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May 3
This is my submission to #RunwayBigPitchContest, based on my original screenplay, "The Question Room".
Pitch and more info in comments!
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Jun 14
I know a lot of people are getting blackpilled over AI and the arts, but I don’t see it that way.
I see AI as a new art form.
A new art form doesn’t necessarily replace the previous art forms. It can enhance them, influence them, and even create new opportunities for them.
Someone making an AI film today might develop an idea or an IP that later gets made into a live-action film or TV series. A producer or production company might see something online and decide they want to develop it further. That could mean work for actors, crews, designers, musicians, editors, and all the people who make live-action production possible.
On the flip side, AI will also allow people to tell stories that could never get funded any other way.
I think we can have both.
I love live action. I love actors. I love performing. I made my living on live-action films. But that doesn’t mean I don’t also appreciate 2D animation, 3D animation, theater, books, games, and other forms of storytelling.
There have always been different paths. Books become films. Theater becomes film. Films become books, plays, games, and TV shows. AI can become part of that same ecosystem.
Someone might make an AI film that becomes a live-action film, or a book series, or a play, or a video game. It can all feed the larger world of entertainment and storytelling.
It doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
Yes, things are going to change. Of course they are, because they always do. Artists working art-for-hire always have to adapt to new tech. I’ve been a working artist since the 90s, so I know how much things can change. I watched the rise of Photoshop, CGI, and digital filmmaking from the inside. Art for money, art under capitalism, is always going to have stress and uncertainty.
But the way forward, if you’re an art-for-hire person, is to stay on top of the technology and understand the business you’re in.
And there will also be room for people who are not doing art-for-hire — people making things for fun, as a hobby, or for the pursuit of art itself.
AI expands the tool set. It gives artists more ways to tell stories.
Are people suddenly going to give up live action because AI is here? No, of course not. I won’t either. I love live action.
But now we have a new art form to explore alongside animation, theater, television, and film.
It can all work together and create new opportunities, explorations, and experiences.
So don’t blackpill yourself over AI in the arts. We are entering a new phase of abundance and discovery.
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Jun 13
👍 Any filmmaker that has a strong creative vision will always be open to any new technology that can free you from limitations or corporate permission. I really don't rate anybody that fights for Goliath! That's why many of the industry titans like Scorsese, Shrader, Coppola, Aronofsky, Refn, Roger Avary, and many more are not pissing on it, and open to possibilities. When the majority are against this new tech, that's all the more reasons to go 100% all in. The majority are always wrong when it comes to innovation. As long as the purity of story telling outside the tools is always preserved.
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Tide is turning
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Honestly, we’re just going to keep seeing more and more big filmmakers being open to AI in filmmaking and art and the Anti-AI crowd will have less and less arguments to make. The paradox is they’ll also get louder too. The problem for them is that they’ll increasingly sound whiny.
Ron Howard on AI:
“It’s very exciting in terms of its potential to more efficiently and more broadly help storytellers get their ideas out there,” Howard said of the hot-button tech. “There are so many facts yet to be sorted out,” he said, but added he thought the possibilities are very appealing and that others will agree. “We will want it.”
Howard was speaking at the Runway AI Film Festival at Lincoln Center in New York Thursday, where he talked on stage with the video-generation company’s co-founder Cris Valenzuela. That conversation followed a similar AI-themed talk from earlier this spring between Valenzuela and Kathleen Kennedy, who was more circumspect.
Perhaps most strikingly, Howard said that one of the most influential hand-crafted entertainers of the 20th century would also embrace AI if he was alive today.
“Jim Henson just wanted to be busy making [things],” said Howard, who came to know the Muppets creator well from working on the 2024 documentary about him Idea Man. “That’s what these tools make so available and why they’re so exciting.”
When asked about a backlash, Howard said, “You’re talking about change and people are worried about it. I’m worried about it, on a professional level. But again, our job is to experiment with it and learn from it and work with it,” adding, “It’s going to evolve. And audiences are going to tell us.”
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Jun 9
This is the children's book I published a couple of years ago, using @midjourney 5.2 to make the images. We've come a long way - I can't believe we are on V8.1 now!
I really want to try V9.
a.co/d/0bu1qBca
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Jun 8
Hey guys, I’ve been offline for a while because I got a new computer, and it’s like getting a brain transplant. 🤪
But finally, I'm getting up to speed on the latest versions of Adobe stuff and all my other software. Now I can start making more cool stuff.
In the meantime, I made this little test trailer for my upcoming California Gothic occult thriller series, ORANGEFELLOW.
I will be putting the soundtrack to the series on @AethrMusik.
More coming soon!
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Electrogloria retweeted
Martin Scorsese has hand-drawn his own storyboards for 70 years.
Today he announced he's using AI to make them, and called it "creatively freeing."
When the most exacting purist alive reaches for the tool, the debate was never about the tool.
It's about taste. It always was.
Martin Scorsese Backs AI Company and Says He's Using It to Storyboard Movies: 'We Have to Be Open to How' Cinema Can 'Evolve' variety.com/2026/film/news/m…
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I'm an old-school practical FX artist who watched the rise of CGI from the inside. This is spot on.
This is a strange take.
Filmmaking has never been defined by the tools used to create it. Directors went from film to digital. Editors went from razor blades to nonlinear editing. VFX artists went from practical effects to CGI. I know, I did some of it in multiple verticals, not just one.
Nobody stopped being a filmmaker because the tools changed.
There was no such thing as a digital filmmaker until there was.
There was no such thing as a CG filmmaker until there was.
There was no such thing as a smartphone filmmaker until there was.
New tools create new disciplines. That’s how creative evolution works.
If someone is developing stories, directing performances, designing shots, building worlds, editing sequences, crafting pacing, shaping emotion, and delivering a finished film, they’re participating in filmmaking. The medium may change. The craft does not.
AI is a new production medium, not a replacement for filmmaking itself. So defining people exclusively by the tool they use while simultaneously acknowledging its growing role in production feels contradictory.
The audience doesn’t care what the workflow was. They care whether the film moved them. That’s always been true, AND WILL ALWAYS BE TRUE.
And ultimately, the people creating meaningful work with these tools will define what this category becomes, not investors, gatekeepers, or people arguing definitions on the internet. Especially when so many of those conversations are influenced by financial incentives, institutional interests, or personal agendas.
History has never been written by the people trying to stop new creative tools. It’s written by the people who use them to make something worth remembering.
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May 29
RT @sonnysehra: an episode of the long-lost 1960s british show “LATE NIGHT HORROR” was just accidentally found by a cinema projectionist lo…
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Electrogloria retweeted
May 27
It’s been an entire year since we last published our last map, and so much has changed in the industry. Last year’s map had 100 companies listed, one year later, it’s over 250! More than double!
I was literally up late yesterday still adding companies to the list. The space has expanded considerably, example: no one even heard of Higgsfield early last year. And others have disappeared, like Sora2, or pivoted, like Pika. I expect this to continue as the space evolves further.
A few things worth noting before you dig into it:
> yes, there are lots of logos, a shareable website is coming soon
> we expanded the number of categories to reflect evolutions of the space
> aggregators, in particular, have exploded in the last year
> the amount of funding continues to go up, not down - the consolidation that many thought was coming has still not happened yet
> the model companies have largely stayed the same for a year while startups battle in lots of niche areas
> this map is only a taste of certain areas like AI ads and AI video games, which deserve their own maps
> read our substack for more!
ALT Machine Cinema AI Creative Market Map
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May 27
Ok, I blocked out some time to do some screenwriting today. I like to write to instrumental and electronica tracks, so I'll be looking for some good vibes and grooves on @AethrMusik.
Looking forward to seeing what you guys have been cooking up over there 😎
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May 26
I had a busy weekend, so I am just now getting a chance to pop in @AethrMusik ... two of my tracks are in the Top 100! Suuuuper Cooool 😎
I'm working on another track in my spare time... should be done soon. I have other tracks waiting in the wings... Deep Hybrid still takes time in the DAW.
Also planning a short AI film series. I finished the script for the first episode and generated some asset tests. Just not enough hours in the day!
aethrmusik.com/#/artist/elec…
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May 23
Coolness is happening over on @AethrMusik!Today's killer, smooth groove is "Scat Quartet" by @theXoCillian.
Catch the vibe 😎😎😎 ---> aethrmusik.com/#/track/scat-…
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May 22
Just the sort of person the cool art people never want to hang out with. Hall monitors are lame.
May 21
I’m a populist about many things, but I truly believe that unrepentant snobbery is the only way forward now in the arts.
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May 22
I think when I come across a great track on @AethrMusik I'm going to post it.
Today it's 3AM Clarity by Myron. Chill electronica goodness. 😎🔥🖤⚡️
aethrmusik.com/share/track/d…
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May 21
No way! I'm "Artist of the Day" over on @AethrMusik.
I can't thank @AethrMusik enough for giving us a place to explore and share our music.
I'm writing an X article right now on how cool and valuable I think aethrmusik.com/ is to this emerging music scene. Will be posting today.
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May 21
Hey, crazy thing - I'm at the top of the Instrumental charts over at @AethrMusik - super coooool.
I'm on the Electronic charts too @ 6 & 7 ⚡️⚡️😎⚡️⚡️
If you like Electro, EBM, darkwave, synthpop, and all things electronica... come check me out @
aethrmusik.com/#/artist/elec…
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