So for this Latest Discovery – a new series of posts that will occur with some regularity, I hope – I want to share one of the most inspirational YouTubers I have come across.

Every artist with an internet connection, a mobile phone and a dash of talent can get their work out there. Traditional TV networks are gone – we don’t watch them anymore.

Who thought we’d be able to sit and watch an artist paint in our loungeroom? And professional YouTubers? My god, there are some talented people out there. The kids discovered the possibilities first, but I wasn’t far behind and art was one of my first searches. The kids watch more YouTube than Netflix (unless Dreamworks Dragons uploads a new season, then it is wall-to-wall Dragons for a couple of days at least). Finally we can access Netflix and Stan on the TV, rather than staring at the iPads in our laps, but I have to say that the biggest impact is our new access to YouTube. So now our fabulous new TV has glorious access to the world and our evening TV viewing has changed forever. And I love it 😀 When we had the NBN installed (for non-Aussies, NBN is the National Broadband Network – you know, that pile of optical cable strung across the country that is supposedly supposed to give Australians non-stone-age internet access – ours is lovely, but that may be because I don’t know any better) I made sure they installed the wireless hub in our loungeroom (main living room of the house) for this exact reason. And upgrading had nothing to do with not being able to read that tiny text in the credits on our tiny TV either, no, not at all.Īnyway, new Smart TV! New big smart TV. Yes, yes, that sounds odd for a computer geek like me to be so behind the times, but hey, there was that having-kids thing in the last decade that kinda slowed things down. A few months back we finally moved from the used-to-be-massive-but-now-is-tiny-tube-tv era to smart-tv-oh-wow-you-can-do-that-internet-in-my-loungeroom era.

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