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Re: How to make a Twitter Bot with Google Spreadsheets (version 0.4)

jaybushman — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:38:51 -0000

Awesome. I will keep checking back for the next version. Another feature that would be amazing (albeit a pain in the ass to code, I'll bet) would be to allow a single spreadsheet of content post to multiple different accounts in sequence. Something that would make it easier for me to do things like: https://twitter.com/esb_twe.... Don't suppose that's something you have planned for future versions?

Re: How to make a Twitter Bot with Google Spreadsheets (version 0.4)

jaybushman — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:43:48 -0000

This is awesome, Zach. I've been looking for a tool like this for a long time. One question: is there a way to make the bot post messages in a specific order instead of randomly choosing a row/column from the spreadsheet? I've been making storytelling bots, where the tweets need to be posted in a specific order. Thanks.

Re: GETTING BACK TO MAKING ALL THE THINGS, your input required

jaybushman — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:21:11 -0000

Hi Amanda: Huge fan and admirer. And last week, when you posted that you "didn't know what form" the next thing would take, I knew that I needed to find a way to talk to you. I'm building a tool for artists, to easily make apps with all different kinds of material in them - audio, video, art, text, whatever. I asked a mutual acquaintance to do an introduction. But since you asked for ideas here, I figured I'd go ahead and try you here too. You've been one of my inspirations in building this thing, and I'd love to see if it would be a useful tool in your arsenal.

Re: 'Game of Thrones' casts Styr in season 4 -- EXCLUSIVE

jaybushman — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:46:11 -0000

Wrong picture. You've used the photo of actor, voice-over God and all around champion human being Yuri Lowenthal.

Re: “The Bloody Business”

jaybushman — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 22:00:30 -0000

I was there last night too - this is the second time we've been at the same show but not met. (the first was a Tumblr Tuesday in December when Tumblr went down.)

This is my first trip back to NYC since then (I live in LA), and I brought my girlfriend to Saturday's show. I was nervous because I was sure she'd hate it. But she had a great time. As we were leaving, she said she was glad she saw it but never needed to do it again.

This morning, she asked if we could get tickets for our last day in town (hooray!) So we're going tomorrow night...and having dinner at Gallow Green to boot!

Now if I can just find that blasted ring...

Re: What Boing Boing readers are doing

jaybushman — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:48:29 -0000

I'm the Transmedia Producer and a writer for "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries," a multiplatform web series modernization of Pride and Prejudice.

We've recently won Streamy and IAWTV awards for Best Interactive Show of the Year, and the series is coming to the end of it's year-long run, with over 150 episodes across multiple YouTube channels and dozens of characters spread across Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, LinkedIn, Get Glue, This Is My Jam and other social platforms.

The main YouTube channel is at http://www.youtube.com/lizz...
And you can start watching from the beginning at http://www.lizziebennet.com...

Re: Tempspence: an Internet improv, on Twitter, with a reality TV star's account

jaybushman — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:32:06 -0000

As an audience member, to me voting feels to me like an abdication of the storytellers responsibility. I want a master storyteller to guide me through a storyworld of their creation. Its a form of interaction that I find unsatisfying.

Part of it, I think, it the collective nature of it. Audience majority determines the path. Well screw the majority. They tell shitty stories.

Contrast that with something like, say, Sleep No More, which is my current obsession. You could say that the audience votes with that, in that they vote with their feet who to follow, where to go, what to give their attention to. But each person gets to choose for themselves, and each person's experience is unique. Unique, and non-repeatable.

Now that I think about this -- and this may be a bit of a leap - but there's one variation of the choose-which-way-to-go that I think I like. But it's a very limited use of it. I guess you could call it Schroedinger's Ending - a story with a seemingly ambiguous ending, but where the possible outcomes are really very few, and those options are clearly defined, allowing you as the audience to choose which one you believe happened. In this case, all of these ending exist simultaneously, all are valid, all have been clearly articulated by they author, and if I choose to believe one ending it has no effect on your ability to believe the other one.

The example I'd use of a Schroedinger's Ending is for the great Hal Hartley movie Henry Fool. (For purposes of this discussion, we must pretend that the sequel Fay Grim never existed). At the end of Henry Fool, Henry runs across an airport tarmac. Is he running towards the plane that will help him flee the country? Is he running back home to finally accept the family he's tried to escape for years. The film doesn't tell us. We get to choose. But the imagined possibilities of both outcomes are so clear, that both can exist at the same time and feel satisfying.

Re: Tempspence: an Internet improv, on Twitter, with a reality TV star's account

jaybushman — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:41:47 -0000

I am skeptical of any setup that allows audience voting to affect story outcome. One of my former colleagues at Fourth Wall Studios, ARG pioneer Sean Stewart, was fond of asking the following question:

"Go to your bookshelves at home and look at how many books you own. Now count how many of those are Choose-Your-Own-Adventures. Zero, right?"

I fear that audience voting is the sort of thing that appeals to creators and narrative experimenters. But once the novelty runs out. it doesn't really provide much of an enjoyable experience for the audience.

Re: Tempspence: an Internet improv, on Twitter, with a reality TV star's account

jaybushman — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:08:45 -0000

The more I work in this space, the more I veer away from anything that feels like a puzzle. Even game language or framing feels restrictive to me - it smacks too much of strategy and goals. I'm getting much more from collaborative storytelling concepts, where the goal isn't to solve anything so much as it is to experience a story, interact with a set of characters, experience a world.

These are the principles that have been guiding (OK, here's some immodesty) my work as a writer and Transmedia Producer on the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a multiplatform modernization of Pride and Prejudice. We've been going for almost 10 months now, with 2 episodes on YouTube every week, multiple off-shoot video series and major plot arcs occurring on twitter, tumblr, facebook, get glue, lookbook, this is my jam, etc. Start from the beginning at http://www.lizziebennet.com... (end plug)

There are no puzzles in the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. We're not interactive in the sense that the audience is going to be able to affect the outcome. But the audience talks to the characters, and the characters talk back. And this interaction isn't just used for marketing or ancillary purposes, like how most other shows do it. I sit in the writer's room, I break story with the rest of the team, I write episodes of the show, as well as overseeing the transmedia. It's fully integrated and not treated at an afterthought.

I'm trying to bring this model to more traditional TV projects now. It's not the easiest sell in the world. But our transmedia plan is a big reason why our show has more viewers that some programs on the CW. So something's working.

Re: Tempspence: an Internet improv, on Twitter, with a reality TV star's account

jaybushman — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:38:33 -0000

Don't get distracted by terminology. It's less important what you call it, "netprov," "ARG," or *gulp* "transmedia" than what it achieves as an experience.

Re: Who Actually Falls for Hollywood's Viral Marketing? Well, for Starters, Me

jaybushman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:27:41 -0000

Love the enthusiasm for the topic. But as a Cloudmaker and as someone who works in this field now, I'd love it if you could please do some fact checking. Blair Witch was distributed by Artisan, a pre-cursor to Lionsgate, and the online campaign did not come from their marketing department but from the film's producers. The Beast was created by a team working for Microsoft, elements of which went on to form 42 Entertainment. 42 did not exist at the time of the Beast.

Re: Dirty Work: extremely clever, well-put together interactive gruesome comedy series

jaybushman — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:12:03 -0000

P.S. Glad you liked it!

Re: Dirty Work: extremely clever, well-put together interactive gruesome comedy series

jaybushman — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:11:19 -0000

Credits are pending final approval from the Guilds - -it's a process. But there'sa little bit of info on the Wikipedia page, which should help answer your question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: http://lizlet.tumblr.com/post/17458776232

jaybushman — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:14:19 -0000

What formatting are you using for your playscript? I've been using Final Draft's stageplay template, but it just looks weird to me.

Re: blogging & tweeting as second-class art forms

jaybushman — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:23:29 -0000

First I was a struggling screenwriter.
Then I started using twitter and blogs to tell stories.
I got sucked into a new industry; it goes by the awful name of Transmedia. We're still fighting about story vs. marketing.

Then I got hired by a transmedia company to write stories that use twitter and blogs.

So my tweeting led to my "big break."

So many reasons to not write, not tweet, not blog.
But so many more to press that POST button.

Re: Whenever I see someone complaining about “the left” I check out their blog.

jaybushman — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:45:57 -0000

Try this - every place you see them write "the left" or "the liberals", try substituting "the Jews." Go ahead, I'll wait.
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Eerie, innit?

Re: http://www.barrettgarese.com/post/950156801

jaybushman — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:11:09 -0000

I will come over and read you the first 100 pages of Storm of Swords. Then you will be hooked.

Re: http://meganwesterby.com/post/896604693

jaybushman — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:02:09 -0000

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most" -- Ozzy Osbourne

Re: http://meganwesterby.com/post/466951550

jaybushman — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:27:15 -0000

Ceci n'est pas une Canandienne, aussi.

Re: Pilot Watch: Will Gattaca Miss the Point?

jaybushman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:34 -0000

I decree that all TV producers who want to make cop shows shall be required to:

1) watch all five seasons of the Wire in a single sitting;
2) listen to the entirety of the David Simon book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" read aloud by Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters

Re: Barrett Garese

jaybushman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:20:24 -0000

"Boom-Boom. Big strong man like you shouldn't be afraid of a little Boom-Boom."

Re: Barrett Garese

jaybushman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:21:32 -0000

Oooh, I hear the Ralphs is having a sale on Belgium this week!

Re: Barrett Garese

jaybushman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:26:48 -0000

Rushkoff regularly rocks my shit. I'm in the middle of reading Life, Inc. and it's eye-opening.

Re: Barrett Garese

jaybushman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:39:19 -0000

Good point. Thankfully we've only just discovered this. Had it been known last year, McCain might have selected FD as a running mate.

Re: Barrett Garese

jaybushman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:29:07 -0000

Did I miss something? We've figured out how to guarantee something will succeed?