Editorial – Scopique's

Cancel Culture in TV & Streaming

Scopique January 17, 2020

I woke up this morning thinking about Travelers. I loved Travelers. It was an amazingly well constructed story about people from the future sent back into the past in order to nudge events that would hopefully result in a different outcome…eh…in the…

Creativity

Scopique December 13, 2019

I had originally written a totally different post, but while out getting lunch I was conversing with my most ardent fan (myself) and realized that in pursuing this topic out loud, I wanted to take a different approach. Creating is a calling.…

This is Not a Retrospective

Scopique December 13, 2019

We (almost) made it around the Sun once more. I don’t do retrospectives mainly because my memory is absolute crap and I don’t have any idea what happened yesterday nevermind what happened 6 months ago or 10 years ago, but here’s a…

The DV Rebel’s Guide For People With Ambition But Not A Lot Of Money

Scopique December 5, 2019

In yet another case of starting something, I’ve picked up “The DV Rebel’s Guide” An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap” from Amazon last week. In this book, former ILM artist and co-founder of the VFX company The…

Tis’ The Season

Scopique November 11, 2019

There are two ways of looking at the Holiday Season: the first is how the season approaches us and the second is how we approach it. Most of the “it’s too early!” ire, I believe, is because of the mental calculus that…

Developer Blues

Scopique October 30, 2019

I am really the last person you’d want doling out development advice, trust me. I have been “doing development” for about 20 years now, but the thing about doing development is that you’ll never be good enough unless you have a natural…

Addicted to Learning

Scopique October 23, 2019

This is one of those topics that just sits on the top of my brain like a tangled mass of cables stockpiled in that Sterlite container in my basement. I don’t know where to start, or where to end, and there’s no…

The best-equipped non-streamer on the planet.

Scopique October 21, 2019

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this, but I have a love/hate relationship with streaming. I like to consider myself “human-focused” so the idea behind connecting with a community directly through a shared experience should be something that fits the bill, but…

Hobbies

Scopique October 10, 2019

Hobbies are the things we do when we’re not doing the things we must do. They are electives that are chosen because the topics excite us, that allows us to push ourselves for the sheer joy of discovering what we’re capable of,…

Question: Should I Be Using Hashtags?

Scopique October 10, 2019

Here’s something I’ve been struggling with. As the two readers who usually visit this site know (and I say that non-ironically because I see the visitor graph when I log in to the dashboard), I whip out these development posts at random…