If you didn’t read this week’s post “Failure to Feel” I will read it to you, dramatically and enthusiastically, below. 👇
Notes from the Captain
Thangs mentioned in this week’s video
Famous art horses
Whistlejacket National Gallery video (25 minutes)
Cy Twombly pencil work (although I can’t find the one that made me mad)
Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Did you spot the error in the video?
As a huge Cormac McCarthy fan, this is embarrassing. Personally. For me. I had a brain fart in the video and accidentally said, “The Rider” instead of “The Road”. Fortunately, both are great books. Very different subject matters, but great! I’ll update the video at some point with a caption or overdub that corrects it, but since it took 4 hours to upload the file to substack, for today, it is what it is. I hope it’s not too jarring.
New Perk Alert!
To tie the video with Monday’s issue of The Stream, Behind the Streams will now include an audio recording of the main feature from it (embed👆). It’s for those folks who maybe haven’t read it yet, or would just like to… listen. And, well, it just makes sense to do that in this post.
This audio reading by me, your Captain, is a new bonus for paid subscribers only. That’s how much I love you.
Previous posts in this call-to-business/customer service structure
Thangs I forgot to mention in the video
What’s a Kootenay candle?
Here is some Twombly I did like from a different day and a different gallery in a different country. This is called Quattro Stagioni (Four Seasons) and I saw it at the Tate.
Future housekeeping ‘to look intos’
There is a subscriber-only chat feature which may be a great way for you to suggest things for me to talk about, or share thoughts on posts or… whatever. I need to look into how that works, and threads.
I obviously still haven’t worked out the lighting for the video, and how to do color correction. I have a call set up with a friend of mine who’s gonna talk me through it, so hopefully over time, the look will improve. (The editing will always be rough and all over the place because it matches my style so I’m sticking to it.)
The audio reading is hilarious to me. I did it in one take and that’s about as much time as I want to spend on them, but listening back… I was pretty critical of the read: “I should have hit this line in this way! That’s not right at all!” etc. etc. I’ll get better, and do a better audio mix. Everything’s so rude and crude, sound-wise.
Did you know there’s a Substack App? You might prefer the reading/viewing experience of The Stream through that.
That’s all for now. Send me your questions and comments!
Love what you love!
Your Captain, Janeen
Behind the Streams: Failure to Feel