line:84% is that we consider these as venues for publication. 00:03:15.630 --> 00:03:17.340 align:middle line:84% And, I mean, this does-- the idea 00:03:17.340 --> 00:03:20.010 align:middle line:84% of posting poems or writing poems, 00:03:20.010 --> 00:03:22.290 align:middle line:84% installing them in digital spaces, 00:03:22.290 --> 00:03:25.020 align:middle line:84% does raise questions about publication that are tricky. 00:03:25.020 --> 00:03:27.150 align:middle line:84% And maybe, I presume it's one thing maybe 00:03:27.150 --> 00:03:30.360 align:middle line:84% we are going to talk about probably the panel after this, 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:31.470 align:middle line:90% and what is-- 00:03:31.470 --> 00:03:35.520 align:middle line:84% given our ability to publish things online, 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:39.090 align:middle line:84% does that count as publication in the same way? 00:03:39.090 --> 00:03:42.630 align:middle line:84% If we post-- if I post a poem on Amazon in response 00:03:42.630 --> 00:03:44.970 align:middle line:84% to a friend's book, can I count that 00:03:44.970 --> 00:03:48.330 align:middle line:84% as a publication for my NEA grant? 00:03:48.330 --> 00:03:50.670 align:middle line:90% The answer is currently no. 00:03:50.670 --> 00:03:53.250 align:middle line:84% But I don't exactly know why not. 00:03:53.250 --> 00:03:53.880 align:middle line:90% Well I know. 00:03:53.880 --> 00:03:55.170 align:middle line:90% I know why not. 00:03:55.170 --> 00:03:58.030 align:middle line:84% But I'm-- but at the same time, I mean, 00:03:58.030 --> 00:04:02.430 align:middle line:84% how important is it we publish a poem in a sort of respected 00:04:02.430 --> 00:04:07.410 align:middle line:84% journal as opposed to getting it in front of say a couple 00:04:07.410 --> 00:04:09.750 align:middle line:84% hundred thousand people that might look at a review 00:04:09.750 --> 00:04:11.700 align:middle line:84% of a really popular book on Amazon? 00:04:11.700 --> 00:04:16.500 align:middle line:84% If what we want is to read, or perhaps to read well, then 00:04:16.500 --> 00:04:18.269 align:middle line:84% maybe we should be using these spaces 00:04:18.269 --> 00:04:21.240 align:middle line:90% and trying to hijack people. 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:23.070 align:middle line:84% And then we can interrogate these spaces. 00:04:23.070 --> 00:04:26.190 align:middle line:84% I mean, just because Amazon is this commercial beast, that's 00:04:26.190 --> 00:04:27.270 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:04:27.270 --> 00:04:29.990 align:middle line:84% We don't have to be stuck with what it wants us to do. 00:04:29.990 --> 00:04:31.990 align:middle line:84% It gives us the opportunity to play with things. 00:04:31.990 --> 00:04:34.830 align:middle line:84% And so, perhaps we'll play with some things. 00:04:34.830 --> 00:04:37.417 align:middle line:84% Provide the material, provides constraint. 00:04:37.417 --> 00:04:39.750 align:middle line:84% So here's where this gets a little bit more interactive. 00:04:39.750 --> 00:04:41.377 align:middle line:90% I don't just want to ramble on. 00:04:41.377 --> 00:04:43.710 align:middle line:84% Although I can ramble on for a really long time with you 00:04:43.710 --> 00:04:45.450 align:middle line:90% guys about this. 00:04:45.450 --> 00:04:47.820 align:middle line:84% I'd like to hear ideas that you have. 00:04:47.820 --> 00:04:50.890 align:middle line:84% What spaces do you use that allow 00:04:50.890 --> 00:04:56.040 align:middle line:84% some kind of interactivity, that allowed users to post text? 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.055 align:middle line:90% I've got a little list here. 00:04:58.055 --> 00:05:00.180 align:middle line:84% I mean, these are all places that I've used before. 00:05:00.180 --> 00:05:01.950 align:middle line:90% Amazon, obviously, Craigslist. 00:05:01.950 --> 00:05:03.750 align:middle line:84% The missed connections in particular, 00:05:03.750 --> 00:05:06.030 align:middle line:84% because people read those for-- they're such exciting 00:05:06.030 --> 00:05:08.080 align:middle line:90% places to read. 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:10.610 align:middle line:84% Personal-- other personal ads, OkCupid. 00:05:10.610 --> 00:05:12.000 align:middle line:84% OkCupid's got a really good blog. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:13.500 align:middle line:84% I don't know if you read their blog. 00:05:13.500 --> 00:05:15.000 align:middle line:84% But their blog is really phenomenal. 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:15.960 align:middle line:90% They do all these-- 00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:17.460 align:middle line:84% I mean you can't post to their blog. 00:05:17.460 --> 00:05:20.790 align:middle line:84% But you can-- the blog has all these statistical analyses 00:05:20.790 --> 00:05:23.250 align:middle line:84% of the people that post on the site. 00:05:23.250 --> 00:05:25.883 align:middle line:84% I mean, it's stripped of sort of individual data. 00:05:25.883 --> 00:05:27.050 align:middle line:90% They just give these trends. 00:05:27.050 --> 00:05:29.040 align:middle line:84% And the trends are fascinating to look at. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:33.660 align:middle line:84% Like what the most popular word is in a particular subgroup's 00:05:33.660 --> 00:05:35.258 align:middle line:90% personal ads. 00:05:35.258 --> 00:05:37.050 align:middle line:84% It's really, really interesting to look at. 00:05:37.050 --> 00:05:39.467 align:middle line:84% They don't post that often, but you should check that out. 00:05:39.467 --> 00:05:42.210 align:middle line:84% So certainly using personal ads as an opportunity to sort of 00:05:42.210 --> 00:05:44.163 align:middle line:84% get the word out there in some way, 00:05:44.163 --> 00:05:45.330 align:middle line:90% to get your words out there. 00:05:45.330 --> 00:05:47.997 align:middle line:84% It's an opportunity. eBay and Etsy, 00:05:47.997 --> 00:05:49.830 align:middle line:84% auction sites that allow you to post things. 00:05:49.830 --> 00:05:51.930 align:middle line:84% I've got an auction on eBay that's been 00:05:51.930 --> 00:05:54.420 align:middle line:90% going for about eight years. 00:05:54.420 --> 00:05:57.480 align:middle line:84% No one's-- no one's bought it yet, I'm afraid. 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:01.043 align:middle line:84% And I keep paying $1 every month for my auction. 00:06:01.043 --> 00:06:02.460 align:middle line:84% But it's sort of the output of one 00:06:02.460 --> 00:06:06.240 align:middle line:84% of this sort of strange, poetic choose 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:08.310 align:middle line:84% an adventure kind of essay on that website, which 00:06:08.310 --> 00:06:09.930 align:middle line:90% dumps you out on eBay. 00:06:09.930 --> 00:06:11.402 align:middle line:90% And you can buy a thing there. 00:06:11.402 --> 00:06:13.110 align:middle line:84% And if you buy it, then you get something 00:06:13.110 --> 00:06:14.873 align:middle line:90% interesting in the mail. 00:06:14.873 --> 00:06:17.040 align:middle line:84% This is maybe a downside of like having these really 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.710 align:middle line:84% elaborate things is no one's actually bought this. 00:06:19.710 --> 00:06:24.580 align:middle line:84% So you know whatever I look for I probably spent $12 a year. 00:06:24.580 --> 00:06:30.130 align:middle line:84% I've spent $96 hosting this eBay space. 00:06:30.130 --> 00:06:30.750 align:middle line:90% So that's one. 00:06:30.750 --> 00:06:33.150 align:middle line:84% I mean, like eBay is a place that could use this. 00:06:33.150 --> 00:06:36.510 align:middle line:84% Anything that allows reviews, Google 00:06:36.510 --> 00:06:38.830 align:middle line:84% reviews, Yelp, all that kind of thing. 00:06:38.830 --> 00:06:41.220 align:middle line:90% What other places? 00:06:41.220 --> 00:06:42.660 align:middle line:90% Bathroom graffiti. 00:06:42.660 --> 00:06:43.470 align:middle line:90% Bathroom graffiti? 00:06:43.470 --> 00:06:43.970 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:06:43.970 --> 00:06:45.870 align:middle line:90% Not online, but could be. 00:06:45.870 --> 00:06:48.870 align:middle line:84% Actually, there's a blog called Latrinalia that 00:06:48.870 --> 00:06:50.190 align:middle line:90% just does bathroom graffiti. 00:06:50.190 --> 00:06:52.398 align:middle line:90% Is it-- is it yours? 00:06:52.398 --> 00:06:53.190 align:middle line:90% Bathroom graffiti-- 00:06:53.190 --> 00:06:55.800 align:middle line:84% Now, someone's writing that down. 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:57.540 align:middle line:90% Bathroom graffiti, definitely. 00:06:57.540 --> 00:06:59.940 align:middle line:84% And the number of people that read the bathroom graffiti 00:06:59.940 --> 00:07:01.857 align:middle line:84% is probably way more than the number of people 00:07:01.857 --> 00:07:04.260 align:middle line:90% that will read any given poem. 00:07:04.260 --> 00:07:06.330 align:middle line:90% Maybe not any given poem. 00:07:06.330 --> 00:07:08.970 align:middle line:90% Jewel has a lot of readers. 00:07:08.970 --> 00:07:09.870 align:middle line:90% Where else? 00:07:09.870 --> 00:07:11.350 align:middle line:90% Other websites. 00:07:11.350 --> 00:07:13.590 align:middle line:90% Like Flickr or photo sharing? 00:07:13.590 --> 00:07:14.850 align:middle line:90% Flickr. 00:07:14.850 --> 00:07:15.900 align:middle line:90% What was the other one? 00:07:15.900 --> 00:07:17.160 align:middle line:90% Any photo sharing site. 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:18.210 align:middle line:90% Any photo sharing thing? 00:07:18.210 --> 00:07:19.410 align:middle line:90% Absolutely. 00:07:19.410 --> 00:07:21.810 align:middle line:84% What about the travel review things? 00:07:21.810 --> 00:07:23.700 align:middle line:84% What do you mean the travel reviews? 00:07:23.700 --> 00:07:27.030 align:middle line:84% You can leave comments about hotels or places you've found. 00:07:27.030 --> 00:07:28.940 align:middle line:84% Like Tripadvisor or something like that? 00:07:28.940 --> 00:07:30.890 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:07:30.890 --> 00:07:31.650 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:07:31.650 --> 00:07:33.040 align:middle line:90% Absolutely. 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:33.540 align:middle line:90% Good. 00:07:33.540 --> 00:07:34.500 align:middle line:90% What else? 00:07:34.500 --> 00:07:36.040 align:middle line:90% Odd way to use Wikipedia. 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:36.540 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:07:36.540 --> 00:07:37.467 align:middle line:90% Wikipedia. 00:07:37.467 --> 00:07:38.550 align:middle line:90% That would be interesting. 00:07:38.550 --> 00:07:42.030 align:middle line:84% You can make the entry title some kind of way 00:07:42.030 --> 00:07:44.510 align:middle line:84% that you could actually make it so it wouldn't taken down. 00:07:44.510 --> 00:07:45.010 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:07:45.010 --> 00:07:46.940 align:middle line:84% Perhaps because it is an actual entry. 00:07:46.940 --> 00:07:47.440 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:07:47.440 --> 00:07:51.270 align:middle line:84% Or you could go and edit other people's Wikipedia entries 00:07:51.270 --> 00:07:54.900 align:middle line:90% and falsify all kinds of things. 00:07:54.900 --> 00:07:55.980 align:middle line:90% We should, absolutely. 00:07:55.980 --> 00:07:58.200 align:middle line:84% In the beginning, it should be very controlled. 00:07:58.200 --> 00:08:00.208 align:middle line:90% Sigmund Freud. 00:08:00.208 --> 00:08:02.250 align:middle line:84% Yeah, I mean, the ones that get a lot of traffic, 00:08:02.250 --> 00:08:04.140 align:middle line:84% like, they're usually pretty well patrolled. 00:08:04.140 --> 00:08:08.970 align:middle line:84% But the lacuna, just with like smaller asides of Wikipedia 00:08:08.970 --> 00:08:11.460 align:middle line:90% are very open, I think. 00:08:11.460 --> 00:08:12.940 align:middle line:90% So certainly, Wikipedia. 00:08:12.940 --> 00:08:13.440 align:middle line:90% Definitely. 00:08:13.440 --> 00:08:15.510 align:middle line:90% What else? 00:08:15.510 --> 00:08:17.730 align:middle line:84% Other websites that you use that you 00:08:17.730 --> 00:08:20.700 align:middle line:84% may have an antagonistic relationship with. 00:08:20.700 --> 00:08:21.390 align:middle line:90% Yeah? 00:08:21.390 --> 00:08:24.000 align:middle line:84% One time, I was looking on Craigslist 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.580 align:middle line:84% on free puppies or kittens or something. 00:08:26.580 --> 00:08:30.370 align:middle line:84% And I saw that someone had listed a free kitten 00:08:30.370 --> 00:08:33.390 align:middle line:84% and when you click on the ad, I actually 00:08:33.390 --> 00:08:38.190 align:middle line:84% saw a poem, a photo that they had taken of their poem. 00:08:38.190 --> 00:08:42.960 align:middle line:84% So if you-- because Craigslist allows you to upload photos. 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:43.710 align:middle line:90% And it's free. 00:08:43.710 --> 00:08:45.670 align:middle line:84% And you could do multiple cities. 00:08:45.670 --> 00:08:46.860 align:middle line:90% Mm-hmm. 00:08:46.860 --> 00:08:48.930 align:middle line:90% Definitely. 00:08:48.930 --> 00:08:50.190 align:middle line:90% Craigslist is good. 00:08:50.190 --> 00:08:52.650 align:middle line:84% There's, I'm not sure if you've seen on eBay. 00:08:52.650 --> 00:08:54.870 align:middle line:84% One thing that people like to do on eBay, 00:08:54.870 --> 00:08:56.760 align:middle line:84% is they will try to sell something. 00:08:56.760 --> 00:08:58.055 align:middle line:90% And they'll try to have-- 00:08:58.055 --> 00:08:59.430 align:middle line:84% it's a weird exhibitionist thing. 00:08:59.430 --> 00:09:02.010 align:middle line:84% They'll try to have somehow themselves naked, 00:09:02.010 --> 00:09:04.620 align:middle line:84% reflected in the mirror, in the photo 00:09:04.620 --> 00:09:07.200 align:middle line:90% in the corner of the mirror. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.570 align:middle line:84% And so you can see in sort of like this curve-- 00:09:09.570 --> 00:09:12.450 align:middle line:84% this curve-- this curved image of a boob or something 00:09:12.450 --> 00:09:13.522 align:middle line:90% like that. 00:09:13.522 --> 00:09:14.730 align:middle line:90% And it's clearly intentional. 00:09:14.730 --> 00:09:15.897 align:middle line:90% It's a thing that people do. 00:09:15.897 --> 00:09:18.840 align:middle line:84% But you could also absolutely bury poetry or other kinds 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:20.940 align:middle line:90% of language in those. 00:09:20.940 --> 00:09:21.950 align:middle line:90% Other ideas? 00:09:21.950 --> 00:09:22.870 align:middle line:90% Foursquare. 00:09:22.870 --> 00:09:23.370 align:middle line:90% Foursquare? 00:09:23.370 --> 00:09:24.912 align:middle line:84% I don't even know what foursquare is. 00:09:24.912 --> 00:09:26.190 align:middle line:90% You check in at locations. 00:09:26.190 --> 00:09:28.050 align:middle line:84% So you can create your own location. 00:09:28.050 --> 00:09:30.300 align:middle line:84% You could just create, instead of creating the Poetry 00:09:30.300 --> 00:09:32.490 align:middle line:84% Center here, it could be a line from a poem. 00:09:32.490 --> 00:09:35.610 align:middle line:84% And people could check in line by line into your poem. 00:09:35.610 --> 00:09:37.230 align:middle line:90% That's super cool. 00:09:37.230 --> 00:09:39.268 align:middle line:90% OK, I totally like that idea. 00:09:39.268 --> 00:09:39.810 align:middle line:90% That's great. 00:09:39.810 --> 00:09:40.440 align:middle line:90% What else? 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:41.760 align:middle line:90% Chatroulette. 00:09:41.760 --> 00:09:42.720 align:middle line:90% Chatroulette? 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:46.680 align:middle line:84% Oh, yes, Chatroulette Yeah, especially if you're naked. 00:09:46.680 --> 00:09:49.568 align:middle line:90% Naked with a poem. 00:09:49.568 --> 00:09:50.110 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:09:50.110 --> 00:09:51.690 align:middle line:84% I mean, that would be a little more interesting. 00:09:51.690 --> 00:09:52.740 align:middle line:90% But Chatroulette would be great. 00:09:52.740 --> 00:09:54.157 align:middle line:84% That's what people want, right, is 00:09:54.157 --> 00:09:56.790 align:middle line:84% a kind of random experience on Chatroulette? 00:09:56.790 --> 00:09:57.690 align:middle line:90% Yeah? 00:09:57.690 --> 00:09:59.940 align:middle line:90% Online job applications? 00:09:59.940 --> 00:10:01.890 align:middle line:90% Online job applications? 00:10:01.890 --> 00:10:03.512 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:10:03.512 --> 00:10:04.470 align:middle line:90% That's great, actually. 00:10:04.470 --> 00:10:06.858 align:middle line:90% That's great. 00:10:06.858 --> 00:10:08.160 align:middle line:90% [INTERPOSING VOICES] 00:10:08.160 --> 00:10:11.855 align:middle line:84% Certain graduate school applications. 00:10:11.855 --> 00:10:13.980 align:middle line:84% You take the opportunity for the personal statement 00:10:13.980 --> 00:10:17.930 align:middle line:84% to feel free to bust some rhymes. 00:10:17.930 --> 00:10:18.440 align:middle line:90% Yeah? 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.060 align:middle line:84% Oh, my brother knows some people who 00:10:21.060 --> 00:10:23.700 align:middle line:84% try to figure out when the Google Map photo 00:10:23.700 --> 00:10:24.750 align:middle line:90% truck is going around. 00:10:24.750 --> 00:10:25.390 align:middle line:90% Is coming by? 00:10:25.390 --> 00:10:25.890 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:10:25.890 --> 00:10:30.900 align:middle line:84% And then they put on these horse heads they try to be casual. 00:10:30.900 --> 00:10:31.860 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:10:31.860 --> 00:10:34.340 align:middle line:84% So you could absolutely-- what if you posted a mural size 00:10:34.340 --> 00:10:34.840 align:middle line:90% poem. 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:35.610 align:middle line:90% It lasts for months. 00:10:35.610 --> 00:10:37.770 align:middle line:84% They usually don't come to that same neighborhood for a while. 00:10:37.770 --> 00:10:39.270 align:middle line:84% And then there's a website somewhere 00:10:39.270 --> 00:10:42.634 align:middle line:84% where you can see all these people with horse heads 00:10:42.634 --> 00:10:44.625 align:middle line:90% at a bus stop or whatever. 00:10:44.625 --> 00:10:46.500 align:middle line:84% But you can certainly have something written. 00:10:46.500 --> 00:10:48.960 align:middle line:84% And if you knew when that magical truck was 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:49.980 align:middle line:90% going to be going by. 00:10:49.980 --> 00:10:50.480 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:52.220 align:middle line:90% That'd be fantastic.