John

@solimander.bsky.social

Film & TV Assistant Editor 
Head of UCLA Marching Band Video Crew

There's a weird trend on tv shows of using a series of quick jump cuts to "speed up" a seemingly mundane thing that's often unnecessary to the larger story. Spy character removes panel covering car ignition wires. CUT Pulls out wires. CUT Twists wires and car starts.

At the airport to head down for the first UCLA game of the season at the Rose Bowl. I spent the last couple weeks working on a video project in Cupertino, so it'll be nice to be back home after the game.

Some media I've been enjoying recently: • Coyote vs. Acme • Hogan's Heroes • Mythbusters (recut episodes on the official YouTube channel) • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (on Amazon Luna)

I bought an Apple Watch SE, thinking I could save some money for only a 1mm difference in size. Turns out that's the difference in case size, but the bezels on the SE are enormous. It's like going from the Series 7 screen size back to the Series 3.

I had an amazing 6 years at Pixar and I'll miss it tremendously. I made this timelapse of photos I randomly took over the last year that I figured I'd share with you all. Also, if you've got a Pixar question that won't violate an NDA or get me into trouble, I'll try to answer it.

I've realized that there are two names in movie credits that often correlate with some of my favorite films: • Dean Cundey - Cinematographer • Ren Klyce - Sound Designer / Re-recording mixer

This is a piece of trivia for the slim overlap of people who love movies and UCLA Football. Former player and head coach Rick Neuheisel was the football consultant on "Point Break" (1991).

While I'm updating the technological aspects of my life, I finally decided to give up my unlimited data plan that I've had since the iPhone 3GS. The guy at the store laughed when he saw that my account still had rollover minutes.

There are a handful of people around the world that routinely give out my email address as their own. Surely there's got to be some remedy other than constantly unsubscribing from things they sign up for? Some companies don't even have a system for dealing with "I didn't create this account."