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Jonathan Eby
@jonathaneby.bsky.social
· Jan 8
We are launched!
Gumbo is a short film about a gangster who wants to be a chef, but then his boss makes him do a hit. Passions and responsibility intersect in this one location thriller.
It's Ratatouille meets goodfellas.
Gumbo is a short film about a gangster who wants to be a chef, but then his boss makes him do a hit. Passions and responsibility intersect in this one location thriller.
It's Ratatouille meets goodfellas.
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And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
February 19, 2026 at 1:18 AM
And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
height surgery is appropriation of tall people culture. it's impossible to be photographed, people are scared when we walk into rooms. don't try and pretend to be us.
February 18, 2026 at 11:06 PM
height surgery is appropriation of tall people culture. it's impossible to be photographed, people are scared when we walk into rooms. don't try and pretend to be us.
jeff passan has a weird digital make up on the rich eisen show that goes between making him look like a wax doll and a HS theater old make up job. it's unnerving and i hate it
February 18, 2026 at 4:05 AM
jeff passan has a weird digital make up on the rich eisen show that goes between making him look like a wax doll and a HS theater old make up job. it's unnerving and i hate it
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I saw someone say, “Emerald Fennell is Greta Gerwig’s Wario,” and I haven’t stopped laughing 😭
February 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I saw someone say, “Emerald Fennell is Greta Gerwig’s Wario,” and I haven’t stopped laughing 😭
i raised $9k from friends and family to make my short film that i've been working for years on, and i might have to get $2k out of pocket for post. A.I. people are grifters. they don't want to work for it.
The dealbreaking question for all AI filmmakers: if it only cost you $30,000 to make, why should people pay $20 each to see it?
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 7:29 PM
i raised $9k from friends and family to make my short film that i've been working for years on, and i might have to get $2k out of pocket for post. A.I. people are grifters. they don't want to work for it.
"The only problem with this movie is that it's not casablanca."
-me watching any movie ever
-me watching any movie ever
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 AM
"The only problem with this movie is that it's not casablanca."
-me watching any movie ever
-me watching any movie ever
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My car's catalytic converter got stolen last week so I've been without a car & have been walking/using public transit. Unfortunately, this has solved 90% of the problems in my life with its social and mental health benefits, while adding the slight problem of realizing motorists now want to kill me.
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
My car's catalytic converter got stolen last week so I've been without a car & have been walking/using public transit. Unfortunately, this has solved 90% of the problems in my life with its social and mental health benefits, while adding the slight problem of realizing motorists now want to kill me.
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Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project
February 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project
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WB has an agenda
February 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
WB has an agenda
They always erase african americans.
(and in this case, the waves of germans, swedes, french, spanish, irish, italians, etc.)
(and in this case, the waves of germans, swedes, french, spanish, irish, italians, etc.)
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
They always erase african americans.
(and in this case, the waves of germans, swedes, french, spanish, irish, italians, etc.)
(and in this case, the waves of germans, swedes, french, spanish, irish, italians, etc.)
white people have culture. and learning other cultures is valuable. drinking chocolate is good actually. it it good to listen to folk music and know it's roots. it it good to speak other languages and eat other foods.
your enemy is mindless consumerism. not people appreciating other cultures.
your enemy is mindless consumerism. not people appreciating other cultures.
I can assure you that you do not in fact want that.
February 15, 2026 at 6:53 AM
white people have culture. and learning other cultures is valuable. drinking chocolate is good actually. it it good to listen to folk music and know it's roots. it it good to speak other languages and eat other foods.
your enemy is mindless consumerism. not people appreciating other cultures.
your enemy is mindless consumerism. not people appreciating other cultures.
good trouble
Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)
February 15, 2026 at 5:09 AM
good trouble
i think we can do both. venezuela feels geographically and culturally very far away to many americans, and most americans live pretty close to a cheesecake factory
hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
Romance alert: Trump's reckless tariffs have Valentine’s Day costs up across the board:
Roses 🌹16.6%
Chocolates🍫 18.7%
Ribeye 🥩 25.4%
Restaurant meals 🍽️ 4.9%
Roses 🌹16.6%
Chocolates🍫 18.7%
Ribeye 🥩 25.4%
Restaurant meals 🍽️ 4.9%
February 15, 2026 at 1:30 AM
i think we can do both. venezuela feels geographically and culturally very far away to many americans, and most americans live pretty close to a cheesecake factory
i don't want a lockout, but it would be a great excuse for Ken Burns to make a documentary about the Ohtani era.
February 14, 2026 at 10:47 PM
i don't want a lockout, but it would be a great excuse for Ken Burns to make a documentary about the Ohtani era.
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i think this is what drives me nuts. people talk about how, say, the UN was founded by "starry eyed idealists" who didn't understand "reality." the truth is that the UN was founded by those who had just fought and *won* the bloodiest war in human history.
February 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
i think this is what drives me nuts. people talk about how, say, the UN was founded by "starry eyed idealists" who didn't understand "reality." the truth is that the UN was founded by those who had just fought and *won* the bloodiest war in human history.
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hard to communicate how shattered many basic functions in the City of LA are. we've stopped repaving streets, streetslights are dark, sanitation pickups take weeks. departments bleeding staff bc of budget cuts are also being raided to staff the mayor's pet projects. we can't even spend FREE money
The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.
February 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
hard to communicate how shattered many basic functions in the City of LA are. we've stopped repaving streets, streetslights are dark, sanitation pickups take weeks. departments bleeding staff bc of budget cuts are also being raided to staff the mayor's pet projects. we can't even spend FREE money
there needs to be a satchel page movie
February 14, 2026 at 6:37 PM
there needs to be a satchel page movie
Setting aside the fact that twitter is cooking everyone's brains, these people are trying to claim that african americans weren't a part of baseball. and that the color barrier wasnt broken before the civil rights act. (and was a major part of enacting the civil rights act.)
when MAGA white supremacists like Carl whinge abt passing of 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act they are complaining that it overturned 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, a law limiting immigration to people from Northern Europe, which was drafted by eugenicist Rep. Albert Johnson, with BIG support from the Klan
February 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Setting aside the fact that twitter is cooking everyone's brains, these people are trying to claim that african americans weren't a part of baseball. and that the color barrier wasnt broken before the civil rights act. (and was a major part of enacting the civil rights act.)
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we live in the ruins of a greater civilization
February 13, 2026 at 3:12 AM
we live in the ruins of a greater civilization
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NIMBYing a concentration camp is cool and good.
February 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
NIMBYing a concentration camp is cool and good.
everyone should read books. and we should have strong labor protections, wages, and cheap housing so people don't feel pressured to go into finance or tech.
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
everyone should read books. and we should have strong labor protections, wages, and cheap housing so people don't feel pressured to go into finance or tech.
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I support rail to WeHo, but it's a little annoying when they say they're the heart of the region. Westwood/Swatelle/Century City corridor is more population and more job dense, and KTown is more population dense. DTLA is way more job dense.
I support you WeHo, but don't be annoying.
I support you WeHo, but don't be annoying.
February 13, 2026 at 1:10 AM
I support rail to WeHo, but it's a little annoying when they say they're the heart of the region. Westwood/Swatelle/Century City corridor is more population and more job dense, and KTown is more population dense. DTLA is way more job dense.
I support you WeHo, but don't be annoying.
I support you WeHo, but don't be annoying.
im talking to a dude from orange county on instagram who's very mad that Nithya Raman wants to figure out the budget and possibly raise taxes on homeowners (like was supposed to happen) and it turns out he likes the government of Dubai and he thinks the repression is worth it for the cleanliness.
February 10, 2026 at 2:43 PM
im talking to a dude from orange county on instagram who's very mad that Nithya Raman wants to figure out the budget and possibly raise taxes on homeowners (like was supposed to happen) and it turns out he likes the government of Dubai and he thinks the repression is worth it for the cleanliness.