In order to serve you better (or maybe just mix things up) I’m moving around the ‘programming blocks’ at Inventing Situations. There’s still going to be five hours a day of ‘Non-Ephemeral’ films (e.g. feature films and tv shows), they’ll just be playing at different hours. Here’s the new schedule. It can also be found on the info page.

I’ve decreased the Library of Congress images to one hour a day since they’re repeating a lot faster than either of the larger collections.

In the coming weeks and months I’ll be tinkering with the schedule a little more:

• Adding another hour of “Non-Ephemeral” films.
• After Thanksgiving, I’ll be adding all of this year’s new to IS turkey-day movies to the regular rotation. There should be at least five this year. I’ll proceed to drop in the rest at some steady rate.
• Bonanza: Six new to IS episodes should start showing up in a month or two. Once those have premiered, the 18 episodes I’ve already run will start appearing.
• Plus, I’m toying with yet another programming block. It’s material that technically could go in with the feature films, but that I think will work better on their own.

While I’m discussing picture sources, thought I’d offer an update on how my campaign to add grabs has been going since I last discussed it:

Without considering the 1,500+ images I’ve tossed from the ephemeral collection, that’s around 75 grabs a day.

One last thought: Can anybody suggest a better phrase than “Non-Ephemeral Films”. I’m looking for a term that differentiates them from the “ephemeral films”, acknowledges the fact that they conist of more than just feature films (there’s cartoons, tv shows, movie trailers, Three Stooges shorts, and drive in ads in there too), and is less awkward and obscure than “Non-Ephemeral”.

1. The menu design contest will be closing up on Friday. So far my attempt to get other people to do my work for me has yielded no entries. So if you actually enter something, you stand a good chance of beating my design. Even if you’re not a designer, forward it to your friend who is. If nobody enters anything, I’m going to do what I can to improve my design and launch it. The polling may be negative, but it’s a small sample, and I’m sure that what I’ve designed is better than the current clutter.
2. The close out sale has been a moderate success. I sold enough that I should finally be able to get cafepress to cut me a check in a couple of weeks or so. If you ever wanted to buy some of my merchandise, do it soon, because the shop’s closing as soon as I know I’m getting my dollars.
3. The book’s not happening anytime soon. Thanks to all who helped out by spreading the word and waiving their rights. Long story short, I just don’t see myself making this thing happen in the near future. Sorry to get everyone’s hopes up.
4. The Capper Wiki is still growing, but it could ceratainly use any help you want to throw its way. There are around fifty pages waiting to be written on the wanted pages list (the ones marked “user:” should probably just be linked to capper profiles, but that’s one of those decisions nobody’s made yet.) Pick something on that list that you know about, or some other capping subject that you want to document, read the getting started section if you need it, and crack to. They’re not gonna’ write themselves.

Before I forget again, I believe there’s still time to order your copy of capper UnReality’s zine kaleidotrope before he starts mailing out the new issue. And I imagine if there’s not, you’ll just get a copy of the second issue or a second printing of the first.