I’ve had various goals for and projects involving this blog over the years. It’s been fun! There’ve been consistent times and long times of silence. Sometimes the website even went missing!
But now, sitting here in the wee hours of the final day in 2025… I’m thinking about the little things and the big things; how they interact and connect.
There’s something missing in cinema these days- well, there are many things missing, but I’m talking about space, having time to just be in the scene.
I recently started watching Invasion from Apple TV+, which is quite good. Especially since it isn’t as focused on the techno-gizmo-side of sci-fi. But there is this weird dichotomy in the pacing and scene setting. They have these brief moments, including close-ups of plant life, or creepy crawlies, or maybe they’ll show a stark, overly wide establishing shot of, say, a barn in a field to emphasize the large field and un-cluttered views of the blue sky. Then they’ll do a scene, letting it develop with good pacing- not too much of a tik-tok-editing cut-job here.
But we’ll still only get little bits of story in each story line before we jump to another storyline. It feels like, for many scenes, while, yeah, the scene was basically done, it felt like it was too short and we could’ve stuck with that storyline longer instead of swapping to the next.
Anyway, what was my point… oh yeah! I’d like to write about the little things. Whether they’re real, imagined, or otherwise, I want to share the little insights of the little things I see, find, and create.
Hopefully this “thinking little” mindset will also help my approach to writing in keeping it more ground in topic, less unnecessarily verbose, and more of a fun, “curious mind” kinda thing. Yanno?