when i was a kid and my family was watching robots (2006) my dad offhandedly mentioned his cousin worked on the movie which i didn’t fully internalize then and always existed in some kind of liminal space in my memory as something either i made up, or something my dad made up
cut to sometime in the last year when i remembered movies have credits and imdb aggregates credits across a person’s career so i tried to find my first cousin once removed on there and sure enough, he’s had a decorated career - in addition to robots he also worked on:
- the boys
- game of thrones
- john wick
- the interview
- 22 jump street
- a couple of twilight movies
among others; i’ve only met the guy a handful of times, and vfx work is real labor intensive with large teams working the post-production but it‘s so cool to know someone that worked on shit that i’ve actually seen and has had wild cultural significance. this must be what it feels like to be a coppola
Apr 10, 2024
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Not to brag or anything but my dad was an extra in David Lynch’s Dune so I guess you could say I’m basically Maya Hawke
Apr 10, 2024
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Apparently the child actor who played Charlie bucket in the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory has a brother in upstate NY. Coincidentally he plows my parent’s driveway in the winter.
It’s not crazy because it’s an unbelievable connection, but it feels so random. At this point I’m not even sure what to do with this information ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
2d ago
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It’s been my mission over the past year or two to become my family’s next ‘kind of aloof uncle who only makes appearances at the big holidays and lives in a big city who has a cool job and cooler anecdotes that make up for the aloofness’ and it’s sooo fun
Feb 4, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024
