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Nick Sinnott

1 year

Unionize vfx

IATSE VFX Unionization Campaign Open Forum (7/16/23)

Join VFX workers and IATSE organizers as they relate their experiences in organizing and how to build a successful union campaign at your studio today. 2023 ...

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vfx artist here, to everyone saying muzzle flashes added in post are as good as the real deal: yes, of course they are, it’s the easiest thing, what the fuck

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Fun to see a guy I worked the night shift for fully endorse ending my job. Cool. Cool cool.

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Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has joined the Stability AI Board of Directors. It was only a year ago when AI was thought to be a dirty word during the double strikes that shut down the business, when Cameron cited his 1984 sci-fi classic The Terminator — about artificial

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3 years

video can’t even capture them correctly bc of rolling shutter, zero reason to use live rounds

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3 years

man I wish ‘93 was 20 years ago, you have no idea

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@ndsinnott @IAmJenMcG Wasn’t the Brandon Lee incident like 20 years ago. Watching movies I assumed they’d figured it out after that tragedy.

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When I told a neighbor who shared a bedroom wall with mine that the TV he'd recently mounted to his side was too loud at night, he flatly denied it, saying it should be impossible to hear as he'd also stuck a mirror behind it to "reflect all sound"

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Please give me an example of something someone said to you that was so astonishingly stupid that you can never forget it.

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7 years

That press conference was the worst fucking thing I've ever seen and I went to film school twice

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@JohnDellaporta Yes, acting

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NO

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Hi, hey, nearly 20 year vfx guy here. This is fucked up and if anyone ever asks you to do this kind of thing, even if you’re a starting roto artist: say no. The people asking you won’t push back, they are executive cowards.

EXERCISE BOY (DEROGATORY)

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Jesus fucking Christ that new film The Creator composited the 2020 Beirut explosion.

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@tvaziri Camera track and shield matchmove for bullet interaction, only had the shots in isolation for a SDCC teaser, no idea at the time it was the defining scene of the movie

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@JohnDellaporta Airsoft guns is the non snarky answer, though the shows I work on mostly do pew pew pew and it’s fine

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Officially furloughed from the vfx gig starting today due to a lack of series in post. Looks like execs are about to run out of projects to bill their vacations to.

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God this reveal still blows me away. I’d put it up there with Oz’s transition to color.

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@GriffLightning Lost my post job today on a bunch of CBS/FOX cop shows, wish I had more but giving what I can spare

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Next whistleblower better drop an alien body in front of congress like he’s Robin Hood with the king’s deer or I’m out

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5 years

Allowing myself a single political tweet tonight to say I voted last week for Elizabeth Warren (and just donated to her campaign again) because I believe she stands the best chance of getting progressive policy enacted, by a country mile

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@ScottWamplerBMD At the Q&A for the San Francisco premiere of FOG CITY MAVERICKS (w Lucas, Coppola, etc on stage) the first person to the mic cleared his throat, pulled out some wrinkled loose sheets of paper, and proceeded to read a five minute long poem he was workshopping

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4 years

there I solved it, go to bed

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Harrison Ford is a national treasure

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Win Emmys Tweet 🤝 Stuff I can do that Trump can't

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@FilmCritHULK @BBW_BFF

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3 years

my parents’ puppy got her first haircut, in case anyone needed to see just one good goddamned thing today

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“person” doing a lot of work

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Jeff Bezos becomes the first person ever worth $200 billion

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man, the lengths they’re going to not be the one to tell the boss he lost

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4 years

#BREAKING : White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has contracted the coronavirus, Bloomberg's @JenniferJJacobs reports. #Election2020 #COVID19

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we did it

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@baddestmamajama Had a calzone delivered every night for a month in college so the girl who worked the phone at the pizza place would recognize my voice/name the next time I went in for carryout. She didn't. I gained eight pounds.

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@ChuckWendig *looks left* *looks right* ... ... ...doughnuts

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Despite the unending nightmare of everything, today I deposited my very first screenwriting check AND cast a vote for Elizabeth Warren--two things I've been waiting well over a decade to do.

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“Sorry this book is so wide.”

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@baddestmamajama We had a vending machine that was filled entirely with Andy Capp's Hot Fries and it sold out every single day

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*rushes up to meme desk, struggling for breath* I saw the best minds of my generation, destroyed by 30-50 feral hogs, starving hysterical naked

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@ChuckWendig When I was 15, I got heat stroke during a marching band competition and threw up right through my saxophone then passed out on the 50 yard line, tripping a tuba player

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4 years

we already have a vaccine passport it’s called the 365 free fuckin donuts club and I’m in it now

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My dad has covid. The bastard responsible just lost his job. Wear a mask and I love you all.

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3 months

Literally just finished consolidating all my loans to take advantage of the new plan, without it I’ll now be stuck with so much compound interest I could end up owing over $1m on a $100k graduate loan I’ve already paid $130k into

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BREAKING: A federal appeals court blocked the Biden administration's student debt relief plan, which would have lowered monthly payments for millions of borrowers.

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excited to play this on windows 98

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. @Fwd_Party 👍🇺🇸

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@baddestmamajama I… I don’t know what happened

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‘dead lasso taps a sign that reads bereave’ is this anything

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3 years

literally a major world religion is a carpenter holding court

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Why do TV writers love talking shop and giving advice on Twitter so much? I’ve never seen a carpenter holding court on here like “QUICK THREAD FOR GETTING A CONSTRUCTION SITE JOB: 1) Do not send unsolicited little tiny sample houses that you’ve built to the foreman!

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4 years

During your times of trial and suffering, when you saw only one set of footprints in the sand, that was cake

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Why

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@PatrickRuffini if it’s what you say I love it

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4 years

oh no I figured out calzones. oh no.

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2 years

celebrating the check clearing on our first spec deal the only way I know how

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4 years

ah christ new followers *licks palm, slicks down hair, reaches for tie, isn’t wearing tie, makes weird throat scratching motion*

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(I’m ok, fuck billionaires, national wealth cap, unionize vfx, etc)

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Netflix should bring back my father

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@baddestmamajama

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JUST IN: Multiple sources tell me Governor Newsom will lift the stay at home order on all regions in California tomorrow. All counties will go back to the tier system, sources say. Most will return to the purple tier— allowing the reopening of outdoor dining, indoor salons.

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@ScottWamplerBMD At the TIFF premiere of LOST IN LA MANCHA where Gilliam took part in the q&a, an older woman grabbed the mic out of a question-asker’s hand mid-question and screamed “IF YOU HATE MAKING MOVIES SO MUCH WHY DO YOU EVEN FUCKING BOTHER!”

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@IvankaTrump Please give her to a family that has human emotions

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4 years

Finally writing new pages after a year of block. New, garbage pages. Just living the life.

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@jonrog1 @countmystars Also ‘Notre Dame Indiana’ isn’t a place. It’s South Bend. Buttigieg is the mayor. This is a bot.

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4 years

How are you single?!

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6 years

That's Gill-man and he lives in a lagoon not a fucking swamp, don't disrespect my friend

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"Swamp creature" mask emerges behind Interior secretary nominee during hearing

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I've applied to the Nicholl Fellowships every May for the past decade and never come close to placing. This year, @baddestmamajama and I submitted a co-written feature for the first time and... #ShareYourRejection

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WHAT IS THIS EVEN ABOUT.

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@NateRuegger WHAT WAS IN YOUR WALLET

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@ScottWamplerBMD oh no I hate this

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4 years

hopefully on an atomic level

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GOP senators say Warren nomination would divide Republicans

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5 years

THE REFLECTIONS

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4 years

but... this *is* the height of the virus's spread

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4 years

Los Angeles County health department announced the fourth day in a week that the region had seen over 2,000 new COVID-19 cases, a daily mark that was not seen even at the height of the virus’s spread

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@SeemaCMS Resign.

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@baddestmamajama @ScottWamplerBMD HOW DO WAFFLE FRIES HAVE THE WORST TEXTURE THEY'RE WAFFLE FRIES

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@baddestmamajama If only there was a movie we could show them about the hubris of rich people believing they can safely control deadly natural forces

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@JoshRaby

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Congrats to mans Spider, First, Cole, and Blackkklans and NO ONE ELSE

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so uh

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#ShareYourRejection

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BREAKING: Pentagon says military parade proposed for Veterans Day delayed at least until 2019.

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@baddestmamajama Matt's dad is a HUGE fan of Damon Waymons Jr

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hell yeah I outline, out lyin on your mom

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@baddestmamajama “I’m listening...”

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remember how when we were kids we’d sneak out in the middle of the night and vote by mail

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Reporter: CA is only sending ballots to registered voters. Trump: "Oh really? So when he sends out 28 million ballots and they're in all the mailboxes and kids go and they raid the mailboxes and they hand them to people that are signing the ballots..." Extreme dishonesty.

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YES

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@cmclymer I held a Nickelodeon magazine near my nose while I ate it

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Needed a new thermometer and Target only had one left, in the baby section. I love him.

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Maybe we need to switch the language from ‘wear masks’ to ‘people without masks can kill you’ to penetrate American selfishness

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UNIONIZE VFX

Variety

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Walt Disney Pictures VFX Workers Move to Unionize

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9 years

Tonight John Oliver provided the clearest strategy for fighting Trump. Required viewing. #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain

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@ChuckWendig oh the injury was that the tuba hit my wrist, spraining it

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6 years

So uhh

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6 years

Um holy shit.

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@scottEweinberg My aunt works in the Field Museum in Chicago and every time I visit she makes a point to show me all of the geographical errors in THE RELIC

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Nick Sinnott

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3 years

absolutely nobody wants your copyrighted scripts, nobody wants any scripts

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5 years

My absolute favorite thing about THE CROWN is their habit of casting extremely British actors as Americans. This is supposed to be the crew of Apollo 11.

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@mattzollerseitz

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3 years

you know, for kids

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@ScottWamplerBMD Shit I forgot the best part: as he was being dragged away by security, Nancy Pelosi, one day after becoming the first female speaker of the house and sitting five feet from me, turns to her friend and says, “Should we just go?”

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Nick Sinnott

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3 years

I have now watched all 275 episodes of Cheers. Is the pandemic over?

Nick Sinnott

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5 years

Might fuck around and become a guy who watches Cheers

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