OK, that is a rough cut of the whole dang thing. This needs a rewrite because I feel I'm not making the main point well enough, and it's what the whole enormous video has been building up to so I need to nail it. Beyond that, same caveats as usual: no titles, rough audio, missing graphics, clips may change.
But we have a rough cut. Holy butts.
2018-09-04 00:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! Happy Friday.
(For any of you on the other end of the International Date Line, happy whatever day it is!)
Progress Report
The Big ol' Longo nearly has a rough cut. I managed to up the pace last week from 3 days to finish a segment to only 2. As of now, all that remains is the conclusion, which is now written and recorded. I've got some obligations this week...
2018-08-31 19:27:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Viewer discretion advised on this one. I don't include any of the most explicit footage, but this is an open discussion of sexual assault and violence against women.
Some clips may change, script will probably get some tweaks, still no titles or graphics, etc.
All that remains is the conclusion!
2018-08-30 01:38:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Only partial titles, rough audio, script needs slight revisions, might swap some clips.
There's only two parts left before I start stitching them together!
2018-08-25 21:38:38 +0000 UTC View Post
One more part complete. We've got three left.
Again: rough audio, no titles, minor revisions forthcoming.
2018-08-24 02:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post
No titles, no graphics, some weird graphical glitches because I'm overusing the optical flow effect, some bits of the script I want to revise, and one hand-drawn sequence that hasn't been drawn yet.
Anyway, I'm back from travel and back on my bullshit!
2018-08-21 22:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey $5-and-up team,
Survey says the first annotated video will be This Is Phil Fish.
Use the comments to ask me questions about this video and I'll work the most interesting ones into the annotations.
-I
2018-08-16 13:55:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again: No titles or graphics, also the sound mixing is a mess, but I did get a chance to do revisions on the script before recording so I'm a lot happier with the structure and flow this time.
I'm out of town for the rest of the week, so nothing new til after Sunday. Hoping to make time to revise the rest of the script while I'm traveling so everything will feel roughly as ...
2018-08-15 15:04:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the rough cut of Bring Back What's Stolen part 2.
This one's even rougher than the last one. There are almost no titles or graphics, and I can tell it's going to need some reordering and rephrasing to improve flow and coherence. So, again, be gentle.
I feel like I'm really showing my ass by sending you ea...
2018-08-13 16:43:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey $5-and-up teamsters,
As most of you know, a while back the site I used to annotate the videos got quietly bought out and shut down, and all the annotations were lost. This means I have to begin the arduous process of re-annotating the old videos, so I thought I'd make it a bit more interesting.
Attached is a poll with four options for videos (or series) I should annotate first. Once we...
2018-08-12 03:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the rough cut of Part One of the next video, tentatively titled Bringing Back What's Stolen: Fury Road and the Avenging Feminine. It's an in-depth look at when and how women have historically been "allowed" to be violent in the movies, how many of the tropes of action movies are about soothing the ego of ...
2018-08-09 21:53:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! I realize it is no longer July. Here's an update anyway. <3
Big ol' Longo
After the headache of getting Lady Eboshi is Wrong past the copyright bots - it's been well-received, by the way! - I am back to work on the big video, the one I've been writing and researching for two months n...
2018-08-09 21:46:36 +0000 UTC View Post
After 5 different re-edits, I managed to get a version of Lady Eboshi is Wrong that didn't get flagged for copyright infringement. This version you can share far and wide!
What a hassle this has been. Thank you all for your patience!
2018-08-02 01:48:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Welp, apparently now YouTube is slapping worldwide blocks on material their robots think is copyright infringement even before it's gone public. This has never happened before.
While I dispute copyright claims on YouTube, watch the video here on Dropbox.
2018-08-01 01:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! Here's the preview version of the new video: my entry into Mikey Neumann's Lessons Animation Taught Us series, on Princess Mononoke. But, in a lot of ways, this is spiritually part of The Alt-Right Playbook. I ended up discussing a lot of criticisms people make of my ...
2018-08-01 00:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
There'll be a proper update soon, but here's a quick one:
The biggish video that I've taken two months so far on is going to need another month. I didn't want to leave y'all with no video again, so I took some time away from it to make something smaller. I've got a super-duper rough cut of that video right now, will be polishing it for the next few days, and then it'll be online....
2018-07-28 22:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
A Video In July
Happy July! As I hinted in the last update, the next video will come out this month. It is shaping up to be a big ol' longo, so I'm taking my time with it.
Since last we spoke I have done a crapton of research into action cinema and how feminist/race/queer theory relate to it. I keep joking with my friends that the video's taking as...
2018-07-01 14:51:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The new video is public.
That guy? That guy over there? I think he doesn't know about the new video. You should fix that.
2018-05-31 11:41:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
Here is the rough cut of the new video. As usual, the audio is crusty, the timing is rough, there are script revisions reflected in the slides that haven't been recorded yet, and there's at least one typo (points if you can find it).
Final audio is being recorded this afternoon and the finished vid should be pub...
2018-05-30 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
Videos New & Old
I've just finished the slides on the next video, and should have a rough cut to you tomorrow. Came in at a downright ludicrous 285 slides this time, by a long way the most for any episode of The Alt-Right Playbook. It's also the longest script for the series and I'm guessing will be the longest video so far.
Am, in fac...
2018-05-29 22:43:47 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! A few days late with this one, apologies.
Since Last We Spoke
In the last update, I gave 70/30 odds that I'd get another video online before the end of March, and I did, indeed, pull it off. The Alt-Right Playbook: Mainstreaming was uploaded March 31st, though it didn't g...
2018-05-04 19:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post
New video is live. Tell everyone you've ever met.
2018-05-01 12:17:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team,
Rough cut of the new video is up. I'll be recording final audio tomorrow - which it sorely needs because there are a number of misspoken lines and audio pops - and there are a few revised sentences. But there are very few visual tweaks necessary this time, which is a rarity. This is actually the first Alt-Right Playbo...
2018-04-29 23:46:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
I'm asking for a favor. You all know how loathe I am to ask for money, but this time it's not for me. I'm asking for help for my dear, dear friend Jayme Dale.
You may remember Jayme from me guesting on her podcast<...
2018-04-20 13:30:36 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
Two little things:
1. Ken has podcasted the audio from our PAX Panel. Anyone who didn't make it to PAX can listen to it now.
2. Did another Thoughts on post yest...
2018-04-11 20:57:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The final version of Mainstreaming is now live! A few visual tweaks and some script revisions; the usual. Go tell your friends.
2018-04-04 14:05:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
Well, pulled it off. Two videos this month. We are officially back on schedule.
As usual, this is a rough cut. Have some script revisions that will go into the final narration recording, and some adjustments to pacing and audio levels are a given. It's been a very busy week so I'm going to give myself a few days to turn the final version around. It'll be public sometime before PA...
2018-03-31 19:00:41 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
The End of March
The primary goal of this month was to get back on schedule with the videos. At press time, we are juuuuuust about there.
I got Endnote 1 up on the 14th, just before the Ides, and I'm in the...
2018-03-26 23:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The new video is public! Oddly enough, it got a few seconds shorter.
Usually the opposite happens.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
2018-03-14 15:44:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
Here's the rough cut of the next video, a kind of footnote to The Alt-Right Playbook. I may do a few of these as the series continues, whenever a clarification won't fit into the body of regular video.
Plan is to roll straight into the next Alt-Right Playbook and hopefully have that up by the end of the month as well, which will get us back on schedule! Normally this wouldn't cou...
2018-03-13 17:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post