Someone asked me why I didn't cover the end of Smallville at Fan To Pro. Smallville, after all was a decade-long television show based on comic book icon Superman, and probably sounds like something worth covering. That was a great question, and frankly, I felt it deserved it's own post.
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Weirdness Validates Itself
One of my favorites parts of the story of the Buddha is when, deep in meditation and approaching enlightenment, Mara, spirit of deception, who asks him simply:
“What gives you the right to do this?”
The Buddha then reached forth his hand, touched the earth, and the earth herself bore witness.
Why There’s Lousy Media: Two Models Of Production.
Why is there so much plain lousy stuff in media?
People ask this a lot, and they complain about it even more. I do it, you do it, our friends do it, and there are people paid to complain about it. Certainly we have enough material to complain about.
Lately, the internet-savvy became aware of Ark Music Factory due to a mocked video they released. Ark is pretty much a Beiber Machine, and its sudden prominence heralded a short, and apparently now dead, discussion of talent cultivation in various circles. I expect it to be forgotten shortly because there will be some other example of questionable content creation to complain about.