Jason Scott's Weblog
I have a standing offer with relatives and buddies with children: I will pay for Mandarin Chinese lessons. Most schools in the US don’t have any easy way to elect to teach children Mandarin, and so you need to have a tutor, or send the kids to a after-hours school, or otherwise give them lessons […]
Some time ago, I wrote an entry about a guy named Peter Hirschberg. (This was back in February.) At the time, he had this incredible home arcade, called “Luna City”, which was in his basement. What struck me was the attention to detail; everything from a change machine to the wooden railing along the back […]
Well, first of all, there’s a ton of footage. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, I mean this collection, where I’ve been uploading raw footage to archive.org on and off for the last two years. Mostly off. However, it’s already at 20 hours of footage, which has to count for something, right? I […]
I was sent mail informing me that Ryugen Fisher had had a heart attack and died suddenly. It had actually been a year since it had happened, in Chicago, while he was on a retreat. Naturally, when someone dies, I don’t expect that any documentary filmmakers who interviewed them would be notified. We didn’t run […]
My XBOX gamer tag is “Sketch the Cow” and this causes some confusion. My IRC handle is “SketchCow” and it’s being used to say the same thing and to get around length restrictions. But it’s meant to be “Sketch the Cow” as well. Very occasionally, people wonder what the hell is going on, so here’s […]
I don’t just get into something; I tend to live it, breathe it and eat it, for weeks on end, then move away to something else with that passion. These days, there’s been a lot of Halo 3 multiplayer happening. It sounds almost sad to one segment of my audience; hours spent with a game? […]
Some of you know what this is. Some have an inkling. Others are likely utterly confused. Well, the guy on the right is me. I’m in a helmet, kneepads, and am using a tiny HD camera called the Canon HV20. On the left is Bruce, one of the four people who accompanied/protected me. And we […]
This entry says November 23, but in fact it is December 9th. I am writing entries as fast as I can, pulling in stuff I was thinking about from the time that the “official” date says, but writing it with the advantage/disadvantage of two weeks of passed time. That this situation occurred is a result […]
I’m sure there’s a name for this but I never heard it in film school and I suspect it’s a writer’s term that’s used instead. My experience has been that there is a secondary narrative in presented works, whether they be films, books, or even music. This second, shadow narrative, is being told by the […]
It’s getting to be time to finally put all people who were on the screen for the BBS Documentary up in the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). As part of that, I browsed the entry to remind myself who’s missing. IMDB has kind of tarted up since it was taken over by Amazon, and in fact […]