Jason Scott's Weblog
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:29:46 -0400 To: director@bbsdocumentary.com Subject: Okay, I admit it! Jason, I’d seen your BBS documentary mentioned on Slashdot in the past, and after a recent post about it, I decided to go to your site to see about purchasing it. After all, I spent about a decade of my life […]
I don’t know why it took me so long to finally announce this idea; I had it back in June but then life got a little busy. Textfiles.com gets a lot of visitors. A LOT. Hundreds of thousands. And I get a lot of nice mail from a lot of people. Also, I like to […]
Well, Waxy showed his usual talent for sniffing out dropped hints and figured out that I referenced the BBS Documentary raw footage going onto archive.org over time. Since that little kitty’s out of the box, let me give clarifications. I’m actually more concerned about releasing raw footage while the documentary is in “sales cycle” than […]
I was browsing around for mentions of the documentary, and found a nice lively discussion about the documentary’s scope and range on a usenet newsgroup, alt.bbs.synchronet. Here’s the thread I found. It’s an interesting one, because it kind of captures everything that I’ve really been proud of as well as most everything I’ve been criticized […]
Apparently my weblog software goes to ‘blank’ if a number of factors happens, with the translation being that I have to have something up. So let me share this, which I found on flickr, and which I had nothing to do with: Now that’s heartening.
Throughout the whole production, I was only kicked out of a house once. This is actually a very good ratio, considering the number of people, range of locations, and seat-of-the-pants methods I often employed throughout the filming. I would occasionally find myself in a place, say, Washington DC, get a call and learn that my […]
The production company that made the BBS Documentary is called “Bovine Ignition Systems”. It’s a weird enough name that a couple people have actually stopped paypal orders and contacted me to verify that “Bovine Ignition Systems” is the company that they should be giving $50 to. The name dates back to 1985, when I was […]
This entry has a ramble factor of 8. Please use caution. I took an initial risk when I was plotting out this documentary and how I would approach it, and that was how “technical” the whole thing would get. When you do a documentary on a subject, there’s always a balancing act between making it […]
I was contacted by John Sheetz’ widow regarding my phone call to them offering the DVD and the interview. They want both. I think she cried at the end. I wonder sometimes if people think to take the video camera they use to record a holiday and just interview a relative about their life, so […]
It took a while, but the IMDB entry for the BBS Documentary now lists over 70 of the people who appeared in it. It is NOT complete and is missing vital folks, but I was entering names as fast as I could, and then it eventually hit an upper limit, and I decided I would […]