jonas mekas was the first one to ever do it.

his films may be not that exciting to you. they may look weird. you may not "get it" at first. you may quip he was the first vlogger, but he is not. jonas mekas was the original. he was no hipster. he lived his life as art, and he was about capturing his life as art. this was not branded, this was not curated, this was not marketed. it was art. it is art. it's both life and art. it's fluxus. jonas accepted all of his feelings and thoughts, happiness and sadness, and presented them in such a holistic way that it felt like life. jonas is life. he was able to survive, live and feel. don't make a joke about how he was the first vlogger, how he was always filming something, because the intention was different. he was always doing it, not for himself, as this false dichotomy of for self and for others might position it, but for life and feeling itself. his art was pure memory and experience. he is the granddaddy of all your hipster aesthetics. he lived forever in that feeling of living in a beautiful moment, in art. in a movie. in a picture. it was sincere. he is what hipsters wish they were. and it's not tied to youth. his art can never be polluted and stolen in the way that filming oneself for marketing, making our life-as-art consumable, has become acceptable. this had nothing to do with any of that. jonas mekas is a pure soul, making itself exist in a form outside his body. this is the true transhumanism. he duplicated himself as an eternal being in his films. he is the definition of soul. jonas mekas films are jonas mekas. he is a true artist and he will live forever, but only in the moment that he lived. he transcends boundaries, yet also exists safely within them. he is the box, the light inside the box and the air around it. jonas mekas.

george maciunas wrote a fluxus manifesto, but he didn't even understand fluxus.

i don't think jonas mekas would even name something fluxus because he was so pure. george maciunas was actually describing jonas mekas.
or maybe they did know each other, and i'm just an idiot! it's been a long time since i looked up the history. all i need to know is, jonas mekas is an unparalled genius and i will not hear any contradiction in this.