Steve Smart
@stevesmart.bsky.social
Filmmaker, photographer, dog walker, mid range introvert, time traveler, wandering philosopher, selfie inventor. Give blood! 🩸 “There‘s a frood who really knows where his towel is”
They moved on from lindsey graham's death so quickly you'd think he died in a school shooting.
Great article from @filmumentaries.bsky.social about ILM and John Knoll and #starwars #Mandalorian www.ilm.com/john-knoll-i...
Something Old, Something New: John Knoll on the Visual Effects of ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’
The production visual effects supervisor and ILM executive creative director discusses balancing the handcrafted legacy of the streaming series with the demands of an IMAX theatrical release.
ilm.com
IT'S HERE AND IT'S SPECTACULAR "Nolan's CGI is really just Invisible CGI", by Jonas Ussing @themovierabbithole.bsky.social youtu.be/AFLcP-t0-kI
NOLAN'S CGI is really just INVISIBLE CGI ("no CGI" part 6)
YouTube video by The Movie Rabbit Hole
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Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago
A fascist regime at work. So, no accountability to protect us from our own government?
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w agoBREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.
This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.
Mitch McConnell was complicit in fascism. He destroyed the US Senate and stole Supreme Court seats. Let's not pretend otherwise. If you're a Democrat who doesn't want to call it like it is, how about you stay silent instead? Just like you do on genocide, anti-Muslim & anti-Black violence.
This really cannot be shared enough or spread enough.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 4w agoMitch McConnell was complicit in fascism. He destroyed the US Senate and stole Supreme Court seats. Let's not pretend otherwise. If you're a Democrat who doesn't want to call it like it is, how about you stay silent instead? Just like you do on genocide, anti-Muslim & anti-Black violence.
Suddenly, all the sanewashing of Trump and breathless coverage of Biden's age and Hillary's emails doesn't seem like it was a good idea.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 4w agoImportant statement from the New York Times
Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.
Love that movie related novels can’t simply tout the upcoming movie. It’s always a MAJOR Motion Picture. 😎 wonder when that became a thing @tvaziri.com?
As the screwworm spreads... Remember that Elon Musk’s DOGE cut $15M from a screwworm monitoring program. And we're now learning that Trump’s USDA delayed a project to develop new ways to contain the parasite and held up construction of a monitoring facility. The incompetence is dangerous.
Commentary: A growing number of young consumers are turning to analog and single-purpose devices like cyberdecks and e-readers as a form of resistance to AI-first platforms and increasingly automated digital systems.
What is the hottest Gen-Z tech trend? Anti-AI.
Many of the models now being hunted online were released before their new owners were born.
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“I've said before, and I will keep saying that real men serve others; weak men serve themselves,” the Texas Democrat said.
James Talarico Takes Shots At Ted Cruz And Ken Paxton’s Masculinity: ‘Weak Men’
“I've said before, and I will keep saying that real men serve others; weak men serve themselves,” the Texas Democrat said.
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Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the Trump regime. “This isn’t a border security policy. It’s cruelty as governance — directed at people this administration has decided don’t deserve dignity.” kottke.org/26/06/004908...
Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the Trump r...
Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the Trump regime. “This isn’t a border security policy. It’s cruelty as governance — directed at people this ad
kottke.org
The time Stephen talked about my ILM colleagues and me, back when we visited "The Colbert Report" in 2006: from "The Late Show" in 2015: youtu.be/vOjPBBvBe2c
Stephen Has A Message For George Lucas
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Getting to work looks different for everyone, and that’s worth celebrating. Friday is Bike to Work Day, and we'd love to see how you're getting where you need to go. If biking is part of your commute, tag us in your ride to work photos and help inspire more Nashvillians to choose how they move. 🚲
several Watergates-per-day for this administration, and this one is a real doozy blatant, open air corruption
Holy cow "The Sheep Detectives" (2026) is absolutely incredible. STUNNING visual effects work in an extremely charming movie.
Dismantling Voice of America was one of the most devastating things I’ve witnessed. VOA wasn’t propaganda, it was proof that free press could criticize its own leaders and still survive. And now we’re throwing away one of our greatest tools of freedom.
"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought