"Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors." —Rajkummar Rao #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

I’m in Chicago, first snowfall. Horrifyingly beautiful. Beautiful because nature can be wonderful. Horrifying because humans are too often not. Nearby, there are federal prisoners in Broadview probably freezing to death tonight. We each have our challenges, all are real. May God’s mercy […]

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity." —Jake Gyllenhaal #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

Sonnet 017 - XVII Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes, And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The […]

ICE is the insurrection, launched by the President and his cronies. #releasetheepsteinfiles

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise." —Claire Danes #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity." —Jake Gyllenhaal #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

"[Target] has a new directive for store employees: If a shopper comes within 10 feet of you…smile, make eye contact and greet or wave. If…within four feet — ask whether they need help or how their day is going…" If shopper comes within 1 foot, store employees must kiss them, gently. If within 2 […]

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character." —Willem Dafoe #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching […]

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’” […]

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise." —Claire Danes #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

Content warning for the end of this video: ice pepper sprays a baby. @senduckworth @senatordurbin @janschakowsky @govpritzker you rep me. Stop ice from using chemical weapons on babies. Stop ice from using chemical weapons. Stop ice. #USpol #ice #WarCrime […]

@davidaugust Living where I do, I can’t avoid Target entirely, but I no longer buy anything there that I can't reasonably get somewhere else.

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

alt'd because I want everyone to know what happened right outside my window this morning

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity." —Jake Gyllenhaal #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

@davidaugust It’s time to put an N to him.

"[Target] has a new directive for store employees: If a shopper comes within 10 feet of you…smile, make eye contact and greet or wave. If…within four feet — ask whether they need help or how their day is going…" If shopper comes within 1 foot, store employees must kiss them, gently. If within 2 […]

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character." —Willem Dafoe #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching […]

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’” […]

Sonnet 020 - XX A woman's face with nature's own hand painted, Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion: An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth […]

No violence but state violence. Here @icegov attacks a person while they’re having a seizure and also brutalizes the child with that person. @senduckworth @senatordurbin @janschakowsky you rep me. You have your people’s support to stop ice violence and law breaking. Also: hold the line and […]

Voters nationwide, *from across the political spectrum,* showed up at the ballot box Tuesday, confirming that Americans are tired of the cruel and lawless Trump administration. There is NO negotiating with our healthcare. Full stop. HOLD THE LINE, DEMOCRATS 🇺🇸 #GOPHealthCareShutdown

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day." —Dennis Farina #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

Collective Punishment Backfires (I wrote this): "The American People are blowing whistles at armed and armored forces deployed on their streets, peacefully alerting their neighbors that danger is close. The American People are photographing and videoing the un-uniformed, unidentified, masked […]

@davidaugust #quotes #eisenhower #holocaust #cameraphones #resistance #wwii #trumpsamerica #documentingfascism #nonviolentprotest

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day." —Dennis Farina #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

"The #american People are blowing whistles at armed and armored forces deployed on their streets, peacefully alerting their neighbors that danger is close. “The American People are photographing and videoing the un-uniformed, unidentified, masked, violent, reckless for future prosecution." - […]

Collective Punishment Backfires (I wrote this): "The American People are blowing whistles at armed and armored forces deployed on their streets, peacefully alerting their neighbors that danger is close. The American People are photographing and videoing the un-uniformed, unidentified, masked […]

Sonnet 105 - CV Let not my love be called idolatry, Nor my beloved as an idol show, Since all alike my songs and praises be To one, of one, still such, and ever so. Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind, Still constant in a wondrous excellence; Therefore my verse to constancy confined, One […]

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is […]

Just wrote the rough draft of my next article, it will be called, “Collective Punishment Backfires,” and my subscribers will be the first to read it. You can subscribe for free and get it first too. Go to https://stuff.davidaugust.com #article #ice #government #humannature #us #law #war

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results." —James Dean #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

Seems worth posting this again: #tech #ethics #DataEthics

Have to remain liquid in case of catastrophe, do we? What’s 40 million Americans going hungry? This Metamucilini needs to just stop. It is clear Il Douché just wants to hurt people. Everybody, be sure to stretch, ‘cause repetitive stress injuries like guillotine wrist are worth avoiding.

Just wrote the rough draft of my next article, it will be called, “Collective Punishment Backfires,” and my subscribers will be the first to read it. You can subscribe for free and get it first too. Go to stuff.davidaugust.com #article #ice #government #HumanNature #us #law #war

Summer is long gone and we have officially entered muddy season at doggy day care. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

Timeline cleanser. 🐑

@davidaugust I revisit this video whenever I want to feel peace and happiness. Happy defaidodon day! #defaidodonday #SheepOfMastodon

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is […]

Just wrote the rough draft of my next article, it will be called, “Collective Punishment Backfires,” and my subscribers will be the first to read it. You can subscribe for free and get it first too. Go to https://stuff.davidaugust.com #article #ice #government #humannature #us #law #war

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results." —James Dean #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

Seems worth posting this again: #tech #ethics #DataEthics

Sonnet 107 - CVII Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured, And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now […]

Sonnet 012 - XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green […]

4 court hearings today: 1) Review of Trump's tariffs in SCOTUS 2) Hearing on FBI's review of Jim Comey material w/o new warrant 3) Closing arguments and deliberation for sandwich guy in DC 4) Preliminary injunction hearing for CBP/ICE invasion of Chicago, featuring Greg Bovino vids

Striking fear into our adversaries by making sure our soldiers would be fighting on empty stomachs. 🤦‍♂️ #USpol #army #military #NationalSecurity

Worldwide, extreme right wing governments are on the rise. We’ve seen what is at the end of that road, and it is pure loss and destruction. Jonathan Pie has some words. www.instagram.com/reel/Cz_NyMu...

Brought to you by @secduffy and the @gop government shutdown, another plane crash. This one is in Kentucky. https://www.youtube.com/live/e8W1d49f86Y #USpol