tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post8044267913094894117..comments2023-11-14T11:44:10.396-05:00Comments on The Legion of Decency: The Hole In Daddy’s Armjimhenshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07815834271470133872noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-24952123535809070742009-10-23T10:40:14.558-04:002009-10-23T10:40:14.558-04:00I don't Think there's much chance of winni...I don't Think there's much chance of winning at either. Perhaps just a faint hope. The money is in being a bureaucrat, not in being creative.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06179145888110136248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-87438591090015884682009-10-17T10:02:47.762-04:002009-10-17T10:02:47.762-04:00Excellent post, Jim. Not sure what would have been...Excellent post, Jim. Not sure what would have been more painful -- sitting through that or sitting through a Leafs game.wphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07878696054390746471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-70748646076388649692009-10-15T23:06:08.353-04:002009-10-15T23:06:08.353-04:00I think calling them Industry Cock Blockers is dis...I think calling them Industry Cock Blockers is disingenuous. Industry bureaucrats with less business sense than creative imagination, more like it. <br /><br />The Americans have the same 'problem' with their decision makers - the only difference being their cheques are signed by publicly traded multi-nationals - whereas our television and film 'decision' makers' cheques are signed by the Government of Canada. And guess who pays the Government? <br /><br />The short and sweet of it is, I don't want my money going to reruns of GHOST WHISPERER or SUE THOMPSON F.B. EYE, I want it to go to CANADIAN writers, directors, sound technicians, gaffers... working in T.O, Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax goddammit!<br /><br />People with *their* stories to tell. Not Saskatchewan's. Not the Metis'. Our WWII ballads. But stories by Canadians, told by Canadians, about universal themes.Rusty Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16143817211151177797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-22724827032949522262009-10-15T21:21:47.433-04:002009-10-15T21:21:47.433-04:00"More money is made by 16 year old kids desig..."More money is made by 16 year old kids designing iPhone Apps in other parts of the world in one day than is earned by our new media creators in an entire year."<br /><br />That's debatable ... the kid in his basement making his fortune on the iPhone is a modern-day wives' tale. Whenever i hear it told, the age of the newly-minted millionaire gets lower, the amount of money he pulled in gets higher, and the effort he expended to get that money becomes more and more understated. It's enough to give a guy a complex.<br /><br />But SINCE there's so much mythical money to be made in this crazy "new" media thing (Ted's clocked 15 years, i've clocked 10 ... when do we get to stop calling it "new", "cutting-edge" and "experimental"?), and if a single creative person can get something off the ground without benefit of an army of sound engineers, camera people and equipment, editors, and people to snap the clapboard ... doesn't that suggest that a little investment in interactive can go a long way? Doesn't it suggest that Canada stands to make significant in-roads with taxpayer money if it doesn't have to deal with the bloat of an overweight industry like teevee?<br /><br />i'm sure that in 20 years, i'll be hiring people to operate my right mouse button, or to organize my graphic assets into folders, because the interactive industry will naturally develop the same level of bloat that more mature industries have incurred. <br /><br />But until then, i can still be a one-man band running a tight, lean ship, and get my ideas in front of an audience of millions for little to no upfront money. <br /><br /> <br />Don't hate the industry cock-blockers. Hate the industry.Ryan Henson Creightonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15670869844997297877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-22804293623126412702009-10-15T20:09:38.785-04:002009-10-15T20:09:38.785-04:00Great pig on a stick, superb post.
The disdain I ...Great pig on a stick, superb post.<br /><br />The disdain I saw for the non-tv people was remarkable. And you know that they just want to slip in the old rules, just "get things going and then we can evaluate later" crap, which will make sure that nothing changes.<br /><br />Fact is most interactive extensions are just marketing for tv anyway. So that leaves.....the "experimental" category. I've been experimenting for 15 years.Ted Brunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11878068398497039261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-72551062132649651052009-10-15T11:27:04.272-04:002009-10-15T11:27:04.272-04:00Here is a link to send a message to Heritage Minis...Here is a link to send a message to Heritage Minister James Moore:<br /><br />http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/minstr/moore/cntct/index-eng.cfm<br /><br />I have some talented friends here in Montreal with great television ideas - dozens of scripts I'm jealous of - that keep getting screwed over by Execs at our broadcasters. <br /><br />And these are young guys with the support of their creative community? <br /><br />Whatta joke.Rusty Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16143817211151177797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-80015321526947149502009-10-15T08:11:05.014-04:002009-10-15T08:11:05.014-04:00T'was ever thus. And since 1999, I could only...T'was ever thus. And since 1999, I could only see death by attrition. No one wants to come out and actually kill us, but little by little making a living as a creative becomes impossible here. I have said to all young writers since '99 to leave the country and go somewhere that views the industry as an important business. <br /><br />It is galling that there is not one bureaucrat, not one politician, who has the stones to tell the broadcasters to pay up and stop expecting the taxpayer to finance their business.<br /><br />As has been said many times, broadcasters pay less than 20% of the cost of Canadian programming, the lowest in the English-speaking world.<br /><br />And now that we've waited until the new regulations will not require 10/10, what leverage do we have to do anything about it?<br /><br />But perhaps the broadcasters will disappear - Canwest being the first. And none of this will have mattered.<br /><br />And unlike USA, which is so in-your-face patriotic, there is no hue and cry from the Canadian public about any of this. Can you imagine the outcry in the US if all their programming was imported from the UK? <br /><br />Without the will of the people, broadcasters, BDUs and governments can do as they please.<br /><br />I'm off now to submit my application to become a barista.deborah Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01660139014725973469noreply@blogger.com