"WHAT-IF" POPCORNX MANIFESTO
What would I do if I blogged on POPCORNX "for a living"?
Literally getting paid a decent wage for my blogging efforts (to which this blog offers none such luxury, and never had since it's inception, alas). Here are a few thoughts:
01. More Film and Television Show Reviews, with further in-depth observations, and a dedicated focus on Asian Cinema.
02. Online and offline Interviews with Industry Practisioners, at the very least in the local media industry.
03. Dedicated Features on Made-in-Singapore films and media projects (like I used to on Reel Nation).
04. More Features on Asian Indie Cinema.
05. Delving more into the makers of Animated Features and Projects.
06. More behind-the-scenes focus on makers of your fav films and television/streaming programmes.
07. A dedicated feature(s) on Art Direction and Design for films and television/streaming.
08. More FILMTALKS (WHAT)
09. Standby for more....
I'd started POPCORNX primarily because I had wanted to dedicate a specific www-locale to my blog-features on TOYSREVIL (in the earlier days, when it was a hodgepodge of multiple passions of mine: TOYS, FILMS, COMICS, ANIME etc), and also wanting to singularly focus on another passion of my life: "FILMS".
Having worked in the local media industry for close to a decade, my love for media spilled from my personal life to online, needing to surround myself constantly (to the detriment of my various offline relationships), to both inspire myself, and as well keeping up to date with whatever was happening at the time (but not really "blog about work", as that'll always be a "no-go",until after a period of broadcast time has passed, of course), as I'd been lecturing/teaching in filmmaking courses for a few years too, so this was also a way to invest in myself and the knowledge to share, as I attempt to invest myself into my students' precious time.
Another aspect of the blog - which I did not recognise only until recently - was that I had literally wanted to talk about films, something which I very seldom do in real life, with friends who watch films with me. Sure, there had been casual non-committal conversations, and neither am I talking about "in-depth observations" (I am not deep, that way LOL), but these were few and incredibly rare. "Explaining what the movie was about" is not the conversation I am referring to, too, thanks.
Essentially "nerding out", which I primarily do on this blog and on TOYSREVIL! In fact, nerding-out on all of my blogs! Which would expain the lack of readers all around, as perhaps the Days Of Personal Weblogs fall at the wayside, whiile news-sites cconsume the www-consciousness (Yes, you can argue I do not have that "unique a voice" for folks to consider, I will not deny your feedback, if ever you chopose to give it anyways LOL)
Another super-weird aspect of filmmaking/being involved in local media production - what that we very rarely talk about the media we consume, or teach. It could be foreign media (as "local media" was always looked at in a negative light), or even a "What Is Your Favourite Film? And Why?" = a question which I used to want to ask students, because it essentially opens the subsequent need to talk about their own "film project", innit?
Or maybe I was simply in the "wrong crowd", and/orperhaps I did not stick up for what I had wanted to be involved in, so this point has become embarrassingly moot, I suppose. But there have been exceptions, very few though, through the years. Alas they remain in the archives.
I started this blog thinking about "myself" and needing to expel all the thought crowding on my brainpan, but through it all I had also hoped to cultivate a "different" culture to what I had experienced offline through the years, but perhaps my efforts are wanting, or perhaps my convictions and actions were not as strong as I had imagined it to be.
And I continue to rant and rave to myself, as much as I now consume media and films by myself, a head full of conversations I need to spill forth somewhere, and POPCORNX is the popcorn-bag halfway filled with sweet+salted, and the soda cup has been dried up for some time now... LOL
Cheers,
Andy TOYSREVIL
Featured as the header for this blogpost is one of the collectible figures from the "PETANYAN" blind box series designed by Refreshment Toy and produced by Unbox Industries (available to purchase online here), in what would have been a "contender" for "MASCOT OF POPCORNX", which started with YUM YUM (in 2015), but very quickly fell by the wayside, because there were not many popcorn-inspired collectible figures to be had...!
Literally getting paid a decent wage for my blogging efforts (to which this blog offers none such luxury, and never had since it's inception, alas). Here are a few thoughts:
01. More Film and Television Show Reviews, with further in-depth observations, and a dedicated focus on Asian Cinema.
02. Online and offline Interviews with Industry Practisioners, at the very least in the local media industry.
03. Dedicated Features on Made-in-Singapore films and media projects (like I used to on Reel Nation).
04. More Features on Asian Indie Cinema.
05. Delving more into the makers of Animated Features and Projects.
06. More behind-the-scenes focus on makers of your fav films and television/streaming programmes.
07. A dedicated feature(s) on Art Direction and Design for films and television/streaming.
08. More FILMTALKS (WHAT)
09. Standby for more....
I'd started POPCORNX primarily because I had wanted to dedicate a specific www-locale to my blog-features on TOYSREVIL (in the earlier days, when it was a hodgepodge of multiple passions of mine: TOYS, FILMS, COMICS, ANIME etc), and also wanting to singularly focus on another passion of my life: "FILMS".
Having worked in the local media industry for close to a decade, my love for media spilled from my personal life to online, needing to surround myself constantly (to the detriment of my various offline relationships), to both inspire myself, and as well keeping up to date with whatever was happening at the time (but not really "blog about work", as that'll always be a "no-go",until after a period of broadcast time has passed, of course), as I'd been lecturing/teaching in filmmaking courses for a few years too, so this was also a way to invest in myself and the knowledge to share, as I attempt to invest myself into my students' precious time.
Another aspect of the blog - which I did not recognise only until recently - was that I had literally wanted to talk about films, something which I very seldom do in real life, with friends who watch films with me. Sure, there had been casual non-committal conversations, and neither am I talking about "in-depth observations" (I am not deep, that way LOL), but these were few and incredibly rare. "Explaining what the movie was about" is not the conversation I am referring to, too, thanks.
Essentially "nerding out", which I primarily do on this blog and on TOYSREVIL! In fact, nerding-out on all of my blogs! Which would expain the lack of readers all around, as perhaps the Days Of Personal Weblogs fall at the wayside, whiile news-sites cconsume the www-consciousness (Yes, you can argue I do not have that "unique a voice" for folks to consider, I will not deny your feedback, if ever you chopose to give it anyways LOL)
Another super-weird aspect of filmmaking/being involved in local media production - what that we very rarely talk about the media we consume, or teach. It could be foreign media (as "local media" was always looked at in a negative light), or even a "What Is Your Favourite Film? And Why?" = a question which I used to want to ask students, because it essentially opens the subsequent need to talk about their own "film project", innit?
Or maybe I was simply in the "wrong crowd", and/orperhaps I did not stick up for what I had wanted to be involved in, so this point has become embarrassingly moot, I suppose. But there have been exceptions, very few though, through the years. Alas they remain in the archives.
I started this blog thinking about "myself" and needing to expel all the thought crowding on my brainpan, but through it all I had also hoped to cultivate a "different" culture to what I had experienced offline through the years, but perhaps my efforts are wanting, or perhaps my convictions and actions were not as strong as I had imagined it to be.
And I continue to rant and rave to myself, as much as I now consume media and films by myself, a head full of conversations I need to spill forth somewhere, and POPCORNX is the popcorn-bag halfway filled with sweet+salted, and the soda cup has been dried up for some time now... LOL
Cheers,
Andy TOYSREVIL
Featured as the header for this blogpost is one of the collectible figures from the "PETANYAN" blind box series designed by Refreshment Toy and produced by Unbox Industries (available to purchase online here), in what would have been a "contender" for "MASCOT OF POPCORNX", which started with YUM YUM (in 2015), but very quickly fell by the wayside, because there were not many popcorn-inspired collectible figures to be had...!
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