a writer's notebook
Robert Eggers seems to be emerging as a director of painstaking miniatures. I love this. His attention to and evolution of the details found in early film are wonderful — I find myself thinking that Guy Maddin would admire this film immensely. I think some films should be miniatures, I think art should support the miniature, and I hope Eggers and his people get to make a lot more films like this.
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I’m up. Got to finish and send the newsletter. Inbox 8, things to do, and prepping for going dark after Season 3 goes live. Which means I am in fact shopping for new films, which I have to arrange to take possession of before the travel starts. The things to do include shaking out my travel bags and recovering and/or replacing items of travel kit – I’ve got three weeks to remember how to do all that before I start jumping over the water.
There’s going to be a significant amount of travel this year, I think. So I also have three weeks to get a little fitter and knock out or reduce some niggling physical issues. No such thing as a weekend here.
But I am going to curl up and re-read some of this book later today.
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Five days out. I am about ready to crawl under a rock. I have a couple of days of phone interviews left to do and then I can crawl back under my rock. I have a huge stack of CDs to listen to and I may well go shopping for new films later. But today, writing the newsletter and doing development work on a project I know won’t go but it pleases me to write it.
Comments closedYes, I read Venkat’s Text Renaissance piece, which would have been more effective if the notation tool he talks up didn’t have the most inept and incoherent onboarding video I’ve seen in months. Buy a fucking notebook.
I also went back and looked at micro.blog, which I signed up for years ago, and then forgot about. Really clever: you click on the big New Post button and you get a page that says “You can reply inside Micro.blog, but you should post to your own microblog site and let Micro.blog add your posts to the timeline.” Wow. Okay. Clearly I forgot what this was. (No crit of microblog – that’s on me.) So I went to the help system to see how it connects to WordPress, and it requires me to insert code into my WordPress install, which, in 2020, is entirely past my personal non-trivial level. I guess IndieWeb is still for devoted hobbyists rather than, you know, just people.
WordPress isn’t always simple. Ghost is probably a little simpler? Blot.im is intelligently basic — if I hadn’t required just a little more functionality, LTD would be on Blot.
I feel like Blogger was for people, in large part?
A text renaissance would be nice — and has been announced every few years since forever, even in the dominant days of physical print; “Look, we’re all articles and no photo shoots!” — but isn’t strictly my interest, weirdly. A blog that was just people photographing their local sky every day would have me tuning in every day. I use RSS Bridge to grab Instagram accounts and shove them into my feed reader of choice (Feedbin). I’m not the only one who posts photos on their blog first and then allows certain of them to be syndicated out to Instagram using RSS and Buffer.
Manfred Macx, mate: “He glances up and grabs a pigeon, crops the shot, and squirts it at his weblog to show he’s arrived.” Blogs as status signals. Personal photos as part of the channel. “Channel” is the important signifier, I suspect. “Personal publishing” can mean a multiplicity of things, and should. And it probably starts with owning or at least significantly renting your own transmitter and owning all the master tapes.
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Via BGR, surfaced by Adam Deats on Twitter overnight. Big phone conference on the other show today at 3, delivered my rewrite a day early so I’ve got today to get ahead on other stuff or possibly just lay here in a bleary heap because waking up was a struggle and it’s barely 3 degrees here. Inbox: 9. Dead Body Quotient: 9300 out of 10
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It’s snowing out here, and the wind chill has it down to -2. Which I realise, for many of you, is nothing, and you’re laughing at me for even considering it worth mentioning. But out here on the Thames Delta, the warmest and driest place in Britain, it’s a bit of a body shock this morning.
Inbox 16, and two phone interviews today, so I’m likely to be a bit absent from communications channels, and also possibly building a fire to keep the cats alive. At least, that’s what two very pissed off cats are telling me.
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It is bastard cold outside, I had my monthly insomnia bout last night, and I have two phone interviews set for later, Inbox 27 which is Not Good, so basically I’m a zombie and Not Around today. MOAR COFFEEEE
Comments closedA couple of years back, I sold the adaptation rights for the graphic novel series FREAKANGELS by myself and Paul Duffield to Crunchyroll Originals.
This week, Crunchyroll officially announced the FREAKANGELS animated series.
FreakAngels – After civilization comes to a sudden and crashing end, twelve 23-year-old psychics living in the rubble of London must check their wild impulses and discover their better angels in order to rebuild society. A Crunchyroll Studios Production based on the graphic novels by Warren Ellis & Paul Duffield. Coming soon on Crunchyroll.
You can find the image below at the Crunchyroll Originals site:
Here’s the press release, detailing their entire slate and including the full trailer video for the slate.
I have no further details, and will not for some time, so follow Crunchyroll on the social medias if you’re interested and I’m sure more news will pop up there as soon as it’s available.
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Quick carb stop while also getting a two mile walk in. Inbox is some terrible number, I have phone interviews for the show scheduled and have to get two scripts out by end of week, so I’m jus enjoying the quiet time.
Comments closedME: I just did a 10 minute run and now I can’t feel my legs
CHIP: What, you need legs for writing?
ME:
Already processed a design deck, approved a cover idea, written down some plot beats, beaten the overnight down to Inbox: 10 and chewing salads with sadness. Also doing a mild water load this week, because I’ve been bad at hydration, and I am currently sloshing around with 1400ml of water inside me at (checks clock) 145pm. (I woke up at 10am.)
Okay. The next 31 days are full speed. Here we go again.
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