Waiting in line
by asi
I hate waiting in line. That’s one of the only things I’m genetically resistant to any cultural assimilation. I’m israeli and I can’t stand waiting in line 
I’ve been thinking of getting myself a pro account on Vimeo for long time now but in the past year I’ve got way too much premium accounts and services that I don’t really need. I paid for most them on the false assumption that they will make me more motivated and dedicated to the craft (photography, productivity, connectivity etc). For some, like Last.FM I’m paying because I just love this platform so much I offer to pay for the value I get of it.
Anyway, I’ve been using Vimeo for uploading videos of Thalia and while I always thought of buying the premuim account for the sake of for more upload space, I held back and waited for the time I will be absolutely certain I need it. So far with 1-3 videos a month, it wasn’t a necessity.
Until today, but not because of space.
I uploaded Thalia’s first miaow video proudly filmed today, (finished in 4 minutes) and received this message on the screen:
That was, funnily enough 10min after I read the fantastic piece of Faris on Content Republic where he describes so fucking eloquently the (fascinating) total flux of the content industries in the superhighway that is the interweb and the search for new creative business models. It’s damn hard to get people to pay for a content or a service they can get for free and Faris is giving some fine examples of businesses that managed to break the old binary model of paid-for-consumers or funded-by-ads when they started to ask ‘if we aren’t selling the content, what else will people pay for?’ which immediately reminds me another incredibly clever dude who said that “This isn’t a transition from Business Model A to Business Model B, it’s a transition from Business Model A to Business Models B to Z.”
So Vimeo’s value proposition kicked me right there. You said wait in line to me and I immediately think of check-in, post-office, daddy-donky and Fabric and Waitrose and the tube and the bank…..and I become restless on the inside.
I’m now the proud father of a 10 months old who can miaow and a happy owner of a Vimeo Plus 
Hey Asi,
There is one line that i love standing in more than any other line – that is the line fot PITOT GERAFI. it is tha funniest line ever. people from Shaarayim telling hysterical jokes. opposite to you, i think lines are the perfect place to meet people. in Israel, as you know, you have to save the place to the person behind you. he just arrived. left for few seconds. he asks you to save his turn and vanishes. now you become worried “will he or will he not be back”. lines, like life, are interesting. love you.
thank you and this is EXACTLY WHAT I WAS trying to talk about.
legend.
Tlila
What a lovely surprise! Oh the lines in Shaarayim are well funny aren’t they…they are very social – everyone sort of knows everyone else just like in the village…
Faris – rock on dude