A Changing Dream Machine And The Shrinking Of HollywoodJohn Ink2Quillwww.ink2quill.com Hollywood is still an industry rife with scandals and outrageous behavior. Some of the public’s outrage is very justified because the corruption is real. Think of the Harvey Weinstein scandals, Bill Cosby scandals, Amber Heard scandals, the Asia Argento scandals and now … drumroll please….
A Changing Political LandscapeJohn Ink2Quillwww.ink2quill.com There is no doubt that we live in very interesting times. I’m sure many people from the past believed the same but today, in this moment, the Western world is undergoing huge changes. Some people are talking about the end of a mono-polar world and that we are drifting away…
A Leaky RoofJohn Ink2Quillwww.ink2quill.com There’s a story theme that has existed for a long time. It starts off with the protagonist(s) in a dire situation. It might be a looming snow storm, a sinking ship, a literary deadline, a plane falling from the sky, pick any looming climate crisis, and any other situation I cannot…
Juror #2Released 2024www.ink2quill.com “Juror #2” is a courtroom drama, thriller produced by Jeremy Bell, David M. Bernstein, Clint Eastwood, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Adam Goodman, Peter Oberth, Matt Skiena, Tim Moore and Jessica Meier. It was directed by Clint Eastwood and the screenplay was written by Jonathan A. Abrams. It stars Nicholas Hoult, Zoey Deutch, Megan Meiduch,…
When Entertainment Is FormulaicJohn Ink2Quillwww.ink2quill.com What do you do about an entertainment industry that has calcified, some say aged even? We’ve seen this happen in other big entertainment countries like with Bollywood, Nigerwood and many others. It is even common and normal to have some aging, up to a point. There is room for the…
Birth Of The AI AssistantJohn Ink2Quillwww.ink2quill.com In antiquity, the days of old, before computers, cell phones, trains, planes and cars we had a much more calorie based economy. We had an economy, society that was closer to the ones found in the animal kindgom like in ant mounds, bee hives, lion prides etc. where work…
AI SearchesJohn Ink2Quill Opinionwww.ink2quill.com My, my. Has AI come a long way in its brief existence, or what? It wasn’t too long ago that AI could only answer simple questions as a paperclip or lightbulb or something on the right side of the page. The sentences were simple, as were the answers, and somehow the…
A New Digital MarketJohn Ink2Quillwww.ink2quill.com So, more and more brick and mortar stores are closing in the US, mainly NYC. Many big name businesses are shuttering their stores and some are even going out of business. But, all is not doom and gloom in the business world. New markets are opening online. Think of digital…
What About Cult Films?John Ink2Quillwww.ink2quill.com What about cult films and the cult film audience? many movies achieve cult film status and it never seems to get the attention of mainstream entertainment, influencers (most influencers) and the like. Why is that? There are many examples of cult films like “Napoleon Dynamite”, “Erasurehead”, “Fight Club”, “Donnie Darko”,…
Historical PerspectiveJohn Ink2Quill Opinionwww.ink2quill.com Every we take in depends on perspective. From which vantage point are we watching an event. Watching a brawl in the town square might look like an insane mess if looking down from a mountain or rooftop. Or it might look like a legitimate struggle if viewed from inside the mob…