Thursday, April 26, 2012
Draft Day
Here is video #2 or the Xs and Ys fantasy football podcast. It's up on youtube, but we also made it to ESPN. Good times.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Shit Fantasy Football People Say
I directed this.
I don't really watch football, fantasy or otherwise, so most of the jokes go past me. But it's a fun piece with a lot of energy, so I think it plays.
And of course thanks go out to John and Liz at X's & Y's for the opportunity...
I don't really watch football, fantasy or otherwise, so most of the jokes go past me. But it's a fun piece with a lot of energy, so I think it plays.
And of course thanks go out to John and Liz at X's & Y's for the opportunity...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
On Being
I'm editing a novel at the moment, and thus putting a lot of time and thought into sentence construction. The fulcrum of a good sentence is a verb. If you have a verb, it's hard to go wrong.
I've known since junior high that even "is" and its variants ("was," etc.) are counted as verbs. But having stared at this fact for several hours, I've noticed something interesting: so far as the English language is concerned, simply existing is a verb... that is, an action. Just being is equal to doing something.
The basic function of existence is action.
It's easy to see how this applies to living things. For example, if human beings are doing "nothing," they are still breathing, digesting, thinking, sensing, and so on. A tree doesn't do a lot of running and jumping, but it's absorbing nutrients, engaging in photosynthesis, growing, etc.
Pushing the idea further, I realized the idea also applies to inanimate objects. Any object that is doing "nothing" is still performing at least one action, and that is decomposing. If humanity winked out of existence, for example, a thousand years from now very little would remain of my motorcycle.
We live in a reality in which anything that isn't being used for a purpose gives itself up for other entities that in turn do use them. There is no such thing as an object that will go unused, down to a molecular level, even if that action lends itself to basic continued existence.
And thus, it stands to reason that the more you act, the more our reality is designed at a basic level to give you whatever is needed.
I've known since junior high that even "is" and its variants ("was," etc.) are counted as verbs. But having stared at this fact for several hours, I've noticed something interesting: so far as the English language is concerned, simply existing is a verb... that is, an action. Just being is equal to doing something.
The basic function of existence is action.
It's easy to see how this applies to living things. For example, if human beings are doing "nothing," they are still breathing, digesting, thinking, sensing, and so on. A tree doesn't do a lot of running and jumping, but it's absorbing nutrients, engaging in photosynthesis, growing, etc.
Pushing the idea further, I realized the idea also applies to inanimate objects. Any object that is doing "nothing" is still performing at least one action, and that is decomposing. If humanity winked out of existence, for example, a thousand years from now very little would remain of my motorcycle.
We live in a reality in which anything that isn't being used for a purpose gives itself up for other entities that in turn do use them. There is no such thing as an object that will go unused, down to a molecular level, even if that action lends itself to basic continued existence.
And thus, it stands to reason that the more you act, the more our reality is designed at a basic level to give you whatever is needed.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
2012
A final post before we send off 2012.
In 2010, I started a business, lost my father and got in a bad motorcycle accident. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Lots of massive highs and lows.
Because I was laid up until May of 2011, I was forced to stop running around and focus on work and recovery. It was the opposite of 2010... I needed to catch my breath and, if anything, I went out of my way to pursue normality. Get up, work, write, sleep, repeat. Even after I was up and walking and riding again, I kept with the same back to basics approach.
The work paid off. Samurai has two projects actively moving toward pre-production, and the slate I've been developing to take out next year includes some really exciting projects. One of my own scripts has caught traction, again. There is a good chance that 2012 will be the culmination of everything that happened and everything I did in '10 and '11.
Despite troubles along the way, there is nothing I would rather be doing. And it is very much a story that has only just begun...
In 2010, I started a business, lost my father and got in a bad motorcycle accident. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Lots of massive highs and lows.
Because I was laid up until May of 2011, I was forced to stop running around and focus on work and recovery. It was the opposite of 2010... I needed to catch my breath and, if anything, I went out of my way to pursue normality. Get up, work, write, sleep, repeat. Even after I was up and walking and riding again, I kept with the same back to basics approach.
The work paid off. Samurai has two projects actively moving toward pre-production, and the slate I've been developing to take out next year includes some really exciting projects. One of my own scripts has caught traction, again. There is a good chance that 2012 will be the culmination of everything that happened and everything I did in '10 and '11.
Despite troubles along the way, there is nothing I would rather be doing. And it is very much a story that has only just begun...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Brought to You by Our Friends at Scr(i)pt Magazine
Here's some cool stuff. I signed a couple of writers I found via Script Magazine's Big Break screenwriting contest. They did a nice highlight...
The interviewed my brand spankin' new clients here: http://www.scriptmag.com/2011/11/15/final-draft-inc-big-break-semifinalists-matthew-gayne-and-paul-gavin-gain-representation/
And they did a podcast interview with yours truly here: http://www.scriptmag.com/2011/11/23/podcast-manager-michael-kuciak-signs-big-break-standouts/
I'm out with Matt Gayne's THE HOBBY, and aiming to roll out Paul's THE REBOUND in Q1 2012.
I'm excited about everything on my slate... besides these two, I have a several really cool projects either in development or prepped and ready to go after the holiday season. Next year could be a good'un...
The interviewed my brand spankin' new clients here: http://www.scriptmag.com/2011/11/15/final-draft-inc-big-break-semifinalists-matthew-gayne-and-paul-gavin-gain-representation/
And they did a podcast interview with yours truly here: http://www.scriptmag.com/2011/11/23/podcast-manager-michael-kuciak-signs-big-break-standouts/
I'm out with Matt Gayne's THE HOBBY, and aiming to roll out Paul's THE REBOUND in Q1 2012.
I'm excited about everything on my slate... besides these two, I have a several really cool projects either in development or prepped and ready to go after the holiday season. Next year could be a good'un...
Monday, November 14, 2011
On Riding
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the motorcycle accident that put me on crutches and generally fucked up my life for the better chunk of a year... All while I dealt with losing my father, my uncle, and starting and running my own management/production company.
For a while, I thought I would take the day off or something, or at least not ride. But... you know what? Fuck that shit. I got up and rode again. So... while it banged me up for a while, it wasn't a permanent situation, and doesn't deserve some stupid holiday. Shit happened, I survived.
Besides, I had too much work to do to dream up reasons to handicap myself. I have a thriller coming together in a real way, and another on the horizon. There is a good chance 2012 will be a significant year.
It's always good to remember the lessons of the past, but at the same time the present and future will always be more interesting, and more important.
For a while, I thought I would take the day off or something, or at least not ride. But... you know what? Fuck that shit. I got up and rode again. So... while it banged me up for a while, it wasn't a permanent situation, and doesn't deserve some stupid holiday. Shit happened, I survived.
Besides, I had too much work to do to dream up reasons to handicap myself. I have a thriller coming together in a real way, and another on the horizon. There is a good chance 2012 will be a significant year.
It's always good to remember the lessons of the past, but at the same time the present and future will always be more interesting, and more important.
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