Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Humans as Resource : Ponziomics


 


This book.
Well, ignoring the Orwellian normalised speak (Double-think? Double-Talk? Merely call them paradoxes or thought-terminating clichés.), this is honest reporting on a phenomon that is distinctly western.

Infinite opportunity, Endless chain, pay to play, Recruiting Mandate, Bottom-To-Top. Travelling to what a swindle within a salesman of cons and it's hacks. It's merely into the epitome of the specification of entertainment, to the human's as exploitable product, and to be made to follow and dancey jig. Scientific management, into this.

Or resource, managed to be exploited more and more into empty sinks line with perverse incentives, now that's a thought.

Same music, same old jig of the times that were happening to the atheist movement that occurred with this, mlm-fication of certain 'friend' groups of attention deposits. Where the return ain't going anywhere if one ain't treating it like a business.

When Robert takes from eastern figures such as Hannah Arendts again, I don't think I expect much. It's the reporting to apply it within the fields of these bad 'business' models. (It ain't a business model, it's a cult of money going into a black hole, made by dishonest betrayal and the hackneyed 'exscuse' of selling a product.) The Cult masquerading as a Profit-making venture is the negation of the negation in regards to logical success.

That's the reality of what in industry now.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Villainous/antagonist ≠ mesmerism


 Repulsion does not entail Mesmerism, not the fictional kind, anyway. Unless Hypnotism is a kink. Attractive Traits don't lead into positive ones. That's what is made for the tension to occur.

Such as the snake oil it could be, what antagonist force of a goal's want or desire is going to be made clear with the writing of the plot-structure and the character structure. Like with all things made with conflict, there ain't going to be any peace when. 

The anomie be it rising and foreshadowing, not within the anti-plot realm of jumping, static.

Attraction and the non negation really is one piano key being played.

Monday, November 18, 2024

Am I being too political?


First, It's my blog, I can write what I want.

Second, it's my opinion, one can have it, right? That makes me a post-modern.

Everything getting syncretic, even commodified entertainment is becoming to conflicted since drawing lines in the sand is what brings attention, anything for it. For better or worse.

So then, the time when our ways, is the saying by Socrates, that politics is the highest art form true? Well, if the motivation is true, no betrayal and not done right. I'll forewarn and foreshadow any conflict, my position will be revealed and that's the price to pay if it's going to happen. Somebody will be contrarian to my image.

Why am I drawing and doubting lines around a fig-leaf though?

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Its all being tracked anyway/Bsky publishing tip


It's all being tracked and processed into commodified into slop for attention, all of this, at least I've managed to sidetrack derivative creation with. How doodles will my work appear when it gets scanned, then made through the play-do mechanism.

Little filler post. Use jpegs instead of pngs for BSKY to translate better. Ty.

When these falling down of trees and many mistakes, towards the amount of time taken it's going to be a bumpy one.

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Saturday, November 16, 2024

Kelly Turnbulls favourite top burnout hits

Memory sketch without ref, looking like a fire-pixie.

I must catalogue Kelly on xwitter before that ship sinks. I remember that as a child. 

Learning to not work for abusive burnout-schedules is part of the process onto being a

"Animation has a huge problem with “cool” shows involving popular IPs at trendy studios treating their staff like absolute garbage, because they’re banking on you feeling so privileged to work there that you’re willing to let them juice you until there’s nothing left

If you start up on a production and every artist (particularly board artists) not in leadership positions like directors and supervisors are under 30 that’s a HUUUUUGE Red Flag🔺🔺🔺

Basically it says a) they’re specifically targeting young, hungry people who are less likely to push back if they’re being asked to do unreasonable things because they’re insecure about their careers and b) no one with commitments like kids and mortgages trusts their schedule

“Board Driven” shows especially, as they exist with the current TAG contract, are the biggest con in Hollywood. Board artists are expected to to the ENTIRE job of a writer in addition to the entire job of a board artist with no extra time or compensation.

I say this as someone who LOVES to write; they bank on ambitious, hungry young people who want to prove they can do it all, willing to do at least two jobs (but also often the job of a designer to create all the characters and environments that will be needed)

Out of curiosity I looked up WGA minimums and found that if kid’s cartoons were covered by WGA and artists on Board Driven shows recognized as writers, they would have to pay me more to write an 11 minute episode script than TAG makes them pay me to write AND board it."


"The last time I worked on a board-driven show, the more artists bent to meet unreasonable demands, the more was demanded. I left burnt out, demoralized, and unsure of how I would ever work in animation again. I told my friends “I feel like cartoons don’t live in me anymore

The things expected of story artists, for no extra compensation, are atrocious. I keep seeing people even younger than me say things like “I’m 26, I can’t work fast enough to keep up with new kids these days”, any industry that makes people feel this is predatory, simple as that

It’s an industry taking advantage of being “a cool job” to bring in people full of enthusiasm and juice everything out of them with an industrial press, then throw the husks away. And the most marginalized groups will always be the ones with the most to lose in that system.

Anyway this is all to say please support #StoryCraftUnite and #NewDeal4Animation animation is producing the most-watched content on streaming services, we kept the wheels of the entertainment industry turning through the pandemic, our jobs shouldn’t run us like rented mules
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(response to the abuse practices of the spider-verse abuses)

"People in the comments are saying “well if treating a crew like this gets results this good, then we should celebrate it!” But I PROMISE you a crew is always going to give you the best version of what they’re capable of when they’re happy and feel like their work is being valued

Like however good something may have turned out despite the crew waiting for the eagle to come pick out their liver every day, it can be EVEN BETTER if your crew isn’t in constant anticipation that their sandcastle is about to be kicked over.

It’s not just crunch, there’s a great quote I heard once that was something like “people don’t burn out because of hard work, they burn out when they feel like their hard work doesn’t matter”. Endless reworks with no end in sight makes a job feel like a Sisyphean nightmare."

"I saw a similar discourse happen when I said Big Mouth treated me better than any other show I’d worked on and people were like “well if treating artists like people makes shows like Big Mouth we should abuse them more”, but I’ll tell you what actually happens-

If the cool, high art projects treat their artists like garbage, those artists burn out and go to the jobs that treat them well. You don’t get better art from abused artists, you get the best, most experienced artists avoiding those projects after they’ve been burned

Cool projects aren’t made better by bad conditions. They have bad conditions because they know that by virtue of being cool and desirable, they won’t have a hard time finding more bodies to throw into the pulp mill when if they grind up all the ones they already have."