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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · 1d

These are professional engineers and builders who are taking on restoration projects that the governments won't pay for. There's definitely a great story here.

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Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · 1d

Upon viewing more closely, the film is actually about the takeover of the Pantheon, another action the group did around the same time

Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · 1d

*wrote

Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · 1d

I read about it in the Guardian at the time and kind of went down a rabbit hole researching them. Check out the links to articles on the wikipedia page - it was a larger movement all over the world

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Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · 1d

He also made a film vimeo.com/51365068

Pantheon, user's guide

Original title: Panthéon, mode d'emploi (2009) Directed by: Lazar Kunstmann Various workshops conducted in the early 21st century by Urban eXperiment’s…

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Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · 1d

vimeo.com/51365068

Pantheon, user's guide

Original title: Panthéon, mode d'emploi (2009) Directed by: Lazar Kunstmann Various workshops conducted in the early 21st century by Urban eXperiment’s…

vimeo.com

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Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · 1d

It was part of a larger cultural movement: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX

les UX - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · 1d

There is one. Lazar Kunstmann, who was one of the people behind the project, write a book about it. It's only in French though: www.amazon.com/culture-en-c...

La Culture en clandestins. L'UX (Beaux-Arts)

Amazon.com: La Culture en clandestins. L'UX (Beaux-Arts): 9782754103411: Lazar Kunstmann: Books

www.amazon.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 29

Barbie called it.

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · Aug 24

Can folks do me a favor?

I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.

I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.

I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.

Here’s two favorite set photos.

Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Kerry Bishe in costume as Donna and Mackenzie Davis in costume as Cameron Howe on the set of Halt and Catch Fire

Scoot McNairy and Lee Pace on the set of Halt and Catch Fire

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · Aug 13

These LA tenants saw some utility fees double. So they went on strike.
The controversial billing system their landlord uses was banned in West Hollywood three years ago.
lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-t...

These LA tenants saw some utility fees double. So they went on strike

The controversial billing system their landlord uses was banned in West Hollywood three years ago.

lapublicpress.org

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Angela Workman @angelaworkman.bsky.social · Aug 12

Many #screenwriters don't understand what the truth is, about Park Chan-Wook & Don McKellar being kicked out of the WGA for what was apparently minor post-production work (permitted by the DGA). The WGA board is very punishing. Read the whole article. #scriptsky #moviesky variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Park Chan-wook Can Keep Writing Despite WGA Expulsion: ‘No Impact on Employability’

Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar were kicked out of the Writers Guild of America, but the expulsion has little practical impact.

variety.com

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · Aug 10

Newsom v. Trump begins tomorrow, Aug. 11, as a 3-day bench trial. For the first time in U.S. history, a court will decide whether a president violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using military forces as domestic law enforcement.

Here are the key facts: (🧵1/9)

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · Aug 9

Remembering Tove Jansson on her birthday 🎂
With a Moomintroll doll in Helsinki
📷 Lehtikuva, 1954

"If I could live it all over again, I'd do it completely differently. But I won't say how."

The author with a Moomin doll on her shoulder.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Aug 9

Good morning. Some thoughts about last night:

It’s a shocking thing when media get brutalized by the state, for a number of reasons, but it often shifts the spotlight off the thing we were out there to cover in the first place.

My evening started like this yesterday: a lively, fun march thru DTLA

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Aug 9

Got some folks honking at the intersection, and cheering from the sidewalk. March heading into downtown now.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Aug 7

The unions. DGA. WGA. SAG. IATSE. We need to stand up for the jobs of those in the adjacent unions. No AI to replace actors. No AI to replace crew. No AI writing in scripts. No AI to replace VFX artists. AI tools only and only tools that facilitate jobs, not replace them. Together we can do this.

seshatnoir.bsky.social @seshatnoir.bsky.social · Aug 7

What kind of moves will stop it?

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Aug 7

I *cannot* fucking stress this enough:

The threat of AI is *NOT* making movies for us, but the hundreds of jobs it will be able to easily eliminate from crew positions. VFX. Drone pilots. Color timing. Sound mixing. Clerical staff.

If we don't move to protect jobs NOW, they WILL go away forever.

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Shannon Pettypiece @spettypi.bsky.social · Aug 3

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · Aug 1

Most of the justifications of the use of AI as eliminating gatekeeping assume that the young, inexperienced filmmaker has the ability to make all the creative decisions on their own, and that filmmaking is the product of one imagination

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Laura Shapiro @psychopompink.bsky.social · Aug 1

This article omits the crucial fact that filmmaking is a collaborative art. Someone prompting AI doesn't have the creative input of the storyboard artist, the DP, the camera op, the editor, the makeup artist who collaborates with the filmmaker, regardless of the tools used. I blame the Auteur Theory

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Sam Tung @stung.art · Jul 31

I'm in the LA Times today, speaking more about how AI is both useless for artists and yet still a threat to workers because of foolish studios chasing technology off a cliff www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

As AI changes how movies are made, Hollywood crews ask: What’s left for us?

AI is supplying powerful new tools at a fraction of the cost, forcing below-the-line artists to wonder if the future of filmmaking has a place for them.

www.latimes.com

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · Jul 31

www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Time is of the essence
This would require a special election
The article says California Attorney General would need 3 months to facilitate a special election
Let's go Governor Newsom

Newsom faces a tight timeline to redistrict California. Here are the roadblocks

California lawmakers would have to act quickly to get a measure on the ballot. But many won’t even say where they stand.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Billy Ray @billyray5229.bsky.social · Jul 31

THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH MY PARTY.

I don't give a damn if former Trump voters "admit" we were right. All they have to do is realize that they can't pay their bills and they don't like masked thugs arresting people.

No finger-wagging. No "we told you so." Let's just win - and save our country.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jul 31

My God.

This hit so hard.

Because you know what they're going to choose.

And it makes you feel like, as a species, we may be irredeemable. So many of us find just doing the basic decent thing an utter impossibility.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · Jul 27

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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