Please tune in at 7 pm ET to support @joyannreid.bsky.social for her final episode. 🙏🏻

A personal note about the @katiephangshow.bsky.social:

Thank you. Incredibly kind.

Style over substance. That’s America.

“You can have everything. Not them. You are meant to be the important one. NOT them. You know the truth. Not THEM. They’re taking it from you. They’re mocking you, but give me power and I will give you power. Their power. Before all is lost. To THEM.”

That’s why we’re in the mess we’re in.

Progress is difficult. It requires common agreement on what progress is, and the ability to envision it without fear of the unknown.

Nostalgia is an easy con. It’s a lie, but an effective emotional one. The lie of a past that never existed, and can never be regained, but the lie comforts. Some.

The biggest fantasy in cyberpunk fiction is that the working class would be able to afford the technology.

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I think our current reality is cyberpunk. Techno-powered loneliness. A president that’s the villain from THE RUNNING MAN. Social media making us anti-social. Digital currencies. Technocracy controlling government. Invasive AI.

We’re here. Just no giant holos of Ana De Armas.

Not yet.

You cracked me up today, when I listened to the podcast and you talked about the AI forcing you to listen to your “favorite song.”

I’ve loved your gaming commentary, but your societal commentary is ON POINT, sir.

Recent photography in Saint Louis, MO. while there for the holiday.

SCENE TWENTY THREE PT 2. WITH BRYAN EDWARD HILL — One Heat Minute Productions The second half of this ginormous double episode features  Bryan Edward Hill and a new Michael Mann story for the ages.

The second half of this ginormous double episode features @bryanedwardhill.bsky.social and a new Michael Mann story for the ages
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Filmmaking Masterclass: Recreating THE KILLER with Anamorphic DZO PAVO Lenses – Epic Episode #20 YouTube video by Media Division

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Twitter is a hot mess. lol.

By the way, I appreciate your journalism. I was happy to see you rise because you’re direct, highly informed, and one of the clearest media voices out there. I learn from your coverage. Keep on keeping on.

Katie, I can’t believe this man ran to the refs on a rap battle. It’s wild. I’m not a cultural gatekeeper, but that is the cardinal opposite of hip hop.

Stalker 2 Review - A Magical Mess YouTube video by ACG

Stalker 2 Review - "Many times magical, but also many times a bit of a mess."

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It’s solid. Production is there to match his bars on this one and he feels inspired.

Post your thoughts after you listen, please.

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PRO WRITING TIP: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Rejection YouTube video by The Hill Administration

Pinning this one. It’s been helpful for folks.

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New Kendrick ritual.

1. Catch up on @fdsignifier.bsky.social so I know the landscape.

2. Feel like I’m failing at everything FD is right about.

3. Drink water.

4. Listen to Kendrick and go for a walk.

Some of the prototype masks I've made for the FAIRY DUST film.

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And change can simply just start with being better to the people in your life. If we all just did that, broad societal changes would take care of themselves.

Bit more red pencil sketching.

PRO WRITING TIP: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Rejection YouTube video by The Hill Administration

Writer/Director @bryanedwardhill.bsky.social has a handful of helpful YouTube videos on craft and process, including this one on overcoming imposter syndrome and coping with creative rejection. Find this advice deeply wise and helpful.
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And I'll add - if there's conversational room for it...

...ask them if they have a project they're stuck on, and see if you can take a look to figure it out. I've gotten gigs that way.

Yup. Because we have far more content given to us from celebrities on social media than we can consume, we see them all the time in media, so it’s less compelling to go to see a movie simply from interest in the star.

Just go to IG. Watch a story. Done. We’re staying home.

FWIW, I think we on the left have to go into the right wing spaces. Their podcasts. Their networks. We’ve gotta go in there and challenge their ideas inside that echo chamber. Because their ideas are bad, lol.

Yeah, I just signed up. As always, I’m running through the lunch room to see where the cool kids are, hahahaha.

The broad plays of generic big budget films just don’t grab audiences like before. They can play a game to get big glossy pictures. Wait for streaming.

Gotta give them an experiential reason to buy a ticket.

The “Star” of your film is the experience of your film. LONGLEGS was marketed on the experience. Audiences responded to the specific experience of terror.

Specific experience marketed to audiences that want it. Smaller budgets. Targeted storytelling.