Apr 14 2009
Writers, Directors, Youtubers
Chuck Palahniuk’s novels have been adored by the 90s generation and known to the world especially since Fight Club was made a movie in 99. Ten years later, his book Choke has been transformed to the screen and as a writer he is still treading a path that can now be followed by writers who wish to establish themselves among the crowd. How? By going to http://chuckpalahniuk.net/workshop/my-desk , signing up for Premium Membership with “The Cult Writer’s Workshop” and engaging in an interactive writing process with other members, your work might get reviewed by Chuck Palahniuk himself. Sure, it seems like a cheap scam, but if you really like writing maybe paying for membership is worth the writer’s workshop even without Palahniuk’s special attention. Check it out, see if it works for you.
It seems that there’s a new wave of connection these days between the known and the lesser known. Even Richard Linklater has set up internship opportunities with his company Detour Film in Austin, Texas.
Establishing Connections
As we experienced a media revolution at the rise of Youtube, who knows when fame will be just another vulgar vocabulary word. You know, the words we never use but get quizzed on for the SATs. Who will care about rising to the top if they can have a few hundred or thousand people commenting on their webpages? Who can be greedy for popularity once all are too busy creating work that is meaningful to their own lives? Once people tap into their own creativity, the admiration for someone else becomes more of a mutual support rather than a bow-down reverence. Perhaps eventually the phony images of capitalistic desire won’t even faze us anymore. Perhaps reality is finally becoming real. What will the Matrix even mean then? Will there ever be a day when the story of the Matrix, or even the ideas of Descartes, become irrelevant? Today our perceptions are illusions- as Descartes explains to us, we can not be sure of the reality of anything around us except for our consciousness – but could there be an existence in which we can know our surroundings are real?
