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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 24/12/2024

i named one Data and changed the icon to this

an image of Cmdr. Data from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “A Fistful of Datas.” he’s wearing a cowboy hat and smiling.

brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 22/12/2024

TAG members! this is your last day to vote on ratification of the 2024-2027 Memorandum of Agreement. the voting deadline is TONIGHT, Sunday, December 22, at 11:59pm PST. the full text of the MOA along with a summary and other info about the deal can be found here: tagnegotiations2024.com

Last chance to vote! DEADLINE 11:59pm PST (tonight)

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 07/12/2024

a little Saturday downtime reading. Bresson on filmmaking, or “cinematography” as he defined it. a few quotes from “Notes on the Cinematograph.” on himself:

Apply myself to insignificant (non-significant) images.

Flatten my images (as if ironing them) without attenuating them.

Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

Master precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 07/12/2024

ok fine, just one i.ytimg.com/vi/XVhHGnJ1V...

a grainy digicam video still of the band 311 on stage. in the center of frame is singer/guitarist Nick Hexum, wearing a white tank top and baggy jeans. he has platinum blond hair and is playing an electric guitar while he sings into the microphone in front of him. they’re probably playing their 1995 hit “Down.”

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 06/12/2024

*strongly resisting the urge to start 311-posting*

screen cap of my bluesky handle and follower/following/post count. the follower count reads “311”

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 25/11/2024

active TAG members in good standing—the next General Membership Meeting will be this Tuesday Nov. 26th at 6:30pm PST. come to socialize, hear the latest union business and get negotiations updates! the deadline to register is TOMORROW Nov. 25th at 5pm. register at animationguild.org/GMMNov24

colorful flyer graphic promoting the next Animation Guild General Membership Meeting on Tuesday, November 26th from 6:30-9:00pm. register at https://animationguild.org/GMMNov24

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 19/11/2024

at today’s #StandWithAnimation march on the boss at WB!

looking north, hundreds of Animation Guild members lined up on the sidewalk outside WB Studios in Burbank, California

looking south, hundreds of Animation Guild members lined up on the sidewalk outside WB Studios in Burbank, California

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 18/11/2024

a couple of pics from the #Moana2 wrap party. really proud of how the movie turned out—hope everyone is able to go out and see it!

view from the second balcony of the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California. the house lights are up on two men onstage and the words “Moana 2” are on the movie screen.

my spouse and i dressed up at the Moana 2 wrap party. we’re standing in front of a statue of Moana and a bunch of palm fronds.

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 25/10/2024

found this shiny guy during my last visit to my parents’ house. blasting a 108 CD. i was kind of shocked how terrible the bass boost mode sounded on this, but then i remembered i used to carry this in my cargo shorts pocket while cutting grass. not exactly an audiophile environment 😆

photo of a shiny silver Sony CD Walkman D-NE710 sitting on my home office desk, next to a red Animation Guild mouse pad. the tiny LCD screen displays the current track name, “Guilt.”

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 25/10/2024

some of my pics from the march today—over 800 animation workers and supporters showed up practically at the drop of a hat! #standwithanimation

animation director Mike Rianda (The Mitchells vs. The Machines) is standing on a chair, holding a bullhorn, addressing fellow Animation Guild members in front of the Netflix building

hundreds of Animation Guild members are gathered outside the Netflix building in Burbank, listening to Mike’s remarks while holding “Stand With Animation” signs and other slogans

another angle of hundreds of Animation Guild members “Marching on the Boss” at Netflix in Burbank

taken from the back of the crowd, hundreds of Animation Guild members are gathered outside Netflix’s Burbank studio building in our “March on the Boss”

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 02/06/2024

a side note i found interesting was the apparent cultural phenomenon of Werther. all the melodrama and moral panic of a modern viral tiktok challenge 🔩 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sor...

Wikipedia excerpt that reads, “It also started the phenomenon known as ‘Werther Fever,’ which caused young men throughout Europe to dress in the clothing style described for Werther in the novel. Items of merchandising such as prints, decorated Meissen porcelain and even a perfume were produced.”

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 02/06/2024

Chapters XIV-XVI—our tall boy wasn’t kidding when he said this was the most moving part of his tale. rejection after rejection, fear and flight, followed by revenge and demand for restitution. 🔩

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson, depicting the creature curled up into a ball in one corner of his hovel. his arms are crossed in front of his face, and he clutches pages from a book in one hand. other pages are scattered on the straw in front of him.

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson, depicting the creature, in the foreground and facing away from us, being shot in the shoulder by an angry man. this is the thanks the creature gets for rescuing a drowning girl!

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson, depicting the creature setting the De Lacey cottage on fire. he has been rejected and the family is never returning, so he exacts his revenge and pain on the structure.

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson, depicting the creature sitting alone on a river bank in the pouring rain. he is making his way to Geneva, heart full of revenge on his creator Frankenstein.

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 31/05/2024

Chapter XIII—i guess the modern equivalent of this would be kind of like teaching someone about how the world works by reading them a Malcolm Gladwell book? 🔩

“The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney’s Ruins of Empires. I should not have understood the purport of this book, had not Felix, in reading it, given very minute explanations.”

Excerpt from Chapter XIII of Frankenstein

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 30/05/2024

Chapter XII—it only takes one quick chapter to put us completely on the creature’s side here: 1. stops stealing cottagers’ food when he figures out they’re poor 2. collects firewood for them 3. clears a path for them in winter snow 4. wants to learn to speak so he won’t scare them away later 🔩

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson, depicting Frankenstein’s creature leaning low on its forearm over a pool of water, gazing grimly at its reflection.

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 28/05/2024

Chapter XI—[INCEPTION BRAWWWW] at this point the book kind of feels like a dare to see how many levels deep in first-person framing stories we can go. MS’s telling of Walton’s written account of Victor’s oral retelling of the creature’s recollection of its first days of consciousness. 🔩

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson, depicting the creature kneeling on the straw and earth floor of his hovel, clad in a tattered cloak. the creature leans against one side of the humble wood structure and peers through a small crack in the wall to observe his human neighbors.

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson, depicting the creature fleeing from angry villagers in his early days of consciousness. his arms are crossed in front of his face to ward off sticks and stones as he runs down a cobblestone street. two humans giving chase are close to him. one just misses stabbing the creature with a pitchfork as others watch angrily from open windows above.

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 28/05/2024

Chapter X—“I expected this reception.” absolutely iconic entrance, 10/10 no notes, have another Wrightson! 🔩

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson, depicting Frankenstein’s monster towering over his creator on a mountainside. the creature is clad in a long, flowing cloak and has its back to us.

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 23/05/2024

Chapter V—i waited to do my reading too late in the day and don’t have anything pithy to observe right now, i just want more people to see Wrightson’s incredible drawings for this part of the book 🔩

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson, depicting Victor Frankenstein at work assembling the creature on a large table. Victor holds a lantern high over the creature’s body and a shaft of moonlight illuminates the dark laboratory.

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson depicting the creature, alive and towering over Frankenstein, who has stumbled over backward in fear.

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 21/05/2024

Chapter IV—Victor was into his research so deep that he forgot to take notes. oops! 🔩

highlighted selection from Chapter 4 of Frankenstein, which reads, “But this discovery was so great and overwhelming, that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.”

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brandon @brandonjarratt.com · 17/05/2024

Letter IV is where the images from Bernie Wrightson’s graphic novel adaptation of the book start taking over what i can picture. i can’t think of more fitting illustrations for this story. 🔩 #HotFrankSummer www.thegutterreview.com/bringing-the...

a black and white illustration by Bernie Wrightson, depicting Walton’s ship among floes of jagged Arctic ice.

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