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kleinbl00  ·  3216 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 10, 2016

Glad I'm jumping into the right business. Friend of mine wrote the script for Maze Runner. He ended up with the same manager who dropped me. He's got like three projects set up by Charlize Theron. But his work is largely being driven by authors.

It occurs to me that as the 'boomers die, narrative television dies with them. The average age of TV viewers is 44, while the average age of broadcast TV viewers is 53. And I've done lots of work for Smosh and the like and the thing is - big, stupid, overblown facial expressions and physical humor and jokes with zero subtlety not only works when your screen is 5" or less, it works when your native tongue is emoji.

I spend my summers observing young people who are deprived of their phones and internet for up to 12 weeks. They still speak in memes and hashtags. It's not that people are getting worse at communicating with each other, they're just getting better at communicating with people they'll never meet.





lil  ·  3216 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    It's not that people are getting worse at communicating with each other, they're just getting better at communicating with people they'll never meet.
omg, just like us. Here we are in a virtual pub, drinking virtual drinks, and spending crypto-currency.
kleinbl00  ·  3216 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...said the woman who bailed on the meetup.

goobster  ·  3216 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be completely on the up-and-up about it... once she bailed, all us dudes bailed as well. Like dominoes, man. :)

kleinbl00  ·  3216 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Totally.

lil  ·  3216 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In my first draft of that comment, I was all about that. But it looks like I'll be spending a lot of time in Vancouver, so I'm gonna make that happen - but of course, you have no reason, none whatsoever to trust me.

I'm much better as a crypto-contact.