Writers strike, epiphany and serendipity
In 2007 when the writers of Hollywood were striking, I was visiting a friend in Studio City. As a writer I was empathetic to their plight and decided to make the short drive to Burbank and join the picket lines.
Later that night I had an epiphany on how to secure better footing for the writers in Hollywood which involved, in part, circumventing studios. It is by pure coincidence the #MeToo movement was about to gain traction.
The following morning while having coffee at the Bean on Beverly Glen Blvd., I sat to share a table with a stranger...
"Do you mind if I break into that with you?" I asked of his untouched newspaper in its protective plastic covering.
"Yes." He retorted.
Not to be put out, I asked; "Well, do you know where I might find one of my own."
"There's a box down the street there;" he said, as he flubbed his hand in the general direction.
At this point his two companions were seating themselves at the table next to him when I replied.
"Well, would you mind running down and grabbing one for me?"
His friends burst out laughing as I finally recognized him beneath the bill of his baseball cap, as the actor I raced home from school to watch every day as a child. The other two, I discovered, were his agent and a writer he had worked with. In the course of our ensuing conversation, I shared my previous night's epiphany about Viewer Productions.
The agent asked me to 'pitch' his office on my idea for a seriese Reality Programming: 'where the general public has the opportunity to follow, fund and get perks or profit, from anywhere in the world thanks to internet.'
I know, campy, but that was the jest.
My goal was to reduce the stronghold studios and venues (theater chains) have on production. By decentralizing the process and releasing bottlenecks in production and distribution, we release suppress creativity and fair market values of production. Creatives now have a democratized platform, and the public has an opportunity to participate in what is purposed for them.
Viewer Productions, as a cooperative on the eBitome.com platform, represents a revolutionary and fundamental shift of industry from profit to purpose; by enabling whole food chains in economy, from production to consumption, to participate in, Open Industry: equity from peer-to-peer equality, transparency and privacy in promoting liberty.
Enjoy
Later that night I had an epiphany on how to secure better footing for the writers in Hollywood which involved, in part, circumventing studios. It is by pure coincidence the #MeToo movement was about to gain traction.
The following morning while having coffee at the Bean on Beverly Glen Blvd., I sat to share a table with a stranger...
"Do you mind if I break into that with you?" I asked of his untouched newspaper in its protective plastic covering.
"Yes." He retorted.
Not to be put out, I asked; "Well, do you know where I might find one of my own."
"There's a box down the street there;" he said, as he flubbed his hand in the general direction.
At this point his two companions were seating themselves at the table next to him when I replied.
"Well, would you mind running down and grabbing one for me?"
His friends burst out laughing as I finally recognized him beneath the bill of his baseball cap, as the actor I raced home from school to watch every day as a child. The other two, I discovered, were his agent and a writer he had worked with. In the course of our ensuing conversation, I shared my previous night's epiphany about Viewer Productions.
The agent asked me to 'pitch' his office on my idea for a seriese Reality Programming: 'where the general public has the opportunity to follow, fund and get perks or profit, from anywhere in the world thanks to internet.'
I know, campy, but that was the jest.
My goal was to reduce the stronghold studios and venues (theater chains) have on production. By decentralizing the process and releasing bottlenecks in production and distribution, we release suppress creativity and fair market values of production. Creatives now have a democratized platform, and the public has an opportunity to participate in what is purposed for them.
Viewer Productions, as a cooperative on the eBitome.com platform, represents a revolutionary and fundamental shift of industry from profit to purpose; by enabling whole food chains in economy, from production to consumption, to participate in, Open Industry: equity from peer-to-peer equality, transparency and privacy in promoting liberty.
Enjoy