As always, if you can't afford the support or want to scale it back, feel free. I wanted to give a warning before actually charging again.
Bowling Alone is my enemy and is really difficult to get through lol. In the time since starting it I've finished so much other stuff.
So sometime this week or next I want to do a c...
2024-07-23 14:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Just wanted to post a little update on some color correction work I had done for the video and some ideas I have for VFX! I have not finished Bowling Alone so probably no charge post still. Thanks!!
2024-03-28 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! I've been super busy with freelance this month and also skipped work for a few days because I wasn't feeling well.
Ultimately I didn't feel like I got far enough in Bowling Alone (and didn't do enough essay work generally) to warrant charging. I really appreciate having it as an option but I'm in a much better place financia...
2024-02-29 22:09:18 +0000 UTC View PostY'all should vote on the last post to break the tie between gay Justified stuff and Bowling Alone!
I got a freelance gig for a YouTube channel that I'm really enjoying (they have been so awesome to work with!!) but it's taking up all my time. It's great working with kind people though and making rent money lol
I was thinking about ...
Here's another poll to vote on the next charge post!
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a book on the death of American community bonds that I need to finish reading for the e...
2024-02-03 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe above video is something I shared here before. I wanted to bring it back up for this post because in it I'm using a clip of Adam Curtis who is directly quoting David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, which is also what patrons voted...
2024-02-01 04:59:28 +0000 UTC View PostSomeone who enjoyed my video about the band The Teeth that I made in 2020 and who became a fan of the band because of my video reached out to me last year. They told me about the band's series of three reunion shows (which quickly sold out) and surprised me with ...
2024-01-23 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIn case the embed doesn't work, here's a link!
This cut doesn't have the little intro sketch where Nick walks in and tells me to get out of his basement. Some other unfinished aspects-
-The audio filter I used m...
2024-01-12 18:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I think it went very well! I will try to get it up within the next week or so?? I asked Nick for the inspiration for the voice of his Desmond character (a half-human half-gremlin hybrid) and he got up and put his Desmond teeth in. That's what this photo is of.
Thanks for the support!
-Shannon
2024-01-06 22:00:57 +0000 UTC View Post-Poll below! These will be written mini reviews like the Deakins writeup I did last month. Now that I'm charging I want to give more exclusive material to patrons on top of behind-the-scenes updates and writing a review is very easy for me to do.
-Additionally I'd be happy to do a monthly Q&A for patrons if pe...
Photo above taken by me!
I emailed Patreon support asking how to switch to monthly billing and they informed me that is not currently possible. I will include the full text of their email response at the end of this post. I'm really frustrated with that and am just going to have to manually charge once a month. In doing so I'll try to off...
I rewrote more of the script and made progress on it. I pulled an all-nighter to catch up on other work and at like 1 PM in a delirium cut the rough of the above video and I'm enamored with how weird/stupid/sincere in expressing the video's thesis it is. It'll be part of the intro to the video.
The big secret is I emailed Nick and was lik...
Hello everyone!
I don't have a lot to report except I've been thinking about the logistics for potential live-action segments for the Lutsko video essay.
I really like the setup my friend Joel has at his podcast studio. You can see the shot I'm thinking of in particular as 2023-11-29 21:36:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! I have been working on contract/part time work on weekdays and have been busy every single weekend, so I've barely touched the essay since the last update apart from making selects and trying to rework some of the script. On top of being busy with work and family/friend stuff I had a minor health issue and some other random stress this ...
2023-11-20 18:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostI didn't intend to do two updates so close together (don't worry I won't start spamming them lol), but since I shared this on twitter at 3 AM, I figured I should share it here as well. It's still rough and subject to change/be made shorter but I made myself laugh multiple times while editing it tonight (despite seeing most of this footage alread...
2023-11-02 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The embedded video is my old haunted house mini documentary which I also released on Halloween! Four years ago! Jeez!
Anyway!
I quit my job at the beginning of this month. I have a new part-time/contract gig I've really been enjoying but am still looking for other part-time (or full-time, depending!) remote work as well if any patro...
2023-10-31 13:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Apart from making more selects I haven't really had time to work on the Lutsko video.
I have been working on three concurrent Kickstarter videos due in October as freelance (though I finished one already!) along with recording for Oddity Roadshow and working my job. Do you know we did 2023-09-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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LINK HERE to video rough in case the above embed didn't work!
I had a bunch of the script in a polished format so I figured I'd do a read through of it real quick on OBS and explain my thought process and give no...
2023-09-14 17:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostMaybe I'll start doing weekly or biweekly updates as work and life permit??
Here's one where I talk about my plan for the end of the video (kind of an AMV-esque amalgam of everything I talk about) and the end credits! Let me know if this is the kind of behind-the-scenes content y'all would want or if I should go in a different direction?<...
Hey everyone! I'm really enjoying working on the new video but juggling it with my other obligations has been very difficult.
I was thinking about it and I would honestly have an easier time committing to working on video essays regularly if Patreon money was a consistent percentage of my income. So I am considering monthly charging.
Here is what I've done so far for the next essay ("making selects" means cutting something way way down into clips I may want to use in my video, when I mention hours here I mean the source material length and not my selects)-
• Written a significant amount, maybe 6.5k words (for reference the script for fake friends 2 ...
Everybody did their covid era video essays in 2020 and I guess this is going to be mine, my version of "everyone is completely ill and off the deep end now and here's how I feel about it"
My video essay/review on The Teeth never got that many views, but I did have multiple people tell me I got them into The Teeth due to it. So maybe with ...
Hey everyone! It's been a minute!
I just finally wrapped and printed the TTRPG body horror zine I kickstarted in 2020!!
Before I retake some product photos and figure out social media promotion, I'm soft launching the store for physical zines! ...
2023-05-10 19:51:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been doing more freelance work and working more on Inside Out, along with a significant amount of work on a review of Golden Kamuy and a review of the 2021 Haunted Demo Disc(!!) for my channel, but neither of those reviews are done and I didn't want to rush them so here's a SURPRISE manga review rough I'm going to recut and finish in the ne...
2021-05-01 06:58:04 +0000 UTC View Post
If you watched the second google drive link I posted recently, the only real differences here are footage manipulation/removal to get past copyright bots and some screenshots of a concept artist who worked on The First saying they made Jigen hot on purpose. The rest is the same.
I had so much fun making this video! Thanks as always for the...
2021-03-02 01:48:59 +0000 UTC View PostTMS keeps copyright claiming different short clips on this so I'm going to just keep recutting it to try to fix that. But I'm very proud of this video and spent a lot of time finishing and polishing it. So I figured the people who pay to help me do this stuff should be able to see it now at least, lol. The final public version will have at least...
2021-02-28 20:17:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
I took on a big freelance project in January and because of that I've slowed down my video essay/review work and have been taking a step back and looking at big picture stuff. I'm also catching up on work on my TTRPG zine Inside Out, which I'm months behind on. So apologies for slow posting, but it's been because I've been busy with...
2021-02-27 08:30:23 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: well it got INSTANTLY blocked even though it's unlisted so I'll upload it to google drive and link it here. sorry about that. good lord
edit 2: here's the google drive link
Sorry this is so rough, I g...
2021-01-01 07:59:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for the support!
2020-12-05 18:26:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I am going to tighten up the timing a little and might rerecord one line where I say "aren't" but it sounds like I'm saying "are" or something like that but otherwise this one is done. Two very upsetting and scary movies I saw recently and liked a lot! Thanks for the support!
2020-12-01 03:01:19 +0000 UTC View Post