One of us spent the day back at work on the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's tour show, in a room with a close friend and the show's designer, working out his part in something its fans come back to every year. That same morning he'd filmed B-roll alone and wanted nobody near him. So we talk about both ways of making. Casey Neistat says he can't work with other people, yet he still has someone watch his cuts. We wonder why the lone genius has become the story we tell about making things, when it took a crowd of people to reach the moon.
The best notes help a maker get closer to what they're going for, instead of steering it toward what the person giving them would have made. Then we turn to isolation. On an office day, everyone sat at computers in the same room until one of us got up and left. We like the idea of rooms built for one thing, like a writer's rented room with only a table. One of us wants a tiny phone that pops out of his iPhone and only makes calls. The last story is from a Key West bar with a famous past and a guitar Bob Dylan signed on the wall, where nearly everyone was looking at a phone.
Mentioned in this episode: Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Casey Neistat, Oscar Isaac, Guillermo del Toro, Grainydays, Omaha's Yoshitomo, HBO's Band of Brothers, Ang Lee's Hulk, Roseanne.
-Ai
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