Just my wife and me at this Super Bowl party sending IG reels to each other

Bad Bunny’s halftime was pure joy 👏 👏 👏

If any good comes out of this, it’s that Bluesky needed a thread of people talking about how the broke their toes.

If I didn’t break my big toe tonight, I will be amazed. The pain. Does one go to the ER for a broken big toe? Is there anything the hospital could actually do for it aside from an x-ray and a “yep, you broke it.”?

Finally got a chance to set up my new podcast studio for the first time. About halfway to where I can start testing.

I went and made a FIVE HOUR woodworking YouTube video of me building my walnut desktop. BTW, I’m not a woodworker. Everyone said “Are you going to cut it down into episodes?” NOPE! Enjoy… if you dare! COMPLETE beginner makes a custom walnut desktop - LONGform woodworking youtu.be/oyrX_ko-RAw

Is it weird to post a six hour woodworking project video on YouTube? Cuz I made one.

Happy New Year, friends!

At this comic shop in Santa Barbara I appreciated the real spiderwebs getting in on the theming.

So weird to see this. We had this exact lithograph framed and hanging at the entrance to our kitchen for all of my years in school.

I feel I can somehow, for myself, soften the blow of Rob Reiner’s death by reflecting on how impactful his work was in my life, specifically through the films he directed throughout my Jr. High and High School years. Stand By Me showed me what real friendship could be. 1/5

Apparently The Christmas Chronicles played in Regal Cinemas across the country for one day this week. Weird, and cool. I found out from a Google alert.

So sick & tired of all these assholes selling out to AI. Disgusting. Disgraceful. You want to help students create, tell them to draw & write, let their imagination run wild on the page. You don't push the thieving machine. Also, fuck AI!!!

Man, sounds like it would have been easier to just make an ad the usual way.

Just like he empowered our country’s “hidden” racism to crawl out of the shadows for everyone to see, he’s revealing how corrupt the world really is through everything he touches and everything that dares touch him. Gross.

Amazon’s new AI (Boris, or Basil, or Bobo, whatever) told me the product I was searching for was no longer available on Amazon. So I went to the product’s company website, clicked the “Buy on Amazon” button and there it was… on Amazon. AI is a scourge.

Let’s GOOOOOOOOOO!

You know what’s weirder than seeing a driverless car? Seeing a driverless car being driven by a person.

The Christmas Chronicles is warming up early on Netflix this year!

I wonder if The Macy’s Parade will ever bring the Angry Birds Red balloon out of retirement. The photo on the left was the last time I saw him in 2018, when we were designing the balloons for The Christmas Chronicles. @f3rgal.bsky.social

Finally reached the end of my first draft and the final video in my Writing a Screenplay series! Writing a Screenplay - Day 30 - FADE OUT / THE END youtu.be/47ySFDYjKks

No notes: uk.movies.yahoo.com/kurt-russell...

What a nice reminder. Thanks @david-william4.bsky.social! & here I was going through the day with zero awareness that today’s the anniversary of A Christmas Story Christmas! To commemorate, here’s a photo from right before filming the first shot and another of the last shot before we wrapped.

Apple should just go all in and rename the Apple Watch the Apple Timer because that’s all I use mine for.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Every time I vacuum up a bug or spider, I like to think of it as the beginning of a heartwarming animated adventure about returning home.

We got a super soft rug for around our bed so the dog would have traction to jump up at night, but now she always sleeps on the rug. What have we done???

That 🎄🎅🏻 mood is right around the corner!

Glad to see the Super S is still going strong

I’ve seen a dog sneeze, and a dog choke/gag, but I don’t remember ever seeing a dog cough. Do dogs cough?

This @thomasflight.nebula.tv vid on GenAI is worth watching.

Writing a Screenplay - Day 25 - I finished my first draft! What’s next?

I’m so close to becoming a rogue “sign guy.”

You’d think this amazing AI could be used to send spam to the junk folder, but instead we get racoons riding on dogs videos.

It’s sad. My dad left me his classic car and it seems scammers are phishing car club members via email because they know it’s a large concentration of old people who might fall for their scams.

@lightboxexpo.com was huge, packed full of enthusiastic artists, and exciting as always. @bobbychiu.bsky.social has created something special to look forward to every year. Here’s our panel on Friday, you can’t see the screaming, cheering audience, but they were there, trust me.

Who’s at Lightbox today?

Had a dream someone was presenting spaceship designs and one was so massive, I asked if those little specks all over the surface were windows. They proudly said Yes. Then I said “That’s no ship, that’s a space station.” No one got the reference and I had to explain. I’m awkward, even in my dreams.

Feel like a lot of people will want to know this 👇 #filmmaking

I’ll be at Lighbox Expo this Friday, speaking on a panel at 3:30 - Adapting Games into Animated Series and Films - with my Angry Birds directing partner Fergal Reilly @f3rgal.bsky.social. Hope to see some familiar and new faces there!

“Fuck AI” — Guillermo del Toro 🎥 Vanity Fair

Imagine how good I would be at life if I did everything right the first time.

Okay, let’s go again.

If you accidentally post AI slop and are told “hey that’s AI” the correct answer is to go “aw shit I didn’t know” and delete it. Not “oh oops oh well, watcha gonna do” and keep it up because it’s giving you engagement. Stop it.

They should heed the words of the irrepressible Disney animator Ward Kimball: “Walt’s dead, and you missed it.”

Remember during the lockdown how we started new hobbies to keep our minds occupied in order to stay sane? I’m feeling the same need right now.

Hand animating a TEENY clip for a YT video and I feel so… EMPOWERED. Creating something from scratch – FOR MYSELF, BECAUSE I WANT IT TO EXIST – feels like a giant middle finger to everything wrong in tech and entertainment right now. Trying out Clip Studio Paint for this, and I’m mostly liking it.

What a deal! Can’t believe no one’s taken it. 🤮

In the absence of work, I’m writing and recording a video series about what I’ve learned making movies. I’m in the midst of publishing my first thing: a YT Shorts series documenting my experience writing a screenplay. After that, I’ll be publishing longer form videos. It’s here: @nowgomakeamovie.com