Early Access: The Artist is Absent

I'm watching the video now, but I just had to pause for a moment and say that: Oh my god, this is great, I'm really enjoying it. This is exactly the kind of stuff that makes me super happy to be your supporter. So yeah, wow, thank you.

To me The Beginner's Guide was an exercise is recognizing how deeply I try to read into who the author is and then learning to feel real bad about it. I still do this, I don't know how to stop (I did it with you, watching your video!) But I feel like it was a. Well. A good parable for the danger of that. I think this was a great breakdown on the nature of fandom, which is how I personally relate to it. By my point in fandom most of us has a solid grip on death of the author, because god forbid we let the authors ruin our fantasies by trying to tell us what we made of their work isn't legitimate, but there is still the constant struggle to not think you know a person via their work. Made, I think, all the more difficult by know you COULD know SOMETHING of the person who created something that touched you deeply. And that temptation is REAL real. ANYWAY I don't actually have much to add, it's a good video for providing a way to talk about something that I think bears talking about with just about all media. BTW I watched two videos lately in the Critically Analyzing Media And Drawing Interesting Correlations Area that made me think you might enjoy them, so in case you have missed these somehow: This first one is an interesting read on the Witness, but it thoroughly spoils the game so be warned: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOJC62t4JfA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOJC62t4JfA</a> This one is about 24, the television show. It... ALSO spoils the show? but.. I dont' think that conceptually has any meaning when talking about 24 : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P52G4Kyq5M&index=3&list=LLHcogCLCtn8JcHQi1lI4X5w" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P52G4Kyq5M&index=3&list=LLHcogCLCtn8JcHQi1lI4X5w</a>

1. Super fascinating. As a writer and someone who ruminates of pop culture regularly, this definitely food for thought. There were two things that this made me think of, so I will arrogant enough to present them to you unsolicited: -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdxeFcQtaU" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdxeFcQtaU</a> This TED talk from Jay Smooth is about to talk to someone about how what they did was racist, and it's interesting because Jay's advice is to separate the person's actions from their self. To say "what you DID was racist" not "you ARE a racist", and I think that that's a really interesting perspective that dovetails with your point that a person's content cannot reliably describe that person. Unfortunately, when it comes to decisive topics such as race, the "authorial intent" IS often hate based and what you DID equals what you ARE, but especially when it gets away from the anecdotal and into the written word or recorded video, it becomes harder and harder to truly parse out a person's "soul" just from a single tweet or whatever. -Another example of audience attempting to define an author by their content that I think is really clear is internet commenting (an irony I, a commenter, do not miss). I mentioned I'm a writer, and I recently wrote an article about Juno getting to Jupiter that was an absurdist comedy piece, but in a hilarious turn of events, Yahoo linked to it in it's Science section, so I got **250** comments on an otherwise flash-in-the-pan article, and they were ALL variations on "The person who wrote this is obviously dumb and should kill himself", as if this article that they veeerrry clearly misinterpreted gave them enough evidence to deem me worthless. It's really interesting that internet culture provides the illusion of intimacy by providing spaces for feedback like comment sections, or platforms for direct communication like Twitter, because that intimacy is rarely ACTUALLY there. As much as you can tweet at a famous person and "actually get a response back!", that person doesn't know you, won't know you, and might just be some intern. This strays a little away from YOUR musings on storytelling, but the dynamics of communication is a really intriguing topic, so thank you for this video My article, and all the glorious hate mail attached:<a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/07/8-unexpected-things-we-just-found-out-about-jupite.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/07/8-unexpected-things-we-just-found-out-about-jupite.html</a> 2. No idea if you're looking for proof reading feedback, but at about 30:57-8 there's an accidental flash of what I THINK is your twitter profile that you use a minute later. Unless you're trying to subliminally Incept something into our brains. In which case....I uh, didn't see anything.