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On Pocket Friends and Our New Virtual Life
I did my second temari livestream today and realized a hilarious thing afterward: This is the first time one of my fandom friends who I have been texting with on a near daily basis for going on four years now has heard my voice. She says I actually sound like what she imagined, so that's kind of nice. (I, of course, think my voice sounds extremely weird in recordings, so I'm a terrible judge.)
Doing the streams is also giving me a reason to put on not-pajamas, not that I think any of my viewers actually care, but still. Since I'm filming straight down from overhead and I have to sometimes move the table out of the way to access things on the floor between my feet, I've also been using this as an excuse to wear all my fanciest shoes. I don't really think anyone has noticed, but it's amusing me, at least.
I had someone email me after the first one asking if I'd export the videos to YouTube and while I understand their point, I am also slightly horrified that there are people out there who think there is no difference between a livestream video and a proper instructional YouTube video. No one surfing around YouTube for a quick how-to wants to sit through an hour and forty minutes of real-time repetition of steps, surely. But this does mean I'm probably going to have to master some sort of video-making software in the near future, because Twitch will only store the live recordings for 14 days. A good self-isolation project, I suppose, but I've been putting it off for years and years because visual editing software and I do not traditionally get along. People seem to be appreciating the streams, though, so that's good. And I realized they are one productive thing I can do for myself and others that doesn't require too much actual concentration, a thing which is in short supply at the moment, because I've taught these beginner classes so often I can basically do them on autopilot.
I hope you're all weathering this time of isolation well and staying healthy.
Doing the streams is also giving me a reason to put on not-pajamas, not that I think any of my viewers actually care, but still. Since I'm filming straight down from overhead and I have to sometimes move the table out of the way to access things on the floor between my feet, I've also been using this as an excuse to wear all my fanciest shoes. I don't really think anyone has noticed, but it's amusing me, at least.
I had someone email me after the first one asking if I'd export the videos to YouTube and while I understand their point, I am also slightly horrified that there are people out there who think there is no difference between a livestream video and a proper instructional YouTube video. No one surfing around YouTube for a quick how-to wants to sit through an hour and forty minutes of real-time repetition of steps, surely. But this does mean I'm probably going to have to master some sort of video-making software in the near future, because Twitch will only store the live recordings for 14 days. A good self-isolation project, I suppose, but I've been putting it off for years and years because visual editing software and I do not traditionally get along. People seem to be appreciating the streams, though, so that's good. And I realized they are one productive thing I can do for myself and others that doesn't require too much actual concentration, a thing which is in short supply at the moment, because I've taught these beginner classes so often I can basically do them on autopilot.
I hope you're all weathering this time of isolation well and staying healthy.