Creative malaise

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Bryan Harley
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Ornsack wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:04 pm When I joined NP2k making live action movies was all I could think about. It was my life, from childhood to early 30s.

The thought of making something sounds exhausting now. Not a bone in my body wants to command a whole crew (travelling around Australia with some equipment and two actors sounds fun though).
This. Pretty much. It's sad, but true.

I still have occassional flickers of desire and amibition to make a short, a feature, anything. Then I just binge some fuckin show and call it a night.
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Hahaha, I was thinking that same thing last night. EVERY FUCKING DAY, there's a new season of some show to watch. I'm about to cut ties with all TV... if that's even possible.

Still, would LOVE to see some Bryan Harley shorts.
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One of these days I'll get round to making another short.
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I had this exact conversation with my girlwifefriend yesterday. We both realized we don't have dream jobs anymore. Our dream is to not work. 20 years ago, I could not have imagined passing on a STAR WARS project because the commute was too long. That's just what I did though. The business of being creative is physically and mentally exhausting even if you're just parked behind a computer all day. And a thousand people are telling you you're doing it wrong every day. The money is good, but I don't feel like I have skin in the game anymore.
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Heiliger wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:29 pm I had this exact conversation with my girlwifefriend yesterday. We both realized we don't have dream jobs anymore. Our dream is to not work. 20 years ago, I could not have imagined passing on a STAR WARS project because the commute was too long. That's just what I did though. The business of being creative is physically and mentally exhausting even if you're just parked behind a computer all day. And a thousand people are telling you you're doing it wrong every day. The money is good, but I don't feel like I have skin in the game anymore.
TLDR - YOU PASSED ON STAR WARS?!?!?!

I still have some desire to make shit, but it's more of a deep-seeded anger that I haven't put any real effort into it for awhile. But I still wouldn't pass on Star Wars - no matter how terrible it is now.
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Yeah, wow, not to rub it in, but... you don't pass on Star Wars my dude!
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Bryan Harley wrote: Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:38 am Yeah, wow, not to rub it in, but... you don't pass on Star Wars my dude!
haha... Yeah, MARK.
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