Wimmens in LA! Woo!
In an earlier post today we talked about Jamie Abrams and DJ Lubel, who parlayed their viral video, THE WOMEN OF LA, into a major gig.
But as we were writing that, we realized that out-of-tunes that we are we’d never seen the damn video, let alone showed it here on TVWriter™.
I’m a Loser, Baby, So Why Don’t You Kill Me?Ok. A lot to write about so I’m holding off writing about Rollo till next week cause this is more important. I got a fairly big response to last week’s post about developing a thick skin. A few people actually wrote in saying how they were scared to move forward with projects for a lot of the reasons I addressed.
Coincidentally, a few days ago TVWriter, a great site that has TONS of resources/articles/competitions for people interested in writing for TV (and yes, they’ve been a huge supporter of Chilltown), had a link to an article in Inc. magazine that addressed another aspect of it: the very real fear of failure, especially when you’re starting out and things are rough and you are, in fact, failing. One of the things that really hit home for me was identifying so much with your work, any rejection or failure is a rejection of you personally.
I had to get over that. Quickly. I’ve been extremely fortunate to have had some minor success (so far) as a creative. But I’ve had WAY more rejection. Everybody goes through it. It’s tough to take. And it’s way worse when you look at rejection as a personal indictment. That all you are is your work and if your work is rejected, you’re nothing. With all the rejection you go through as a creative person, believe me, taking things that personally is a one way ticket to Bellevue where the only plus is you’ll be too depressed to complain about the lousy hospital food.
Cuz I’m funny that way.
This one’s called ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW, and evidently it was a flash sensation at Sundance. Not on account of how good it looks, but because it was filmed in secret at Disneyland, the most heavily surveiled place on earth except for all our email accounts.
Chapter 27 – There Will Be TrollsMost people have, at times, had to battle that inner little voice that tells you you’re not good enough, you’re not talented enough, you’ll never truly make it. Welcome to the internet where that little voice is now not only in your head, but in the comments section of your videos for all the world to see.
Everybody’s gone through it. Everybody. When I went to an all day YouTube workshop a number of months back, it included a panel with some of the biggest YouTube stars there are. Half of what they discussed had to do with trolls who comment. The bigger you get, the more trolls you get. It’s inevitable. So how do you deal with it?
You could:
Found on Vimeo.
So beautiful.
So sweet, pure.