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I am very excited. I don't usually make video essays. They make be feel insecure because I am not good at academic jargon. I tried my best to make the content fun and accessible and true to my creepy weird self. Cat Bluemke a very smart artist helped me with the history and writing which I feel greatly improved the content. Lemme know if you want to make more of these kinds of videos. 


P.s I just drank a half a cup of coffee to celebrate (not decaf which already makes me hyper)


xox

MBD

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Digital Cabinet of Curiosities

I made a video essay about digital collections in video games, fabricated rarity, monster Girls and their dark history involving Cabinet of Curiosities and colonialism. You can now all start calling me Dr. Ben David 𝕻𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖊𝖔𝖓: https://www.patreon.com/mayabendavid 𝕸𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖈: Jonathan Ben David https://open.spotify.com/artist/3FYBfPhvEZkaWjVAQGsoXq 𝕮𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗: http://www.catbluemke.com/ 𝖁𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖔 𝕲𝖆𝖒𝖊 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖔𝖓 𝖁𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖔: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcM-EIxza5g1S0dpnoO_ePA 𝕾𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖈𝖊𝖘: (Book) The origins of museums : the cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe (Book) Inventing nature : commerce, art, and science in the early modern cabinet of curiosities (Academic Article)Race-Based Fantasy Realm: Essentialism in the World of Warcraft (Book) Otaku: Japan's Database Animals #cabinetofcuriosities #roomofwonders

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Gndr404

Hi Maya, this was super cool and kinda brillant. Digital inventories are super satisfying in all context, so your digital iventories about digital inventories made me super relaxed. I loved the soft and too big white gloves and the asmr vibes of this part! Also, your first character is kinda scary to me, it embodies and one of the reason sometimes im afraid to show art like, i loved the selfie part :P But come to think of it, inventory makers are deep - these people collection inventories like god.esses, it's beautiful and relaxing too - x

Maya Ben David

Hii!! Thank you for this very sweet comment. It was really fun to make. I struggled with it for a while because I felt like it was too traditional video essay styled, I wanted my personality to show. The lawyer character IS scary I would be scared of her in real life. Collection makers are deep, they treasure momentos that were extremely significant before photographs were affordable.