An Artist Named Headache in Thailand
Channel: Charlie Hub
Date: 2022-03-12

In this impromptu video I interrupted a boring Friday afternoon after seeing an invitation on Twitter. Richard Barrow, an amateur journalist, posted an invitation to an art show at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand. I grabbed my camera and went, thinking correspondents should be open to being on YouTube. They were. I met Jonathan Head, the BBC's Southeast Asia news correspondent, a few nice people and an artist named "Headache". 

The audio quality of the clips I shot in the Correspondents Club is noisy. I considered eliminating the sound and overplaying music but decided to leave the video in its raw form to make a point. Independent content creators are raw, but we are less constrained.   

Talking with Mr Head and other news people underscored for me an important difference between established media and YouTube.  Established media are professional and slick. Jonathan even expressed reluctance to talk with me because he knew the audio would suck. He did oblige and was quite charming and articulate, generous with his time. 

But Mr Head's opinions about world events were in perfect alignment with the western media narrative. They are, indeed, in their own drift. We independent content creators have the freedom to kind of color outside of the lines.

My essays on Quora:  https://www.quora.com/profile/Charles-Hub
Richard Barrow's Twitter:  https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow
Jonathan Head's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pakhead