hello wonderful people and welcome to what may come off as an oddity amongst the rest of these posts.
it's 4am. u've just come off a three hour binge of the wire and let me be the latest to tell you, that shit is tight.
but i don't come here to talk about other television shows! i come here to talk about me!
building good networks is probably the most crucial step to success. in my books at least. it's also good to stay informed.
i'm going to let you all in on a some of the websites i try to hit up at least once a week to stay in-the-know and to capitalize on any opportunities i know aren't coming my way.
the ontario media development corporation; to think your tax dollars do nothing for you is ignorant. wanting to write and produce television is a very specific goal and the government has done nothing short of hold my hand through the process. the municipal, provincial and federal levels of government provide immeasurable assistance to those trying to do almost anything. this specific website, the OMDC is dedicated towards keeping filmmakers informed on provincial grants, tax incentives, amazing market research and almost most importantly; all programmes currently in production, updated weekly. your tax dollars at work people. i rate this website 4 dustins out of 5.
media job search canada; fuck craigslist, monster, workopolis, etc. and try to picture an employment database filled with jobs that cater towards your specific career. now picture a lot of people knowing about that website and participating in it. this is MJSC. so many gems that would otherwise go unnoticed. anyone in that broad industry i call 'media' should check this website out (that includes you, english and journalism grads). in the words of tracy jordan, i love MJSC so much i'm gonna take it behind the middle-school and get it pregnant.
twitter; i knew it, you think i'm a monster now. ow, i'm not. i'm not a tweeter. it's not really my thang. i find it's a little bit more about celebrity gossip than anything. i mean as much as i love to know the second tina fey has a humorous anecdote about mcdonalds - i thought the whole thing was supposed to be geared towards expanding business networks. instead i just find a bunch of porn. i mean, i'm not complaining, and it's not liked i've stopped going on it... i'm just not enthusastic about it. besides, you have to spend a lot of time developing your networks to get anything worthwhile out of it - so take it with a grain of salt.
linkedin; was referred to this through B.B. thought it was a neat little program to network with people who share my professional interests - but with any social networking site, it takes time to build up any meaningful networks. i'm from the plug-and-play generation, not the plug-and-work.
artistic tendency; this is a great website run by a friend, B.B. these are the kind of websites that i like to read about online. B.'s taken some of the best young artistic expressions from the local area and put them out there for the world to see. i've ranted before about how barrie doesn't seem to have the resources to rise above anything than a bedroom for the nation's largest city, but the only resources it needs are people like B. and the people she's showcasing. i know a lot of you support your local artists and musicians, but if you haven't been, which i'm recently guilty of - at the very least, being aware of them, is enough encouragment to keep these struggling entrepeneurs going.
so 32 minutes later and i'm still not any more tired.
i still haven't decided what's worse; the heat, or the noise my neighbors' air conditioning makes. it's like irony slapping me in the face.
i used to play around with websites a lot when i was younger - like, ten years younger (it scares me to think i've been using the internet for ten years). the point is, i learned a lot about HTML and the basics of web-based programming languages. you may have noticed that there are clickable links in this post and i just wanted to point out that it wasn't any fancy 'link' button - it was good old fashioned '< a href = 'http://www.mymemoryfuckingrocks.com' >, with a little < /a > for good measure. i try, people!
3 minutes later and i think another episode of the wire is gonna serande me to sleep.
sweet dreams and lullabies my faithful readers.
P.S. i'm coming to toronto this weekend - so mothers lock up your daughters.
P.P.S. i'm actually just going to ribfest so maybe you should just tell them to avoid that areA
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment