This is the day people take their lives back from facebook and Twitter. How much time does the average person in the world today have to spend reading tweets from twits? My girlfriend has this theory that it all started with MTV.
In 1982, MTV burst on the scene and, shortly therafter, movies got shorter, plays got shorter, there were more commercials (short films), making TV shows shorter. Now, Twitter in which you can only...
Oops! If this were Twitter I'd be done by now. It's regulated to me shorter than am MTV Buzz Cut! So you can do it on the phone. I remember when you would go to a coffee shop to talk about a film or a play you just saw or a book you are reading and didn't want it to end.
Now it ends all too soon. Next we'll be having sex via the cell phone.
But in 2010, we enter The Year of Taking Your Time!
You are hereby given permission to write, produce, watch and perform in long-form entertainment. The TV miniseries, the infomercial, the three-act play, intermissions at movie theaters. Watch Reds, Hamlet or any of hundreds of moving works of art that take time to unfold!
Don't say "attention spans today can't support" you longer work. Make it good and people will stay!
Get ready for The Year of Taking Your Time!
