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Matt Ebb

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Visual effects, creative coding, generative art / Effects at industrial light and magic / mattebb.com

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 06/09/2026
Unlike so many others, the @financialtimes.com nails the "OMG, 1.5℃ is gone" message: "Temperature overshoot requires urgent action" Yep. And every 0.01℃ matters. Reminds me of my NYT oped with @costasamaras.com: "The widely recited '12-year deadline' is wrong — and right." gwagner.com/12years
UN report: temperature overshoot requires urgent action to keep warming in line with Paris accordWith children, days might last forever, but years fly by. Something similar applies to climate policy. The current days of delay and debates can seem to drag on forever, but the next presidential election is right around the corner, and so is 2030. Concrete, realistic deadlines focus the mind and jump-start action. And jump-start we must.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 23/07/2026
“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.” (AI bots and prediction market dipshits.) [stephenfollows.com]
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What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
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REVY @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/06/2026
Just sharing this again at a time of what's happening in Australia. In Event Horizon Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replaced with the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047
Sam Neill in the movie Event Horizon.
Wearing a flag patch that has the Australian flag but thr union jack is removed to have the Aboriginal flag in its place
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
it's been really fascinating watching this specific font become an easy AI tell
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/05/2026
The normalcy bias we're all experiencing for global sea-surface temperatures becomes apparent if we look at the graph of SSTs 1982-2026 and remove the last three years 2023, 2024, 2025 from the picture:
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 01/05/2026
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/04/2026
New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will - Increase Microsoft's emissions 160% - Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc... - Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined stand.earth/press-releas...
a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countriesa chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 27/03/2026
If someone had told us when we were working on The Lego Movie that a decade later we would have… this… 😮‍💨
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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is nuts:
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
North Oaks, Minnesota is home to united healthcare executives and various CEOs. It's also the only city in the US that is not on Google Street View. A documentary filmmaker set out to change that. pretty interesting look at who gets privacy in America and how www.404media.co/mapping-goog...
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Mapping Google's Unmappable City
How filmmaker Chris Parr put North Oaks, Minnesota on the map.
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vanity-ibex.bsky.social @vanity-ibex.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Added adaptive subdivision and uv rotation to the #houdini Atlas Mapper, which enables sweet truchet tiles
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Haunting blogpost points out the collapse of public coding forums leads to asking chatbots *directly* for answers in private chats, which also leads to debugging sessions with answers that only closed LLM service models have access to, locking out open solutions michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-fe...
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The Enclosure feedback loop
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 12/12/2025
Very, very grateful to find some of my work featured inside the ILM 50th anniversary book. Extremely proud of what our team in Sydney has contributed in the last 5 years of that monumental history
A page inside the ILM 50 years of innovation book showing a still frame from Alien: RomulusCover of the book ILM 50 years of innovation
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research i’m afraid that’s all gone
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 01/10/2025
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 12/09/2025
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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404 Media @404media.co · 02/09/2025
An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets. 🔗 www.404media.co/hackers-thre...
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Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up
Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 01/09/2025
Ryoji Ikeda last night 🖤
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 26/08/2025
I really hope we’re not dropping the "content" from "content creator". It’s a valuable label. Content is a very specific type of culture, one formatted according to the algorithms that determine its success.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 14/06/2025
At the Sydney Film Festival many years ago I was walking behind Hugo Weaving to go to the bathroom. He wasn’t paying attention and went into the Women’s room - only to swiftly come back out and give me an awkward look.
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 29/05/2025
Quite an honour to have some of our team’s work from the past few years featured alongside some of the most iconic shots in vfx history ❤️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=649P...
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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation
YouTube video by Industrial Light & Magic
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 21/05/2025
Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Brian Eno Calls On Microsoft To Cease Partnership With Israel, Will Donate Windows ‘95 Chime Fee To Victims In Gaza
Art-music master Brian Eno is the composer of what might be one of the most-heard pieces of music in history, even if much of the world doesn’t necessarily process it as a piece of music. Eno made the...
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 08/05/2025
Missed this when it came out, amazing stuff. Hard times for the CIE XYy horseshoe www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color
The ecstasy of “olo”
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 07/05/2025
May these words stick to Israel's already blood-soaked history for generations into the far, far future. May our children, and their children, know the term "never again" to include this evil. May those who allowed this to happen feel eternal shame. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
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Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed @winterbloed.be · 27/04/2025
Work-in-progress image in a continuous exploration of generative geometry. A vertical structure made of interconnected rectangular forms, 5 straight angled ribbons weave from the top to the bottom regularly switching sides and interleaving the structure. Colors: various unsaturated shades of soft green with black outlines
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Everything I do for a living is based on this. The things you find yourself pursuing as distractions from the things you think you're supposed to be pursuing might actually be your destiny.
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adamswaab.bsky.social @adamswaab.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Procedural nebula, created in @sidefx.bsky.social . Render engine: KarmaXPU. #cg #art #space #nebula
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 30/03/2025
Love how after all the arguments of this stuff being transformative, intelligent, creative, Sam Altman just comes out with “haha ripoff machine go brrrrrr”
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Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately
scene from Porco Rosso; a man in a blue uniform sits next to an anthropomorphic pig in a trenchcoat, sunglasses, and hat; the pig is saying "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist."
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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Israeli forces attacked and detained the co-director of No Other Land, Hamdan Ballal, in the occupied West Bank. The Oscar-winning film documents Masafer Yatta’s struggle against Israeli demolitions, amid Israel’s escalating bombardment and mass atrocities in Palestine. apnews.com/article/no-o...
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say
Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.
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FX Coudert @nanoporous.net · 19/03/2025
French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping: www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
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AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.
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Leander Herzog @leanderherzog.ch · 05/03/2025
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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 03/03/2025
# avoid the nightmare bicycle
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 06/02/2025
I know it’s a bit uncool to linkedin-post on here but we’re hiring at work, I’ve been looking at quite a lot of showreels, so I wrote up some tips for making a great fx reel #vfx www.linkedin.com/pulse/creati...
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Creating a stand-out Effects reel
As a VFX artist, your showreel is one of the most important tools in the job search process. Whether you’re trying to break into the industry or looking for a new role, having a stand-out showreel can...
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befores & afters magazine @beforesmag.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Woah! Something new for #vfxnotes: We have changed to seasons! Our 1st season is on VFX Oscar nominees & starts with ‘Alien: Romulus’ --> Go behind the scenes of the creatures & space environments of Fede Álvarez's film with Hugo and Ian beforesandafters.com/2025/02/01/o...
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/01/2025
OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 24/01/2025
And a nice surprise this morning… first show I’ve been on as fx supervisor to be nominated for a vfx Oscar 😊
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 21/01/2025
If you are feeling overwhelmed, I strongly recommend the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens on YouTube. There are currently 1,500 people in chat waiting for a flower to open, and occasionally claiming that it definitely has moved this time. WWTF: We Watch The Flower.
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Corpse Flower livestream: A plant to die for
YouTube video by Botanic Gardens of Sydney
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Andy Duboc @andbc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 14/01/2025
Very happy to finally be able share some of our vfx work on Alien: Romulus. Incredibly proud of our fx team that I supervised here in Sydney and the hard work put in to make things feel real. The planet and rings were a career highlight to work on. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsz1...
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Behind the Magic: The Visual Effects of Alien: Romulus
YouTube video by Industrial Light & Magic
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adamswaab.bsky.social @adamswaab.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Very good read and sobering prediction of key sectors of tech (ai, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and sace travel). rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
These are some incredible sentences. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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