Solidarity!
Like the banner above says, I stand with the Animation Performers who are currently authorizing a strike vote. The issue is the compensation for voice work on animated programs made for subscription-based streaming platforms such as Amazon, Netflix and Hulu. You can [ED.NOTE: and should] read all about this here.
The reasons artists turn to their art, immersing themselves in it, making it their world, vary from person to person, but as I get older and become more and more introspective, my self-examination tells me that most of the creative people I know pretty much started as I did, trying to hide from or make sense of the world through their art, although our lives have taken different turns from that point.
The 2012 video above, which I accidentally came across on Vimeo yesterday, surprised me by being the perfect extension of my thought on this subject while at the same time also seeming to sum it up.
What do you, as writers, directors, film and video makers, and human beings have to say about this? Is your art more than a supplement for real life? Has it in fact supplanted your real life?
NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and occasionally best owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.
In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise we had to keep on earning. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.
One day as my wife Gwen the Beautiful and I were leaving the ranch to drive into town we noticed a couple of trucks pulled over at the side of the road. Several people were standing around and when one of them saw us he waved and called out. “You missing your dog?”
Yes, it’s true. You can watch Hollyweed, Mr. Smith’s latest pilot right here, right now.
Because, also true, is the Kevman, just like so many of us, needs to raise a bunch of $$$ to get this sucker on the air.
Here’s the pilot:
Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are: