AnthropoScene

Filmmaker / Musician

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

@hectorVFX I was thinking this had to be the future of animation/vfx since I’ve heard of MCPs about a year ago, but considering the advance of generative AI in parallel, can’t help but think how dramatically expensive for the majority of the projects to create unique assets with software.

[Rock and Roll Garage @rocknrollgarag1]

Paul McCartney imitating the kind of songs that are hits these days

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

Will anyone go to the front anymore?

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The VHS release of Gremlins 2: The New Batch had a brilliant fourth-wall meta gag.

In theatres, halfway through, the “film” seems to melt, the screen goes black, and the Gremlins take over the projection booth. Hulk Hogan (in the audience) rips his shirt off, threatens them, and the movie restarts.

Joe Dante knew that gag wouldn’t work at home, so for the VHS release he filmed an entirely new version: this time, it looks like the Gremlins have gotten inside your VCR, and Hogan is replaced by John Wayne. Which, with modern eyes, looks like AI.

It kinda backfired and caused real confusion (much to Dante's delight). Video rental stores reported some gullible customers returning tapes for refunds, convinced the copy was defective.

Later DVD standard editions restored the theatrical Hogan version, but the John Wayne scene became so beloved it often appears on physical releases as a bonus feature.

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

All 2 hours and 42 minutes of Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER (1979) compressed into 90 seconds.

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

why?

[DUNE @dunemovie]

The loyal are rewarded. Tickets on sale tomorrow for Dune Insider screenings. Join Dune Insider now. https://t.co/g2qIJKtqOj

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

@FincherAnalyst I remember reading an interview with QT after the success of Pulp Fiction where he replied the question “Are you nervous about what to do next?” like “Why would I? I’m not Fincer who just made Se7en.”
What a sweet compliment, I thought back then. :)

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

@nadidefotograf En başta Rusça yazanı burda hiç söylemeyeyim. :)

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

@nadidefotograf Türkçe “Polis Dairesi” yazıyormuş.
(دائره‌سى پوليس)
Arapçası: مخفر الشرطة (Mahferü'ş-Şurta)

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

@_3Leon @tillederdon Me too! :)

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

@kiaran_ritchie @Gossip_Goblin I thought the same last week when Blomkamp’s first AI short came out. Like always, fresh minds will create the best out of new tools instead of established artists who will try to do the same things but just cheaper. :)

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

@Coops_Kino isnt she Mia Goth? What is this?

[ah @weakespresso]

I feel kinda bad for Eggers bc he has bad plastic surgery blindness and he spends all this time on period detail without realizing that something else is breaking the viewer’s immersion

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Social Network got made because Sony owed Mark Zuckerberg nothing. No studio can say that about Sam Altman anymore.

That gap explains why a finished Guadagnino film, Andrew Garfield playing Altman, can't find a buyer. The script makes Altman a pathological liar and Ilya Sutskever the idealist his board tried to protect. Strong material. The reason no one will touch it sits off the screen: the subject is now the biggest customer in the building.

Amazon developed the film, then walked months after wiring $50B to OpenAI for AWS compute. A24 passed, and A24 sits behind Thrive Capital, which holds an OpenAI board seat. Netflix, Focus, and Warner's Clockwork all carry AI bets of their own. The buyer pool maps cleanly onto OpenAI's cap table, and no one can premiere a hit piece on the company underwriting their cloud roadmap.

Here's the part worth sitting with. Vertical integration promised control: own the studio, own the pipe, own the model. The bill arrives now. A film industry fused to its own infrastructure partners cannot finance criticism of them. The merger logic became the censor.

The historical rhyme is almost too clean. United Artists was founded in 1919 by Chaplin and three fellow artists to escape exactly this kind of studio capture. That label now sits inside Amazon MGM, the company that just dropped the film to protect a tech deal. The release valve built a century ago got swallowed by the thing it was built to escape.

So Mubi and Neon are the only names left, and it has little to do with taste. They took none of OpenAI's money, which leaves them the only distributors free to tell the story of what that money does. A film about a mission captured by capital is being orphaned by capital capturing its distributors. The industry is re-enacting the plot it's too compromised to release.

[Wellesnet.com @Wellesnetcom]

BREAKING NEWS: European film archives announced today they have banded together to reconstruct Orson Welles' DON QUIXOTE using all known footage.
https://t.co/mUTHyS9WLU

[Nada Maucourant Atallah @MaucourantNada]

Very sad to learn that Mona Khalil died after weeks in the ICU following an Israeli strike that levelled her home in Mansouri. She was a very well-known environmental activist and dedicated her life to saving endangered turtles. She stayed in the south despite Israeli strikes because of her love for the land.

She was a civilian, a renowned figure but Israel targeted her house.

CNN profiled her in 2017 here: https://t.co/ZaMRnuS4zf

“I live every day to the fullest and don’t worry about tomorrow,” she told the newspaper.

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

@midjourney All we need to know:
Is any generative diffusion model involved in the making of the final images these scanners create? yes or no pls

[AnthropoScene @asabite]

@BirGun_Gazetesi komple iptal, ne aksaması.

[Victor M @victormustar]

NVIDIA's Kimodo is the release of the week 🔥

Prompt the timeline whatever your want like: "a person walks forward" → "a person starts jumping", hit Generate, and watch a 3D character do it in seconds

(700hrs of pro mocap training. Works on human + robot skeletons. Super fast + free to use on HF)

[Milli Parklar @milliparklar]

Doğanın sessiz kahramanlarıyla buluşma vakti!

Orta Karadeniz’in zengin yaban hayatı, fotokapanlarımıza yansıdı. 🦌📸

@TCTarim