creative industry

[mellowtigger]

I'm enjoying watching the new creative industry being born. Movies, for instance, will someday bypass Hollywood altogether. That day can't come soon enough, I think. With tools getting cheaper and cheaper to work with, I hope to see more "garage band" style movie development.

For those of you who read slashdot, you probably already know, but the trailer for a new internet-only movie is now available at http://ironsky.net/. Nazis in space! *laugh* But it actually looks interesting. They're raising money for it by selling "war bonds" (to aid the effort to fight off the Nazis). If I had the money to spare, I'd buy one myself. Anything to help bring about the end of Hollywood's grip on the creative industry.

Still feeling unmotivated here, unfortunately. I really want to work on creating a script for my sci-fi idea, a series about life on colony ships just 200 years from now or so.  I can see it as a series in just about any format: movie, live-action episodes, or even an animated show.  Any animators out there looking for an excuse for a project?  (Light a proverbial fire under my rear to get me started on that script.)

*unproductive twiddle*

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[artfldarknbuzzd.livejournal.com]

There's absolutely nothing like GOING to a movie theatre.
It's an experience in itself...

There's an old movie house--The Orpheum--in the nearby village
and it's about as close to glory as one can find.
They play first runs and a plethora of beautiful indies.

Internet movies and cable and DVDs are just one more
growing niche for a shut-in society becoming more and more
closed-off and anti-social.

[mellowtigger]

There's a theater just a few blocks from where I live that usually does first-run movies too. It has only one screen with an actual curtain, and it has an organ up front too. It's called the Heights Theater (named after the city, Columbia Heights). I like seeing movies here instead of the megaplex.

The thing, though, is that a movie-and-popcorn night, just 2 hours, costs as much as a month's subscription to an online game like Everquest 2. It's a lot cheaper to move electrons around than it is to move bigger stuff.

I would like to see more movie nights (including internet movies) hosted at people's homes than in theaters, even good theaters like the Heights.