#6 – Are you a Videographer?
Weekly Review #6 – Train Harder; We are looking for a videographer; Travels in ITALY, Salerno; new books by Carlo Rovelli and Hannah Barnes
This week I have been busy editing the video for Train Harder. The song, along with other new demo versions, are available to listen to on my Patreon. Here are a couple of screenshots from the opening part of the video.
These videos take quite a bit of time to make. I’m currently searching for a new job as well, hence the delay in releasing it. Which brings me to this:
Are you a videographer?
For future songs the producer and I are looking for someone else to come onboard and take over video-making duties. My time is much better spent on writing and recording, and his on producing. We now have a bunch of songs lined up, an EP, and an album in the works. Rather than juggling tasks, we’d like to reach some sort of deal with a videographer in order to speed up the whole process.
We’re not sure how we would structure payment, whether it would be a flat fee per video and/or a percentage of streams and sales. We don’t yet know the full potential of the songs, and how much a single release or an album can make.
If you know anyone who might be interested in joining us, who can make lyric videos to roughly the same standard as mine (or better), in the same sort of picture-heavy kinetic typography style (like the video below), then please ask them to get in touch with me on Twitter, here, or wherever.
Here are two articles I recently published for those who didn’t catch them.
ITALY, Salerno
Last summer, I went to Italy, and traipsed about cities, towns, islands, and ancient ruins. The first place I stayed was Salerno, in the south, next door to the Amalfi Coast, not far from Naples. This piece features a ton of pictures, commentary and notes on the city, its sights and rich history. Part 2 coming this week.
Clownfish and the transgender medical matrix
Those of you who follow me on Twitter no doubt read this a while back. I have added new footnotes and commentary.
The Week In Books
I’ve mainly been reading two books this week:
Carlo Rovelli’s Anaximander, his first book originally published in Italian in 2009, but only recently translated into English.
Hannah Barnes’ Time To Think, a chronicle of the puberty suppression circus at the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock in London.
When I get more time outside of video-editing and job searching, I will be posting pieces on each of these. I know some of you will have been reading the Barnes book – what are your thoughts so far?
Some more books I’ve bought or been reading this week:
What have you been reading?
Hey, this might interest you - the Academia Espanola rejecting gender-neutral language: https://remezcla.com/culture/rae-style-manual/
The Academie Francaise has also rejected the push to neuter the French language.
See:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/03/french-language-watchdogs-say-non-to-gender-neutral-style
I have finished reading Time to Think and I am about to sit down and finish my review. I'd offer my video editing skills but they are meager.