Tim Barrus To My Film Students at Cinematheque: RE: Your Assignment on Shorts.I have received most of your shorts. I am enjoying them tremendously. Most of you are beginning to develop an understanding of the power of a metaphor. You get in. You zap it. And then you're out. No lingering. The audience doesn't have time. How can you say what you have to say within the context of a moving image, hold the attention of the audience, and then get out so the narrative can move. You're getting there. I have a few more to look at. You've run it from humor to tragedy. The trick is in how to do that in the longer telling of your story. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT TELLING A STORY. That will never change. Keep it up. More! More! -- Tim Barrus Lucian.Daemon@gmail.comIsn’t it a little ironic that there’s not a single agent in the book biz that will seriously look at a VOOK proposal. Not one. The idea of the book is a dead end. Writers with cameras has a future. Publishing will go down kicking and screaming and clinging to its blacklists. (I did not say backlists I said BLACKlists and I am on them all). But the gatekeepers will bite the digital dust. In time. In time, even the grand poobah agents like Todd Schuster and Janet Silver will become ephemeral antiques. Media execs like Ellie Hirschhorn at the very grand poobag I mean bah Simon and Schuster are going to have to scramble but can they scramble fast enough. I doubt it. Editors like Nan Graham do not scramble. They just drag their slow lengths along. Will I have to buy every guy at Cinematheque the new Apple Tablet. It is going to change everything. You can BET I will invest in that paradigm. It’s a given. Publishing will not be the place it is now unless the grand poobags I mean bahs can move time backwards. Narrative will endure. However, its images are going to move. The agents and the editors will be utterly lost -- this list of corporate fucks is a long one -- and they will greet any change with the usual, mean-spirited indifference. Oh poor them. But change is here to stay. The radical writer with a video camera redefines the book. Join us! Less