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This week on Great Albums: a fresh look at quite possibly the 80s’ most hated band, A Flock of Seagulls! Spoiler: their music is good, people in the 90s and 00s were just mean. If you want to find out more about how having the absolute best hair in the business ended up backfiring on these poor sods, look no further than my latest video. Or the transcript of it, which follows below the break!

Welcome to Passionate Reply, and welcome to Great Albums! Today, I’m going to be diving into a discussion of quite possibly the most derided and lambasted music group of the 1980s: A Flock of Seagulls. With a strange name, a perhaps painfully stylish aesthetic, and equally trendy and of-the-moment music, that was, for a time, inescapable in popular culture, their legacy forms a perfect target for the ridicule all popular things must face in due time. But even moreso than that, I think A Flock of Seagulls have become not only a punchline in and of themselves, but also a summation of everything that was dreadful and excessive about the early 1980s, with its “Second British Invasion” of synthesiser-driven New Wave. I can think of no better example of this kind of abuse than a famous line from the 1999 comedy film, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. The film is largely a love letter to the 1960s and its Mod aesthetics, and the protagonist, a super-spy unfrozen from this era in time, dismisses the history and culture of the 1970s and 80s as nothing more than “a gas shortage, and A Flock of Seagulls.” But at the time of this writing, we’re about as far away from Austin Powers as the film was from the release of this album, the band’s 1982 debut LP, so I think it’s been long enough that we can start to re-evaluate A Flock of Seagulls’ rightful place in music history.

While this self-titled album was the group’s first long-player, their first release was the 1981 single “It’s Not Me Talking.” Notably, this track was actually produced by the legendary Bill Nelson, who also released it on their behalf via his personal label, Cocteau Records. Ever since discovering this for myself, I’ve found the connection between Nelson and A Flock of Seagulls fascinating, and also satisfying. Despite the gulf between their respective reputations, I do think their work has a lot in common, at the end of the day: swirling washes of synth disrupted by screaming guitars, not to mention that shared interest in Midcentury rock and roll aesthetics.

Music: “It’s Not Me Talking”

These two acts would, of course, go their separate ways shortly after, and they ended up in completely opposite camps, with Nelson becoming a cult favourite with little crossover success, and A Flock of Seagulls going on to create what is, undoubtedly, one of the most iconic songs of the entire decade.

Music: “I Ran”

What does one even say about a song like “I Ran”? Over the years, it’s certainly gotten somewhat overplayed, but I can’t really hold that against it. It’s just a damn good song. Both ethereally menacing as well as catchy and rather accessible, “I Ran” takes the atmosphere suggested by “It’s Not Me Talking” and kicks it into another gear, with a harder-hitting hook and the introduction of that highly distinctive and of-the-moment echoing guitar effect. Some will hear it as little more than evidence that the song is hopelessly dated, but I’ve never thought of it as anything other than satisfying to listen to. If you ask me, I figure all art that exists is essentially “a product of its time”--nobody ever said Michelangelo Buonarroti’s David was a lousy sculpture, just because you can easily tell it was made during the Italian Renaissance. At any rate, I’d encourage everyone reading to go back and listen to it again, trying to maintain a little neutrality. I’d recommend the album cut of it, which is significantly longer than the single version, and features a rich intro that sets the scene before that famous guitar ever makes an appearance, which I think really adds to the experience. By some reckonings, A Flock of Seagulls are sometimes considered a “one-hit wonder,” but while they certainly are remembered chiefly for “I Ran,” this album’s other singles were moderately successful as well.

Music: “Space Age Love Song”

“Space Age Love Song” is perhaps the band’s second best-remembered single, and takes their sound in a markedly different direction than that of “I Ran.” “I Ran” won popular acclaim by finding a new home for the guitar, in the midst of a sea of synth, and pushed A Flock of Seagulls into a similar space as acts like the Cars and Duran Duran, who had enough mainstream rock sensibilities to sneak a lot of synthesiser usage onto American rock radio...much as one might sneak spinach into tomato sauce when feeding picky children. But I think “Space Age Love Song” is much more palatable to listeners of pop, synth- or otherwise. It’s softer in texture, and really almost dreamy, capturing the hazy, buoyant feeling of limerence as well as any pop song ever has. I’m tempted to compare it to another synth-driven classic, whose influence towers over this period in electronic music: the great Giorgio Moroder’s “I Feel Love.” Much like “I Feel Love,” “Space Age Love Song” combines simple, almost banal love lyrics with an evocative electronic soundscape, painting a picture of an enchanting, high-tech future where human feelings like love have remained comfortably recognizable across centuries or millennia. A similar theme of futuristic love pervades the album’s second single, “Modern Love Is Automatic.”

Music: “Modern Love Is Automatic”

While “Space Age Love Song” uses simplistic lyricism to portray the relatable universality of falling in love, “Modern Love Is Automatic” gives us the album’s most complex narrative. In a world where “young love’s forbidden,” we meet a pair of star-crossed lovers prevented from being together by some sort of dystopian authority. The male member of this union, introduced as the “cosmic man,” is apparently imprisoned for the crime of loving, but the text suggests that he may escape from this prison--or, perhaps, even be freed from it. The title, repeated quite frequently throughout the track, is perhaps the mantra of this anti-love society, a piece of propaganda being drilled into us as thoroughly as it is into these subjects: Modern love is automatic, with no need for messy, unpredictable human input.

It’s also worth noting that the song is consciously set in “old Japan,” deliberately locating it in the “exotic” East. While East Asia was strongly associated with refined, perhaps futuristic culture, I can’t help but think there’s a more pejorative sentiment operating here, rooted in stereotypes of Asian cultures unduly policing sexual freedom, and other forms of personal expression and self-determination. Ultimately, despite its futuristic trappings, “Modern Love Is Automatic” isn’t really a song about technology at all, but rather authoritarianism. “Telecommunication,” on the other hand, engages more directly with that theme.

Music: “Telecommunication”

“Telecommunication” was also released prior to the self-titled album proper, and was also produced by Bill Nelson. While structurally similar to “Modern Love Is Automatic,” with an oft-repeated title, brief verses, and a generally repetitive musical structure full of meandering guitar, its text quite plainly discusses the titular field of technology, in a seemingly non-judgmental fashion--though it could be argued that the fairly upbeat music suggests a positive outlook on things like radio and TV. The one hitch in all of it is the very end of the last verse, which sets the song in the “nuclear age”--a nod, perhaps, to the darker applications of 20th Century technology. “Telecommunication” is perhaps indebted less to figures like Moroder, and moreso to Kraftwerk, who first solidified the rich tradition of stoic synth thumpers about everyday machines like cars, trains, and, of course, nuclear energy. I’m also tempted to compare it to an earlier work of Bill Nelson’s group Be-Bop Deluxe, “Electrical Language,” another bubbly number that playfully bats this concept back and forth.

The theme of “quotidian technology” is also present on the cover of this album, which features an interior shot of a living room, centered around a television set. The TV displays a figure playing guitar--perhaps one of those heroic rock pioneers of the Midcentury like Buddy Holly, whom Nelson was so keen to imitate. But what’s most immediately striking about this cover is its beautiful colour palette, full of deep, saturated jewel tones, treated softly with an “airbrush” style effect. Despite being a somewhat mundane scene, the image also features fanciful, imaginative touches: the floor of this room is actually a miniature beach landscape, with the “floor” beneath the TV actually being the surface of the ocean, and the TV appears to be surrounded by a colourful, glowing group of birds. Given the beachy surroundings, we could perhaps interpret them as the titular seagulls. It’s tempting to think of this scene as a representation of how technology can sweep us away, out of our everyday existence and into something richer and more exciting.

But perhaps it’s not so simple--note also the open window in the top left, whose curtain appears to be agitated by some sort of motion in the air. Perhaps these birds are not the products of television fantasy, but rather have flown in from the window, and hence hail from the “real world?” Given how tracks like “Space Age Love Song” and “Modern Love Is Automatic” tackle the theme of the mundane meeting the fantastical, I think this complex and arresting image is a great fit for the album.

While their self-titled debut spawned multiple recognizable hits, A Flock of Seagulls never came anywhere close to recapturing its success. For the most part, they struggled to remain relevant as time wore on, largely abandoning the sonic footprint of their first album, and chasing after new trends in music technology such as digital synthesisers. They would eventually break up during the mid-1980s, and though they’ve reunited in order to perform live several times, the book is probably closed on A Flock of Seagulls. Personally, I can’t help but wonder what might have been if they had stuck to their musical roots a bit more. You get a bit of that on their third LP, 1984’s The Story of a Young Heart, which thankfully brings back that iconic echoing guitar, and does so without sounding too much like a simple retread of “I Ran.” Out of all their other work, it’s the album I would most recommend to admirers of this debut LP.

Music: “Remember David”

My favourite track on A Flock of Seagulls’ debut LP is “Messages”--not to be confused with the track of the same name by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark! Moreso than anything else on the album, “Messages” has this aggressive, insistent, driving quality, and feels less like yacht rock, and more like punk rock. Despite not being released as a single, I think it’s a very strong track that’s quite easy to get into. That’s everything for today--thanks for listening!

Music: “Messages”

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The 5 Biggest Technology Trends In 2021 Everyone Must Get Ready For Now

Another factor this is clean is that nowadays’s maximum vital tech traits will play a huge component in assisting us address and adapt to the numerous demanding situations dealing with us. From the shift to operating from domestic to new regulations approximately how we meet and engage in public spaces, tech traits could be the riding pressure in coping with the change.

In many ways, Covid-19 will act as a catalyst for an entire host of adjustments that have been already at the playing cards anyway, way to our an increasing number of on line and virtual lives. Things will simply appear greater fast now, with necessity (lengthy stated because the mom of invention) because the riding pressure. And must or not it's the case that – as positive US presidents have predicted – Covid-19 “magically disappears” – the adjustments it has introduced approximately will now no longer, as we are able to have discovered to do loads of factors greater effectively and safely.

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI is certainly certainly considered one among the largest tech traits on the moment, and at some point of 2021 it becomes an excellent greater precious device for assisting us to interpret and apprehend the sector round us. The extent of records we're gathering on healthcare, contamination costs, and the achievement of measures we take to save you the unfold of contamination will preserve to boom. This manner that gadget getting to know algorithms becomes higher knowledgeable and an increasing number of state-of-the-art withinside the answers they discover for us.

From pc imaginative and prescient structures tracking the potential of public regions to studying the interactions exposed via touch tracing projects, self-getting to know algorithms will spot connections and insights that could cross left out with the aid of using guide human analysis. They will assist us expect call for for offerings from hospitals and different healthcare carriers, and permit directors to make higher choices approximately while and wherein to install resources.

For enterprise, the venture could be to apprehend the converting styles of consumer behavior. More human interest will take vicinity on line – from purchasing and socializing to digital operating environments, meetings, and recruitment. During 2021 we are able to count on the equipment we use to research those behavioral shifts to come to be greater state-of-the-art and an increasing number of suit the price range and infrastructure necessities of increasingly organizations.

2. Robotics, Drones, and Vehicle Automation

As the extent of passengers the usage of public delivery fluctuates from week to week, relying on neighborhood situations, projects round self-riding motors will preserve at an growing pace. Driving performance throughout public delivery networks could be a concern for provider carriers in addition to civic authorities, wherein lowering human exertions prices will assist stability the uncertainty round consumer call for.

In current years we've visible the emergence of robots withinside the care and assisted dwelling sectors, and those becomes an increasing number of vital, in particular on the subject of interacting with participants of society who're maximum prone to contamination, inclusive of the elderly. Rather than completely changing the human interplay with caregivers this is so vital to many, we are able to count on robot gadgets for use to offer new channels of communication, inclusive of get entry to to 24/7 in-domestic assist, in addition to to certainly offer companionship at instances while it could now no longer be secure to be sending nursing workforce into homes. Additionally, groups locating themselves with premises that, even as empty, nonetheless require protection and upkeep, will flip to robotics carriers for offerings inclusive of cleansing and security. This interest has already caused hovering inventory fees for companies worried in presenting robots.

Drones could be used to supply important medicinal drug and, prepared with pc imaginative and prescient algorithms, used to reveal footfall in public regions in an effort to pick out locations wherein there's an extended chance of viral transmission.

3. The As-A-Service Revolution

“As-a-provider” – the availability of offerings that we want to stay and paintings via cloud-primarily based totally, on-call for systems – is the important thing that has placed the alternative tech traits we speak approximately nowadays in attain of anybody. It’s the cause why AI and robotics are a opportunity for pretty much any enterprise or organization, irrespective of their length or price range. Thanks to cloud services from groups like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and an ever-developing horde of startups and spinoffs, innovators in all fields can install modern-day tech with little in advance funding in equipment, system or specialised people.

As the continuing pandemic rages round the sector, we've sincerely visible that groups that depend on cloud to offer scalable answers as-a-provider are prospering. Take Zoom, for instance, which has fast come to be a family call way to the velocity with which it turned into capable of upload servers and boom its insurance and great of provider. This turned into because of its cloud-primarily based totally nature and its partnerships with its personal provider carriers, that have been capable of fast boom potential to fulfill call for. In 2021 and beyond, that is going to come to be an increasing number of vital and greater opportunities will open up for everyone.

4. 5G and superior connectivity

Faster and greater dependable net does not simply imply we are able to load webpages greater fast and spend much less time looking ahead to movies to release on Youtube. Each successive develop in cell connectivity from 3G onwards has unlocked new use instances for the net. 3G made internet surfing and records-pushed offerings beneficial on cell gadgets, 4G caused the increase of streaming video and track systems as bandwidths extended, and 5G, likewise, will open greater doorways in phrases of what's possible.

5G manner that offerings counting on superior technology inclusive of augmented truth and digital truth (mentioned below) in addition to cloud-primarily based totally gaming systems like Google's Stadia or NVidia's GeForce Now come to be a feasible proposition, everywhere at any time. They additionally threaten to make cable and fiber-primarily based totally networks redundant, with their want for us to be tethered to a selected location.

In short, 5G and different superior, high-pace networks make all the different traits we speak right here to be had everywhere, any time. Complex gadget getting to know packages counting on actual-time get entry to to Big Data reassets may be performed withinside the area, through automation. A first rate instance is Norwegian fishery operator Salmar that makes use of a 5G community to automate the care and feeding of its fish. Image reputation algorithms are used to hit upon which fish are over or under-feeding, and robotically dispense meals and medicinal drug had to maintain them healthy. Initiatives like this could come to be an increasing number of vital at some point of 2021, wherein organizations appearance to boom automation throughout their workforces.

5. Extended Reality – Virtual and Augmented Reality.

These phrases cowl generation that makes use of glasses or headsets to challenge pc-generated imagery without delay into the person's area of imaginative and prescient. When it's far superimposed over what the person is viewing withinside the actual international, it's far AR. And while it's far used to vicinity the person into a wholly pc-generated environment, it's far VR.

During subsequent yr we are able to once more count on to look those, along with the alternative traits mentioned right here, helping in tackling demanding situations posed with the aid of using the modern-day international situation. Largely this could contain permitting us to keep away from doubtlessly risky conditions wherein there will be a chance of viral transmission. For instance, scientific examinations and prognosis can an increasing number of be finished remotely. A answer to be had to opticians permits eye exams to be finished completely in VR, as high-definition cameras deliver a clean picture of the patient's eye. An AR device then permits the consumer to browse the variety of glasses on provide and notice what they seem like on their personal face while not having to depart their domestic.

We may even see an boom withinside the use of VR and AR equipment inside education. This will lessen the want for us to paintings in crowded study room situations – if now no longer totally, then as a minimum in regions and at some point of instances while it's far recognized that transmission costs are high.

And as greater records at the situations and way wherein viral transmission takes vicinity will become to be had, AR equipment could be used to present out actual-time warnings while we circulate via regions wherein the contamination is thought to have unfold. Even easy steps like reminding us to scrub our arms while we contact a door manage in a public area or issuing an alert while a tool senses that we've touched our face with out washing our arms, ought to assist to shop lives and forestall us spreading infection across the actual-phrase environments we inhabit and circulate via.

#technology #technology news #latest technology news

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Best Lightroom Tutorials & Lightroom Classes for Online Learning

Whether you are new to Lightroom or trying to dive deeper, right here are a number of the fine locations to discover Lightroom tutorials, instructions, and guides.

Lightroom Tutorials and Classes

We’d as an alternative be out shooting, however that’s now no longer simply withinside the playing cards for maximum folks proper now. But it’s a first rate possibility to study some thing new from the consolation of our personal homes. I’ve formerly published a greater standard listing of a number of the fine on-line images guides, however I concept it really well worth setting some thing collectively with a narrower awareness in particular on studying a way to use Lightroom.

So whether or not you’re beginning from scratch as a novice with Lightroom or an skilled consumer trying to dive deeper, right here are a number of the fine locations to discover Lightroom tutorials, instructions, and guides that I’ve come across.

Some of those are excellent locations to discover man or woman Lightroom tutorials; others have greater established guides and instructions. But they’re in most cases go-at-your-personal-pace, in your personal schedule, and there aren't anyt any exams. Most of those are video guides–on-line coaching has come an extended manner in current years. But I’ve introduced a few greater analog resources (or, at least, text- and image-based, at the lowest of the page).

This is a walking listing that I’ll upload to and replace over time. By all means, please propose any which you suppose could make worth additions.

Best Lightroom Tutorials & Lightroom Classes for Online Learning

Whether you are new to Lightroom or trying to dive deeper, right here are a number of the fine locations to discover Lightroom tutorials, instructions, and guides.

Lightroom Tutorials and Classes

This is a walking listing that I’ll upload to and replace over time. By all means, please propose any which you suppose could make worth additions.

Adobe Lightroom Tutorials

This library is positioned out through Adobe, and it is composed in particular of bite-length movies that target a selected tool, effect, or problem. So lots of them are very short, and they’re now no longer simply established in any unique flow. But you may discover a few exquisite cloth there.

They have curated sections on numerous broader topics, inclusive of for beginners, operating with nearby adjustments, and operating with Lightroom presets.

CreativeLive Online Lightroom Courses

As you’d wager from the name, CreativeLive specializes in guides in innovative fields inclusive of illustration, art, design, music, and, yes, images. They have a huge variety of top-notch images guides, however I’m focusing right here on Lightroom ones.

The great of the instructions is high, and you may watch the guides on-line via an internet browser or on a cell tool the usage of the CreativeLive app.

It’s in most cases a paid service (with a few unfastened guides) Courses are bought personally or as a part of an all-get right of entry to Creator Pass (TIP: You get a higher deal in case you prepay for a year).

Lightroom guides really well worth a look:

Adobe Lightroom Classic CC: The Complete Guide

Adobe Lightroom Classic CC for Beginners

Integrating Photoshop and Lightroom

Post-Processing for Outdoor and Travel Photographers

Using Lightroom to Fix Bad Lighting

SkillShare Online Lightroom Courses

SkillShare is some other direction library that has very first-rate instructions and is mainly geared in the direction of innovative fields.

One of the matters I like approximately SkillShare is that they’re now no longer afraid to be quirky and ultra-area of interest with their instructions in a few cases. It provides to the richness in their offerings.

It’s a paid service. There’s a 2-month unfastened trial, and then it converts to a paid subscription. You can discover the images instructions right here.

Lightroom publications really well worth a look:

Lightroom Classic CC: A Total Beginner Walkthrough

How to Create a Cohesive Instagram Feed | Using formation adobe lightroom

Fundamentals of Lightroom I: Organize Files and Boost Your Workflow

Editing Photos in Lightroom CC Mobile for Facebook and Instagram

Photo Editing in Lightroom: Make Your Cityscapes Stand Out

KelbyOne

Scott Kelby has constructed a mini-empire from foundations of coaching approximately Photoshop and Lightroom. He’s one of the best-promoting authors on Lightroom and Photoshop—and throughout a gaggle of various images areas, for that matter. And his eponymous website, KelbyOne, has a few wonderful video publications on Lightroom. They’re provided as a paid subscription plan.

Lightroom lessons really well worth a look:

Learn Lightroom CC in One Hour

Lightroom Workflow at the Go

Client Proofing Like a Pro Using Lightroom Classic

Making Beautiful Photo Books in Lightroom Classic

Udemy

Another provider with a massive library of on-line publications, which includes many on Lightroom, is Udemy.

Lightroom publications really well worth a look:

Adobe Lightroom Classic CC & CC: Photo Editing Masterclass

Adobe Lightroom CC + Classic // Learn Photo Editing through Pro

Adobe Lightroom CC: Landscape Photography Masterclass

Automotive & Car Retouching in Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning is a brand new name. You may understand it higher through its vintage name: Lynda.com. It’s a paid provider, however a few nearby public library structures hold a subscription for his or her users, so it’s really well worth checking that out.

Lightroom publications really well worth a look:

Lightroom Classic CC Essential Training

Shooting and Processing Panoramas

Lightroom and Photoshop: Black and White Photography

Lightroom for Faces

Lightroom Quick Tips: Portraits

Lightroom: Two Minute Tips

This route is positioned out through expert meals photographer Nicole S. Young. As you may likely inform from its name, it’s a library of quick motion pictures coaching pointers and strategies on the usage of Lightroom—139 of them in total, spanning almost five hours. And it’s now free!

YouTube

You can discover a bunch of how-to motion pictures on YouTube that specialize in Lightroom. Much of it's miles bite-sized in preference to based publications, that specialize in unique problem-fixing or a selected task. The fine and reliability may be hit and miss, however there’s a few honestly wonderful stuff on there combined in. So it’s really well worth exploring on there to look if there are any precise channels which you like.

Here are a few channels that Lightroom content material really well worth checking out:

Photos in Color

Peter McKinnon

Mark Galer’s Alpha Creative Skills

MarcTutorials

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Fandom

Wrote this a little while back. Thought I posted it here, but I can’t find it in my tags, so here it is again. Sometimes, the internet is a great place for fans. It gives us spaces to spread information and media related to the things we enjoy. It lets us connect with new friends and sub-hobbies like prop building, costuming, or fan art communities. As nerd culture has slid further out of the shadows, though, I don't always think the media world handles it as well as it could.

Infinity War is out. Reviews are great. Been a long time comic reader. I'm intimately familiar with both the Infinity Gauntlet and Infinity War comic book events. It met or exceeded every mark for me.

But about every second pop culture article in my feed is focusing on shortcomings. What they think should have happened. What character they think should have been more involved, or more important. Parts the author just didn't "get", usually out of ignorance of the source material or medium.

And there's a place for that criticism. No piece of media is without faults. But before Infinity War, it was Last Jedi, or the last Star Trek movie, or the last DC vehicle, or the latest installment in a decades old franchise like Alien. Each one spawning their own "angry so-and-so" YouTube reviews. Their own battery of "not good enough" articles. Their own "How it should have ended," and "Honest" trailers. Piles of scathing, dissatisfied commentary, often verging on fanfiction with the amount of fervor people want to reshape the product with.

And, just like the media experience we have tailored to us by Facebook and Google, we find ourselves becoming reflections of a media system that was designed to mirror us and cater to our interests, rather than find ourselves enriched. And it's to the point where I have a hard time believing many of the reactions are genuine.

I have an especially hard time believing much of the criticism because so much of it relies on misunderstanding. If the exciting new piece of media is an adaptation, people are unwilling to accept the changes that were made out of a logistical need, like a reduction in the number of characters involved in a particular plot (Game of Thrones, Captain America: Civil War) even though the time and budget needed to bring those characters in would be prohibitive. It completely glosses over any clever way the makers found to compensate.

Likewise, for adaptations, ignorance of the nature of the source material can lead to glaring misunderstandings in the way a fantasy world functions. People point out "plot holes" that are easily closed by even a cursory knowledge of the source material. In another example, a popular complaint about the Marvel films is that the heroes keep facing what are basically evil versions of themselves as their first villains. Anyone with a basic knowledge of comics can tell you that a character's origin story almost always features the hero overcoming a villain with similar abilities to their own. It establishes why they're good/talented/responsible by showing us the antithesis of these qualities.

In sci-fi, the arguments usually boil down to how super science and future technology does or does not work. "Lightsabers wouldn't actually behave like that," "Why do the First Order's energy weapons arc in space?" Going back to that basic knowledge of comics, you often run into "Ant-Man actually wouldn't be able to retain his mass when shrunk so blah blah blah," or "If Flash ran that fast he'd catch on fire."

Part of suspension of disbelief is having the basic understanding that we don't have to understand the textbook intricacies of what's happening. That however the fantastic elements function within their universes is how they function, end of story. And that overlaying the limitations of a non-fictional world onto that of a fictional one robs the fiction of all its value and luster. If you like Star Trek, but haven't come to terms with their loose, pulp sci-fi usage of science, for instance, you're the one failing to meet the product where it's at. It's not failing to reach you.

Additionally, people don't seem to understand the general tiers of quality in visual media. I generally enjoy the CW superhero shows. They are not the cream of the crop. They couldn't be. They're a network television product bound by the rules that dictate that branch of the industry. They are really awesome /for what they are/ and if you can understand what parameters they're restricted by, you can enjoy them for exactly what they are.

A miniseries or Netflix show is the next step up in quality. You can expect much more from them because they operate under less restrictions. And, again, we have another bump up in quality for films. You can expect even more quality then, because the restrictions governing making a film are different than making a show. Understanding what level of quality you're signing up for and adequately tempering your expectations isn't just smart; it's essential.

So we consume all of this critical media and are thusly encouraged to be similarly critical. But there is such a thing as being too stringent. There is such a thing as being too picky and hiding it behind a guise of intellectualism. And there's a sort of entitlement. A demand that the media we consume conform to something as fickle as our whimsy, or else we jealously withhold our enjoyment. It creates a drive to treat everything enjoyable as a guilty pleasure, with far too much emphasis on the guilt.

I'm done having to justify myself for enjoying things. I'm tired of posting about superheroes, scifi, and general fiction only to receive a long list of what my friends didn't like about them. I don't want to hear how you would have done it, who you would have cast, or how you'd have it end.

Had I the patience and the resources, I'd launch my own YouTube channel. Something like, "Satisfied Reviews". I'd talk about all the things that met or exceeded my expectations and leave room at the end for a single legitimate complaint. I'd end up catching flack for not being "objective" enough, but when almost every other voice in popular criticism is focused on tearing down or ripping apart, you have to have a voice to counterbalance that. You have to have someone who's still having fun. You have to have someone with something nice to say. And maybe if you don't have anything nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all. A given piece of media is not bad just because you didn't enjoy it.

#fandom #bad fans #marvel #star wars #fallout #comics #movies #video games #gaming #bowser thoughts #rant #personal

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ICON10 WORKSHOP REGISTRATION INFO

April 13th, 2018 at 1pm EDT / 10am PDT / 6PM GMT It's time to get your hands dirty, expand your mind, put your business on solid footing, and have a whole lot of fun. We have crafted two days of informative and inspiring hands-on workshops, lectures, tours, and events led by an impressive roster of illustrators, educators, and creative professionals (some from our Main Stage) designed to jumpstart your ICON10 experience.

ICON10 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS

KIMBERLY HALL – Lecture, WED 9-10:20am, $25 Ideas on the Wall Getting drawings into people's homes is Nottene’s, Kimberly Hall’s studio, favorite thing to do—so she makes wallpaper! In this talk, Hall will discuss pattern and imagery on the wall and how it works, plus the different ways to make it real, whether manufacturing the product or selling designs at trade shows.

WILL VARNER – Lecture, WED 9-10:20am – $25 How Illustration Can Feed the Internet For years Will has explored the potential for original, illustrated content on the internet. He’ll discuss topics like: building artistic quality in an age of meme generators, the new rules for selling art and maintaining creative control, ways to maximize your social media presence, and more!

ESTHER PEARL WATSON & MARK TODD – Making, WED 9-12pm, $45 Zine Machine! Participants will create a one-of-a-kind book culled and edited from drawings, collage and research material that serve as a collection of thoughts, process and finished works. The goal is to disrupt the norm, discover ways to capture transitory thoughts and observations, construct interesting narratives and re-contextualize visuals.

MELANIE REIM – Making, WED 9-12pm, $45 Surf and Turf Participants will capture beach bodies under the majesty of downtown Detroit in this fast-paced reportage workshop about drawing people while they’re moving and getting the scale of Detroit architecture-drawing directly onto the page, with happy accidents of ink splatter and a variety of line and tone.

STEVE SIMPSON – Making, WED 9-4pm, $60 Illustrated Beer Label Workshop In Steve Simpson’s workshop, participants will illustrate their own beer label using traditional analogue techniques. The final piece of art will be glued to a bottle. This course is suitable for anyone with an interest in illustration, hand lettering and character design, and is very much illustration-focused.

TOM FROESE – Making, WED 9-4pm, $60 Inky Maps! Illustrate a Beautiful Map Using Digital and Analog Media For those who want to learn how to create a beautiful illustrated map, this is the class. Tom Froese will show, step by step, how to illustrate a map of a hometown or favorite city using the same techniques from his popular class, Inky Illustrations.

ADAM OSGOOD – Making, WED 9-4pm, $60 Intro to Animation Techniques for Illustrators in After Effects Participants will explore a workflow for creating layered artwork in Photoshop and then add animation within After Effects. Each person will create a small personal project using their own illustrations and complete the workshop with an exercise that demonstrates basic animation techniques.

DON KILPATRICK III – Making, WED 9-4pm, $60 Motor City Mega Print Jam This workshop will be held at The Detroit Wood Type Co. on Detroit’s east side and will allow participants to choose three of five types of relief printmaking: Risograph printing, silkscreen, letterpress, linocut and woodcut. Attendees can create either a poster, zine or card.

AKI CHOKLAT & TOM CARBONE – Making, WED 9-4pm, $60 Tote Your Own Creation In this hands-on workshop, participants will make their own unique tote bag from leather or canvas. The workshop will take place in the beautiful 20,000 square-foot College for Creative Studies Fashion Accessories Design Department. No previous sewing or making experience necessary.

BETSY & CHUCK CORDES – Lecture, WED 10:40-12pm, $25 To Thine Own Self Be True: Understanding and Using Your Bargaining Power In this workshop Betsy & Chuck Cordes will help prepare you for making your next big deal. Attendees will look at the changing nature of the artist/industry relationship, how to assess your bargaining power, and how to move past points of fear and resistance. They'll also go over the key parts of a rights agreement and offer specific language that you can suggest to contract partners as you negotiate usage rights for your work.

GRACE DANICO – Lecture, WED 10:40-12pm, $25 Be Your Own Archivist: A How-To Guide Grace Danico, professional archivist and freelance illustrator, will teach the ins and outs of creating a personal archive. Topics include basic care of paper and digital materials, file structure organization and metadata.

ANDY ESPINOZA – Making, WED 1-4pm, $45 Quick Sketching in Fashion Throughout the workshop, Andy Espinoza will explore various techniques of quick sketching the fashion figure. Drawing from life, the class will experiment with mark making and color to capture the gesture of the model and their outfits.

SEAN QUALLS – Making, WED 1-4pm, $45 Quallage Workshop: A New Way of Thinking About Collage Sean Qualls is a children’s book illustrator, author and artist. Sean will demonstrate how he paints and prepares textured papers for his collage and mixed media work. After a brief slideshow and demonstration, participants will then prepare their own papers and create their own mixed media piece.

JOHN ENGLISH – Lecture, WED 2:40-4pm, $25 Advanced Portfolio: A How-To Guide to Industry Success This workshop outlines a path for you to develop a professional portfolio. Your portfolio defines you as an illustrator and an advanced portfolio is the key to your industry success. We will tackle how to enter the competitive market using techniques taught at The Illustration Academy.

MOTION COMMOTION – Event, WED 6-8pm, FREE FREE Event: Screening of animated projects by attendees and beyond, held after the Education Symposium cocktail party at CCS.

GAIL MAROWITZ – Lecture, THUR 9-10:20am, $25 Illustration Makes Music Sound Better Gail Marowitz will talk about what it is to create art from what you “HEAR”, the process of finding illustrators for projects, other avenues of illustration for music such as gig posters and merchandise, and the tricky challenges of working with a product/brand with a heart, mind and voice.

ROBERT BEATTY – Lecture, THUR 9-10:20am, $25 Digital Airbrush: Adapting classic techniques to Photoshop and Illustrator Known for a prolific body of work in the field of album cover artwork, Illustrator Robert Beatty has developed an idiosyncratic take on classic airbrush artwork. Approaching the digital world using the classic techniques of airbrush artists, learn how to adapt pre-digital techniques to the world of Illustrator and Photoshop.

ROBERT HUNT – Lecture, THUR 9-12pm, $45 Painting Workshop: Using analog materials in a digital age, how to start and when to stop A demonstration of oil painting for contemporary illustrators. Focus of this workshop will be on techniques, materials and methods to enable the use of analog materials in a time effective, efficient manner in illustration. Photography/reproduction of paintings will also be discussed.

ROB WILSON – Making, THUR 9-12pm, $45 Drawing the Line In this workshop, participants will illustrate using various media—pens, sticks, inks, pencils—to understand how the experience of drawing changes given limitations, accidents and the inability to press Command Z. This means sketching on paper, creating a folio of images and exploring new ways of thinking.

LILLI CARRÉ – Making, THUR 9-12pm, $45 Experimental Comics Lilli Carré’s drawing and writing workshop is about loosening up and discovering new ways of generating ideas and structures for comics. Participants will try a number of fast-paced approaches to thinking through the arrangement of comics panels, collaborative play and the varied possibilities of sequential narrative.

THOMAS ALLEN – Making, THUR 9-12pm, $45 Pulp Fiction - Reimagining Paperback Covers In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to carefully cut out and remove the characters found on the covers of vintage paperbacks. Once free, you will make good use of anything but state-of-the-art materials (pins, tape, wooden blocks) to fold and create spicy, pop-up visual narratives!

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SYD WEILER – Making, THUR 9-12pm, FREE Handcraft Magical Brushes In this hands-on-workshop Syd Weiler, freelance Illustrator & former Adobe Resident, demystifies the Photoshop brush engine. Learn to craft magical brushes and use them across desktop & mobile. Deep-dive into customization of Photoshop brushes on desktop. Tweak and finesse tools for desired effects, apply brushes to existing work, and think tactically by making brushes to speed up your workflow. Syd will use Adobe Capture to grab textures from real life, & explain the advantages of CC Libraries. Walk away knowing how to create perfect brushes, & finesse old favorites.

JOOHEE YOON BlockPrinting – Making, THUR 9-4pm, $60 In this intro to relief printmaking, participants will use rubber blocks as a carving surface to create bold images in a limited palette. Everyone will create a two-color print (black and one color) based on a prompt sent by the instructor after registration. Bring a design sketch/idea ready to carve.

MELINDA BECK – Lecture, THUR 10:40-12pm, $25 25 Lessons Learned from 25 Years as an Illustrator After a quarter century as an illustrator, Melinda Beck has learned a few things. She will be sharing tips on how to run an efficient business, balancing work and kids, being creative on a deadline, finding new clients and successfully dealing with difficult ones.

ALISSA LEVIN – Lecture, THUR 10:40-12pm, $25 Small Mags, Big Ideas Illustration thrives in independent and academic publications, where artists contribute to ambitious, award-wining projects. Alissa Levin shares insights on creating editorial art from initial assignment to final publication, focusing on the powerful collaboration between art directors and illustrators.

JENNIFER TOLO PIERCE – Lecture, THUR 1-2:20pm, $25 NARWHALS, APHRODITE AND DARTH VADER: Publishing Illustrators at Chronicle Books Ever wondered what it’s like to work with Chronicle Books? Design Director Jennifer Tolo Pierce will take participants through the how, what and when of publisher-illustrator collaboration. She’ll discuss both illustrating for adults and children and what it takes to be a Chronicle illustrator.

DANIEL SALMIERI & ADAM RUBIN – Lecture, THUR 1-4pm, $45 Pairing Words and Images In this workshop, best-selling picture book creators Daniel Salmieri and Adam Rubin will share some of their favorite collaborative techniques and games. They will lead interactive activities designed to highlight the complimentary power of text and illustration.

MARIA CARLUCCIO – Making, THUR 1-4pm, $45 The Book as Object and Experience Maria Carluccio will guide participants on making an accordion book, using the ideas discussed in the presentation. Accordion books provide a wonderful opportunity to experiment because they can be seen both as a whole and page by page. This can be a freeing way to explore narrative and allow the imagination to wander.

MIKE PERRY – Making, THUR 1-4pm, $45 Meditation, Moleskines, and Magic Makers: Things Go Bananas Mike Perry will discuss the sketchbook as the artist’s best friend throughout the chaos of life.

FRANCIS VALLEJO – Making, THUR 1-4pm, $45 Mixed Media Experimentation with the Costumed Figure The first half of this intensive workshop will review various mixed media techniques used by artists throughout history, and participants will receive a packet summarizing each process. The second half provides everyone space to work from numerous costumed models via assorted mixed media stations. Supplies will be provided.

CARIN BERGER– Making, THUR 1-4pm, $45 Wonder Cabinets and Memory Theaters Artists are treasure hunters and collectors. Inspired by the aesthetics of natural history collections and drawing from the imagination, Carin Berger will focus on creating specimen boxes of unique objects and invented creatures—miniature cabinets of wonder—from found paper and ephemera.

SABRINA NELSON – Tour, THUR 1-4pm, $45 Detroit Art Tour Led by Detroit native, artist and educator Sabrina Nelson, participants will tour four (4) of the must-see Detroit art venues! First stop, Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum — 18 outdoor installations as well as the African Bead Gallery, N'kisi House and the African Language Wall. The next stop on the tour, Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals at Detroit Institute of Arts — a twenty-seven panel work considered to be the finest example of Mexican mural art in the U.S.A. The third stop, The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art environment in the heart of an urban area and a Detroit based community organization designed to improve the lives of people and neighborhoods through art. The artist and creator, Tyree Guyton, is also a ICON10 Main Stage presenter. The fourth and final stop will be Pewabic Tile — a ceramic studio and school founded in 1903 known for its iridescent glazes. Travel: Transportation will be provided. We will meet in the lobby of the Westin at 1pm sharp.

LYNDA WEINMAN and LAURIE BURRUSS – Making, THUR 2:40-4pm, FREE Reinventing School Can we as educators create a blueprint for the classroom of the future? Lynda Weinman and Laurie Burruss lead a 3-pronged workshop delving first into the problems facing students, faculty, and the school followed by a design thinking/problem-solving approach to reinventing the educational experience.

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Note: Workshops are sold a la carte to registered attendees only and require additional fees, though some are FREE. So what are you waiting for? Register for ICON10 today.

Workshops run Wednesday through Thursday concurrently with the Education Symposium (view the schedule), which is open to all attendees (no pre-registration required). Plan your schedule accordingly.

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Stay Calm And Read Smashing

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Juggling between three languages on a daily basis, Iris is known for her love of linguistics, arts, web design and typography, as well as her goldmine of … More about Iris …

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Businesses ought to use 2018 in order in order to the bad habit of observing aspects of an SEO marketing and advertising strategy as being a one-time exercise. All of us desired to look at a large group that included businesses of most sizes and in all sectors so we could really discover how SEO traffic increased whenever the only common denominator was incorporating reviews to their site. In truth, this is area of the SEO technique we have used to gradually grow our organic traffic throughout the last 12 months right here at SnapApp: #3. Mobile will certainly account for 72% of ALL OF US digital ad spend by 2019. This workshop is definitely designed to help business proprietors implement Digital Marketing techniques intended for their business including social press, organic SEO as well since paid channels. The Beginner's Guide in order to SEO continues to be study over 3 million times plus offers comprehensive information you require to get on the road to professional quality Search Motor Optimization, or SEO. Whether it's using web analytics for carrying out research or even conversion tools that monitor plus report the usage of essential keywords, SEO agencies know exactly how and where you can obtain the information they need in order to save time furthermore lessen your in-house price. Generally there is probably no more simple strategy for SEO than the particular integration of internal links directly into your site - it is definitely an easy way to improve traffic to individual pages, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION Consult says. SEO SERVICES Generally there are a number of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION services which can help enhance the organic search engine ranks of a website.

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Keep in mind that will links, content, and user expertise are all major SEO rating factors. Could holistic approach will ultimately eliminate a lot of the particular issues created by some SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION practitioners over the years, We suspect that search engines' designers will initially overestimate the accuracy of their AI, resulting within Penguin-level collateral damage. SEO (Search Motor Optimization) is the process associated with making a website more noticeable in search results, also called improving search rankings. Siteimprove SEO furthermore provides in-tool tips on where to start as well as how to get the most out associated with your keyword research and supervising. We've already been operating in the SEO plus content marketing industry since last year and know how search motors work. 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Because your site, because of to the nature of your current business is going to end up being more image orientated than written text heavy, you will end up at a minor disadvantage when it comes in order to employing SEO techniques such because keywords, backlinking and so up. On this web page you'll find a list associated with 21 SEO insanely tactical strategies that you can use in order to boost your engine rankings. 26% of respondents state email is the digital advertising channel with all the greatest positive influence on revenue; SEO is 2nd (17%), followed by paid lookup (15%), social media (5%), plus online display advertising (5%). Along with an increased focus on consumer experience, Google has challenged the particular SEO community to pay even more attention to the entire encounter of a website and just how the content interacts with customers, rather than just the fundamental elements that most optimize towards. While that may not get solved in 2018, we want integrate the SEO group alongside other marketing, both compensated and owned initiatives. For example, several businesses miss the mark along with SEO and images, and nevertheless rank well. Luckily, you can find your personal broken links on site using the particular myriad of Tools available. Ask any SEO services company and they will tell a person that whenever a page is definitely searched, the major search motors spiders search it through hyperlinks. Effective SEO aims to boost research engine position, user visits, come back visits, and to improve transformation rates, which reflect the amounts of visitors who take preferred actions on the site. Wise SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION activities transform your rankings in the particular search engine results page (SERP). This is the greatest goal for ecommerce SEO, plus the traffic those links will certainly bring through will convert from a very high rate. The Technical Audit Checklist Produced For Human Beings — Within this post by Distilled, a person will find a link in order to a Google sheet that provides an technical SEO audit guidelines and links to resources upon how to complete each checkbox. Then each time the term SEO appears on your web site, it's automatically changed into the link you specified. Keyword Study for SEO: The Definitive Guideline — This comprehensive guide simply by Brian Dean teaches you the number of strategies for locating keywords and determining intent intended for your target market. On-page and off-page SEO function together to improve your lookup engine rankings in complementary style; however, SEOs generally advise obtaining your on-page SEO ducks within a row before focusing as well much on off-page SEO. Within 2019, web-based businesses will embrace more voice-to-text technology to raise engagement and search activity. There are many SEO web sites suggesting that they can offer a service to make the website LSI friendly, or satisfy ‘LSI requirements'. The particular art of web SEO is situated in focusing on how individuals search for things and knowing what type of results Search engines wants to (or will) screen to its users. Social press SEO would encourage your present customers to come back whilst helping you develop authority regarding potential ones. He is an expert in SEO, Content Marketing, plus Pinterest Marketing. An SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION expert plays a huge function in helping companies build their particular businesses and attract new clients through website traffic.

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For IGTV, Instagram needs slow to mean steady

Instagram has never truly failed at anything, but judging by modest initial view counts, IGTV could get stuck with a reputation as an abandoned theater if the company isn’t careful. It’s no flop, but the long-form video hub certainly isn’t an instant hit like Instagram Stories. Two months after that launched in 2016, Instagram was happy to trumpet how its Snapchat clone had hit 100 million users. Yet two months after IGTV’s launch, the Facebook subsidiary has been silent on its traction.

“It’s a new format. It’s different. We have to wait for people to adopt it and that takes time,” Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told me. “Think of it this way: we just invested in a startup called IGTV, but it’s small, and it’s like Instagram was ‘early days.’”

It’s indeed too early for a scientific analysis, and Instagram’s feed has been around since 2010, so it’s obviously not a fair comparison, but we took a look at the IGTV view counts of some of the feature’s launch partner creators. Across six of those creators, their recent feed videos are getting roughly 6.8X as many views as their IGTV posts. If IGTV’s launch partners that benefited from early access and guidance aren’t doing so hot, it means there’s likely no free view count bonanza in store from other creators or regular users.

They, and IGTV, will have to work for their audience. That’s already proving difficult for the standalone IGTV app. Though it peaked at the #25 overall US iPhone app and has seen 2.5 million downloads across iOS and Android according to Sensor Tower, it’s since dropped to #1497 and seen a 94 percent decrease in weekly installs to just 70,000 last week.

Instagram will have to be in it for the long haul if it wants to win at long-form video. Entering the market 13 years after YouTube with a vertical format no one’s quite sure what to do with, IGTV must play the tortoise. If it can avoid getting scrapped or buried, and offer the right incentives and flexibility to creators, IGTV could deliver the spontaneous video viewing experience Instagram lacks. Otherwise, IGTV risks becoming the next Google Plus — a ghost town inside an otherwise thriving product ecosystem.

A glitzy, glitchy start

Instagram gave IGTV a red carpet premiere June 20th in hopes of making it look like the new digital hotspot. The San Francisco launch event offered attendees several types of avocado toast, spa water and ‘Gram-worthy portrait backdrops reminiscent of the Color Factory or Museum of Ice Cream. Instagram hadn’t held a flashy press event since the 2013 launch of video sharing, so it pulled out all the stops. Balloon sculptures lined the entrance to a massive warehouse packed with social media stars and ad execs shouting to each other over the din of the DJ.

But things were rocky from the start. Leaks led TechCrunch to report on the IGTV name and details in the preceding weeks. Technical difficulties with Systrom’s presentation pushed back the start, but not the rollout of IGTV’s code. Tipster Jane Manchun Wong sent TechCrunch screenshots of the new app and features a half hour before it was announced, and Instagram’s own Business Blog jumped the gun by posting details of the launch. The web already knew how IGTV would let people upload vertical videos up to an hour long and browse them through categories like “Popular” and “For You” by the time Systrom took the stage.

IGTV’s launch event featured Instagram-themed donuts and elaborate portrait backdrops. Images via Vicki’s Donuts and Mai Lanpham

“What I’m most proud of is that Instagram took a stand and tried a brand new thing that is frankly hard to pull off. Full-screen vertical video that’s mobile only. That doesn’t exist anywhere else,” Systrom tells me. It was indeed ambitious. Creators were already comfortable making short-form vertical Snapchat Stories by the time Instagram launched its own version. IGTV would have to start from scratch.

Systrom sees the steep learning curve as a differentiator, though. “One of the things I like most about the new format is that it’s actually fairly difficult to just take videos that exist online and simply repost them. That’s not true in feed. That basically forces everyone to create new stuff,” Systrom tells me. “It’s not to say that there isn’t other stuff on there but in general it incentivizes people to produce new things from scratch. And that’s really what we’re looking for. Even if the volume of that stuff at the beginning is smaller than what you might see on the popular page [of Instagram Explore].”

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom unveils IGTV at the glitzy June 20th launch event

Instagram forced creators to adopt this proprietary format. But it forget to train Stories stars how to entertain us for five or 15 minutes, not 15 seconds, or convince landscape YouTube moguls to purposefully shoot or crop their clips for the way we normally hold our phones.

IGTV’s Popular page features plenty of random viral pap, foreign language content, and poor cropping

That should have been the real purpose of the launch party — demonstrating a variety of ways to turn these format constraints or lack thereof into unique content. Vertical video frames people better than places, and the length allows sustained eye-to-lens contacts that can engender an emotional connection. But a shallow array of initial content and too much confidence that creators would figure it out on their own deprived IGTV of emergent norms that other videographers could emulate to wet their feet.

Now IGTV feels haphazard, with trashy viral videos and miscropped ports amongst its Popular section alongside a few creators trying to produce made-for-IGTV talk shows and cooking tutorials. It’s yet to have its breakout “Chewbacca Mom” or “Rubberbanded Watermelon” blockbuster like Facebook Live. Even an interview with mega celeb Kylie Jenner only had 11,000 views.

Instagram wants to put the focus on the author, not the individual works of art. “Because we don’t have full text search and you can’t just search any random thing, it’s about the creators” Systrom explains. “I think that at its base level that it’s personality driven and creator driven means that you’re going to get really unique content that you won’t find anywhere else and that’s the goal.”

Yet being unique requires extra effort that creators might not invest if they’re unsure of the payoff in either reach or revenue. Michael Sayman, formerly Facebook’s youngest employee who was hired at age 17 to build apps for teens and who now works for Google, summed it up saying: “Many times in my own career, I’ve tried to make something with a unique spin or a special twist because I felt that’s the only way I could make my product stand out from the crowd, only to realize that it was those very twists and spins that made my products feel out of place and confusing to users. Sometimes, the best product is one that doesn’t create any new twists, but rather perfects and builds on top of what has been proven to already be extremely successful.”

A fraction of feed views

The one big surprise of the launch event was where IGTV would exist. Instagram announced it’d live in a standalone IGTV app, but also as a feature in the main app accessible from an orange button atop the home screen that would occasionally call out that new content was inside. It could have had its own carousel like Stories or been integrated into Explore until it was ready for primetime.

Instead, it was ignorable. IGTV didn’t get the benefit of the home screen spotlight like Instagram Stories. Blow past that one orange button and avoid downloading the separate app, and users could go right on tapping and scrolling through Instagram without coming across IGTV’s longer videos.

View counts of the launch partners reflect that. We looked at six launch partner creators, comparing their last six feed and IGTV videos older than a week and less than six months old, or fewer videos if that’s all they’d posted.

Only one of the six, BabyAriel, saw an obvious growth trend in her IGTV videos. Her candid IGTV monologues are performing the best of the six compared to feed. She’s earning an average of 243,000 views per IGTV video, about a third as many as she gets on her feed videos. “I’m really happy with my view counts because IGTV is just starting” BabyAriel tells me. She thinks the format will be good for behind-the-scenes clips that complement her longer YouTube videos and shorter Stories. “When I record anything, It’s vertical. When I turn my phone horizontal I think of an hour-long movie.”

Lele Pons, a Latin American comedy and music star who’s one of the most popular Instagram celebrities, gets about 5.7X more feed views than on her IGTV cooking show that averages 1.9 million hits. Instagram posted some IGTV highlights from the first month, but the most popular of now has 4.3 million views — less than half of what Pons gets on her average feed video.

Fitness guides from Katie Austin averaged just 3,600 views on IGTV while she gets 7.5X more in the feed. Lauren Godwin’s colorful comedy fared 5.2X better in the feed. Bryce Xavier saw the biggest differential, earning 15.9X more views for his dance and culture videos. And in the most direct comparison, K-Pop dancer Susie Shu sometimes posts cuts from the same performance to the two destinations, like one that got 273,000 views in feed but just 27,000 on IGTV, with similar clips fairing an average of 7.8X better.

Again, this isn’t to say IGTV is a lame horse. It just isn’t roaring out of the gates. Systrom remains optimistic about inventing a new format. “The question is can we pull that off and the early signs are really good,” he tells me. “We’ve been pretty blown away by the reception and the usage upfront,” though he declined to share any specific statistics. Instagram promised to provide more insight into traction in the future.

YouTube star Casey Neistat is less bullish. He doesn’t think IGTV is working and that engagement has been weak. If IGTV views were surpassing those of YouTube, creators would flock to it, but so far view counts are uninspiring and not worth diverting creative attention, Neistat says. “YouTube offers the best sit-back consumption, and Stories offers active consumption. Where does IGTV fit in? I’m not sure” he tells me. “Why create all of this unique content if it gets lower views, it’s not monetizable, and the viewers aren’t there?”

Susie Shu averages 7.8X more video views in the Instagram feed than on IGTV

For now, the combination of an unfamiliar format, the absence of direction for how to use it and the relatively buried placement has likely tempered IGTV’s traction. Two months in, Instagram Stories was proving itself an existential threat to Snapchat — which it’s in fact become. IGTV doesn’t pose the same danger to YouTube yet, and it will need a strategy to support a more slow-burn trajectory.

The chicken and the IG problem

The first step to becoming a real YouTube challenger is to build up some tent-pole content that gives people a reason to open IGTV. Until there’s something that captures attention, any cross-promotion traffic Instagram sends it will be like pouring water into a bucket with a giant hole in the bottom. Yet until there’s enough viewers, it’s tough to persuade creators to shoot for IGTV since it won’t do a ton to boost their fan base.

Fortnite champion Ninja shares a photo of IGTV launch partners gathered backstage at the press event

Meanwhile, Instagram hasn’t committed to a monetization or revenue-sharing strategy for IGTV. Systrom said at the launch that “There’s no ads in IGTV today,” but noted it’s “obviously a very reasonable place [for ads] to end up.” Without enough views, though, ads won’t earn enough for a revenue split to incentivize creators. Perhaps Instagram will heavily integrate its in-app shopping features and sponsored content partnerships, but even those rely on having more traffic. Vine withered at Twitter in part from creators bailing due to its omission of native monetization options.

So how does IGTV solve the chicken-and-egg problem? It may need to swallow its pride and pay early adopters directly for content until it racks up enough views to offer sustainable revenue sharing. Instagram has never publicly copped to paying for content before, unlike its parent Facebook, which offered stipends ranging into the millions of dollars for publishers to shoot Live broadcasts and long-form Watch shows. Neither have led to a booming viewership, but perhaps that’s because Facebook has lost its edge with the teens who love video.

Instagram could do better if it paid the right creators to weather IGTV’s initial slim pickings. Settling on ad strategy creators can count on earning money from in the future might also get them to hang tight. Those deals could mimic the 55 percent split of mid-roll ad breaks Facebook gives creators on some videos. But again, the views must come first.

Alternatively, or additionally, it could double down on the launch strategy of luring creators with the potential to become the big fish in IGTV’s small-for-now pond. Backroom deals to trade being highlighted in its IGTV algorithm in exchange for high-quality content could win the hearts of these stars and their managers. Instagram would be wise to pair these incentives with vertical long-form video content creation workshops. It could bring its community, product and analytics leaders together with partnered stars to suss out what works best in the format and help them shoot it.

The cross-promo spigot

Once there’s something worth watching on IGTV, the company could open the cross-promo traffic spigot. At first, Instagram would send notifications about top content or IGTV posts from people you follow, and call them out with a little orange text banner atop its main app. Now it seems to understand it will need to be more coercive.

Last month, TechCrunch tipster Jane Manchun Wong spotted Instagram showing promos for individual IGTV shows in the middle of the feed, hoping to redirect eyeballs there. And today, TechCrunch researcher Matt Navarra found Instagram getting more aggressive by putting a bigger call out featuring a relevant IGTV clip with preview image above your Stories tray on the home screen. It may need to boost the frequency of these cross-promotions and stick them in-between Stories and Explore sections as well to give IGTV the limelight. These could expose users to creators they don’t follow already but might enjoy.

“It’s still early but I do think there’s a lot of potential when they figure out two things since the feature is so new,” says John Shahidi, who runs the Justin Bieber-backed Shots Studios, which produces and distributes content for Lele Pons, Rudy Mancuso and other Insta celebs. “1. Product. IGTV is not in your face so Instagram users aren’t changing behavior to consume. Timeline and Instagram Stories are in your face so those two are the most used features. 2. Discoverability. I want to see videos from people I don’t follow. Interesting stuff like cooking, product review, interesting content from brands but without following the accounts.” In the meantime, Shots Studios is launching a vertical-only channel on YouTube that Shahidi believes is the first of its kind.

Instagram will have to balance its strategic imperative to grow the long-form video hub and avoid spamming users until they hate the brand as a whole. Some think it’s already gone too far. “I think it’s super intrusive right now,” says Tiffany Zhong, once known as the world’s youngest venture capitalist who now runs Generation Z consulting firm Zebra Intelligence. “I personally find all the IGTV videos super boring and click out within seconds (and the only time I watch them are if I accidentally tapped on the icon when I tried to go to my DMs instead).” Desperately funneling traffic to the feature before there’s enough great content to power relevant recommendations for everyone could prematurely sour users on IGTV.

Systrom remains optimistic he can iterate his way to success. “What I want to see over the next six to 12 months is a consistent drumbeat of new features that both consumers and creators are asking for, and to look at the retention curve and say ‘are people continuing to watch? Are people continuing to upload?,’” says Systrom. “So far we are seeing that all of those are healthy. But again trying to judge a very new kind of audacious format that’s never really been done before in the first months is going to be really hard.”

Differentiator or deterrent?

The biggest question remains whether IGTV will remain devout to the orthodoxy of vertical-only. Loosening up to accept landscape videos too might nullify a differentiator, but also pipe in a flood of content it could then algorithmically curate to bootstrap IGTV’s library. Reducing the friction by allowing people to easily port content to or from elsewhere might make it feel like less of a gamble for creators deciding where to put their production resources. Instagram itself expanded from square-only to portrait and landscape photos in the feed in 2015.

“My advice would be to make the videos horizontal. We’ve all come to understand vertical as ‘short form’ and horizontal as ‘long form,’” says Sayman. “It’s in the act of rotating your phone to landscape that you indicate to yourself and to your mobile device that you will not be context switching for the next few minutes, but rather intend to focus on one piece of content for an extended period of time.” This would at least give users more to watch, even if they ended up viewing landscape videos with their phones in portrait orientation.

This might be best as a last-ditch effort if it can’t get enough content flowing in through other means. But at least Instagram should offer a cropping tool that lets users manually select what vertical slice of a landscape video they want to show as they watch, rather than just grabbing the center or picking one area on the side for the whole clip. This could let creators repurpose landscape videos without things getting awkwardly half cut out of frame.

Former Facebook employee and social investor Josh Elman, who now works at Robinhood, told me he’s confident the company will experiment as much as necessary. “I think Facebook is relentless. They know that a ton of consumers watch video online. And most discover videos through influencers or their friends. (Or Netflix). Even though Watch and IGTV haven’t taken the world by storm yet, I bet Facebook won’t stop until they find the right mix.”

There’s a goldmine waiting if it does. Unlike on Facebook, there’s no Regram feature, you can’t post links, and outside of Explore you just see who you already follow on Instagram. That’s made it great at delivering friendly video and clips from your favorite stars, but leaves a gaping hole where serendipitous viewing could be. IGTV fills that gap. The hours people spend on Facebook watching random videos and their accompanying commercials have lifted the company to over $13 billion in revenue per quarter. Giving a younger audience a bottomless pit of full-screen video could produce the same behavior and profits on Instagram without polluting the feed, which can remain the purest manifestation of visual feed culture. But that’s only if IGTV can get enough content uploaded.

Puffed up by the success of besting its foe Snapchat, Instagram assumed it could take the long-form video world by storm. But the grand entrance at its debutante ball didn’t draw enough attention. Now it needs to take a different tack. Tone down the cross-promo for the moment. Concentrate on teaching creators how to find what works on the format and incentivizing them with cash and traffic. Develop some must-see IGTV and stoke a viral blockbuster. Prove the gravity of extended, personality-driven vertical video. Only then should it redirect traffic there from the feed, Stories, and Explore.

YouTube’s library wasn’t built overnight, and neither will IGTV’s. Facebook’s deep pockets and the success of Instagram’s other features give it the runway necessary to let IGTV take off. With 1 billion monthly users, and 400 million daily Stories users gathered in just two years, there are plenty of eyeballs waiting to be seduced. Systrom concludes, “Everything that is great starts small.” IGTV’s destiny will depend on Instagram’s patience.

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