Watch the ManArchy Loves Perfect Edge Books and Lazy Fascist Press reading from the International Poster Gallery LIVE right here on March 7th, from 6-8pm (EST).
NOTE: If the video below shows an error, or looks to be not working, please have patience. I have scheduled this post to go live at 6:00 EST, but the reading may not start exactly on time.
Simply put, you are not your audience. Yes, you are a member of your audience, but an audience of one does not a paycheck make. As a storyteller, you’ve got to 1) know your audience and 2) be willing to make that audience happy. Even if that means making poop jokes for 3 minutes, which is what I do in this video, as much as it disgusts me.
Myself, along with Phil Jourdan, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Ben Loory, Cameron Pierce, and Kirsten Pierce will be reading at the famous International Poster Gallery on March 7th. You should be there. Seriously. I anticipate it will be quite the event. Read all about it at the Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/340073609438138/
Even cooler, you can embed the live stream on your blog or website. In fact, I would love you if you did. Simply paste either of the follow two code options to your website (it’s exactly the same as embedding any other YouTube video). Note that until the event goes live 6:00 EST on March 7th the video will probably give you an error or something. But once I click the broadcast button, the world will rejoice.
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Yes, I am going to make a video for each of the Pixar’s 22 Rules for Storytelling. Be sure to subscribe to this channel to not miss any of the forthcoming videos. I plan to release one/week.
Success is defined as a pass/fail dichotomy. There’s no gray area, meaning there’s no room for humanity. Humanity is a gray area, constantly redefined by context. And narrative relies on a “gray area” approach to be successful.
We, as readers, rarely accept winning v. losing as a satisfying climax to a narrative series of events. Rather, we care more about the characters that shape those series of events.
Sports fans don’t just care who wins or loses; sports fans watch ESPN for hours every day to learn about the statistics and human interest stories behind their favorite teams, and more appropriately, their favorite players.
Watch. Learn.
Many of us don’t know the true origins of Valentine’s Day…scrap that, ALL of us don’t know the true origins of Valentine’s Day, but what most people can agree on is that Valentine’s Day originated after the death of St. Valentine. Come with me as I take a humorous, and probably offensive, look into this holiday’s mysterious origins.
Fun fact: this is the second video this month in which I apologize to black people.
500 subscribers! This is incredible. Wow. (more gushing on the actual video)
Time for a milestone giveaway. I think this giveaway is unique in the YouTube world. Maybe I’m wrong. Probably not though. I rarely am.
One random winner will receive a package from me in the mail/post. How I go about accumulating the item or items in this package is the magic. The winner and myself will have a short, 20 min or so, Google+ Hangout where I will get to know the winner. I will then use this data to go on a shopping spree to find something special for the winner. NOTE: Shopping “spree” will likely take place at a second-hand shop/thrift shop/charity shop, as my hope is to find something cost-conscious but still interesting.
The shopping excursion will be recorded, edited for maximum hilarity, and uploaded for all of YouTube to enjoy.
But that’s not all. There will be a second-place winner who will also receive a package. However, this package will contain purchases made solely on what I learn by creeping through your publicly available internet profiles. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, I’ll use all of these methods to learn about you enough to hopefully find something special/probably weird.
But the “That’s Not All” doesn’t end there. How do I choose this runner up, you ask? Well, I don’t. I will ask the 1st place winner how he/she found out about my channel. That person will be the runner up.
To break it down for you, the more people you get to subscribe to my channel, the more chances you have of winning something.
If the winner doesn’t remember exactly how they came to my channel, I will let the winner simply choose who they want to be the runner up.
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