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Hey Mr. Williams. I have a quick question for you. I sent you a detailed e-mail recently to the e-mail address you have listed under your profile settings. I know you’re extremely busy and all, but I was wondering if you’d had a chance to read it or not. Also, I started a webpage using your program, but want to cancel it and start over. Is there a specific way to do that? Let me know, when you get a chance, what you thought of my idea. I have two years left of film school. I’ve previously worked with people like Adam Sandler at Sony Studios. My goal is to do a documentary film about Sierra’s impact during the drastic changes in PCs over the last 20 years. I’d love to get in touch with you on this project. Again, no rush. I’ve got a year to prep and plan. Thanks.
-Aaron Keller
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“… (by Aaron Keller) Hey Mr. Williams. I have a quick question for you. I sent you a detailed e-mail recently to the e-mail address you have listed under your profile settings. I know you’re extremely busy and all, but I was wondering if you’d had a chance to read it or not. Also, I started a webpage using your program, but want to cancel it and start over. Is there a specific way to do that? Let me know, when you get a chance, what you thought of my idea. I have two years left of film school. I’ve previously worked with people like Adam Sandler at Sony Studios. My goal is to do a documentary film about Sierra’s impact during the drastic changes in PCs over the last 20 years. I’d love to get in touch with you on this project. Again, no rush. I’ve got a year to prep and plan. Thanks.-Aaron Keller
…”Greetings Aaron:
I did receive your email.
Sorry not to respond. I’m in crunch mode working on my project. I always warn programmers to work in small bites, with frequent releases. ALWAYS avoid making major changes with long gaps between releases. I should have listened to me. My product has been buggy for four months while I’ve coded on the new release. Now I’ve got a huge mountain of new code, and know that when I release it, nearly one thousand websites will be in chaos for at least a couple of days. Hopefully, I’ll have the new version of the software ready for release sometime in the next two weeks. If you have a website using my code, you may want to hold off doing much to it until after the new release.
As to a documentary on Sierra: It could be a good idea. I’d broaden it beyond Sierra though. Include Id and Valve, and some of the new hot companies (who I don’t even know who are anymore) and you might have something worth watching. I’m not plugged into the film industry (although I’d like to be someday) .. but, it might be worth talking to some buyers for cable, with a short summary of the documentary, and see if they would be willing to air it. If you can’t convince yourself there is a market, then why shoot it? I’ve never been into art for art’s sake.
-Ken W
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“I’ve never been into art for art’s sake.”
Interesting you should mention that. I can go both ways. Actually, the site I started (today nontheless) is for my friends’ and mine production company so we can get ourselves out there a little more. Hopefully, I’ll be able to post some of our short films that we’ve done and update family, friends, and fans of new projects. Since I’m still in school, the art side of things is what I’m focussing on. Even so, I’m trying to market a few TV concepts to my contacts at Sony Studios. It may or may not happen as of this point.
Back to the documentary. I want to do it as part of a future school project, hence my desire to do art for art’s sake. But I’d like to market it as well. I have contacts at KOCE as well as a production company for television owned by non-other than Danny DeVito. So I HAVE thought about pitching the idea to KOCE. Of course it would have to be funded privately.
I’m really glad to have gotten in contact with you. It’s amazing what happens when you’re not ‘looking’ for anything in particular on the internet. Perhaps we could talk some more via personal e-mail when the time comes? Thanks again.
-Aaron
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