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Last week we did a thing of the persistent myths of fiction- fictional conventions that we all just accept, and are repeated over and over and even ...

QUACKCAST 572 - Myths of fiction part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 1, 2022The Disaster Episode
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 24, 2022
The Disaster Episode is a template that I noticed in the different Star Trek series from the 90's.
It's a neat way to separate a big cast of characters into different small groups. And when it's done well, it can be very powerful and show a different ...
QUACKCAST 571 - Myths of fiction
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 22, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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There are so many really silly cliché myths from fiction that we all just tend to accept. They're objectively stupid but they get repeated so often ...
Francis Picabia and the Art of the Signature
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 21, 2022
Photo: “Untitled Signature” by Francis Picabia
The year was 1915, when a thirty-six-year-old Francis Picabia showed up to the New York Dada scene. His alibi to leave Europe was a story about his travels to Cuba in order to purchase molasses, a story he cleverly forgot once he arrived in ...
The Twist
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 19, 2022
I remember the first time I watched The Others in the cinema. (how I miss going there…)
It was an awesome experience. Not only because the horror/thriller film was excellently shot with really good actors, but because it played with shadows and your mind in an elegant but unforgiving ...
Technology and Story
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 17, 2022
I just can't quit you, Star Wars!
George Lucas once said something about special effects without story being a pretty boring thing.
I wonder what Mr. Lucas thought about the recent episode of Book of Boba Fett, where (spoilers!) Luke Skywalker shows up in his Return of the Jedi-era ...
QUACKCAST 570 - Hair!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 15, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Time to chat about character hairstyles. Tantz did a newspost about them a few weeks ago and I spun the topic off into a fashion subject for ...
Secret Dens of Evil
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Feb. 13, 2022
Privacy. It’s something we come to appreciate even in our early childhood, don’t we. Forming our own little secret club in a tree house we keep in a remote spot in someones backyard somewhere, for which only our closest friends, and schoolmates of common interests and preferences, may ...