https://diode.zone/videos/watch/080c7ad7-8a2a-42fd-bc9f-43fe91152321 I apologise for the poor person's rotoscoping effect on this video - I think the Christmas jumper in front of the bare walls brought it out of me a little, but I had also mentioned Richard Linklater in one of the videos I had been editing this past few days when I was ill and so had Waking Life in my mind, and could too easily see the whole scene as something out of a graphic novel so wanted to push the envelope a little. Plus, I have been ill and lying in the settee all day put me in the kind of mood to simply play with all of the effects on Kdenlive. Here I talk about a story, what would become (is becoming) Holding Patterns, which I would work on for the next couple of months until something would kick me back into developing Issue Zero as a whole. I talk about a submission I made to talk about Creative Commons zines at the Creative Commons Summit in Portugal - it was to be accepted - and my ambivalence about that which relates to Google funding of the Creative Commons. This video marks an important point, perhaps, as, though Holding Patterns would inevitably invite mission creep, it did suggest to me something that could be serialised and developed in Marginálie while remaining comprehensible to those who do not understand on a technical level all of the threats it takes as its theme. I did not realise it at the time, but Holding Patterns had bubbled up from a daemon began with Woodstock telling me to write a "chlebovka", something that could be sold to the masses, like a detective story. Though the story - now the beginnings of a novel - is set in the world of Call Them Soldiers, a world which has been overengineered with autistic perseveration over more than a decade, it shares much in common with thrillers and detective stories and could set the scene for Think Soldier, History is on the Make, and other more involved stories in the series. Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:39:06 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://diode.zone https://diode.zone/lazy-static/avatars/61b689b7-84d5-43c7-9fa8-e63a7fd1d952.png https://diode.zone/videos/watch/080c7ad7-8a2a-42fd-bc9f-43fe91152321 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://diode.zone/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.