{"id":2886,"date":"2011-08-19T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T11:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2011-08-19T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T11:02:23","slug":"diy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/08\/19\/diy\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miskatonic Books blog writes<\/a> of the excitement we should be feeling to be living at this moment…<\/p>\n

“Imagine you were a little kid picking up the first 1960’s Marvel comics, or on the set of King Kong<\/em> with Ray Harryhausen learning how to do stop [motion] action, or getting those first 1920’s issues of Weird Tales<\/em>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s talking about indie horror books, but he could equally be talking about many other indie fields of activity that take advantage of the new technologies. Why aren’t we, as a culture, more excitied about this? It’s the first time in history it’s happened. It’s a moment in which creatives have, at our fingertips and either free or with micro start-up costs:<\/p>\n

* the means of learning (forums, tutorials, how-to guides, access to gurus and “making of” showcases, access to immense libraries of inspiration, in abundance and often for free)<\/p>\n

* the means of production (free\/cheap software, cheap PCs, easy R&D on the Web, templates and Creative Commons content etc)<\/p>\n

* the means of distribution (the Web for downloads, cheap writeable DVD’s, print-on-demand books, soon 3D printers-and-shippers, etc)<\/p>\n

* the means of highly targetted marketing (niche blogs, Facebook groups, email, etc)<\/p>\n

* the means of being instantly and directly paid (PayPal)<\/p>\n

Maybe it’ll only be the kids of the new baby boom (they’ll be aged about 12-15 by the mid 2020s) who will really<\/em> ‘ride out for the future’ on what we’re building now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miskatonic Books blog writes of the excitement we should be feeling to be living at this moment… “Imagine you were …<\/p>\n

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