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James Kerwin

@jameskerwin.com
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Director/writer at eOne / @lionsgate.com, @indiepix.bsky.social, @heliconarts.com, etc. Studied #filmmaking & #astrophysics at TCU. Fellow, the Royal Society of Arts. Your mileage may vary. www.jameskerwin.com

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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 29/09/2026
For years, Microsoft provided charities with M365 (Office, etc.). Then they decided to stop being generous… and last month they deleted nonprofits' data. (My nonprofit wasn't affected; we didn't use OneDrive.) Question tho: Why did Microsoft end the program? Do they need charities' money so badly? 🧐
slate.com
The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 23/09/2026
"There are no scales"! Wow. Poor thing though… died trying to escape a flood while still breathing. 😢 Hopefully we can learn a lot about them from this one's sacrifice!
people.com
Scientists Make Jaw-Dropping Realization After Uncovering Perfectly Preserved T. Rex on Wyoming Ranch
A remarkably preserved T. rex nicknamed “Rex Junior” could reveal new clues about what the famous dinosaur actually looked like.
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 19/09/2026
Oh well. So goes 2026. You hung in the race way longer than anyone expected this year — so good on ya lads! May the road rise to meet ya next year (if there IS a 2027 season…).
St. Louis logo
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 18/09/2026
Wow @microsoft.com. Thank you, so very much, for your new September 2026 Windows 11 update. You know — the one which rendered me completely unable to boot into Windows. You guys rock. (In other news, macOS 27 installed beautifully.)
Windows boot manager unable to boot screen
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 10/09/2026
I mean… 9.25! I'm more than happy to be slightly bested by "The Inner Light" and "In the Pale Moonlight"… Just sayin' 😉
Chart of STAR TREK IMDb's Top-Rated Episodes
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 09/09/2026
Good-bye, Star Trek (60th) Day! Here's to another 60!
James Kerwin and Rekha Sharma on the set of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 08/09/2026
So, I guess it's September 8th now. Like, the 60th of something. Happy anniversary. 😉
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 28/08/2026
96% Lunar Eclipse
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 15/08/2026
Exactly 20 years ago, we began principal photography on the first feature I directed, "Yesterday Was a Lie," for eOne (and later IndiePix). As I go into production on my newest film, I can't help but reminisce about those times long past with tremendous gratitude. "Where do you start?"… indeed. 🥲
YESTERDAY WAS A LIE marqueeYESTERDAY WAS A LIE poster in cinema lobby
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 11/08/2026
Spending nearly a week at #STLV, I think I legit went into baseball withdrawal. Nice to be home.
Ben Sisko in NINERS baseball uniform.
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 11/08/2026
#STLV2026 shenanigans with @trekgeeks.com @larrynemecek.bsky.social @robertjsawyer.com @johnchampion.bsky.social @roddenberrypod.bsky.social @michelespecht.bsky.social @kaseyshafsky.bsky.social @matthewcimone.bsky.social
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 03/08/2026
I guess it's schedule-posting day! #STLV @johnchampion.bsky.social @larrynemecek.bsky.social @robertjsawyer.com
James Kerwin STLV schedule
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 03/08/2026
Location scout day (or, as the Brits say, "recce")!
Scan of paper location scouting report reading NONLOCALITY - www.nonlocality.com
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 02/08/2026
"Third places."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores
Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 24/07/2026
In and out! (But we were standing-room-only, so yay!) #SDCC #SDCC2026
Comic-Con badge
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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Starting Friday with the @roddenberrypod.bsky.social panel, Designing The Future: 60 Years of Star Trek Visual Evolution. Featuring @hollyamos22.bsky.social @johnchampion.bsky.social and @jameskerwin.com. #sdcc
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 19/07/2026
Got a Panasonic UB420 (and 48Gbps cables). I've been watching movies AND listening to CDs on it. While I appreciate the convenience of playing AACs and M4Vs from my server, there's no comparison to physical media. Bonus points: I'll still have my stuff after the sudden but inevitable EM pulse. 😅
theverge.com
Why are people buying so many CDs?
Collectors, affordable prices, and big K-pop albums.
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 19/07/2026
I love you @playstartrekonline.com… but getting a "leaver penalty" for leaving a TFO when you're the ONLY player remaining in the TFO (because the other two quit)? Tell me this is gonna be fixed. Please? Help me @thomasthecat.bsky.social… you're my only hope! 🥹
static.klipy.com
David Tennant's Shocked Reaction
Alt: DOCTOR WHO saying "What?!"
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 16/07/2026
Insert mandatory joke about please not heckling me this year, etc. etc. @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social #SDCC2026
July 24 2026 — "Designing the Future" — 10:30 am, Room 10
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 11/07/2026
"As streaming became dominant, a shelf full of stuff started to look like a relic of a clumsier time. When titles started disappearing from digital collections, however, those dusty stacks reemerged as both a critical contingency plan and material proof that the media business was changing."
indiewire.com
Physical Media Matters, Now More Than Ever
From Sony's new removals to Netflix's old originals, here's why physical media, Blu-rays, DVDs, and film preservation matter more than ever.
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 04/07/2026
A plate of floppy disks that reads "Do not forget to leave some Mac formatted floppy disks out tonight for Jeff Goldblum so he can upload a virus to an alien mothership tomorrow."
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 03/07/2026
Long before Avid, FCP7, Premiere… this is how I learned to make movies as a young'un: VCR-to-VCR, facilitated by "ancient" tech called the "Videonics DirectED Plus." @popsci.com recently rediscovered this quaint treasure… but to a few of us—we happy few—this was what set us upon our career paths.
popsci.com
The forgotten technology that made YouTube possible
In 1987, the Videonics DirectED seemed groundbreaking, so what happened to it?
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 29/06/2026
🥹
Photo of a vintage 1970s TV set with the caption "All I ask is an RCA XL100 CRT TV… and an Atari 2600 to steer her by" followed by a photo of "Jack" from "LOST" saying "We have to go back!"
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Tom Neenan @tpneenan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
so were they just lying about having written the kier starmer christmas special?
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 12/06/2026
If Supergirl’s skin is bulletproof what was Kiri-kin-tha's First Law of Metaphysics?
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 10/06/2026
Perfection.
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 08/06/2026
A very happy birthday to the gentleman who was, when I was deciding what I wanted to do with my life, very much "my" Doctor… @oldsixie.bsky.social
Colin Baker
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 27/05/2026
It deserves ALL the love!
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 23/05/2026
This is both incredibly touching, incredibly poignant, and also kinda sad. In 1000 years, perhaps we will all be remembered as Onfim is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim
en.wikipedia.org
Onfim - Wikipedia
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 21/05/2026
One of the most traumatizing lines in sci-fi fandom: “Vila weighs 73 kilos.” RIP Michael Keating. You made it into orbit.
Michael Keating as Vila in “Blake’s 7”
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 08/05/2026
The Foundational Questions Institute has released new data regarding wavefunction collapse that sounds intriguingly similar to Roger Penrose's arguments re: objective reduction (Sir Roger is one of the Nobel Prize-winning members of the FQxI)! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
sciencedaily.com
Physicists just found a tiny flaw in time itself
Physicists are rethinking one of quantum mechanics’ biggest puzzles: how fuzzy possibilities become definite reality. New research suggests that spontaneous “collapse” processes—possibly linked to gra...
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 17/04/2026
*97th 😊
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 16/04/2026
Gas has now gone up to 32¢ per gallon in Rancho Bernardo?! Outrageous!!!
Old fashioned gas pump
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Matthew Cimone @matthewcimone.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Was that factored into the calculations!? 🖖 #Artemis #StarTrek
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 27/03/2026
It's dead, Jim. Back in the day, I used to love these things… Over time I owned at least two, maybe three of them? I remember the time when these bad boys were the gold standard — and kinda the only real game in town — when it came to cutting and finishing a theatrical feature.
9to5mac.com
Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware - 9to5Mac
It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has...
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 13/03/2026
If you see this, post a robot
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 08/03/2026
Tonight there is no 2 am
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Helicon Arts Cooperative @heliconarts.com · 24/02/2026
Cantor's Paradise, indeed www.nonlocality.film
quantamagazine.org
How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? | Quanta Magazine
Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others.
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 22/02/2026
A photo of K staring at a large purple hologram of Joi from BLADE RUNNER 2049, next to a similar photo of a cat watching THE ARISTOCATS on television.
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 21/02/2026
Amazing night… starting w/ incredible new doc BEAM ME UP SULU… followed by after-party-ing at SCUM AND VILLAINY. But the perfect nightcap was watching the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg, leaving a brilliant fiery trail across the starry sky. A fitting ending to a "Trek" evening, indeed!
Fine Arts Theatre Beverly HillsScum and Villainy Cantina
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 06/02/2026
Amazing. But… this hasn't got s--t on Doctor Who. The 1988 DW story "Remembrance of the Daleks" — set in November 1963 — includes a scene in which the first ever (1963) episode of DW begins to play on a TV. So the DW TV series exists within its own universe. 🤯
The Paradox of Gilmore Girls and The Sopranos
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 02/02/2026
🤣
theatlantic.com
The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 28/01/2026
As per the norm this time of year… please no heckling, et cetera et cetera… 😉 @gallifreyone.bsky.social @larrynemecek.bsky.social
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 23/01/2026
😎
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Helicon Arts Cooperative @heliconarts.com · 22/01/2026
Is time really a "line"…? www.nonlocality.film
aeon.co
When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays
In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant, forever changing how those in the West experience the world
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 18/01/2026
Filmmakers of the world…
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 11/01/2026
When I was very small and went to school in fall ’81, I had an assignment to draw my favorite memory from the past summer. I drew (a very simple, long-lost version of) this image. My teacher came over and said “Is that Indiana Jones?!” She proceeded to tell me how cool that was, and gave me an A. 👍🏼
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 09/01/2026
Computer…
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 06/01/2026
✅ I'm In This Photo and I Don't Like It
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James Kerwin @jameskerwin.com · 28/12/2025
Yes! If you’re in a “creative” field (maybe true for other fields, I wouldn’t know) the WORST thing you can do for your career is to stay home, avoid events, pass on attending parties, etc. The friends you happen to make today WILL BECOME the people who hire you (or at least work with you) tomorrow.
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