Back in the saddle.
Added 2019-08-12 08:12:16 +0000 UTCSorry for the delay in updates. I have been incredibly busy since getting back from the symposium in Wyoming. Some of that is the usual "I took two weeks away from work, so it will take 4 to get things right," but there are other exciting distractions worth mentioning.
1. In case you missed it. Ian filmed Logan Metesh's interesting exploration of new media and old museums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqJTRmOtiXM
This does include my "anti boomer" rant, meant to represent the youngest generation's frustration with the old ways. I don't believe it is in this particular video, but the greatest take away, for me, from "Gen Z" is to be willing to be challenged on any given fact. The internet is a big place and history is constantly being re-explored. What we "know" one day can change the next and it is best to be cautious enough to hear new theories.
2. Thanks to a tangential conversation at Cody with another creator, I'm going to be filming a piece I did not think we would get for the series at the end of this month. That means another 16+ hour road trip I was not expecting and more schedule shenanigans... but it's a narrow window for a wonderful surprise for all of you. Unfortunately we're just shooting the gun, I have no time to do the research and it will likely be no sooner than the end of this year that I can get to one of the museums that has a non-firing example I can use to finish producing the episode later. I will, however, get you patrons a preview of the firing footage if and when in hand (you never know what can go wrong).
3. The Shotgun series is progressing. We only really have one piece that keeps us from doing "American Centerfire Repeating Shotguns through 1918." Once it turns up we'll be locked in nicely. One other piece, sadly much rarer, is halting us from doing "Centerfire Repeating Shotguns through 1918," a global approach. Mind you, there are more than these two left on the list, but the rest turn up fairly regularly and won't challenge an early 2020 show launch. Recall, the reason we cannot start this series until everything is in hand is because we want to, for the first time, do one in chronological order.
If you would like to help in the hunt, our Discord server has a private group going. You just have to promise not to compete to purchase what is on the remaining list, until after the show has an example. Otherwise we'd be sort of encouraging people to raise the prices on ourselves.
4. Due to some conversations at Cody I've reinvested in a website idea I had long ago. The concept is to aggregate all the "old gun content" in one place for people to keep up with. Videos, text, images, museum announcements, book releases, etc. The hope is that the larger shows would draw in a general audience who could then more easily find and enjoy the articles or be exposed to upcoming books, researcher notes, and the like. Basically a way to put the researchers and authors back up at the front of the community.
I'm currently testing the site in alpha, so it's entirely unreliable as I intentionally break things. But I'll let you all know when it is ready. It's not meant to host anything or make any money (except possibly some ad space to later pay a neutral administrator) and it is not branded under C&Rsenal. It's meant to be for the community and will only serve as a central hub to link to content wherever it is hosted already. This has actually been a big chunk of my free time.
5. I did an interview btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3xtCnf3KTU
6. I got all this ready on Tuesday, saved it as a draft, and now it's 4am on Monday. Go me. I guess you'll get two this week!
Comments
I couldn't quite hear your "anti boomer" rant, but I would imagine that it would be similar to the rant I had about previous generations I grew up with. They saved the world and put a man on the moon you know. I miss them a lot. I really appreciate what you do here. And I really don't mind having my preconceived ideas and old myths challenged. The ability to access, or have access, to knowledge, has added new excitement to a lifelong interest in firearms and history. And I thank you in what small way I can.
Richard Cross
2019-08-17 04:48:28 +0000 UTCTry being the brief few years between GenX and Millenials. Some of the names fit so poorly. I mostly refer to the generations after me as the "tutorial generations"
C&Rsenal
2019-08-13 05:33:08 +0000 UTCInterestingly, my need to talk about old guns to people who were not already... invested.. was a big reason for why C&Rsenal started. I wandered away from Gunboards and towards reddit back when it was plastic only.
C&Rsenal
2019-08-13 05:31:54 +0000 UTCI refuse to ever behave.
C&Rsenal
2019-08-13 05:30:10 +0000 UTCThe date ranges for the Generations depend on who is making the definition. I've seen the end of the Boomers as any where from 1955 to 1965. I was born in late 1962 to a WWII vet father and have 3 older sisters. I identify with the Boomers and am probably one of the last of the Boomers. It's probably more realistic to recognize that there is over-lap between the so-called 'Generations' as well as sub-groups withing a Generation. But that does make it harder to classify people into pre-defined groups!
Jason
2019-08-13 00:54:40 +0000 UTCBTW, the "traditional" dates for "Boomers" is wrong, with the actual cutoff being 1960; the group that's usually lumped in with Boomers that falls in the '60-'70 birthdates that actually has more in common w/ Gen X are known as "Cuspers" and are substantially different in behavior from the rest of the Boomers, aligning themselves more closely w/ GenX preferences, but having overlap w/ both of these essentially ad hoc classifications. Just an FYI.
Bruce Brodnax
2019-08-12 22:24:53 +0000 UTCAnyone got a timestamp for Othias' rant in the 1st entry? I don't want to have to rewatch this whole thing again just to find it. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?.. ;-)
Bruce Brodnax
2019-08-12 22:20:19 +0000 UTCI learned in second grade not to trust an "expert" - especially a school teacher - any longer than it takes to walk out of the room. That was also when I realized that personal beliefs and political leanings may be presented as "fact". There were several incidents in a short period of time. One involved notable, undeserved punishment, because the teacher denied the possibility of a space station existing and I refused to agree (because I had recently seen a fly-by of then-new Mir during an observatory visit). Almost traumatizing at the time. But those incidents laid good ground work for me to build upon for handling over-opinionated idiots, questioning so-called 'authority', and learning on my own. One of the best things you can do for a child's education is find a way to help them understand that they can never trust a person that will not admit they were (or even could be) wrong.
Sopwith Cameltoe
2019-08-12 15:39:34 +0000 UTCThe "anti boomer" rant sums up pretty succinctly why I quit gunboards.
Nick T
2019-08-12 11:49:50 +0000 UTCIt's funny how someone can be so dead set that what they know is right, when they were told it by their 6th grade teacher in 1964... and said teacher saw it on TV or something. >__> I very much agree that people should be far more open to reevaluating what they think they know.
Planescaped
2019-08-12 10:27:27 +0000 UTCIt was a wonderfully interview that you and Ian where able to do.
Bryan Sportel
2019-08-12 09:37:20 +0000 UTC
