Maya Ben David
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Early release of my "How to tell a Jewish Joke" video!
🕑 Added 2022-02-15 16:29:55 +0000 UTCLemme know what you think! I'm planning on premiering it on friday woooo!!! I would have released this a few weeks earlier but I shared my video with a treasured source and they told me that I completely got side tracked by my rag/dishcloth obsession and forgot the thesis of my video! So I filmed a whole new scene nearing the end to give more context. You will know which scene it is because i'm a different character.
One thing i've been struggling with is knowing who my videos are for. I am very obsessed with the normie podcast "Stuff You Should Know" and I find it an honourable existence to teach people strange and interesting things. This concept however, feels directly contradictory to being an artist. At least, my schooling of being an artist. I find when I make a video where I want to teach people something I try to abstract my thesis and muddy the waters so it feels more like "art" to me. This does not seem like a healthy relationship to art and I want to repair that. I think the only way to do that is by affirming that "art" is whatever I say it is. I have an easy time doing that with silly things, but for some reason when I am being sincere and want to teach something real, I feel embarrassed or like i'm being "cringe". If I am cringe, so be it.
Side note, I am currently reading the Sabriel book series and am blown away by it!
- your non abstract very literal rat
Comments
Kalolof
Wonderful as always! I wish your little landlord the best of times.
Maya Ben David
Thank you so much for saying that! I really did want to bring the two together and this topic has been on my mind for so long. I also have always adored shmattas so it was really fun to just play with the materials of rags, dishcloths and doilies
Jerfling
Teaching and art are both efforts to communicate something important - art is more immediate and emotional, while teaching is often more intellectual and abstract. This video does a wonderful job bridging the two, a primer on interacting with Jewish culture as soft and unassuming as a shmatta. So if this is where your work is taking you, I'm here for it!
Maya Ben David
Thank you so much Blake!
Blake Rothwell
I found the video to be very insightful
Maya Ben David
Thank you so much that means a lot. I'm really excited to publish it :D
veedub
maya this video is fantastic!! nice work!! and the volume is fine for me.
Maya Ben David
oh also, is the volume too low in the video? I thought it was fine but found that other youtube videos pitch theirs way louder
