What it means when an indie film gets a SAG-AFTRA waiver:
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[id: tweet from Alex O'Keefe @/AlexOKeefe1994 that says “People keep saying SAG-AFTRA is handing out "waivers” for indie productions to keep filming. These are NOT WAIVERS they are INTERIM AGREEMENTS. That means the employers have agreed to all the demands actors are making of AMPTP. If indies can afford it, why cant billionaires?“ end id.]
listen I say this with patience bc some people may genuinely have not thought about this before but if you firmly say “AI art is terribly unethical and steals from artists” (which is correct) but then turn around and use voice AIs to generate songs/voice lines that sound like your favourite voice actors or singers……………………………………that is also AI art and it is also terribly unethical
just a few examples of voice actors making their stance clear for all the ppl who are trying to disagree w me
if anyone noticed the tiktok text to speech voice change a couple years ago this is exactly why
Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.
The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.
And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.
I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.
Let me tell you a story.
Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a “master-planned community,” constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.
Seaside, FL
Seahaven
And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don’t exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.
Somebody please archive these in case YouTube takes them down
Don’t worry, someone on Reddit has downloaded them all and will upload them to the Internet Archive later
The uploader apparently has a lot more of these, and is taking requests for more in the comments, so if anyone has anyone they want to see shoot ‘em a line
Yes BUT. This specific desk is in a library so a parent that needs to use a library computer can do their work and have a little ease in managing their kiddo. In a library environment this is less productivity culture bullshit and more ‘oh this is a fantastic solution to a difficult situation library staff see 8 times a day’. Is it still productivity culture bullshit because this parent may not have affordable childcare or internet available to them? Yes. Am I glad it exists in a library environment to fill a demonstrated need? Hell yeah.
and keeps library staff from having to act as babysitters…
dear GOD we could use a couple of these. we keep crayons and coloring books on hand for the ones old enough for that, but the wee ones squirming and fussing in laps while the parents are fighting with job applications or convincing gmail’s current 2-step verification to let them in so they can print off a return label (both of which i have seen)? this would be SO NICE.
library groups have been loving this & are spreading the word & actively trying to purchase/create similar things in different systems
A skilled artist, very much the sort of person who’d be overjoyed to learn about art throughout history… but they’re a cave painter from 6000 BC who’s only just learned what a pen is
The typical “person who has a monotonous minimum wage job where they don’t realize their potential as a person” but they’re a roman working at one of those ancient fast food places
Mechanic who’s fascinated by the TARDIS and gets very good at learning the controls/fixing all the weird biotech and the Doctor has to deal with the TARDIS continuously siding with her New Favorite Companion. The pure opposite of the TARDIS not liking Clara.
K9 again
Alien historian who wrote their thesis on humans and is really, really delighted to end up in fantastic places like “a small town in wales, 2013″
Private detective/bounty hunter/etc hired to track down the Doctor and gets tied up in adventures with them instead
An early computer scientist from the 1940s who nevertheless learns to apply the principles they know to future technology
A Gallifreyan but they’re just some random working class citizen who isn’t really embroiled in the war politics and has never even seen a TARDIS before
Birdwatcher here for some very high stakes birdwatching (velociraptors)
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