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Mark Spatny

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Emmy winning VFX Supervisor/Producer. Shows: THE PERIPHERAL, HEROES, DOCTOR WHO, STATION 19, LETHAL WEAPON, TOUCH, GRACEPOINT, RUNAWAYS. Nine years on the board of the TV Academy. Comic book and sci-fi fanboy. Representation: https://innovativeartists.com

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 12d

Please enjoy the latest Befores & Afters podcast, where I talked with Ian Failes about what The Roddenberry Archive is doing to preserve the history of Star Trek and Gene Roddenberry's legacy in television and films. @beforesmag.bsky.social
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How The Roddenberry Archive is preserving 'Star Trek' history - befores & afters

A new podcast with OTOY's Mark Spatny.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 6h

if you hear a creative or a creative-adjacent person say something along the lines of “whatever you think about AI, it’s here to stay” they probably just got pAId

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 7h

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 15h

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 20h

That’s like scavenger planet costume design in the 80s.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 21h

OTOY’S Jules Urbach joins the Inglorious Treksperts to talk about the Roddenberry Archive:

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RE-UNIFYING KIRK & SPOCK w/ OTOY'S JULES URBACH

YouTube video by Inglorious Treksperts (Podcast)

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 1d

Creative Arts Nobel Prize

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 1d

Now Trump is hoping to at least get a Daytime Nobel Peace Prize.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 1d

With an estimated net worth of $650 million and weight of 68kg, Tom Cruise is more than twice as expensive as plutonium.

Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 1d

Tomb Raider replaced iconic male hero/ archaeologist Indiana Jones with a DEI woman and immediately sold 7 million units. The game franchise has sold in total over 100 million units, and spun off 3 movies and 2 TV series, not to mention copycat TV series Relic Hunter with 66 episodes. But go on.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 1d

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 1d

Last night it said 100+ bought in the past month. Tonight, 200+. The legion grows.

screenshot of amazon page that says Inflatable Frog Costume for Adults - Blow up Halloween Costume. 200 plus bought in past month

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t disagree, based on what I’ve seen so far.

Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair, they could easily fix the latter problem if they hired an actual artist/compositor to balance those cuts out, but they don’t seem to be aware of it the issue.

Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 2d

What I’m learning watching AI video clips at Infinity Festival is that 1) AI is terrible at smoothly ramping key frames in camera moves, and 2) it’s obvious when people try to fake continuous camera moves by linking separate clips because there’s always a luminance bump.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 2d

Their misunderstanding of how creativity works is only matched by their misunderstanding of David Simon.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 2d

And many thanks to my colleagues at the USC ETC for inviting me to join them at the event.

Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s agenda: Infinity Festival

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Homepage 2025

a unique event designed to unite the global community of storytellers & technologists led by industry thought-leaders.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 2d

If you are an alum of:

Vanderbilt
UVA
UT Austin
U of Southern California
Dartmouth
Brown
MIT
U Penn
U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 2d

Is he aware that there’s an audience for films outside the horror genre, and that some of those viewers will have more discerning taste regarding what they look at?

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 2d

I say “Frisco” and call the people who live there “Friskies” exactly because it drives people there crazy.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 2d

Los Feliz

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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weinberg @weinberg.social · 3d

film producers should not refer to movies as "content."

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

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