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Making a feature film or making a TV show [as] a definition of success, that’s out of date. We’re looking at where online content is going, where technology is going — that’s an exciting new frontier. We have this chance to carve out what the online world and digital-distribution world could look like, and that’s infinitely more interesting.
Freddie Wong (via diablocodyisnotevenherrealname)
A-fucking-men, sir!
(via stevewoolf)
This is the same reason why I think people shouldn’t write books anymore. Books are SO OUTDATED! BAH! BORING! Paging the 19th century, anyone? Hello! Am I right? I mean, I know these people have a passion for telling stories in a specific medium or handful of mediums, but GET WITH THE TIMES, GUYS! Hey! Don DeLillo! Kathryn Bigelow! Aaron Sorkin! Davids Chase and Simon! Get over here and start making some ONLINE CONTENT! Yeah, I get it, I saw the truly great and affecting tales you meticulously wove, I’m just saying… you guys are outdated fossils. Seriously, look in the mirror! Burn that stuff you’re working on and flush it because the PARTY IS OVER HERE!
Oh… wait, what’s that? You’ve dedicated yourselves to the craft and artistry of storytelling first and foremost? Regardless of the medium? WHATever, dude, I don’t even know what you’re talking about… wait, what? Oh… so you’re saying let the story inform the medium it’s told in? And that a good storyteller doesn’t rely solely on a medium? That the internet, while extremely exciting for an entire swath of artists, storytellers, technologists, entrepreneurs and every hybrid within is not the end-all be-all Mortal Kombat finishing fatality move on every method of doing anything that has ever come before it?
So you’re saying we live in a modern culture of everything, with access to the entire catalogue of human resource available at our fingertips, and not an obsessive fantasicism of one thing only?
Interesting. Maybe I agree.
(via chriscantwell)
I had a long response to this, but Cantwell summed up my opinion perfectly. Why does it have to be Internet Vs Traditional Outlets? Why does the “Pro Internet Fuck Everything Else” crowd have to make everything sound like a cock measuring contest?
(via mundy)
Wow. Such a defensive response to a quote that merely illustrates that creators actually have a choice now, if they choose to make it. That we don’t have to get permission from anyone to tell the kinds of stories we want to tell. That no gatekeeper can keep us out unless we let them. That we can put a stake in the ground and have a voice in shaping a new medium for storytellers. I don’t see television and film going anywhere, just a new seat at the table.
I like both Chris and Nick very much, respect their work, and consider them pioneers of web video in their own right. I’m kind of shocked — and saddened — that they’ve chosen to interpret a quote like this as some kind of attack on storytelling. I interpret it as a new empowerment of storytellers.
(via mundy)
