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Dan Hamman retweeted
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When I was a teenager I had a passion for making videos, I wanted to go into film and tv but when I tried to take the traditional eduction route I quickly realised it was a failing system
The teachers were underpaid, didn’t care enough, under resourced and quite frankly weren’t really skilled enough to actually provide me with the level of eduction I needed to persue my passion
So I turned to YouTube where I found millions of free, highly eductional tutorials that taught me everything I needed to know, I spent 3 years between the age of 13-16 on YouTube every night learning how to use different softwares, how to edit videos, cinematography, how to tell stories etc
All of which are things a traditional eduction in tv and film never even attempted to
teach me, 12 years on I’ve built an entire career with the knowledge I learned from free YouTube tutorials, bought a house from that knowledge and contributed substaincially to both the economy and the tax fund in this country
Banning YouTube for U16s does far more damage than it does good to the next generation, it takes away their ability to learn and grow outside of the boundries of a government approved education system and puts the country at risk of falling even further behind the rest of the world than we already are in terms of inovation
🚨 NEW: YouTube has hit out at the UK's social media ban for under-16s
"YouTube is a vital resource for young people, educators and parents. Blanket bans push kids out of such curated, supervised, beneficial experiences and towards anonymous, less safe services"
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The gulf in understanding between tech illiterate people and the actual teenagers affected about what social media provides and how it works is staggering. Not to mention the top-down moralising, the judgement and the assumption that it's all 'mindless scrolling'
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Jun 10
Seeing Spielberg rankings not include ET in their top ten is like……..wow there are so many different kinds of folks out there huh
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Jun 9
They all sound so fucking thick banging on about AI like it is a magic wand solution for all of their grand failings to actually govern
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Jun 8
Today I am calling on you to pause that game now —no I don’t care if it’s online or whatever just pause it now — because dinner is ready and your mum has worked bloody hard today
Jun 8
This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online.
Today I am calling on the tech companies to introduce device-level controls to prevent children from taking, sharing or viewing nude images.
And if they don’t act, we will.
Community note
Jess Phillips resigned from gvnt May 12 citing Starmer's failure to act on this specific measure.
lbc.co.uk/article/keir-s…
Technology like this requires blanket ID vertification to take vetted photos. Kids easily verify as adults rendering measures useless while curbing liberty for everyone else.
eff.org/pages/uk-onlin…
thedailyeconomy.org/article/califo…
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100%. Storyboarding is about evoking a feeling, inspiring with a specific vision yet leaving room for discovery, expertise and improvement by each department that follows, not presuming to fill in gaps that would make, say, an art director feel constrained.
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Dan Hamman retweeted
(seeing Velcro for the first time) man it's gonna take forever to get all these hooks into all these loops
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Jun 2
New behind the scenes footage of the neighborhood that was filmed in for ‘BACKROOMS’.
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May 31
Its worldbuilding is unfortunately more compelling than its characters but Backrooms IS the real deal. It’s basically a whole mythology that is *from* young people, not inherited like so much IP they are told to care about because their parents liked a movie once.
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May 31
And there is no solution, no beginning no end, not a clear sense of malice or benevolence, just existence without purpose. Horror has always satirised this (Dawn of the Dead) but this specific interpretation speaks so well to the frustration of unused spaces.
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May 31
The irony that in 1977 a mythology that spoke to young people is desperately being revived this week, as Backrooms openly mocks the idea of half-remembered mutated copies, doesn’t bullshit, and is eating SW’s lunch when it comes to reaching a young audience.
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May 20
This should be a scandal to bite back everyone on the arse who let this stall so badly. It’s just pathetic
May 19
It costs more to build a train from London to Birmingham (£102.7 bn) than for NASA to return to the moon (£100 bn)
England is so broken.
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May 10
Because we should leave one part of the town free of sports for those who want to avoid it.
May 10
Why haven’t cinemas in the UK not pivoted to showing football n other sports?
They’re always empty. Beer tap by the screen, home n away sections. Would be decent I reckon
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Dan Hamman retweeted
Everything should be animated. Live action shouldn't exist.
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Apr 12
Searching for a new place in London, and the listings I'm seeing make me feel like cold LEDs should be illegal
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Apr 8
It's a shame that Disney has one philosophy of restoration---cleaning their films within an inch of their lives so that the seams vanish, like they were never even objects that were filmed (which is more incredible than the sanitised platonic ideal they rework them as)
Alice in Wonderland 75th Anniversary Raw Scan vs New Restoration Comparison. @Disney
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I know this has been their way of doing it for years and it's unlikely to change. They've even adjusted the colour of iconic scenes to match modern marketing expectations, so claiming any restoration as 'definitive' is something to take with a pinch of salt.
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First look at what the live-action ‘HARRY POTTER’ series is contributing towards.
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