Hey team! Happy August!
What You Already Know
Not gonna do a full recap of the last month of work because you already know most of it! I have been able to work at a pretty steady clip. Not hitting 200 slides in a week like I did right after going on Concerta, but I'm averaging over 100. My schedule is such that a lot of bi-weekly obligations have synced up, so I hav...
2022-08-01 17:48:51 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! I've been reading a bit of Robert O. Paxton's The Anatomy of Fascism and it clarified some stuff I wanted to add to the current video. In thinking it through, I realized that this was, in many ways, the thesis I had been building to and hadn't quite nailed, and could now put into a historical context. So I ended up rewriting the ending of the script, which has a) made it bett...
2022-07-29 20:04:30 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! An update on the first of the month, holy butts!
Work/flow
Getting medicated for ADHD took longer than anticipated. First executive dysfunction meant I failed to call my psychopharm for a full week. Then she had to reschedule. Then my insurance held everything up because something got lost in the shuffle and we needed to call the Prior Authentication depar...
2022-07-01 22:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
You can now watch the entirety of the The Alt-Right Playbook on Nebula. :D
2022-06-27 20:42:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Got the desk fully set up today! Still working from the laptop for the time being, since I began the video there and don't feel like migrating the project files, but the desktop will go here starting on the next one. Also the guitar is not going to live there but the place it's going to go is occupied by something else at the moment. But this is my work space now.
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Hey team!
Officin'
It's only a few weeks since the last (quite late) update, so there's not a ton to report. But I've embedded some images from the current video! Work days in the office have been going well, which is a massive relief. Having some privacy and some quiet is making a big difference.
Sadly, do to a number of COVID exposures in my extended network...
2022-06-07 15:59:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
Digs
I am writing you from my new office.
Without going into personal details, I have sort-of moved! Half-moved. It's complicated. But! The place I have half-moved to has a small office off the living room that is mine, all mine. And, with the internet getting set up yesterday, I am sitting down and working from said office for the first time. And, I...
2022-05-18 22:24:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
The first milestone I ever set on this Patreon was the promise not to put ads on my videos. Now, we've discussed ads before, and most of y'all said you don't actually mind and this is just a thing I happen to care a lot about, so perhaps it won't distress you much to know: I have, for the time being, enabled YouTube ads.
Money is tight and I need to increa...
2022-04-14 23:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the final section of How to Tell the Truth. This thing still needs some kind of conclusion, not sure what form it should take yet, and that maybe doesn't need to be decided just yet since there are 2-3 completed scripts I could edit and animate before even starting this thing. I'm pondering perhaps a quick recap and then an apology to John Oliver? Or appropriating the Last ...
2022-04-11 00:38:31 +0000 UTC View Post[in lieu of a March update - there's not much to report but a lot more writing - here's the next 12 pages of How to Tell the Truth. There is only one section after this which is nearly finished, but there's some research still to do and I didn't want to leave you hanging!]
TELL A STORY
Flags up top: [forthcoming]
“In a recent interview, while I ...
2022-04-02 12:47:10 +0000 UTC View PostThere are two primary reasons to engage with a reactionary. One is to refute, and one is to persuade. Though related, these are separate tasks requiring different sets of skills.
This is a video about the first thing.
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Let’s start with a question: what makes PragerU successful?
I’ll tell you what it’s not: it’s not the production values, it’s not the interne...
2022-03-08 19:57:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
Words, Words, Words
The draft of the current script is currently a bit over 10,000 words and spans 20 pages, and it's not done. There was a time I swore I'd never make a video over 20 minutes, and, when that barrier fell, I at least felt I'd never be one of those YouTubers who releases something as long as a feature film. But, today, I am That Guy. Because...
2022-03-08 19:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post[this is the final Alt-Right Playbook before the conclusions, which I am writing now; this is where I put everything I wanted to cover that didn't require a video of its own]
THE SLOW BREAKUP
Say, for the sake of argument, there’s this guy, this just real abomination, total scum-sucking garbage hole, who’s running for President. And conservative politicians, pun...
2022-02-15 14:44:59 +0000 UTC View Post[some of this won't make perfect sense without the visuals]
Say, for the sake of argument, there’s this… call him a “provocateur.” A conservative who makes his living off of being a public figure, saying scandalously evil things in public because controversy = attention and attention = brand recognition. He gets his writing gigs and interviews and guest spots sometimes because peo...
2022-02-07 17:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe doors open. The line starts to move. The usher takes your ticket and points in the direction of your seat. Preshow music plays over the soundsystem as you side-shuffle past the knees of the folks in your row. You stick your bag and your jacket under the seat and sit down. You leaf through the playbill, futz around on your phone, until music starts to fade. The lights in the auditorium dim a...
2022-01-31 18:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostHey team.
Not Great!
So y'all didn't get an update for December and now it's almost February and I'm afraid I don't have much to show you. I'm sorry about that. The fact is, I haven't been doing great.
I don't have COVID or a herniated disc or something concrete I can point to this time. Work just feels nigh-impossible. After getting back from the holidays, I ...
2022-01-31 18:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
Compendium 1
Embedded above is the first fully-animated-by-me-and-no-one-else thingamabob since I Hate Mondays back in 2020. The CO-VIDs were very sparse in their animation, relying far more on footage, the GamerGate video was also sparse because they were slides from a talk, and Mike has been handling everything on The Cost of Doing Business<...
2021-12-12 19:37:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
Sorry this is late! I've done a lot of traveling in the last few weeks, but also there's not a lot to say. Mike and I are trucking along with animating the next video. I've also got a draft of the script for the one after that, so yay! I have a small section I might cut and am probably going to rewrite the ending, but it's overall pretty solid. So huzzah!
As ever, thank yo...
2021-11-16 16:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! Sorry for the lateness of this update, but I had something I wanted to show you and it took a little time.
WIP
Embedded above is a rough cut of the first 8.5 minutes of the next Alt-Right Playbook, written and directed by me and animated by Micael Schuenker Alves. This is still very much a work in progress - some of the art is mock-ups, some segme...
2021-10-09 21:28:20 +0000 UTC View PostHey team, just in case you're interested:
I was interviewed on Shawna Potter's podcast to discuss her band, War on Women, as well as The Alt-Right Playbook, toxic masculinity, and punk rock. It went public today. Shawna's really cool and I felt it was a good interview. 2021-09-15 00:22:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
Catch-up
I didn't do an update for July. I'm sorry! Being back at work has been nice but occasionally overwhelming. Been a bit scattered.
I've also made two different videos public this month, and forgot to let you know! They're both videos you've seen already, but I usually send out a message when they are shareable. It's been so long since I was re...
2021-08-24 22:23:43 +0000 UTC View Post
HOLY FRIGGIN CRUD I HAVE A VIDEO FOR YOU!!!
Exporting this was a farce. My laptop is apparently not up to the effort of compressing even fairly simple graphical effects, so this gave me tons of of crashes and freezes. I finally managed to export in a different, less compressed format and then convert it to something reasonable in Media Encoder. Not sure whether that'll be the workflow goi...
2021-08-01 12:33:20 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! Sorry for the late post, it's hard to tell one month from another these days.
My Spine
Here's where things stand with my lower back: I have recovered from my relapse and am now doing better than I was before everything went to heck for a second time. I'm down to doing physical therapy only once a week and, provided nothing goes wrong, I wi...
2021-07-09 00:20:35 +0000 UTC View Post
HEY TEAM! IT'S A VIDEO!!!
With the generous help of Magdalen Rose, I finally have the talk I gave back in friggin' MARCH online! It's nearly an hour long and not only gives the timeline of GamerGate's formation, but puts the Alt-Right Playbook into practice to contextualize it and understand how ...
2021-06-12 16:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
Not all of my news is bad. None of it's good.
The last two weeks have been a major relapse in sciatica symptoms. I seem to be through the worst of it and am somewhat functional again, but, seeing as we don't know what caused the relapse, we're very hesitant to resume any of my normal life activities. The relapse was enough to convince my insurance to get me an MRI...
2021-06-05 19:10:57 +0000 UTC View Post
