EP/Creator on a Peacock series & commercial director. Los Angeles living. Florida born. I like meaning. Honest Emotional Human Storytelling.
Los Angeles, CA
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New national commercial I directed — HOW DARE WE
Filmed across 4 different aspect ratios, using a pool of lenses from @Panavision, @AngenieuxLenses, and even an @AtlasLensCo lens made specially for DUNE 3.
It’s about the beauty of humanity — striving, experimenting, failing…..& then getting back up.
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To offend a strong man, tell him a lie, To offend a weak man, tell him the truth
— Marcus Aurelius
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IMO there are no benefits of AI that can compensate for the loss of human intellectual greatness it is bringing about.
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We don’t talk about this enough. If we reach a point where art, music & literature are made solely by machines, there will never again be a Dante, a Beatles. No Tolkiens or Van Goghs. We will look back in disbelief at a time when humans did amazing things. Never again.
IMO there are no benefits of AI that can compensate for the loss of human intellectual greatness it is bringing about.
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the worst thing about AI art is that it's going to demoralize artists from undertaking the hero's journey of skilling up until they reach the level of mastery at which they'll be able to make things like this
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I think it just shows how culture has shifted — in 1964, the choice was essentially TV, movie theaters, or books.
You had a captive audience, and because they had less choice, you could make a DR STRANGELOVE a hit.
Cut to today, and the options are endless, and much lower brow.
I think Digger's low review score is a reflection of the academic collapse of humanity in general. The movie is a risky achievement in telling the truth about how we use art to justify our lack of action.
But... it takes a while to pay off. You wouldn't get it if you disconnected from the movie early on. It demands attention to detail, focus.
Iñárritu and Tom Cruise respected the audience's intelligence and paid the price.
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(DIGGER spoilers, kind of)
i think the movie is ultimately concluding
1) art making and acting in particular is a very silly job
2) it is also one of the most meaningful things you can do
3) and it ultimately isn’t more powerful than larger sociopolitical forces
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I saw MEGALOPOLIS and DIGGER in theaters.
I loved the first in a ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW way, and enjoyed the second in a FUNNY GAMES way.
I am become cinema lover.
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DIGGER ***spoiler*** thoughts:
One of the messages:
The rich make entertainment for us, allowing us to laugh at them, and by laughing we think we’ve won.
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DIGGER thought, with ***SPOILERS***:
Digger asks the scientist to tell the ugly truth, ultimately to do something that helps him.
And Digger’s grandson asks the actor to tell the ugly truth, ultimately to do something that helps him.
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Just like I keep calling this platform Twitter instead of X, I will continue to call Skydance by its previous name, ViacomCBS Skydance Warner Bros. Discovery.
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If you had told me when I was in high school in the 1990s that someday the lead singer of Jars of Clay would say “I’m no longer sure who God is” and the lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins would say “Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior” I would have spit out my Slim Fast and stained my flannel shirt
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