I wanted to start by saying 2 years is the longest I ever continuously wrote something. And then continue to get soppier and soppier from there. But actually my printed column has been going monthly since 2005; first for one title and then for businessman.pl, when the magazines merged. Back when I started it was a novelty in Poland to write about blogging CEOs. Obviously so much has changed since, but sometimes one has to wonder – has it really?
what’s up?
In terms of tech and what it made available to us – surely. But since my interests became less tech-centric and more tech-for-creativity I noticed underneath it all the pace is a lot slower. Most of the big business in creative industries (I’m mostly referring to film and music here) is still in the mindset it was 2 years ago. In other words: something is happening to our revenue streams and we have to tame it as much as we can, occasionally playing along to satisfy particular audience.
The rest of us? Still on the verge of some sort of DIY era, which is uncertain to come and no one quite knows what it will be like. Main trends seem to be: diversification, regionalization (in terms of audiences, not geographically, though that still holds too). So 1000 films which cost 30 000 or 100 which cost 300 000 instead of one for 30 million. But is this going to be a whole era? What starts it, revolution? Evolution? The market crash made it very difficult to find funding for even the 30 000 flicks. We seem to be in the process of figuring out new models to accommodate production of those. Perhaps it has to be a constant flexibility. Can we cope without models, if it comes ot it?
I mentioned Dan, my awesome friend and host of this website (and all around genius web activist). Before we met in person up North England, we “met” while using jaiku – a cute, little microbloging service, which seemed to attract lot of creative web types at that point. 2 years on jaiku – for us – is pretty much no more, since it got swallowed by google. Google buzz is hidden in my gmail labels (though I’m hearing it’s the only service with geo-tagging with any number of users in Poland, where I currently am).
Obviously there is an easy conclusion to draw here. Nothing substantially changes; the big ones eat the small ones with all the usual consequences. Only we have new big ones now. But that is perhaps too easy.
what’s next?
You might have noticed abinarylife has recently become very film-oriented. Being a child of the times I change focus . Or, quite likely, being a child i’m about now figuring where my focus really is. It’s quite likely my next project will involve quite a website and around-website activity (twitters, facebooks, digital content production) of it’s own. Still I hope to keep abinarylife as it has afforded me all the benefits of a democratic new medium: I can blabber freely adding to the general blahblahblah repository of the internet. And to share things not important enough to ever be shared was it not so democratic. I’m very thankful to have you, my dear readers (well, friends, family…) along for the ride.
If it was an actual 2 year old, with birthday in March it would be one of the children of happy summer loving. Right now is a hot birthday parties season. “They say it’s your birthday, It’s my birthday too yeah“. Let’s have a drink and celebrate.
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Comments ( 2 )
Heyyyya! Happy birthday! Quite scary to think back to where we were two years ago… Keep blogging, I enjoy reading the stuff you get up to, even if I don’t have much interest in the indy film scene or even movies in general. :)
Fab added these pithy words on
Mar 22 10 at
5:17 pm
Gratulacje! Jubileusz godny szampana :) Tak trzymac!
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Danuta Bierzanska added these pithy words on
Mar 22 10 at
9:28 pm