#market media

[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]

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[soupandcats]

Got a hobonichi for Christmas here are the first five days of the year! Featuring gouache and marker and misremembered lyrics from Sunday in the Park with George 🌀😵‍💫💗🍒

[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 

[thedaveandkimmershow]

Yesterday I was at a reunion of producers, directors, photographers, editors, and designers who span my career.

Literally. My whole career.

In fact, I met one of the directors there when I was a college senior. At the time, I thought my career was gonna be in advertising. At the time, I didn't even know editing was gonna be my thing... let alone video production.

I've been to one of these before. Before the pandemic. They're a wonderful trip down memory lane filled with stories and catching up and talking shop. These are, after all, my people. And we know the deal.

These reunions do, however, leave me with a touch of sadness. Of course the older I get the more stories that creep into our conversations about friends who are no longer with us.

Even if that were not the case, though, I would always bear a sense of loss, a touch of someone missing. Because of Scott.

You see he was also there at the beginning of my career. At the beginning of Kimmer's career, too. When we marvelously had these opportunities to work together. And get paid.

We were young. We were working together. And we were getting paid.

Does it even get better than that?

We lost Scott in 2010 to ALS. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Between the time we learned about his condition and the moment he left us?

Three months.

So yeah. We're not okay with that.

We're still not okay with that. His death left a hole in our lives that persists to this day.

And the reason I'm always touched by his loss at industry gatherings is that, even now, I wanna talk shop with him. Talk our latest projects. Gush over the latest production and post-production tools. Compare notes.

And then talk about our kids. 😉

Of all of us back at the beginning, Scott was the one who could convince seasoned professionals and post-production facilities to gamble on his projects. He could pitch professional adults and walk away with the services he needed to fulfill his vision. He even reached out to The Blue Angels and tried to involve them in a dream project of his. They declined... but my point is that, as a young twenty-something, he was already operating at a higher level. He had vision, you see. He pursuit it relentlessly. And a lot of the time, most of the time, okay all of the time... what he wanted was on the bleeding edge. The furthest outreaches of what could be done at the time. And he never balked at starting with the most expensive version of a given plan.

That was infuriating, by the way. But he had more success with that approach than any of us would've or could've guessed.

It's because if that vision, though, that I desperately wanna talk shop with him. Even today. Even right now. Because the tech that enables what he envisioned back in the day exists in a lot of our homes anymore. The horsepower of our workstations outstrips the highest reaches of tech back then. A lot of the software now is powered by AI and is more than a match for Scott's vision.

Most importantly... it no longer costs a home mortgage to take a project into post production.

So yeah.

I want to know what he thinks about all that. I want to know what impresses him and what he's gonna complain about. I really really want to know if his vision still exceeds the bleeding edge of what we can do today...

Or if technology finally caught up with him.

But mostly...

I wanna kick back for beers somewhere. I wanna kick back and talk shop and talk family. Talk about the future.

And talk about what we're all gonna do...

Next.

🤔

[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”

[biowho]

[jeeklaart]

doing some shopping 🍅🥖

( find me here )

[jayflrt]

𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐁𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐒 38. then who's flying the plane???

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SUMMARY ▸ in which you work at the starbucks where heeseung is a regular at (and considered a public enemy). also he only goes when he’s stoned off his ass.

[soft5ku11]

i know this isnt what i usually post, "shut up fat kink blog" i dont fucking care sit the hell down and listen.

You're aware of the Huion New Year AIGI Tweet, right?

LEST WE FORGET, back in november last year:

If you want to buy a Wacom, Huion or Gaumon device, I'd recommend either looking into an alternative or buying secondhand/refurbished from 3rd party sellers on Ebay or something. Avoid Amazon for all the obvious reasons.

This is fucking disgusting. This is embarrassing. This is unacceptable.

most importantly,

They won't stop.

[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

[k-wame]

ALFRED HILLINGHEAD & HENRY ASHE BODIES (NETFLIX) ‧ 2023 ‧ S1·EP2 · dir. Marco Kreuzpaintne