All that I’ve read about the heroes you create for your stories say they have to be proactive. That is, they need to push the story forward. The problem I’ve had with my heroes is that I want to focus on people who are unsure of themselves. While they may not be overtly in conflict,… Read Article →
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Recently I chatted briefly with a much younger person about mash ups. I’d heard the term, but never gave it much thought. While there is a range of mash-ups, they all involve the recombination of pre-existing material into something new. I’m a bit slow sometimes, so I only just realized I had a similar idea… Read Article →
I read recently of a plan to make a movie from H. P. Lovecraft’s story At the Mountains of Madness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness#Film Some years ago I mulled over the story as a possible film. It was a quite unrealistic goal for me, but it was a useful and enjoyable exercise. Several of his stories are structured… Read Article →
I’ve been promoting my new story The Glencoe Project this week. I have gotten some good feedback on it. It wasn’t all good in the sense of positive, but useful. Some people suggested that more people would find my story interesting if I added some kind of crime to the story. I suppose that would… Read Article →
I believe strongly in the need to experiment. You learn something new from every project you do. With the end of My Most Difficult Case in sight, I need to consider the approach I’ll use with my next project. One approach I want to go back to is what I did on Line of Taxis…. Read Article →
Just the other day, I came across a reference to the Baumol effect . In short it says that the productivity of some activities cannot be improved. It has been used to explain the growth of government, but that isn’t what caught my interest. The prime example used to illustrate the concept is a string… Read Article →
I use Google Analytics to track how many people visit my web pages. Yesterday, when I checked, I saw there had been a big jump in views of my Bukisa pages. When I dug deeper, I found that the increase was all from one article I posted back at the beginning of February: A Review… Read Article →
A short while ago I did a post on participatory cinema . At the time, I felt fairly optimistic about the prospects of this approach. After some thought, I’m not so sure it is likely to be all that successful. I thought back many years, to when I tried to make my first film through… Read Article →
Some of the people I used to work with have encouraged me to do a story about transportation planning, so I have tried several times to do that. Nothing has come together yet. I started to write a movie set in a transportation planning office, but got bogged down in the details. That experience made… Read Article →
The 19th annual $100 Film Festival starts next Thursday March 3, 2011. It is a bit of a shock to realize that it has been over 20 years since I came up with the original idea. At the time I felt I was wildly optimist when I told people it might last five years. Over… Read Article →
