So now I'm wondering, what makes a movie not about the holidays feel like a Christmas movie? Why does LOTR feel like an x-mas movie? #scriptchat #scriptsky

How do you like that? #scriptchat #scriptsky

In one of my old comics, a kid on the bad list is tasked with revitalizing a waning Santa's image to make him "cool"and everything goes downhill. Kept thinking I might do some re-sketching of those pages #scriptchat #scriptsky

I had a script idea for a heist at the North Pole but I think someone beat me to the punch on that one. #scriptchat #scriptsky

Hey hey hey #scriptchat

William Gibson up at 3am the night before a meeting to pitch a book he forgot he was supposed to write:

This reminds me of my headcanon that the hippie played by Charles Napier in The Way To Eden is the descendant of the military guy played by Charles Napier in Little Green Men.

Security costs money and programmers who don't suck.

The way you can tell "AI" is the future is because one of the most popular searches is "How do I get this AI shit out of my computer"

I'm kind of glad I'm out of cardstock to make new blank books out of because it's impossible to eyeball page numbers. One of these only has ten sheets in it, the other has like a thousand.

Speaking from experience (I work in procurement), someone needed a Specific Thingy. They asked ChatGPT, which spat out the wrong part number. I had to spend 30 minutes convincing them it WAS the wrong part number and 5 minutes calling the human vendor who knew exactly what we needed.

Hollywood isn’t out of “new ideas” it just doesn’t give “new voices” the same opportunities as establishment ones. This is especially 100x true for POC writers and creators.

All my sketches today have been, well, kinda sketchy.

Shopping small is meaningful!

Tom Stoppard adapted Three Men In A Boat in 19865 and it's one my most recent comfort watches.

Tweeting with @merrillbarr.com about Magnum last night reminded me of my favorite piece of MAGNUM, PI trivia. After the show’d been cancelled, QUANTUM LEAP had plans for Sam to leap into Thomas Magnum. It never happened, but here’s test footage of Scott Bakula doing Selleck’s “eyebrow wiggle.”

Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

Oh I like this kind of weather

This i s an awesome book, highly recommend. Got art for movies they never even made (like the Jetsons)

IMPORTANT reminder for when you print zines: Set your printer to "Scale: 100%" Many printers automatically resize to 94% or something, which will shrink the image and give you weird borders when you fold the zine. Scale: 100%.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

Mine.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.

Crab Beach Friends?

I am literally the worst person to shop for because it takes me 2 hours to think of the most obvious thing I'd like, and then I'll immediately be "you know what, don't get me that."

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

The only thing I would change about this strategy is generating one report as a class, then having the kids go research independently, to minimize the water used. Most preferable would be showing existing data and examples people have already shared. Hopefully that would be enough to make the point

No lie, I'm genuinely surprised and impressed that this little pocket notebook I've been using for my music sorting has lasted me since hte middle of September. Sometimes I'll run through one in a month.

if *I* might add, anything you add in brackets, also add to a list so you remember those things you still need to create or research. #scriptsky

I need a chill movie to watch now

Drew a lot yesterday, now I'm not in the mood at all. Probably another good sign I never became a professional artist

The miniature spaceship FX in Close Encounters aged well because they built a "smoke room" to photograph the models in, to increase the density of the atmosphere around them. I.e., a 1/25 scale model would have smoke room atmosphere 25 times denser than it would be in the real world.

I had no idea this existed. Amazing.

For users of Gmail, check the below post & sub post. The AI reading feature may or may not be checked. Mine was.

I drew those weird octopus breathing tube things so much today that I had better use them in a design.

Haven't watched toku in months, and I want to

I just did this. I loathe "opt-out" AI bullshit that they sneak into things. Should be illegal.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Red Letter Media raised a question I had been thinking of, "what happens to all those people from the past who wind up in the 24th century?" I think that'd be an interesting thing to follow.

Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. . Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL

Every time you make fun of a website name on a TV show or movie I just need you to know some poor person fought for their life with Clearances to even be able to use that

Well put! And I genuinely think we have the absolute nastiness of Trek fandom to blame for this kind of public dialogue ending. You can learn a lot from this kind of autopsy, but as long as fans act like being displeased by art is a capital crime, no one will want to show any weakness

29 years ago today, Flanders taught us the ins and outs of apple cider vs. apple juice. “Burns, Baby Burns” premiered November 17, 1996.

Now there is a hedgehog here and his name is Steve!