3246: Two Dreams Met
Dreamless is a fascinating concept: Two people linked in their dreams by virtue of having been born at exactly the same time--two lives lived as one.
In practice, all it has going for it is artsangel drawing it =(
One of the topics that cropped up multiple times in Spike's Ustream episodes the times I've managed to catch it is the vanity of Bobby Crosby--stuff like how having Last Blood cancelled as a movie option "couldn't have happened to a nicer asshole." Having not been particularly subjected to this train wreck before, I could only note what Spike and the Ustream peanut gallery said as opinion to file away for later.
When Dreamless started hitting update snags for reasons* Sarah said were failure to get the script[?!], I had some notions, but they weren't entirely manifest until I finally realized that Bobby Crosby wrote Dreamless =p --something that had gone in one ear and out the other until I finally saw his name on the site again after Spike started spewing about him. [For loading purposes, I bookmark the RSS rather than checking the site each time.]
*reasons that are no longer on her news updates, though I suppose I could have imagined them also despite the evidence
So... not sure what the moral is. Anything I type on the subject stops making sense after I type it =p I guess, even great artists get commissioned to do trash once in a while. Surely, though--if I was going to hire someone to draw my comic, wouldn't I *finish writing it* first?
Then again, this is arguably his problem--the "Hey, I got this idea for something you could draw and do all the footwork for, then we would get 50% each, wouldn't that be AWESOME?!" effect. Unless you're absolutely UNcreative, fashioning ideas is as easy as breathing, while writing, art, animation, coding, doing feasibility research, and so on are significantly, even exponentially harder, so this "I got an idea = lots of work" concept is thoroughly foreign to me.
The 7 Most Overrated Businesses:* #7 says a lot, to me--anyone who thinks they can outdo LiveJournal, Twitter, or Facebook needs $50 million to get any recognition even if they COULD do it, nevermind trying to pull people away from what they already know to something totally new. Certainly I'm hesitant to leave my " presitigious 20508th account" here to be the 23534679346346th account somewhere else, especially after the time I invested in getting my LJ layout the way I like it [which SHOULD be negligible, but is still enough for me to be grumpy about redoing].
Frankly, I haven't found much reason to spread out except that others have--I created a [junk--don't bother looking] account on Facebook last night to get at some member-only content that Carolyn Hax and Tavisha advertised, but it was such a hassle that I really don't even see myself checking on that little bit. I don't WANT to be searchable that way! I have a website, that's enough. |=/ Employers looking for me can take the trickle I give, anyone else can e-mail me.
*Granted, I'm annoyed at the phrase "Chef Emptor." I get what the writer meant it to mean, but it literally means "Chef Buyer." Then again, it allowed me to find the article again--which I usually can't do for these kinds of articles if I forget to make a bookmark--so... must be the "Commercials have to be stupid to get your attention" effect =p
I don't know what else to put. I've been enjoying the shortbake* such that I d/led episode 1 of Wallace & Gromit for XBLA [Fright of the Bumblebees] and have been trying to get those last "Unique Dialogues Heard"... a pain, but it was that or Nancy Drew, so I might as well have gotten that belated update done.
*the etymology for which, I just realized, isn't well-linked anywhere: It's derived from ronbake, the romanized abbreviation for the Japanese soap opera "Long Vacation" we watched in class.
Overall, I'm glad I'm a bit of a slacker, no matter what my biological clock says. I'm too aware of my mortality, but logic still tells me the odds are I'll live to eighty despite my paranoia, so I'm not inclined to rush. In the end, I do prefer quality over quantity, so if I can get and keep my average percent up--even if that means never finishing anything--I'll be happier than if I chunk out scads of stuff and hate it FOREVAR. Hooray for our age =p
In practice, all it has going for it is artsangel drawing it =(
One of the topics that cropped up multiple times in Spike's Ustream episodes the times I've managed to catch it is the vanity of Bobby Crosby--stuff like how having Last Blood cancelled as a movie option "couldn't have happened to a nicer asshole." Having not been particularly subjected to this train wreck before, I could only note what Spike and the Ustream peanut gallery said as opinion to file away for later.
When Dreamless started hitting update snags for reasons* Sarah said were failure to get the script[?!], I had some notions, but they weren't entirely manifest until I finally realized that Bobby Crosby wrote Dreamless =p --something that had gone in one ear and out the other until I finally saw his name on the site again after Spike started spewing about him. [For loading purposes, I bookmark the RSS rather than checking the site each time.]
*reasons that are no longer on her news updates, though I suppose I could have imagined them also despite the evidence
So... not sure what the moral is. Anything I type on the subject stops making sense after I type it =p I guess, even great artists get commissioned to do trash once in a while. Surely, though--if I was going to hire someone to draw my comic, wouldn't I *finish writing it* first?
Then again, this is arguably his problem--the "Hey, I got this idea for something you could draw and do all the footwork for, then we would get 50% each, wouldn't that be AWESOME?!" effect. Unless you're absolutely UNcreative, fashioning ideas is as easy as breathing, while writing, art, animation, coding, doing feasibility research, and so on are significantly, even exponentially harder, so this "I got an idea = lots of work" concept is thoroughly foreign to me.
The 7 Most Overrated Businesses:* #7 says a lot, to me--anyone who thinks they can outdo LiveJournal, Twitter, or Facebook needs $50 million to get any recognition even if they COULD do it, nevermind trying to pull people away from what they already know to something totally new. Certainly I'm hesitant to leave my " presitigious 20508th account" here to be the 23534679346346th account somewhere else, especially after the time I invested in getting my LJ layout the way I like it [which SHOULD be negligible, but is still enough for me to be grumpy about redoing].
Frankly, I haven't found much reason to spread out except that others have--I created a [junk--don't bother looking] account on Facebook last night to get at some member-only content that Carolyn Hax and Tavisha advertised, but it was such a hassle that I really don't even see myself checking on that little bit. I don't WANT to be searchable that way! I have a website, that's enough. |=/ Employers looking for me can take the trickle I give, anyone else can e-mail me.
*Granted, I'm annoyed at the phrase "Chef Emptor." I get what the writer meant it to mean, but it literally means "Chef Buyer." Then again, it allowed me to find the article again--which I usually can't do for these kinds of articles if I forget to make a bookmark--so... must be the "Commercials have to be stupid to get your attention" effect =p
I don't know what else to put. I've been enjoying the shortbake* such that I d/led episode 1 of Wallace & Gromit for XBLA [Fright of the Bumblebees] and have been trying to get those last "Unique Dialogues Heard"... a pain, but it was that or Nancy Drew, so I might as well have gotten that belated update done.
*the etymology for which, I just realized, isn't well-linked anywhere: It's derived from ronbake, the romanized abbreviation for the Japanese soap opera "Long Vacation" we watched in class.
Overall, I'm glad I'm a bit of a slacker, no matter what my biological clock says. I'm too aware of my mortality, but logic still tells me the odds are I'll live to eighty despite my paranoia, so I'm not inclined to rush. In the end, I do prefer quality over quantity, so if I can get and keep my average percent up--even if that means never finishing anything--I'll be happier than if I chunk out scads of stuff and hate it FOREVAR. Hooray for our age =p