when people talk about "hollywood" - this is what it actually means. world class craftspeople who bring decades worth of experience and talent to a singular set of images, sets, performances, and stories. most people never get to work with people at this caliber.

what a magical moment.

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

noticing a very marked move towards "this is my opinion and it is the right one you dumbasses" tonality, especially in the film adjacent creator space. like - nothing is a question, it's always an ANSWER. not judging, just observing... *shoulder shrug*

anyone at DIFF this weekend? i'm screening my debut feature, STAGES (for the second time) after a lovely SXSW premiere. If you are in Dallas, would love to see you tomorrow! a film about trying to figure out how to make a life in music. diffdallas2026.eventive.org/…

Less than a week until STAGES, my debut feature, premieres at SXSW. I've spent so many years working that festival on the music side, cam op'ing, DP'ing, and eventually directing live performance sessions. I'm incredibly excited to share this film there. schedule.sxsw.com/films/2253…

Sentimental Value was my favorite film of the year. Like reading a novel. So dense, so complex, yet so light on its feet. A truly masterful piece of filmmaking.

this. filmmaking is collision with things outside of your control. the end.

the big short guy is tweeting. defcon 3/4, i'd say...

they're letting us play with the AI toys, but what they're actually building w/ all that compute is THIS:

wild how few people have any original ideas at all

lost in the maze of making the check writers happy. bad place to be.

the 14 year olds mostly disagree with your assesment of the record that just dropped. and sadly, that's all that actually matters in the (business) scheme of it.

watched Eddington for the first time last night and.........woof. I might start smoking.

give it a watch!

The spirits that remain after something magical’s happened, and how you can go back to a place where something amazing occurred, and the feeling’s still in the air.  Happy Anniversary “Almost Famous”!

the rest of my life, apparently...

congrats Tony!