#market media

[daveinediting]

Inevitably, I thought of my friend, Scott von Freiberg, probably the most I ever have in 2024.

He was a Walt Disney type of producer. Big ideas with the ability to convince clients of those ideas and put together large production crews to put it all together because at the time you needed more equipment that was bigger and heavier.

He had vision and he knew how he wanted the moving images he captured to look.

Typical of his ideas, we hauled a camera crane into the Graduate Reading Room at Suzallo Library one night to shoot a VH1 music video stage performance complete with concert lighting.

It was a BIG production. And leave it to Scott to pull it together for a record company in LA one, maybe two years out of school.

Scott died in 2010 of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. His death still, though, casts a long long shadow because he's was so wired into our lives when we were all in our twenties.

He was a huge part of our lives before and after my wife and I were married. He was a producer, a colleague, a dear friend. We were all chasing the same pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

At some point between 1992 and 1995, he packed up to make his fortune in L.A. where he met his wife, who, like he, hailed from Omaha, Nebraska. They moved back to Omaha to be married and start a family and a production company called Market Media.

The last time I saw Scott in person was when I was with the America's Historic Trails production shooting in Omaha starting for the Mormon Trail episode. 1995 or 1996. I got a chance to visit the local Fox affiliate where he was a producer at the time and we talked a little producer to editor shop about an effect he was trying to to achieve without the most high end uber expensive equipment.

And I had some specific ideas about how he could do just that.

I didn't think this at the time but what I know now is that we would've continued that relationship in perpetuity.

How do I know this?

Because this is my relationship with many of the producers with whom I work to this day. And in 2024, I did a lot of show 'n tell. Getting the word out that, look, we couldn't do this six months ago but now we can. That, look, I would've sworn this was impossible but turns out I'm very recently wrong. That, look, we can address, fix, augment, and conjure from nothing what was recently not possible.

Scott would've been the one I talked with most because he was always pushing that old, cost prohibitive technology. So he would've pushed our latest, miraculous technology.

Me, as an editor? I'm in grateful mode. He, as the kind of producer he was? He'd jump right to the motion capture alternatives that now exist.

Where I see the ability to address, fix, augment, and conjure from nothing what was recently not possible, Scott would very much be the guy to continue pushing what I understand as limitations that he would inevitably, barely acknowledge.

His brain just worked that way. It sometimes made us want to pull our hair out but it worked. He achieved great things even just out of school with technology that, by today's standards, was in its infancy. It was, after all, analog. No matter how good it was, it was still analog.

So today? Yeah. He would've loved how far we've come. He would've reveled in it. He would've wanted it to do more.

And we would've talked shop a lot.

😊

[manny-jacinto]

The cast of Severance (Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower) took over a glass-walled replica of the Lumon Industries office at the Grand Central Terminal in New York, USA. For over two hours, they stayed in character as their "innies," working at their desks, doing yoga, and engaging in other office activities, just like on the show

[vamprisms]

hate this weird trend of shows and stuff being written with shipping and fandom in mind. um get thee hell out of that writer's room if i'm being fully honest

[prokopetz]

The real top five causes of major character death in mainstream superhero comics:

Marketing stunt where it's clear that the writers put a lot more effort into figuring out how they're going to bring them back once they've milked all the drama they can out of their death than they did into figuring out how to kill them off in the first place

Publisher convinced themselves that the best way to establish credentials for their latest villain-of-the-week was to have them randomly murder a popular character, having failed to learn from experience that this literally never works

Big-name writer decided to end their tenure on the character's title by breaking their toys on the way out, thus ensuring that they have the final word on the character's development, and in their hubris they believe they're influential enough that it will stick (hint: it won't)

New editor with nostalgic brain rot wanted to reset the status quo to how they remember it being when they were a kid, and the easiest way to do that was to kill off every character introduced more recently than 1987

They just had rancid vibes

[saltedsnailstudio]

“becoming” banner by jasper alexander

linocut print on fabric, home sewn utilizing recycled textiles

[artbyblastweave]

Funniest thing I've seen recently, and not funny in a ha-ha way, more funny in a "the endless entropic void gnawing at my will to live" way, was somebody asking around for alternatives to Neil Gaiman, in the light of Neil Gaiman's ongoing fall from grace. As though what we're currently sitting through isn't the collapse of the carefully curated "Good Guy Neil" image that caused people to parade Gaiman as the same kind of preferred progressive alternative to, say, Rowling. As though we won't be in the same goddamn situation in a few years or months, with some number of the new progressive sci-fi/fantasy darlings- not all of them, to be clear, but at least some of them- when their impeccably-curated marketing implodes in on itself and they're revealed to be the same kind of sex pest or abuser. Can you not see the wheel to which you are strapped. The game of human pinball you are condemning yourself to with this mindset. Maybe you do see, and you're just resigned to taking it one soul-crushing disappointment at a time, one "I never would have guessed" after another. I mean I think we all need to get resigned to that one way or another, sun's gonna go out before it stops happening

[good-advice-ganondorf]

[kamwashere]

whoever runs the verified batman account in instagram needs their ass ate cause these are hilarious

[communistkenobi]

The deeply moralist tone that a lot of discussions about media representation take on here are primarily neoliberal before they are anything else. Like the shouting matches people get into about “purity culture” “pro/anti” etc nonsense (even if I think it’s true that some people have a deeply christian worldview about what art ought to say and represent about the world) are downstream of the basic neoliberal assumption that we can and must educate the public by being consumers in a market. “Bad representation” is often framed as a writer’s/developer’s/director’s/etc’s failure to properly educate their audience, or to educate them the wrong way with bad information about the world (which will compel their audience to act, behave, internalise or otherwise believe these bad representations about some social issue). Likewise, to “consume” or give money to a piece of media with Bad Representation is to legitimate and make stronger these bad representations in the world, an act which will cause more people to believe or internalise bad things about themselves or other people. And at the heart of both of those claims is, again, the assumption that mass public education should be undertaken by artists in a private market, who are responsible for creating moral fables and political allegories that they will instil in their audiences by selling it to them. These conversations often become pure nonsense if you don’t accept that the moral and political education of the world should be directed by like, studio executives or tv actors or authors on twitter. There is no horizon of possibility being imagined beyond purchasing, as an individual consumer in a market, your way into good beliefs about the world, instilled in you by Media Product 

[littlemut]

corporate brainrot

[scourge-sympathiser]

SCOURGE SUNDAY 032/???

transmogrification 2.0

[destielmemenews]

"Trump Media's stock price fell sharply in morning trade on Wednesday, sliding $2.79, or 15%, to $15.84 — its lowest level since the shares made their public market debut in March. The stock is down 76% from its closing high of $66.22 on March 27, a day after it listed on the Nasdaq Composite index."

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[swampthingking]

andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

[housederiva]

[heliotrope155]

The devil works hard but the Danny Phantom fandom works harder.