I read the Obama page on Wikipedia and towards the end there were remarks as to if he’s “black enough” and the “National Association of Black Journalists”. What whole of crap that is? I mean, does it really matter if he’s black, white or green? And what’s the deal with the “National Association of Black Journalists”? Why is there even a need for this to exist? If there was a “National Association of White Journalists”, the African Americans would be crying foul! To me, all people are one and the same. And as Quark from Star Trek put it, “all humans look the same to me”.

This doesn’t mean that I don’t have my own racist-like (or should I say, elitist) peeves that I am trying to get over with. But thankfully, these problems don’t have to do with people. They have to do with technology. About a month ago I became a moderator at two of Vimeo’s HD channels. The idea is that you pick HD videos published there and you group them under one roof, so visitors can easily find HD-only videos at one place.

When I told JBQ about this he became enraged. He started preaching that “art” should not be categorized by technical meanings like resolution or camera model, but purely on its artistic value. He absolutely hated the idea of having a channel that only posts HD videos that are only made with the HV20. I tried to explain to him that the HV20 is ultra-popular and people do want to see HD videos made from this camera in particular. There is a lot of interest for this. But he wouldn’t take it. He found the whole idea of “categorizing art” with technical meanings repulsive.

A month later I am still torn about this, which is one of the reasons I got the cheap ZR800 camcorder. I wanted to prove to myself that even with the cheapest miniDV camera on the market today you can get a good result out of it. Wasn’t as good, but was good enough.