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tamnonlinear, you rock) and immediately ordered it on DVD, watched a snowstorm go from zero to six inches, got some gaming in, and talked with old friends for hours on end. (There's a part of me that's still shocked that I even have old friends.)
Mostly, this is about the aforementioned amazing movie. Here, have some trailers:
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Jamin Winans has also directed a short film entitled Spin, which sort of presages one scene from Ink. It's worth eight minutes of your time.
There's an interview with Winans where he says "It all started with one image. For me, that’s always how it starts. I’ll have a certain visual in mind and then ask questions from there. Why does this one image strike me? Who are these people? Why are they there? ... The whole story just grew from there." You can see that structure in the movie if you know to look for it, though if you don't it's a seamless presentation of awesomeness combined with just barely enough exposition.
Which is quite likely part of why Ink resonated so much with me, because that's exactly where my stories come from. One image, and cascading awesomeness and explanations from there.
I have a tendency to keep throwing new awesome things at a story long past the point where it needs to start being more coherent. This is something that I can learn to do. Mostly it's helpful to know that it's possible for something gobsmackingly amazing to come from that kind of process, that it's not just a creative dead end.
tamnonlinear, you rock) and immediately ordered it on DVD, watched a snowstorm go from zero to six inches, got some gaming in, and talked with old friends for hours on end. (There's a part of me that's still shocked that I even have old friends.)Mostly, this is about the aforementioned amazing movie. Here, have some trailers:
One
Two
Three
Jamin Winans has also directed a short film entitled Spin, which sort of presages one scene from Ink. It's worth eight minutes of your time.
There's an interview with Winans where he says "It all started with one image. For me, that’s always how it starts. I’ll have a certain visual in mind and then ask questions from there. Why does this one image strike me? Who are these people? Why are they there? ... The whole story just grew from there." You can see that structure in the movie if you know to look for it, though if you don't it's a seamless presentation of awesomeness combined with just barely enough exposition.
Which is quite likely part of why Ink resonated so much with me, because that's exactly where my stories come from. One image, and cascading awesomeness and explanations from there.
I have a tendency to keep throwing new awesome things at a story long past the point where it needs to start being more coherent. This is something that I can learn to do. Mostly it's helpful to know that it's possible for something gobsmackingly amazing to come from that kind of process, that it's not just a creative dead end.
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