Weekly Reading

Some recent reading material and quick hits:

• 4Talent Talent Arcade: On Monday (Aug 11^th), I’m chairing a panel session at this, titled ”Publish or Be Damned”. I think there are still tickets available on the day, but all the pre-registered tickets are taken.
• I’ll Take That TV Deal, Please!: Daisy Whitney writes about the “sell-out mentality” of web-video creators (or actually, the accusations of being sell-outs if a web property moves to TeeVee). Too often people get stuck in “tyranny of the or” thinking, is my opinion. I wonder when the core concept of a web series will be developed and scaled up to a TV series, just as Firefly scaled up to become Serenity? Has that happened yet?
• Old Masters and Young Geniuses: ”The main idea is this. Instead of people being super creative when they’re young and getting less so with age (i.e. the conventional wisdom), Galenson says that artists fall into two general categories”.
• Why we insulate: Scott Kurtz of webcomic PvP on the “sense of entitlement” some fans have towards the work of the creator. I don’t recall where I found the following, and I don’t have a note of who said it, but it seems appropriate:

Don’t mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified, it is not criticism—learn from it.