my webcomic, Typical Strange, uses many fake films in its video store setting
A few years ago I spotted a book in the second hand store - one I'd read as a kid. I bought it and reread it. It was definitely more suited to the younger me - it was ...
Fake Media - Not the Kind You're Thinking
Banes at 12:00AM, April 13, 2023Addition, Subtraction, Preservation, Evolution
Banes at 12:00AM, March 30, 2023
In the latest episode of Star Trek Picard, a character talks about his efforts to prolong his own life in a way I won't spoil. He lets go of this idea, and in the message he leaves behind, he says "Evolution is not about preservation - it's about addition ...
Conflict
Banes at 12:00AM, March 23, 2023
Conflict!
It's the essential building block of drama. You don't have a story without the basics of “someone wants something, and something's in the way of getting it.”
Screenwriting books - books I really love and have given me a lot - will often say that amping up the ...
“Please Keep Your Dreams Alive.”
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 13, 2023
Photo: “Goonies DVD Sitting on a World Map”. (2023)
Daylight Savings Time (Spring Forward) was celebrated by watching the Academy Award opening monologue and Oscar Winner acceptance speeches. A powerful speech can be delivered in a variety of ways, but one in particular was delightful.
Ke Huy Quan shared these ...
Frank Frazetta, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 4, 2023Quackcast 622 - Whaddaya take me for?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 14, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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This is when the writer leads you to think something big has happened in the story, like a character dying or falling in love or winning a ...
Quackcast 620 - losers are human too
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 31, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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My idea was to talk about social pariah characters, people who it's socially acceptable to laugh at, despise, or even hate. They can be the uncool ...
The Challenge of Part Three
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2023
And a One and a Two and a–
The third and possibly final volume of the Guardians of the Galaxy films is coming out later this year. Or next year. Or whatever.
I liked the first two a lot, and in an interview snippet, James Gunn mentioned how the third ...
Quackcast 613 - 1930
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 13, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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The 1930s were quite a uniquely influential time for a number of reasons. The 1930s were the very last days of the old world before the new ...