We’re doing a showcase absolutely! I’m just saying we’re doing it primarily for the participants rather than an obligation to our audience, sorry if there was a miscommunication! I’m pretty excited about what weird stuff we have planned for it.

Thanks for the feedback, all feedback is useful. I don’t think I’ll be able to answer your questions to your satisfaction unfortunately, given the short format of Bluesky posts and possibly our different philosophies/expectations for how things should be done or perceptions of what people want!

I see, well as I said the priority of the program were the people who won the residency/scholarships positions. We will talk about them, but not out of a formal obligation to our audience. I cowrite and approve everything in the video so I don’t believe there is a split in communication.

I think I have that impression because people have pretty overwhelmingly reacted positively to these other projects and your complaint doesn’t seem to be the majority opinion as far as I know. If more people express some of the sentiments you’re sharing here, we’ll discuss changing things up.

Thanks for asking questions earnestly, despite your clear frustration with us. You’ve given me a few things to think about in terms of what we owe to our audience…

Oh also with funding, a few people threw addition funds for the Brainmind project in particular that increased the stipends we offered!

I imagine these answers might not be totally satisfying to you, but if we do another residency we probably will make it more public and break it down for people.

There has been a plan to showcase residents’ work in a fun weird way, but it has admittedly taken a very long time to get to this showcase. I hope that when we do celebrate these artists better that it will help their careers or happiness about their work.

Re 3: we’ve received updates from our residents and scholarship winners that make me believe we’ve had successes. We provided references for some and one resident was about to get a bigger grant opportunity bc of Brainmind. Not sure about what we owe the public, since the support was about them.

Re 2: the residency came from the ad revenue because we try to find excuses to support newer and diverse talent in creative industries. There’s a question there about if video production is solely what patrons want to support, and we’re definitely still thinking about that. Thx for the data point!

Re 1: sadly, the dumb anecdote about how we came up with the idea was indeed the catalyst. We used our networks (and considerable amount of time) to recruit and pay $600 each to established award-winning industry mentors who met regularly and advised each resident.

THANK YOU FOR THE HYPE it is keeping us alive and theoretically sane

Re: the lack of communication, you are absolutely correct and I want to apologize for demanding so much patience from you and the rest of our patrons. Let me know if you do want to see the latest draft anyway and I’ll DM you.

Hey! I’m totally down to answer any questions about the Brainmind Residency!

I’m not sure what segment you’re talking about, but we did remove bits and pieces based on the feedback.

We waterboarded a guy for 5 hours for $100,000!! Don't worry he could tap out at any time with a safe word and we gave him PTSD counseling afterwards 😜

oh nvm lol

Emily I can't tell if this is a bit

Omg welp time to subscribe

The ONE time I side with the audience over the critics