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virtualbri

@virtualbri@mastodon.online

Emergency VFX Hologram
VFX Supervisor for Star Trek
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This is what I'm thinking at any given moment

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virtualbri, to random
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There's something insane but yet still sweet that we have a National Spelling Bee.

virtualbri, to streaming
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I think getting to the credits should count as a full watch of a film on streaming services, so I don't have a giant list of "continue watching" that's almost all foreign film credits.

virtualbri, to random
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I think this is the first celebration I've been on Mastodon for. I hope we get to enjoy more and more.

virtualbri, to random
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The amount of Republicans rushing to Trump's side after his conviction is really an example of how the GOP is a cult now, and he's their Dear Leader.

When even guys like McConnell are falling in line you can see how powerful a cult it is.

#USPol

virtualbri,
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@overstrike I dunno, he's awful old GOP, which has the same goals, but is quiet about the racism and xenophobia, and Trump is awful new GOP, where all the quiet parts are said aloud.

And he's getting out for cushy life after government so he doesn't even need Trump. He'll have like Koch Brother level support for the rest of his days.

Yet....

virtualbri,
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@CStamp It's baffling to me. Not that he's anything but evil, but he's a different evil, who could fool a lot of people by being against Trump and slide into rich retirement. But he can't even manage that.

virtualbri,
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@overstrike Yeah, I guess that's the reason. But all he's gotta do is be quiet and keep collecting his bribe monies.

samhenrigold, to random
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if design has taught me anything, it’s that you should very rarely use linear algebra. ease-in-out algebra is preferred.

virtualbri,
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@samhenrigold I hate that this is funny to me 😀

virtualbri, to random
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Well, it's a start.

#USPol

panamared27401, to random
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If you've got bad news you need to bury, hit send on that news release NOW.

virtualbri,
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@panamared27401 LOL

StillIRise1963, to random
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I need to see this white guy’s Black “disguise” IMMEDIATELY.

virtualbri,
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@StillIRise1963 It should be forced to be the cover of the book and in all coverage of it as a minimum.

tvaziri, to random
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I watched Jenny Nicholson's video.

Every point she makes about the hotel, I would say the same about visiting the parks.

virtualbri,
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@tvaziri I don't know that she would disagree.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Gen-Z and Gen Alpha will never know the feeling of being excited for a new television show only to be hit with a flashback episode.

virtualbri,
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@BlackAzizAnansi LOL 100% Such a let down! :)

virtualbri,
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@artemis @BlackAzizAnansi It's always a money thing. Either you spent too much, or are going to, so you write a cheap episode, and nothing's cheaper than cutting up old ones.

virtualbri, to random
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https://wapo.st/3WXd9xS

Nostalgia is a powerful drug.

tvaziri, to random
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Watching “Aliens” (1986) with a first-timer.

virtualbri,
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@tvaziri That would be a pretty great experience. Gosh, I miss him.

virtualbri,
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@CStamp @tvaziri Even if I disagreed, I think he was a great advocate for film. Appreciated when he got excited about a movie.

MattMerk, to random
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Maybe, just for everyone's safety, I need to just start blocking accounts talking about the Overton window moving, and not understanding that topics move into and out of the quite stationary, unmoving Overton window.

"Overton was trying to describe the role of think tanks in a society, and he posited an idea that would come to be called the Overton window. In a given society, at a given moment, there is a range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream.

https://time.com/5735384/capitalism-reckoning-elitism-in-america-2019/

virtualbri,
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@MattMerk Wait what? Have I been using it wrong all this time? Even the wikipedia talks about it moving....

virtualbri,
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@MattMerk But there's a difference in saying politicians shouldn't or can't shift the window with the concept that it doesn't shift at all I thought.

That said, I want politicians to follow the people, who have always been ahead in my lifetime....

And I don't use the phrase enough to have a horse in this race : )

lauren, to random
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I'm supposed to be something of an expert on this stuff, but despite thinking that I knew EVERYTHING there was to know about the Roger Corman film "Battle Beyond the Stars", I discovered today that I missed something.

This 1980 film is great fun, with a wonderful early James Horner score.

It is essentially a space remake of "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), which itself is a western remake of "The Seven Samurai" (1954). Battle even co-stars Robert Vaughn who played a similar role in Magnificent!

But here's what I missed. The peaceful planet under attack is called Akir. OK, fine. And (you idiot, Lauren, how did you miss this reference all these years?) the director of Seven of course was Akira Kurosawa! ARRGGH!

virtualbri,
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@lauren Woah. Never made that connection either.

virtualbri, to streaming
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Something especially funny about watching a mystery about a murder during a TV shoot that gets TV shooting all wrong.

I mean, they’re doing one. Can’t imagine what the crew was thinking during it.

#Mystery #Streaming #Fail

virtualbri,
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@vfxsup Harry Wild, AcornTV Mystery. Soap Opera Director on location killed watching playback all by himself with no DP on the show, because he had written a character out of the show so the character's stalker, who was Head of Security for the show, silently cut his throat from behind.

Extra points for there being a single camera on the set but the monitors were playing a multi camera cut with sound and music from the final "show".

I guess they think their audience is dumb?

virtualbri,
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@jvschrag I've heard they do quite the number in their VFX staff interpretation. I do want to see it when I get a sec though.

virtualbri,
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@jvschrag Haha, no planning for stunts. That's amazing. If any department goes onto the set with a plan worked out long in advance, it's stunts.

garretble, to StarTrek
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Every once in a while someone on a #StarTrek show will say “drinks on me!” after some big event.

So are they just going to be the one to man the replicator for a moment?

virtualbri,
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@garretble Pike cooks all the time in SNW. He as a giant kitchen in his quarters.

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