You have a great idea for a movie, sitting there on the bar stool. You lament with your buddies that you have no distribution, and that even if you did, you have no money to bring your vision to video in the first place.
Excuses used to be so much easier to come by before YouTube, and before examples of people like Fede Alvarez. Seems Fede, who is from Uruguay, made a short (4:49) sci-fi film for a few hundred dollars, threw it up on the intertubes and that was all it took for Hollywood to come calling. Hey, you can always ascribe your continued lack of success to a continuing lack of imagination.
It stands to reason that if everyone has access to enough technology to create something interesting, then eventually the only difference in the potency and excellence of creative efforts will be the strength of the ideas behind them. You still need to be a craftsman, or have access to some, but the barriers to entry are low enough now that a good idea has very little inertia against which it has to fight, and so do you.
If you take no comfort in excuses and procrastination then this little tale should leave you inspired. Whether the video itself does the same is another question:
