Jason Scott's Weblog
Shooting a documentary means doing some traveling. If your subject is particularly diverse or has a lot of locations where people are living, it can mean a ton of traveling. And inevitably, you will run out of friends you know and you will be staying in a hotel. And by hotel I mean a lot […]
Just for the record, I’m just using this nice picture of Dan/Inky because it’s a representative resulting video screengrab. What I’m talking about doesn’t necessarily apply to his interview at all. With the end of the shooting phase of GET LAMP, and combining it with my previous film, I have conducted something on the order […]
Let me tell you of a magic thing. It’s called the letus, and let me explain how it works. It’s this honked up little converter that attaches to the front of a video camera, preferably one running high definition, and allows you to click on 35 millimeter film lenses onto it. Sound simple enough. It’s […]
I didn’t know Jason Scott, but I sure did see his name a lot. With a common name like this one as my general name (it’s not my real one), it would be expected that I would bump up against other Jason Scotts. There’s Jason Scott Lee, the Hawaiian actor. There’s Jason Scott Roberts, who […]
OK, I admit it. Nights get long down here at Jason Scott Ranch and I don’t like to just walk away from things for political/ethical reasons just because my politics and ethics fall along a different path than others might. So a combination of wanting to consider all my options and the fact that my […]
From: Gene Buckle To: jason@textfiles.com Subject: Maniac IIe… Telnet to The Age of Reason – 199.254.199.64. Apple IIe running GBBS Pro v1.3j and the Land of Spur game from Dura Eurpos. The _only_ of either one running on the whole fraking planet. 🙂 Gene Buckle’s one of my secret weapons in the fight to save […]
I mentioned Sockington’s twitter feed some time ago. And in the meantime, the little guy has become even more popular than you could imagine. At this point, over two thousand, seven hundred people pay attention to his adventures of food, patrolling, whimsical insanity, and cat toys. From what I can tell, he has his own […]
The question I am asked the most, on a nearly daily basis, regards GET LAMP, my text adventure documentary. How is it going? Is it out? Can I buy it? Why haven’t you finished it? Are you still doing it? Understandable, because the website has remained mum for most of 2008. My fault. It’s one […]
As mentioned in a rather recent weblog entry, a collector has gotten their hands on both original packaging and the manuscript for a game by the late Thomas Disch called “Amnesia“. This game, released in 1985, was a text adventure featuring a player waking up with no memory of who they are and the resulting […]
Somewhere earlier this year I noticed I wasn’t watching much television. Between editing my documentary and writing weblog entries and job and archiving and all the rest, the amount of time I’d want to spend watching television was reduced greatly, and mostly supplanted with video games. A quick desktop game or a consistent thrashing about […]