Here's something I quickly wrote out of sheer inspiration.

Epiphany to Frank Stallone

At first, I thought he was outsizing his schtick.
But now, he seems to be a complete dick.
Maybe he doesn’t hump the Earth’s girls,
Yet his love for Trump skews his black swirls.
His libido may be no cheap pole,
Yet maybe it stands to any good blow.
 
When learning of his apparent bigotry,
I shiver to think he dares to be a guido.
Each gloat from his mouth sprouts Cheeto-breath,
Exposing himself to death of respect.
 
Oh! Such a shame.
                                        A good guitarist with none left to blame.
Pity dear tan man,
                                                Your racism through proxy kills beloved fans.

Hey all,

I've begun work on my final script for my class. Have a teaser of it by downloading it below.

-Kyle

After over two months, I'm going to start updating this blog again. School got in the way at the end of the year. Here are some things to expect:

1. A short film about an Arupe Scholarship event (My deadline is February 28th).
2. Writings for my "Writing in Television, Radio, & the New Media" class.
   
3. A short documentary for the above class.
   

Stay tuned for more!

-Kyle

I've come to a paradigm shift, everyone.

1) I need to pursue what I'm actually interested in.
2) I need to take classes that are actually interesting and useful. 
3) I need to work on this website to show what I can do.
4) Most importantly, I have to question the expectations I've imposed upon myself. I first realized this from a Facebook post I made, pictured below:

Now, I've got to think seriously about what to do next.

Some ideas include video editing, audio production, recording. Those three go great together when combined with marketing and monetizing expertise. Time to produce content and network!

If you can help with anything I've mentioned in this post, feel free to email me at kmountcastle18@jcu.edu! Cheers!

-Kyle

Hey everyone,

I finally made a new vlog video on YouTube. Watch it below. Any critique on the video and other videos is always appreciated. Thanks!

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Hey guys.

I've been really busy with schoolwork, so I have not been able to plan much for this site, other than stylistic changes to the Inspirations page. For November, I will plan activity this weekend and next weekend. Apologies for the delay!

​-Kyle

I've spent over 10 hours in the past few days into making this video. The intent is to give a cinematic look of poetry I've written. I found a app that allows free embedding for 1 year, so I'm set! I hope you enjoy it!

I thought I'd share this screenshot of a friend's Facebook sharing. I partially read the Philosophical Salon article that he shared, (which can be found here) and I wasn't clear about the main idea, as I stated below:

To give you an idea of my "two contentious parties" observation, here are some comments from the article:
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I'm not sure what this user's premises are for their last sentence. I've never watched The Sound of Music, so I'm confident that I'm missing countless amounts of context-revealing details. Maybe those details only reveal the author's opinion. Yet, I am increasingly curious about how commentors on supposedly civic websites create verbal violence towards other commentators. I suspect there are psychological and pathological phenomena unfolding in any party involved, but I can't affirm my suspicions effectively without quantitative and qualitative evidence. 

Next example:

Whenever I see a comment designed like this one, I immediately assume the author is not thinking about what they're typing. There's no quantitative evidence and qualitative evidence for language filled with proven logical fallacies; such fallacies are unconsciously and carelessly used in attempt to win arguments in comment sections (To better understand what this phenomena poorly exhibits, look deeply into Edward Tufte's Six Principles here. I don't want to experience legal accusations for scanning my hard copy to post). I see this trend in conspicuous digital mediums.  Facebook, news, and newer editorial websites constitute as conspicuous digtial mediums; I think all of these mediums are unconsciously consumed as absolute truth, which mass mediums seem to condition people to do.

At any rate, below is another comment with kinder tones. For me, it still is rife with logical fallacies, but at least this author doesn't behave like the one I described above:

For more information on logical fallacies, visit the website pictured below.

I have a grant writing class in 15 minutes, so I will stop now. I hope this post gives you an opportunity to understand my observations of what I see on many websites.