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Interview notes (January 2023)
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== Questions ==


* Collage, mom
* Tell me about yourself  
* Early works:  finger painting, story
**[[Interview notes 1 (January 2023)]]
* My need to document
* Photographs
* Screenshots of work in progress
 
* A puzzle.  [[What's in a mashup?]] 
** Answer on the wiki page
** [[Why I Love MediaWiki]]
 
* Evolution of Gnomon Chronicles
** Notes at hand for social media posts
 
* Evolution of Twitter account
 
== Tell me about yourself ==
 
[[Interview notes 1 (January 2023)]]
 
"Tell me about yourself. Not as the chronicler, that’ll come later, but as the person."
 
I was born in Minneapolis in 1961.  Grew up in a middle-class household in a nice neighborhood.  My parents were both liberal intellectuals who encouraged reading, art, science — whatever I wanted to study, they encouraged it.
 
My dad read science fiction, so I was exposed at an early age to the works of Philip K. Dick, John Brunner, and Bruce Sterling, among other writers.
 
Satire appealed to me very early in life.  I remember being eight or nine years old.  My dad worked for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, so we got the paper delivered free.  Dad had a custom:  on Sunday mornings, he would make a big skillet breakfast for the family, with cinnamon rolls and orange juice.  After breakfast we would all — Mom, Dad, my brother Geoff, and myself — would sit down in the living room and read the Sunday paper.  For the kids, this meant reading the funny pages.  Then the real fun began.  Dad would pull out this book of classical art prints, so thick old volume.  He would pick out some particular plate:  I recall one with Napoleon atop a rearing horse.  Dad would pick a comic panel, carefully cut out a talk balloon, and paste it over Napoleon's head.  I forget what the talk bubble said, but whatever it was, we found it hilarious.
 
Another pleasure from around that time was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Packages Wacky Packages].  Oh, I loved Wacky Packages!
 
== Where I'm from ==
 
[[Interview notes 2 (January 2023)]]
 
"Now tell me a bit about where you’re from! What it’s like, what does it mean to you , any particular places you love visiting?"
 
== What I do with the Gnomon Chronicles ==
 
[[Interview notes 3 (January 2023)]]
 
== Name ==
 
[[Interview notes 4 (January 2023)]]


"Where did the name Gnomon Chronicles come from?"
* Where I'm from
* [[Interview notes 2 (January 2023)]]


== Inspiration ==
* What I do with the Gnomon Chronicles
** [[Interview notes 3 (January 2023)]]


[[Interview notes 5 (January 2023)]]
* Where did the name Gnomon Chronicles come from?
** [[Interview notes 4 (January 2023)]]


== Synchronization ==
* Inspiration
** [[Interview notes 5 (January 2023)]]


[[Interview notes 6 (January 2023)]]
* Synchronization - wiki and Twitter
** [[Interview notes 6 (January 2023)]]


== Aims ==
* Aims
** [[Interview notes 7 (January 2023)]]


[[Interview notes 7 (January 2023)]]
* Which tweets do I reply to?
** [[Interview notes 8 (January 2023)]]


== Which tweets do I reply to? ==
* What keeps my twitter account going
** [[Interview notes 9 (January 2023)]]


[[Interview notes 8 (January 2023)]]
* Online community ==
** [[Interview notes 10 (January 2023)]]


== What keeps my twitter account going ==
* Trouble, trolls
** [[Interview notes 11 (January 2023)]]


[[Interview notes 9 (January 2023)]]
* How to people feel
** [[Interview notes 12 (January 2023)]]


== Online community ==
* Personal updates
** [[Interview notes 13 (January 2023)]]


[[Interview notes 10 (January 2023)]]
* Inventing movies
 
** [[Interview notes 14 (January 2023)]]
== Trouble ==
 
[[Interview notes 11 (January 2023)]]
 
== How to people feel ==
 
[[Interview notes 12 (January 2023)]]
 
== Personal updates ==
 
[[Interview notes 13 (January 2023)]]
 
== Inventing movies ==
 
[[Interview notes 14 (January 2023)]]


"You are a man who spends his time inventing movies , so I must take some time to ask you about them. Firstly, how up to date are you with popular culture? Do you make an effort to keep on top of the latest releases for the account, or do you simply watch what you want to and build on that."
"You are a man who spends his time inventing movies , so I must take some time to ask you about them. Firstly, how up to date are you with popular culture? Do you make an effort to keep on top of the latest releases for the account, or do you simply watch what you want to and build on that."
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Movie mashups have been very successful for me.  They find a ready audience: people respond to them.  And I enjoy making movie mashups.  But perhaps I have drained some of the vitality from my awareness of movies.  Often they are like tools, something I pick up and use then I need them, then put down without further thought.
Movie mashups have been very successful for me.  They find a ready audience: people respond to them.  And I enjoy making movie mashups.  But perhaps I have drained some of the vitality from my awareness of movies.  Often they are like tools, something I pick up and use then I need them, then put down without further thought.


== Favorite films ==
* Favorite films  
* [[Interview notes 15 (January 2023)]]


[[Interview notes 15 (January 2023)]]
* Inspirations
** [[Interview notes 16 (January 2023) ]]


== Inspirations ==
* Inspirational words
** [[Interview notes 17 (January 2023)]]


[[Interview notes 16 (January 2023) ]]
== To do ==


== Inspirational words ==
* Collage, mom
* Early works:  finger painting, story
* My need to document
* Photographs
* Screenshots of work in progress
 
* A puzzle.  [[What's in a mashup?]] 
** Answer on the wiki page
** [[Why I Love MediaWiki]]
 
* Evolution of Gnomon Chronicles
** Notes at hand for social media posts
 
* Evolution of Twitter account


[[Interview notes 17 (January 2023)]]


== In the News ==
== In the News ==

Revision as of 11:27, 31 January 2023

Interview notes (January 2023)

Questions

"You are a man who spends his time inventing movies , so I must take some time to ask you about them. Firstly, how up to date are you with popular culture? Do you make an effort to keep on top of the latest releases for the account, or do you simply watch what you want to and build on that."

I don't rate myself as being up to date on popular culture, not for the present day, nor for any era of the past. It's true that I know a lot of things about a lot of things: but this is a fishing line in the ocean. I catch fish most every time. Yet I can see from my boat that the ocean is unimaginably vast, and populated by creatures equally unimaginable.

Put another way: I'm not a cineaste. I don't know films like film buffs know films. In the course of making Chronicles, I have watched hundreds of trailers for films I've never seen.

Movie mashups have been very successful for me. They find a ready audience: people respond to them. And I enjoy making movie mashups. But perhaps I have drained some of the vitality from my awareness of movies. Often they are like tools, something I pick up and use then I need them, then put down without further thought.

To do

  • Collage, mom
  • Early works: finger painting, story
  • My need to document
  • Photographs
  • Screenshots of work in progress
  • Evolution of Gnomon Chronicles
    • Notes at hand for social media posts
  • Evolution of Twitter account


In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

  • [ Post] @ Twitter (30 January 2023)
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