What is Outrageous Creations Media?
What is entertainment? It’s a subjective thing, really. People and creatures can be entertained by exceedingly monotonous things, and everyone has their own standards— their own bar for what will entertain them. These standards are very difficult to maintain, as there are countless factors that play into an individual's feelings towards a type of entertainment style. Some people love to watch people get hurt, so they watch Jack-Ass, and enjoy seeing real people suffer pain. There are people who do not enjoy seeing real pain and suffering, but when it is cartoonishly presented, like Homer getting his arm stuck in something stupid, or very obviously fake blood coming out in extreme amounts from an unrealistic place, they derive humor and enjoyment. Then there are people still who find all violence to be reprehensible, and find that even when obviously being faked for show it is unsettling, and are not entertained in any capacity.
I am entertained by a great many things. I have always been entertained by a great many things. It was perhaps born out of necessity, as I grew up on a large fruit orchard, one that was quite isolated from the town in which our address was listed. Because of this distance, we did not even see it as worth it to drive 15 minutes to our small town’s grocery stores, and preferred to drive 25 minutes to the bigger cities grocery stores. School was a 30 minute drive, and we were out of district, so from pre-school to junior year, school was never any less than 30 minutes away. This meant my entertainment was anything and everything. Music, video games, reading, movies and television— playing outside, playing inside, staring blankly at a wall, staring blankly at the outside from inside, staring blankly at the outside from outside, staring blankly at the outside through a window to the inside, to another window to the outside– I had to entertain myself some way or another!
Entertainment has always been important to me, because it was the only thing that kept me sane during the worst times in my life. Entertainment is what leads to community. Some of my best friends have been made through a shared love of all things media and entertainment. Media/entertainment is that happy medium that is both capable of triggering joy, but also in helping teach the little life lessons that people sometimes do not realize they need to know. Without a show like ‘The Good Place’ (2016-2020), I never would have become as interested in, and further pursued, the study of philosophy, nor would I have become so familiar with the world of comedy. It was through Mike Schur’s masterpiece that I began pursuing the careers of not only the main actors of ‘The Good Place',’ but I started noticing the network of up-and-comer/background comedic actors who fill in many of the great sitcoms of the 21st century. Today, I consider myself a minor expert on the comedy scene around the US, and although unpracticed, a student of improvisation. Entertainment has an important presence in shaping modern society’s interests and passions. Entertainment is supposed to be the great equalizer, a way to bring people together.
That is why I started Outrageous Creations Media. OCM is… well, this! It is a production company I started after graduating University in 2024. It is a collective of creatives, from every path, coming together to collaborate on projects that will bring fresh, innovative, and almost always Outrageous content to you, the audience.
As a Film School graduate, from the moment of classes beginning, I knew one thing to be true: Climbing the ladder of the film and entertainment industry is a terrible, miserable journey, and is more than likely going to kill the drive of many young creatives who just want to tell stories or make films. I rejected the “traditional” ladder climb from the start, swearing that would not be my life, daring to hope that with each minor job, I’d prove myself a little bit more. I didn’t have time for that. Writers are impatient people. Not only do we have an idea, we need to make the idea happen now, or we don’t know if it will be back. Writers and filmmakers have the itch to move, to create, to entertain others. Wasting time doing anything other than writing or creating is exactly that: a waste.
When I took my degree from Vancouver Film School and went to the University of the Fraser Valley, an idea sparked in my mind. That idea remained with me throughout my three years at the school, and when I was heading into my final semester, and needed a personal project to develop with my advisor, I decided to bring it from the caverns of my mind and put it to good use. I produced a proof of concept which earned me my Bachelors degree and proved to me that I was capable of producing such a thing virtually on my own. But I never planned on having the project be solo. This was always meant to be collaborative. Film school proved to me that one of the best ways to work as a creator is to collaborate with others and learn to bring multiple separate visions together cohesively.
So when I had graduated, and knew I wanted to do the project, I began my search for those around me who not only have the talent and drive to be involved, but the interest to be engaged. While still a small team,the people who have joined me are talented writers, storytellers, and creatives. Together they have helped me realize a project that has been brewing in the back of my mind for a very long time.
Our series is called Hidden Anecdotes & Other Tales. You will be able to listen to it bi-weekly on Spotify, Apple Music, our website, or really wherever you prefer to listen to podcasts. But do not be fooled, for it is not a podcast, but an audio extravaganza. It is a book of short stories. With the hard work and dedication of our team, we hope that someday it will grow into a library of hundreds of books of short stories. It is an infinite universe of possibilities in world-building— an exercise in storytelling inspired by the likes of The Twilight Zone, Animatrix, Lost Odyssey, & The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. It is an Outrageous Creation, a story that cannot and should not make sense, and yet the audience will find themselves invested nonetheless as they pursue the journey of our Nameless Protagonist searching for the key to unlocking his memories, lost to the ever-flowing tides of the Great Obsidian Sea.
If you want to know more, please follow us over at Instagram and Blue_Sky, and please remember to check back here for our weekly blog discussing all things Outrageous. We at OCM are excited to share our content with you, and hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoy making it!
