Level Orange

Way back in July 2005, I posted about my rising interest in podcasts and listed some of my favorites. One of those was a movie review podcast called Cinecast, which, for someone like me who’s always loved movies, seemed to match most of my sensibilities and even give me some insight into movies that I had either never heard of or just hadn’t been able to see. I’d been listening for the past couple of years from a distance, not really engaging the hosts Adam and Matty (and previously Sam) or the community around the show, now called Filmspotting.

Recently, however, I decided to at least take part in some way and submit my answers for their Massacre Theater contest, where the hosts act out a scene and listeners are asked to guess which movie the dialogue is from. Personally, I love movie trivia, and for a while there, I would just listen and say “oh, I know that one!” and that’d be the end of it, but last week, that all changed.

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It’s funny how things come together without any rhyme or reason, especially in good and interesting ways.

Just last week, I was thinking of something new that I wanted to undertake. Not so much a hobby or project, but an exercise routine of sorts for my creativity and imagination. With my line of work, surprisingly enough, I don’t seem to get a lot of time to do much drawing or illustration, and I’m starting to think it might be affecting my design work overall. I find myself managing workflows and manipulating tools more than actually doing what I’d consider really creative stuff, and I figured it was time to find new ways to do that, even in the simplest ways.

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