A Little Bit of Everything

A couple of really fun projects have come out over the past two weeks: two episodes of the Twenty Sided Podcast; a freewheeling conversation about IP crossovers in entertainment disguised as a Free Guy review; and a breakdown of the Fear Street trilogy with the great Ingrid Ostby. Gaze long enough into an abyss and the abyss will start to seem like a good topic for a podcast.

There’s obviously a lot of stuff to listen to out there— I just dropped 4 hours in your lap, not counting the time it’d take to watch the movies we review or listen to prior D&D sessions— but I’m also really digging the show Loud. I knew very little about Reggaeton coming into it, other than the fact that I love dancing to that one beat (you know the one), but being able to trace the history of any art movement to its roots is a fascinating experience.

It tells the story of a music genre spreading across the world while retaining pieces of the people and places that fostered its existence. It’s like the game Katamari Damacy, you start with this little ball and pick up more and more of your environment until you’re left with something entirely new.

This is a perfect analogy.

I think that’s how collaboration works, ideally. You have your own thing going, but every other person you work with brings something new to the table. And as long as you’re cultivating a space where you can build off of each other and grow in tandem you end up creating something beyond what any of you could have imagined in the first place.

And with that, I just saved you $400 on an improv class.

-KB