AI sucks. Using it to write stuff sucks. Justifying using it to write stuff by saying it allows you to write more stuff sucks. Writing is the fundamental form of human expression and ceding jurisdiction over the written word to plagiarism machines is the death of the human mind.
Guys, somehow I've now worked on Super Bowl commercials 2 years in a row!
This year, I was First Assistant Director for a crew of incredible people at Bix Pix. This was produced by BUCK and developed by Expedia and Mattel’s in‑house creative teams.
Keep an eye out for this during the Big Game!
I made a cameo in this week's Smiling Friends. I'm basically the next Smormu! #BaldisBeautiful
Thanks, Ethan!! Bald is beautiful!
Blair Witch Project, 1999 Dir. Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez
Season 3, Episode 5 of Smiling Friends is now streaming on HBO Max! I got to be line producer for the specialty animation and got my hands dirty with some clay animation! I really love how this one turned out. (Probably not suitable for kids!)
Here's the second of three stop-motion spots for Kaiser Permanente that I worked on for Open The Portal. I was associate producer and 1st AD. Loved working with this awesome team!
Here's a new stop motion commercial I worked on with an incredible team at Open the Portal! I served as associate producer and first assistant director. Really great experience with a stellar group of artists!
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Inconsequential gripe: I miss the claymation Bird graphics at Os games.
@petelevin.bsky.social I'm so glad I was able to find them again! 🧡
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Aw -- thanks, Zoë!
Not inconsequential to me! Glad you like them. I love making them.
I learned this from asking Google Gemini "how do I disable Google Gemini?" If the AI systems are ever able to have existential crises, I want to help trigger them.
Do you want Google AI learning from all of your chats and gmail? Me neither! Go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and adjust your settings.
This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊
Gilroy: You could say: Why has Hollywood for the last 100 years been progressive or been liberal? I think it’s much larger. I’ll go further and say: Why does almost all literature, why does almost all art that involves humans trend progressive?
Let’s stick with Hollywood. Making a living as an actor or as a writer or a director — without the higher degree of empathy that you have, the more aware you are of behavior and all kinds of behavior, the better you’re going to be at your job. We feed our families by being in an empathy business. It’s just baked in. You’re trying to pretend to be other people. The whole job is to pretend to be other, and what is it like to look from this? People may be less successful over time at portraying Nazis as humans, and that may be good writing or bad writing, and there may be people that have an ax to grind. But in general, empathy is how I feed my family. And the more finely tuned that is, the better I am at my job.
That is what actors do: I’m going on Broadway, I’m playing a villain for six months. I got to live in that. I’m playing the slave, I’m playing the fisherman, I’m playing the nurse, I’m the murderer — you have to get in there. You have to live lives through other people. I think that the simple act of that transformation and that process automatically gives you what I would describe as a more generous and progressive point of view. It just has to.
And I don’t see how you can buy, if you’re going to reissue the Hardy Boys or try to twist a knot and say that Melville or the Coen brothers made a piece of right-wing art because you see something in there — I think it really misses the larger point of the struggle that that movement is going to be up against. Does that make any sense to you?
I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
Hey! Press covering Trump!
The statute that lets him impose tariffs at will? It EXPLICITLY excludes movies.
He has no authority to do this. Not just bc of an absence of authorization, but bc the law says “you CANNOT do this.”
Do NOT say “Trump has imposed movie tariffs,” bc he did not. He CANNOT.
Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
Hey, I produced this Super Bowl spot with the incredible artists at Open the Portal! www.adweek.com/convergent-t...
Thanks, Trump. 😡
If only the billionaires, news media, and the other social media companies could muster this courage.
This coming Monday the 20th is David Lynch's birthday. I think we should all watch our favorite Lynch movies or TV episodes in honor of him. And not watch anything else.
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Cool, but I still don't know what a Bay Sock is.
