Z Team Productions now has the first 12 minutes of their film, “Backyard Blockbusters” up on youtube. It’s a documentary on Fanfilms, and something well worth tracking!
(Thanks to Boing Boing)
– Steven
Creativity
Political ePublishing: A Frontier To Consider
We talk about publishing here a lot at Muse Hack. That’s because a lot of us are writers professional or otherwise. Also its because in an age of technology that has made self-publishing easy, there’s a lot to talk about.
Oh and some of us want to sell books. Hint.
But when we talk about self-publishing and its implications we usually talk quality, or technology, or market saturation. We don’t talk politics a lot because its not usually a subject that comes up.
It probably should have.
Before his son’s trial, the father of George Zimmerman has released an ebook on the case. Frankly it’s sounding like it’s filled with dog whistles about racism in the black community and kinda missing the point. I don’t think this is going to help his son and may look exploitative.
Before I go on let me note that:
1) I consider Zimmerman’s shooting of Martin to be suspicious to say the least, but that’s what a trial is for.
2) I hate the show trial mentality.
3) Our political pundit culture hasn’t helped.
This is one of the last things I imagined coming out of the Zimmerman case. I figured after the trial there’d be the usual round of books by people capitalizing on it. I also realize I was foolish in this day and age for thinking of that.
Hollywood Is Brokener. Or something
Lynda Obst has an excerpt from her new book on how Hollywood is broken, which follows what we’ve been discussing here. The excerpt alone is informative and paints a workable theory about risk-adverse Hollywood since you can’t plan easily in an age where balance sheet reliables have suddenly shifted.
As the resident Career Guru here (I also think of myself as the resident sex symbol, but that’s my own delusion), I’d also note something else – Hollywood exerts an irrational pull on other careers. How many gamers base ideas on blockbusters made for balance sheets, how many writers operate under the delusion they want to write some big film, how many people want to be in the industry peripherally? If it’s melting down, the impact will be far wider than we expect – and if it’s melting down, some people should ask where they’re getting their ideas from . . .
– Steven