6) Just suck it up and call the parent because it’s your kid and your anxiety about calling someone doesn’t matter - As a teacher who has some anxieties, I often hem and haw about my social interactions with people. But when my kids need me, I just swallow it up and do the thing because my anxiety will not and should…

He couldn’t, as the Republican congress refused to pass any laws he wanted, even if they liked them.

Also, this bill is part of a massive rollback of the Dodd/Frank financial regulations that will most likely bring back the 2008 financial crisis, as it undoes many of the protections that bill created. So even if this…

I saw this headline and immediately knew it was about that horrific Richard Cohen Op-Ed.

Kenzo is the one who should be suing them. Two years ago they hired Spike Jonze to make an add and he basically made the same ad as this, only more joyous and out there:

Fun fact, that animation of the planet was made by early Pixar. It was one of Pixar’s first gigs making CGI for other films. It is Star Trek’s first CGI effect and one of the earliest CGI effects in film history.

The money Pixar received for doing that small piece of work (which was enormous at the time) helped fund…

My mom’s 92 Red Ford Escort brings back all the memories. I took my test on stick shift and I LIKED IT.

I will say I have on occasion had good cooked avocado - some taquerias around here serve beer battered avocado tacos and they’re flash fried so the avocado is mostly raw on the inside. That’s pretty good.

The Hollywood studios have already committed to buying enough Kodak film every year to keep the film part of the company stable. It was a big old deal that made the news a few years ago.

Filmmaking is pretty horrid. Can we fly in that C-stand and get some C47s to attach the globe? Make sure it’s plugged into the Jenny.

My question is if this is the final move, why not do it as soon as the bad guys target the transports? I feel like they lost half a dozen ships before before Holdo got on with it. She could have done it like 5 minutes earlier and saved a lot of lives.

From what I understand, black tattoo ink traditionally uses animal bone char. There are vegan tattoo artists that source their black elsewhere.

“Okay, kids, it’s important that you know how to do something we don’t do any more, and this is when we teach you how to do it.”

No, it’s important to know basic principles that we still teach, and Super 8 lets us do that really well by focusing on the basics and laying your mistakes bare for you and all to see.

(Editin…

I mean it’s prohibitively expensive. We got a grant and we had some money left over so we tried it. It was a great experience for my students. YMMV, but I can’t deny that my students are better filmmakers for using it.

Much like many digital artists begin by simply learning how to draw on pencil and paper, beginning…

The Digital LCD is for assisting in framing only. It’s not a recording device. You still have to get it processed and it’s still gonna be expensive.

Film teacher here - it’s INCREDIBLY helpful. You take away all their safety nets (an LCD, getting to review the footage after they shoot it, ability to shoot easily in natural light) and they learn VERY quickly the basic principles of composition, shot evaluation in real time, planning their shots in advance of the…

The new camera won’t require actual film editing. Kodak is launching a service where you get the footage digitally transferred to a 4K file you can edit on your computer.

There are a number of labs that do this as well, I shoot Super 8 all the time and I just get it scanned. Everyone just gets it scanned. Actual…

Also, the Chinese food is pretty damn great, especially up north. Asia Cafe, A+A Szechuan, Din Ho, and Ho Ho. All excellent.

Hot barbecue tip: Everyone talks about Franklin, and indeed it is the best. But you have to wait in line for hours and spend half your day on it, getting up ridiculously early, etc.

The thing about barbecue is that it’s a game of little margins - while Franklin is world class, you can get 90% of the quality of…

Mine neither.

Die Fledermaus or GTFO