What Does It Cost to Support Indy Art?

 Please see the New Pop Lit News post about a film project based on a short story by Tom Ray originally run at New Pop Lit.

Recently Published in Frighty #2!

 (The blogger finally gets around to announcing on his blog his latest credit, publication in the newest release from one of the most exciting human-centered happenings on today's literary scene.)

Tired of AI slop?! Of the overregulated robotic by-the-rules mindset which comes with it?

One solution is Wred Fright's new Frighty zine. The kind of off-the-wall from-the-people writing that won't be done by robots.

The issue includes a short rant by myself.

Read about the second issue here.

Humanity is back!

Art Seen Through Layers of Prisms

 

ONE KEY to keeping the arts human and vital is to embrace the idea of not creating art through layers of prisms of other artworks. (Which is what A.I. does.) For instance, older movies-- of the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's-- have a freshness and originality to them missing in later cinema, especially from the film school crowd or certain watched-too-many-movies directors, where everything becomes an homage or recycling or reference to this "auteur" film or that one. Examples range from an alien watching a clip from a John Ford movie in "E.T." to various Coen Brothers offerings to almost every minute of a Quentin Tarantino film. 

The best art is taken from experience and from life.