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@WriterMcG
Storyteller, Narrative Economist, Corporate Culture Disrupter, Indie Publisher, Podcaster, Armchair Prognosticator, Hippie Speedball aficionado.
Falling Water 가입일 Ekim 2017
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@WriterMcG Ok. Again, he would hate this on so many levels even if you were to compare him to Walt Disney
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Hayao Miyazaki is the Japanese Walt Disney.
But now we need a dozen AI powered American Miyazakis.
Full circle cultural renewal.
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@deadsummer No I don’t. He may dislike AI but I am not suggesting people steal from him. He is an example of what happens when one does not sell out and instead remains independent and in control.
Just like Walt Disney.
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Curry Barker and Kane Parsons in like 5 years. I would say 10 but the speed of the scale and then the destruction will keep shrinking.
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Midjourney will be announcing its first hardware project tomorrow (Wednesday 6/17) at 6pm PT. Stay tuned for a livestream of our in-person launch event in San Francisco. If you're in town and want an invite, reply below, we have just a few slots left.
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I’m launching StoryForge soon, and it is not a compliment machine.
Bring it your story, your script, your AI film, your world, your character, your scene.
But first it will help you find your intent.
Why are you making this?
Because you can?
Because the genre is hot?
Because you want the industry to pick you?
Because you have something real to say?
You may not like the answer.
That’s the point.
Authorship begins when the creator knows what sword they’re actually holding. Some people are making product. Fine. There is honor in honest product.
But culture is not restored by product pretending to be art. Culture is restored by original voices with clear intent, protected authorship, and the nerve to build outside the machine.
StoryForge is for the creator who wants the truth before the marketplace, the algorithm, or the studio system gets to the work.
Find the signal.
Forge the intent.
Protect the author.
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It’s almost as if the peoples arrive with a specific and unique culture, but the American culture that once was is not there to receive and change them.
So how about a large buttered popcorn and a remake? Yeah, that’ll do it!
Congressman Brandon Gill@RepBrandonGill
You can call me any name you want. I just want my kids to grow up in a country they recognize.
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@brianjamesgage Make it medium.
Making it big is a con man arena that must have losers to producer winners.
Most people will be losers.
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@WriterMcG true. i did about 11k units on that book and with all the marketing/PR/etc . . . barely broke even... long story short, i wouldn't think twice about doing a project to capatalize on someone else's dime for a change to further my long term goals . . . each is own, i guess.
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I am against young creators being convinced that getting paid to surrender the house is the highest form of success.
If your intent is to cash out, say that. Fine. Respect.
But don’t let the PR machine call it a revolution in authorship when the motion is the same old middleman empire absorbing original signal and routing it back through owned IP, owned press, owned distribution, owned hype, and eventually owned destruction.
That system can build you up and profit from tearing you down because it owns the amplification stack.
And the tragedy is that surrender is no longer necessary.
A stubborn independent creator can now own the work, keep the audience, fund the next thing, create jobs, create a company, and make culture outside the gate.
Walt Disney’s stubbornness created more opportunity than his surrender would have.
We need more stubborn rocks.
That is why I’m launching StoryForge.
Not to flatter creators.
To help them find their intent before the machine finds it for them.
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I’m launching StoryForge soon, and it is not a compliment machine. Bring it your story, your script, your AI film, your world, your character, your scene. But first it will help you find your intent. Why are you making this? Because you can? Because the genre is hot? Because you want the industry to pick you? Because you have something real to say? You may not like the answer. That’s the point. Authorship begins when the creator knows what sword they’re actually holding. Some people are making product. Fine. There is honor in honest product. But culture is not restored by product pretending to be art. Culture is restored by original voices with clear intent, protected authorship, and the nerve to build outside the machine. StoryForge is for the creator who wants the truth before the marketplace, the algorithm, or the studio system gets to the work. Find the signal. Forge the intent. Protect the author.
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How quickly we forget that politicians and the media collaborate to keep the people divided so the government is secretly united.
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The irony is that a books value is extremely low unless someone buys the IP from you to make it into a TV show or movie.
The silver lining is that you can now do that yourself.
How much scale you desire is really the question. I set my goal very very low, essentially “the work pays for itself” and that’s how a real business that lasts can come about.
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i've gone that route in the past for my books... lot easier said then done when it's costing you $7 Gs a month for solid PR with often 3 month commitment contracts . . . I'm doing it mostly to entertian myself and have fun . . . the $ is merely so that I can do so in an enviornment that is inspiring and comfortable for me to work in . . .
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@brianjamesgage You could just…hire your own PR film by itself…
And again, why are you scaling in the first place? What for? What’s the real goal? Make most money or make most change??
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@WriterMcG I undstand the line here. but still feel there is a middle ground to take advantage of the PR, etc. to more quickly build an audience, etc. and in turn greater indepedence in the long run. no?
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Authorship without intent becomes inventory. And a culture made of inventory becomes spiritually thin, even when it looks expensive and shiny.
The hype machine always sells surrender as destiny and when you fall for it you contribtue to the rapid cultural decline of America.
Because here we are.
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The Full Stack Artist does not need the Full Stack Amplification Squad but the Full Stack Amplification Squad has nothing without the knee capped artist.
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@WriterMcG Damn ya'll are some motherfucking haters like fr get off social media and go create something, loser.
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What a complete predictable tool this guy is. No backbone, no lasting talent, just a one-off and then an instant remake with some PR excuse about how “But I want to do it right”
Nobody wants this but the suits who can get paid making it because they collect fees green lighting a safe and already known IP — essentially a coloring book they own, but they let him use crayons to color inside the lines.
Hollywood is completely devoid of new ideas and cannot afford them.
Curry Barker is already finished as an artist and is just a spokesperson for corporate showbiz now. He clearly believes his own myth too.
Believing one’s own myth is what ends them and what keeps the non creatives in charge and taking all the loot.
PR will make it look like he’s winning but really he’s just been destroyed long term.
The first Gen Z to he captured by the system. What a dumb sucker.
Culture Crave 🍿@CultureCrave
Curry Barker on his upcoming 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' movie for A24 ⛓️ "I want to make a new generation of people scared and give them this feeling of: 'What if you went on a road trip with your friends and this happened to you?' I want to capture the rawness and the grounded-ness of the original" "I wouldn’t be interested if I didn’t think I could find a way in that feels fresh and new, while still respecting the original. The canon itself is all over the place, so there’s not much to stay loyal to other than the original" He watched all 10 films in the franchise to prepare for developing it: "Some of those movies just turn out to be a guy with a chainsaw chasing a person around. It doesn’t work to just have a chase movie. They’re hiding in a barn. It gets old. And I don’t buy it — a chainsaw is loud but they don’t hear it? I hate when you’re watching a movie and you’re thinking, “Just do this [instead]" (via @THR)
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Both India and China are owning the game.
USA is protecting its assembly line fiefdom.
Variety@Variety
'Vikram Betal' AI-Enabled Film Set at India's Collective Studios Historyverse (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2026/film/news…
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Walt and his team created Oswald The Lucky Rabbit in 1927, and the character became a hit. When Walt went to New York in 1928 to negotiate a better deal, he discovered that the rights to Oswald belonged to Universal Pictures, not to him personally. The distributor’s representative, Charles Mintz, had also convinced many of Disney’s animators to leave and work for him. Walt suddenly found himself without his star character and much of his staff.
After losing Oswald, he became obsessive about owning his intellectual property. The lesson was simple: never build your future on something someone else owns.
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@WriterMcG Mickey Mouse was made by IB Uwerks and featured in Flip the Frog cartoons.
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All one has to do is outlast hype cycles.
And hype cycles are costly, produce shrinking returns, and end just as fast as they arrived.
Indies don’t do hype cycles. They are perpetual creationists instead.
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