2020 continues to be decade of twists and turns stuffed into one unrepentant year. Now, the whole future of filmed entertainment might be changing course because a certain large House of Mouse has recently said it’s focusing on streaming. Make no mistake. This is big.
Pay no attention to the horror that was Friday’s post. It’s well past the first day of Autumn. It’s October. That means two things. It’s (NSFW) decorative gourd season! And Time to watch some scary films. Your mileage may vary.
You know, since it’s 2020, all manner of horrors are possible. You may also know, as many right-thinking people do, that candy corn is, at best, supremely unsatisfying in the Halloween candy pantheon. Perhaps because of this, or more likely because they wish to lay siege to the sanctity of a holiday not usually associated with candy corn, the mad scientists at Brach’s have decided that humanity must face a depressing, possibly disgusting, Thanksgiving dinner…
The seven or nine regular readers of my blog will recall I have, over the years, advocated setting aside time to do creative work, even if you’re not good at it! (from January, March, and December of last year). One of the activities I love doing is “Inktober,” an annual art challenge every October where you try to do an ink drawing every day based on a one-word prompt. I’ve done this as an after-dinner…
Since I’ve often commented on the future of TV (some of the posts being the most popular), checking out a rundown of all the streaming services seems apropos. So I had to share this latest installment from the folks over at Honest Trailers:
TCM usually gets my nod, but the graphics in this one were very well done… (and these are grim times, so I suppose it’s where my head is):
TED Talks are probably good fodder for Monday Motivation posts, and here’s a good one, especially for creatives wondering about why they’re doing what they’re doing.
Many of you already knew this and (spoiler alert), there’s good reasons why he abandoned the ideas as the video goes into, but I was not aware — and it does touch on some of his writing process and his motivation to write in any case.
Back in 2006, writer John August wrote (and presented) a really great talk called “Professionalism and the Rise of the Amateur.” It drew on his own experience as a writer, but it could be applied to other jobs — basically, anywhere where you’re trying to be “professional” — and what that word means, really. Well, lots of things have happened since then, as he recounts as he revisits and expands (and corrects) some of those…
Given my post on Monday, there really wasn’t much doubt that I’d go ahead and link to a bunch of the videos CBS did for Star Trek Day on Tuesday. They have a bunch more videos on the CBS All Access YouTube channel, some of them snippets of these below, but this should keep you stoked for Trek. TOS TNG/Picard Deep Space Nine Voyager Enterprise Discovery Lower Decks Strange New Worlds