issue 227–3.7.22

Hello! The weekend getaway is my preferred form of entertainment… it’s an immersive escape. Resort to recreation. Hit reset.

Experience the environment.

The script as blueprint. Add vision. At a fundamental level, there are similarities between…

issue 226–2.28.22

Hello! So this note we have an especially long link digest because I didn’t send an email last Monday. Excluding the winter holidays, it was my first time ever missing a week — since 2017. And I don’t know why. There was no warning, nor ceremony. Maybe it was just a needed vacation from my usual…

issue 230–3.28.22

Hello! Let’s free the IP… this idea is unfathomable for most everyone in the film/tv industry. By all accounts, even thinking it would trigger alarm bells and tongue lashings. The concept is functionally the polar opposite of the business, which contractually seeks to control the narrative and…

issue 228–3.16.22

Hello! If my friends were being generous, they’d call me price sensitive. I’ll be the first to admit I’m pretty cheap. My frugality was born out of necessity thanks to working in indie film, but being budget-minded is a feature not a bug (I repeat to myself… and my wife).

issue 229–3.22.22

Hello! My relationship with online media is rapidly undergoing a systemic change, due mostly in part to internet money (i.e. crypto). I believe this is the onset of a (very) new virtuous ecosystem, and in many instances, it’s already here… bubbling under the current.