Reposted by RedFoz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026a critical weakness in far too many left-wing spaces is the lack of any real strategy for dealing with people who weaponize social justice language to lambast and tear down others while framing even the mildest - let alone well-deserved - pushback against them as bigoted abuse. 10362129
Red @red64.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yea hdr does a bunch of processing in camera. You can get it as raws instead by doing auto exposure bracketing and then do it in Photoshop afterwards 131
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ehhh that one has an easy answer "lol no" APS is harder to justify saying no to, souped film can be unmentioned 110
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"fun" fact, this doesn't change working in a motion picture lab, people wrap their film cans in the most annoying tape for no reason (please just do one and a half loops of gaffer tape, no more is needed) and I gotta spend 15 minutes a can removing tape that rips or is turbo sticky or just *gross* 010
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Also "please wrap your 120 film in 7 rolls of tape, just in case" 110
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If you wanna be real evil, tell people to shoot APS or send in souped film 230
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026God I fuckin love miniatures This is a very good article from the time on the effects in Die Hard theasc.com/article/soph... 0120
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Also fun fact vfx has been doing just that for a very long time. The helicopters in Die Hard are only real when they have the shots of them flying down the empty street, any time there's also people/explosions in the shot, they're composted in/miniatures respectively 150
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is true (and it's why I feel pretty relaxed about flying mine around) but those aren't really on the same scale as the cinema drones Also if you need to show a helicopter in the movie, one of these won't really cover it. In most cases today, vfx can deal with that 150
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I only half agree there, but that wasn't the fault of the helicopter, it was blatant disregard of every single safety protocol and rule there was. Sadly Hollywood is a business and people ignoring the rules to save money/time will be ignored if nothing goes wrong 140
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Back then they were basically small remote controlled helicopters but hey same idea (these Flying Cam ones were used on a few of the Brosnan Bond movies) 051
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Working in film, my thought went to "well sometimes you gotta get a ton of filming equipment and people up a mountain or somewhere remote as hell" I was thinking about camera helicopters but we've had drones capable of hauling around even giant film cameras since the 90s (sorta) 270
Red @red64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm trying to think of one and every use case that comes to mind really is just those you've mentioned. Huh. I guess the only one I can think to add is logistics, moving stuff to places you can't get to otherwise. 1140
Red @red64.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Since I got my tiny little ebook reader I've gotten through a bunch of stuff as it's always in my pocket and I've been reading a bunch at work while supervising a particular machine 120
Red @red64.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What a fuckin loser. I've been reading a lot lately on my commute and it's definitely making my brain less angry at itself. 120
Red @red64.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Wellllllllll :P Not by the 70s really, it's all safety film by then. That stuff burns but pretty slowly, it's not nitrate which is where you get some real fun stuff like this one I set on fire :D 130
Red @red64.bsky.social · 05/09/2026As much as I love meeting cats on my travels, none of my cats will ever be outdoor cats, and if I meet the owners of the cats I meet, I'll tell them the same thing 080
Red @red64.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I was once arguing with a guy who didn't want to read the Communist Manifesto because he wasn't a communist (and didn't know what communism actually was (it's where everybody is paid the same, right?)) and it was "too long". The 20 something page pamphlet. Some people. 0100
Red @red64.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Call it the Trump law and he'll probably go along with it. Call it the Trump suite at Trump Penitentiary and he'll be happier in there than in the White House 010
Red @red64.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Whimsy and being an asshole to evil people while also being sexy and horny 140
Red @red64.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Every AI company logo looks like an asshole because that's the target audience 010
Red @red64.bsky.social · 24/08/2026He's such a whiny loser and you are so much better than him and have to outlive him. You just have to. 040
Red @red64.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I had to pee the whole time because as we all know, every second you spend holding it feels like 10, and it didn't help 020
Red @red64.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I like that, living in central Europe, I can arrange a stupid stupid trip like this with some friends pretty easily and then it Just Works Out. 170
Red @red64.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I wish I had the opportunity to digitize it (hey, maybe someday 🤞), I found a good quality scan online and did a bunch of colour work because it was pretty rough 130
Red @red64.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Aha, yea IDL isn't very competitive on timing unless you're very lucky 010
Reposted by RedDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol. 318173742592
Reposted by RedThe Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23/07/2026An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop, sources have reported.thedailytism.comAutistic man with special interest in Harry Potter gets over it, leaving you with no excuseAn autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop,… 3242861584
Red @red64.bsky.social · 19/07/2026True. Dark Knight at least has Morgan Freeman tell Batman that his idea is fucked up. Rises definitely seems to agree with Batman. 010
Red @red64.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Yeah it's maybe more that this particular incarnation of Batman was just really openly fascist. I have far less problems with The Batman, that one fixed most of the issues I had with Batman as a character. 110
Red @red64.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Batman's whole thing in the Dark Knight is "I should be allowed to spy on everyone without their knowledge because it might let me stop an occasional crime" 120
Red @red64.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Hell yeah. That was very good. Felt like what many of his movies have been building up to. 130
