What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)
I never actually thought of it this way before. Wow!
At first you only heard Steve on audio podcasts or sometimes on the radio. Well, now the albino comes out from behind the mic and does what he loves to do: Tell you stories!
I love watching YouTube. Ever since I cut the cable cord (not literally but you get the idea ha!), YouTube has become my Television. It’s the one thing I watch everyday, everything from News Channels, Music Channels, Geek Stuff, Vlogging Channels and many more. I just double checked and I am subscribed to almost 100 YouTube Channels. Most of which are releasing content daily! That’s a lot of videos! However, every time I watch something that creatively inspires me, the constant question in my head is “Why can’t I create a show like that?” Not to say I don’t have the ability to do so, but I was always down on myself for not taking my love of performing and editing videos and moving it to the next level.
So today, I am proud to say that after several years of watching Professional YouTube channels and in the grand scheme of my Great Big 2012 Creative Experiment, I have decided to take the plunge into creating a web show of my own!
It’s a writing related show called “Something From The Brain Of Steve Saylor” and every Monday and Wednesday I will be performing short stories, interviewing authors, doing book reviews, maybe even discuss my thoughts on the book and indie self publishing industry.
If you want to keep up to date with the show you can subscribe at http://youtube.com/snowball (Yes I finally got that account back!)
BE STILL MY HEART!!! Is that Arnie and Sly, I spy with my little eye? Why is the Internet SO AWESOME!
YUP, looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone happened to rendez-vous at the hospital at the same time for shoulder surgeries.
“After all the action, stunts and physical abuse shooting ‘The Expendables 2’ and ‘The Last Stand’ it was time for a little tune up on my shoulder,” Arnie tweeted. ”Look who was coincidentally waiting in line behind me for his shoulder surgery. Now we’re ready for another round of great times and action when we shoot ‘The Tomb. #greattobeback.”
Hold on, I knew about Expendables 2 (and the AMAZING inclusion of Chuck Norris and JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME *14-year-old me is swoooooning*).
But what is The Tomb?? According to IMDB it’s an action thriller about a master prison architect (Sly) who gets framed and thrown into one of his own escape-proof prisons and tries to escape with the help of his inmate (Arnie).
