Tag: I Love Hollywood

Streaming, AI & The Return Of Live Theatre

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It’s possible that the issue of the entertainment business shifting into streaming could be looked back upon as rather quaint. The issue is — some spunky start-up is going to come out with an AI generated movie within 18 months and, well, there you go.

When that happens, it’s just a quick jaunt to AI digital assistants churning out personalized movies and TV shows out of whole cloth without any humans being involved in the process. This is probably going to happen REALLY FAST to the point that virtually overnight all the hand wringing over the transition to streaming will just fade away.

But for the moment, I’m at a loss as to what to do about streaming. It’s such a structural shift in how entertainment is distributed that….I dunno. There definitely seems to be a chance that number of movie theatres may grow smaller and smaller.

And, yet, as I mentioned, if AI takes over, there is likely going to be a real demand for live theatre again. So, maybe some number of movie theatres will be turned into live theatre venues? That certainly would be a strange future. But I suppose I’m something of an optimist when it comes to “human generated art.”

At some point, people are going to grow tired of an endless array of AI generated TV shows and movies and they’re going to want something created by humans — and that will lead to the potential return of live theatre being the center of the artistic world.

Maybe. It’s possible. I man can dream, can’t he?

I Need / Want to Watch ‘Carol’ But I’m Being Stubborn

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Carol is just the type of movie I *should* want to watch. I started it, but stopped because, I dunno, something about it turned me off. But I think I’m going to try — TRY — to watch it again.

Cate Blanchet stars in “Carol.”

I think some of it comes from the vibe is shoots off. Something about the over-serious nature of the relationship turns me off. And, yet, I can tell it’s also just the type of Serious Storytelling that I should enjoy.

Ugh. I’m so torn.

And all of this happens in the context of me feeling more and more guilty about how little content I actually *consume*. I really just read my own stuff over and over again and that’s not good. I need to expose myself to other people’s work. These thoughts are happening in the context of preparing to query my novel at some point in 2024.

I’m going to have to have something to “comp” it to other than Stieg Larsson’s work which is, at this point, nearly 20 years old. Ugh. It’s times like these when I realize leaving the extended delusional state I’ve been when developing and writing this novel is going to be extremely jarring.

Sometimes, I Fucking Hate Twitter

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

An example of the latest MidJourney abilities.

They say a sign of intelligence is the ability to hold to diametrically opposite things in one’s mind. Well, while I love, love, love Hollywood I also know that *human* Hollywood’s goose is probably cooked within, say, 18 months, if the fucking Fourth Turning doesn’t delay things.

Of course, I mentioned this on Twitter and some rando piece of shit started spouting off Qanon bullshit. Ugh. Twitter never ceases to remind me why I fucking hate it so much. The point is not that it will be a *good* thing that human Hollywood will be dramatically “disrupted” by generative AI, it’s just that it definitely seems possible.

And it’s not like all the humans that AI displaces are going to work at fast-food. There will always be a need for the “human touch” in art. And, as such, I bet live theatre may see a huge resurgence. So all the people that Qanon fucktards hate will simply do the same thing in front of a live audience.

God, I fucking hate Qanon. What fucking idiots.