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So it was literally more than twenty years ago that I first put one of my dumbest creations on the internet: The Steven Seagal Movie Generator.
Like I seriously publicly launched that dumb thing back in 2004, and for those of you who were unaware, it assembles a title, cast and plot of a fake Steven Seagal movie from elements of his (real) bad films.
I honestly got the idea from a former-friend, who in high school wrote a comedic piece about how you could mash up the titles of Seagal films in the weird underground "newspaper" that got handed out for a few years. But I took it a few steps further, and made a whole thing.
Mostly it just sat there though, a thing I made once and never went back to. I followed it up with the Sci-Fi Channel Movie Generator (later retitled the Syfy Movie Generator) in 2008. I spent more time on that one, doing a later design update that made the "Syfy" movies show up on a fake DVD back cover.
But the Steven Seagal generator just sort of sat there, untouched.
And Steven Seagal kept making (terrible) movies with (predictable) titles. Like a lot. But the generator still only spat out movies culled from the nineties and early 2000s, ignoring all of his new stuff. There was a whole library of awful movies that just weren't in there, and it made the generator feel less relevant.
So, uh, I went and did something about that today.
First off, I redesigned the page. Now it looks like the back of a VHS tape box. Then I loaded the elements of about twenty-five additional films into the generator. And that was harder than I thought it would be, since some of the films are so obscure that they're not well documented. I literally had to do some deep research to figure out a lot of the basic plot details that are now in the generator.
But I did it.
And it's done.
And the generator is now fully loaded.
It's still useless and dumb, though.
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uh oh i know that look artists HATE that look it means your about to be stuck doing a lot of work for no pay
…soooooo just like everyone else on a con staff, then?
A good artist you can exploit is much harder to come by.
You never let them go.
Not without recruiting their replacement at least.
Artist rule NUMBER 1 Never work for free
Artist rule NUMBER 2 NEVER! WORK! FOR! FREE!
Well, it gets a bit different with entirely volunteer run cons, as no one gets paid from the con director on down. So while I’m usually all gung ho “pay artists!” normally, I don’t feel bad asking for free art from staffers for the con,
You jus have to convince them to actually do it. 😛
Hey, I resemble that remark. And that grin :-]
Funny the words badge art come to mind…
Also where the heck are they going? and is that suzuki?
They’re driving to Yakisoba Con (it’ll be more obvious tomorrow, but it’s in the chapter heading).
And the SUV is an old Toyota RAV4.