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Screenwriting w/ AI -- Policy Document

AI is the latest extension of Big Tech’s larger ambitions for surveillance capitalism. It’s in their financial interest to harvest as much data as…

Jun 18 •

Jamie Freestone

July 2024

Text-to-video AI: the end of film & TV?

More like the latest battle in the war for attention

Jul 2, 2024 •

Jamie Freestone

June 2024

You Contain Multitudes

“We are all curious collages, weird little planetoids that grow by accreting other people’s habits and ideas and styles and tics and jokes and phrases…

Jun 12, 2024 •

February 2024

Why We Headshot

Can a headshot really say anything?

Feb 8, 2024 •

November 2023

OOO: I was somewhere else making something, sorry

The work-life trapeze (with health balancing in the in-between).

Nov 6, 2023 •

October 2023

Can we test for consciousness?

Turing tests, animals, & Hamlet

Published on The Stark Way • Oct 11, 2023

What’s the plus?

What makes good content diverse and diverse content good?

Oct 9, 2023 •

March 2022

The First Wives Club and the politics of camp

Camp is both a dangerous supplement and a needful weapon in a handbag of dazzling accessories. - Allen Pero

Mar 15, 2022 •

February 2022

The plays the thing

Let me take you back to 2010. I’m in my first year of professional practice and I’ve just paid an inordinate amount of money to see Schaubühne’s HAMLET…

Feb 1, 2022 •

Non-fiction that just might change your life

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr Julie Smith Stay: A History of Suicide…

Feb 1, 2022 •

January 2022

What is the Metaverse?

If there is anything I’ve learnt about the metaverse, it’s that it isn’t here yet.

Jan 19, 2022 •

What is dialogue doing?

Subtext is a rare and endangered keystone species. But if makers leave subtext out of the main text, my hunch is the whole ecosystem falls apart.

Jan 2, 2022 •

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