and I made a flyer and finished booking a show and edited a video and worked on the sets and props and so on and so forth.

I've been overwhelmed, stressed. This week should be less of that. I'm taking back over some old job functions so that I can sunset that team, while the dude who was doing this stuff starts a new team with some new job functions.

Last week was planning at work. That was hard.

On top of that, I do ... I mean, just so many things. And some of those were hard. We got more toys in and had to get them listed. We had equipment malfunctions. I worked on my tax returns.

And then there was the toy swap. Lots of driving, lots of lifting and stacking and standing on concrete and walking in the sun and then unstacking and lifting and repacking.

And then Doc Deathray showed up with a 27 foot cargo truck and a bandsaw.

An

But it's also good to talk about it.

There are some good independent productions out there that are not open licensed. Their existence is good, even if it doesn't go far enough for my taste.

Stuff like Manos The Hands of Felt, for example ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sRWgT6FBXk )

There are not enough avenues for discovery of actual independent films, much less open licensed stuff.

I watch OSI74 and Means.TV (both distribute independent productions, but under traditional copyright.) but I've seen most of what's there that ticks my boxes.

This is why I'm working on diymedia.cc and why we're making TV and film.

Because I've been stressed, I've been watching a bunch of trash holywood films, and some hammer monsters, and some kung fu flicks. 40s - 90s. Not a lot of public domain stuff this round, because I've seen nearly all of that that falls in to any of the genres I care anbout.

It's an easy de-stressor for me, and a good way for me to refresh and brainstorm on TV production stuff.

This is good. It's useful, it's entertaining, and I can call it research, but it is not living my values.

So you go, and you see them, and some of them win awards, and then ... what? They disappear mostly.

That makes me sad.

I don't have any answers today.

I mean... okay, hold on.

I go to local(ish) screenings of independent productions as often as I can.

I've seen dozens of films that, if you weren't one of the 40 or 50 people in the room at one of the three or four screenings the thing got, might as well not exist.

A few of them, I quote on a regular basis, even if no one else will ever know what I'm talking about.

(This one, Disney Shot Kennedy, stands out in that crowd as one I'd love to see get a wider release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngKZuxICMhY)

That is the one thing big corporate backing is good for, after all, distribution. Discoverability.

The Exegency was originally distributed via Amazon, Amazon bought The Vast of Night at sundance.

Netflix and Amazon snap up most of the independent documentaries, Amazon buys a scant few independent films, and that's ... it? As far as I can tell the rest of this stuff just disappears.

I have one answer today, and that is Creative Commons.

If you want your thing to be seen, license it so people can share it, include information about how to pay you, and where to find you, in the file itself, and let it out in to the world.

But most film makers, even the ones operating entirely independently, still harbor this idea that they'll somehow manage to Make It, and no studio is going to buy a CC film, right?

That's conventional wisdom at least.

@TerryHancock I did not mean to imply that it was simple, and I fully understand why independent filmmakers get caught in this trap.

But it is ultimately a trap.

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1510314535671922689

Jack Dorsey said some stuff. He appears to regret his role in the creation of the modern web.

lmao.

What is the best Kaiju film, and why is it Invasion of the Astro-Monster?

There's also a Supra drive, I dunno what a Supra drive is, but it looks like a regular floppy drive.

The image descriptions explain what the stuff is.

There's a network box to control video tape recorders, a Bunch of software, a bunch of documentation (including a Huge book on MorphPlus) and a Syquest drive and cartridges.

I'm looking forward to getting this stuff archived.

New Diorama

@Ricardus That, plus the open carry stuff got me.

I'm a gun owner. I live in GA, with bears and rednecks.

Anyone who carries a riffle on their back through a starbucks is 💯 not someone I'll ever trust again.

And I need to figure out why this one errors out when exiting the Screensaver back to the breadbox desktop.

Maybe it doesn't like to run on freedos?

Got a second video toaster Amiga 2000 in the mail. Still no keyboard. This one came with Stuff though.

Obligatory planet x3 on the Tandy. I'm not an 8bit guy fan these days, but it's the only PC Jr compatible game I had handy.

I'll stick something else on there tomorrow.

Figured it was time to get my digital house in order.

Need to get a hard drive for this boy.