6/7 Lionel Newman was infamous for his salty language and lively sense of humor - Frank Sinatra dubbed him one of the funniest men in Hollywood. But he was serious about music. Said nephew Randy Newman: "I look at those pictures of him conducting, and I think that’s what was most real for him."

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Love this from Guillermo del Toro

‘SINNERS’ has won Best Original Screenplay at the Critics Choice Awards.

Solid-state batteries is a big deal.

My last year of high school; at the time I was totally buried in Wagner and Dvorǎk and I think it’s pretty obvious why.

Biggest insult today: Motherfucking Github rate limited me browsing issues of a software product while being logged out. Git-we steal all your open source code to train our slop machine that management will use to make your life at work worse-hub.

You have to wonder what happens when you see a project on IMDb in-production, there are a bunch of big press releases, it moves into pre-production, and then all of the sudden the title disappears: gone from everyone’s page the news articles are there but the title isn’t blue anymore, just poof.

[Zooming around this screenshot] My my, these are some very implausible parameter envelopes.

January 1, 1960: Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars at San Quentin Prison, California; Merle Haggard is among the inmate audience.

This is good stuff

From invisible #visualeffects to gore, #folks brought #Monster: The #EdGein Story to life with #CG chainsaws, blood simulations, hallucinations, and more. Watch their breakdown now! https://www.artofvfx.com/monster-the-ed-gein-story-vfx-breakdown-by-folks/

AI should be "useful, private and optional," contends DuckDuckGo founder @yegg13.bsky.social. It's one reason @shiraovide.bsky.social declares the privacy-focused search engine "the best technology company of 2025" in her year-end column: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Simply amazing how bad this is. A paid professional designed this and an even higher paid engineer approved it.

Batman (on the subject of Burton, would even entertain “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure”) Robocop Born on the Fourth of July The Wizard Above the Law (an 80s script executed with 90s means) Verhoeven and Burton though are signal filmmakers, everything they do after a certain point is simply not of the 80s.

My Software Product of the Year — learning how to use ffmpeg on the command line.

We are in a Post-Customer world now. Having the money to buy something is no longer good enough, now corporations can simply decide: nah you’re just not good enough for our shareholders

Oh they completely killed MTV now. parade.com/news/mtv-off...

I would

“Total Recall” was the number one go-to-a-friends-house movie when I was 11.

I dunno guys, I think the computer revolution is cooked.

Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

Fascinating development www.ascap.com/press/2025/1...

If you have memories of the 1970s and lived to see the iPhone that’s just an incredible amount of (apparent*} technological progress and it seems to be really hard for people, but this cohort especially, to imagine it won’t just go on like this forever.

Best audio mixing of a halftime show shot in a stadium I've seen in ages

I was not prepared for how arresting this disc was. A city I live in that somehow does not exist any more. From Coney Island at dawn to black churches on a holy day. It's a frozen slice of a time that you can never return to.

[Kurt Vonnegut voice] Aha! A player piano! Just as depicted in my novel “Don’t Create the Player Piano”!

there is a perfect hyperdimensional jewel made of every word a human being has ever written, and all the correspondences between those words. people mostly use it to get insane household repair tips or jerk off. i guess it basically runs the government now

Sand truck with the wheels fully locked slowly sliding into the police care is 🧑‍🍳

Democratic House and Senate candidates have raised $418M from individual donors this cycle. They've spent $242M on fundraising and consulting. Democratic candidates have already burned 57% of what they raised just to raise it.

Wow, not even doing a deal with Max or Netflix, just on YouTube.

I've released a new version of pycmx, my python module for reading CMX EDLs.

Worked in an electronic store and had a customer ask me if MP3 players got heavier when you put songs on them and another scream at me for not knowing what she meant by 'the thing you put in the oven to heat things up' (she meant a microwave).

RIP Gil Gerard.

Geez. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising BY MY CALCS: - 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project - 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals - 1 month of 250 households - 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing futurism.com/artificial-i...

How to set up a drop rig in the Redwood canopy. Hear more: thomasrexbeverly.com/products/red... #fieldrecording #Redwoods

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

Someone much more clever than I am pointed out that Frosty the Snowman could be considered a golem, so I ran with that.

🌴 Sound design legend Randy Tom takes you behind the sound for Cast Away in this interesting video: https://www.asoundeffect.com/cast-away-film-sound/ #sounddesign #soundeffects #filmsound #filmmaking #audiopost #postproduction #castaway

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

Don't know what to say. I'm devastated.

Gen Hayden worked closely with Rob Reiner on pro-democracy and anti-Russian influence campaigns in the past decade. We send our condolences to the Reiner family and offer our prayers the repose of Rob and wife Michele.

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.