This is the only option in my mind in my whole life.
It's not that like, yesterday I did an interview and somebody said like but it’s because
nobody else can put the record out and it was just obvious.
And I think that it turned as an archive, I suppose it could have turned over to some
other entity, but that entity how they would go about doing it the way they were curated,
the way they were exploited.
I think it was a concern for us in terms of, no we didn’t in like, our work being used
as content for somebody else's like their business.
And I think that there are people who certainly were interested in the idea it was like, "We’ll
buy your collection" and they were offered quite a bit of money, they offered us quite
a bit money but then we would have to contend with how they are generating their revenue
as it is usually through advertising, right, almost always.
Now I was asked to do an interview for an online web show thing.
And they want me to give a tour of discord house and show them around and the guy was
a fan legitimate, and I thought ok, yeah its fine.
But at some point in the negotiation, I said to Mike, "What is the deal of this site?
Who is paying for this site?"
And finally it came out that it was a car company.
It was a car company basically funding the whole thing and the actual image, like the
window as you watch is in a frame of an ad, like you're watching, it's like, you know,
almost like it would be like in the windshield of the car something and at the beginning
of every episode the presenters have to drive up in that car.
And I thought it is so interesting to me, I never thought about this in term to the
web that, that frame can always change.
So no matter what you do, no matter what you do, whatever you present it can instantly
be an advertisement or it can help draw traffic to anybody and this is really vexing, it’s
vexing for me.
You think about historically for the magazines, like you might have been in a -- I guess your
work might have been part of some particular – be locked to that one thing forever but
now it could be anything and I think in our case, I feel like Gods ourselves and that
what we know.
We know that it's like, it’s done the way we want to do it, it won’t be exploited
and must be what we wanted which was to make the stuff available.
I have no idea.
I don't know.
I mean I think it's worth mentioning like I didn't, I made an electric circuit.
I thing I'm getting gas money for this.
It's not like I am like have a presentation that I'm being paid for ever.
A friend of mine was associated with this event he said, you know what, "I think this
is a really interesting project you're working on would you want to come and answer some
questions.
I said if the people have some question, I will answer them but I have no presentation,
you know, I have no presentation at all.
I like to meet people; I'm interested in talking with them.
I think you’ve probably seen me to have three right here.
I do think about a lot of things and I'm curious about them.
And I'm very happy if people are curious about it.
I think to people if it’s of interest, I'm totally happy to discuss this approach.
I think then from my point of view, like, getting these and making these materials available,
like we could have gone, like a, through sort of a profit model like in terms of like just
some other company that’s marketing or we could have gone through an academic model
or you know, which has known problems.
I mean, I found a lot about collections and how you could access to these collections
and if, you know, academic collections, you can't get to them unless you're a part of
that world and I feel like with us we just want to make it, it was just there and people
can if they're if they are not that’s fine too. �