D.S. Trawick

Sci-Fi Reader & Writer, Moviegoer, Model Y Full Self-Driving Supervisor.

[D.S. Trawick @ds_trawick]

1/3 For you @WaltDisneyWorld fans, @Tesla FSD is like a combination of the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover, Test Track, and TRON Lightcycle / Run.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Robert Greene was right when he said:

“Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.”

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.

There are no artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, or scientists who became great by half-finishing their work. Stop debating what you should make and just make something.

[Herbert Ong @herbertong]

🚨 Tesla shared a new look at its integrated ecosystem in the 2025 Impact Report.

@Tesla says its products are designed to work together across energy generation, energy storage, transportation, and manufacturing, with autonomous operation at the core.

The company's goal: maximize safety, improve affordability, reduce emissions, and make everyday life better. $TSLA

[Fiction Writing Tips ♥️🌐✒️📚 #WritingCommunity @WritingCraft]

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

--RayBradbury

https://t.co/l9UuxWe33z

#WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #WritersCafe #NewWriters #RayBradbury #JustWriteIt

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Filming Alien

[Nick Chappell @NickChaps96]

The Seas with Nemo and Friends aquarium is HUGE. It holds about 5.7 MILLION gallons of water in the main habitat. At the time of its opening in 1986, it was the largest saltwater aquarium in the world. Today, it is the second largest aquarium in the US and one of the biggest in the world.

[D.S. Trawick @ds_trawick]

@Mattlegostar2 Just bring back Maelstrom and the memorable ride and movie combo that provided a little insight into the history and culture of Norway, and that was a far better fit for the original concept for EPCOT. Find a place for Frozen in Magic Kingdom or Hollywood Studios.

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

2001: A Space Odyssey theatrical poster (1968)

[PeteZach @oldyzach]

Maybe we'll all meet up someday at our favorite place.

Favorite place:

[Industrial Light & Magic @ILMVFX]

“I started as a modelmaker, and then I was a motion-control camera operator,” says ILM's John Knoll. “I spent a lot of my misspent youth doing that kind of thing. So it was fun to get back into it.” Read more from Knoll in conversation with author Jamie Benning as they discuss The Mandalorian and Grogu over at https://t.co/MuIAmBPltJ.

Read now: https://t.co/YDuBk7Tul2

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

goals ❤️

[Drew Smith @DrewDisneyDude]

The doors have closed. That’s a wrap on the current iteration of Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress! 🫡

[Matt @DisneyScoopGuy]

Today is the last day to ride the current version of Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom!

[CinemaCopa @CopaExMachina]

The intro to Alien is one of the most brilliant opening sequences ever. It's the Anti-Star Wars. The purpose is to establish the geography of the ship. By the time the 2nd act kicks off you understand where you are like you're one of the crew.

Alien (1979) | Ridley Scott

[Nick Chappell @NickChaps96]

This is pretty great.

Then Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Mickey Mouse from the outro of Inside the Magic: Special Effects and Production Tour walkthrough attraction at the Disney-MGM Studios that played in the Walt Disney Theater at the end of the tour before previews of upcoming Disney films.

An edited version of this short would serve as the introduction for The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic television special that aired in 1991.

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Remote Antarctic research base built above shifting ice and snow.

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

Imagine being on a spacewalk experiencing this.
The upper tendrils of Earth's aurora reach high enough that we fly right through them. I felt so small, floating between our planet & the universe, surrounded by this, as we start to permanently leave home.
Filmed by @Soph_astro of @esa through the windows of the International Space Station last week.

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Just write the bad sentence.

Pixar's Andrew Stanton on why it's more important to do the work, even if it sucks, than to talk about the great work you'll make (and never do it):

"There's a term for it: whistling on the steps of Carnegie Hall. Most people spend more time telling you the symphony they're going to write than the symphony is written.

Finish the sentence. I don't care if it doesn't have an ending, or a middle. Just freaking write the sentence. It's gonna be bad. You don't get to the nice sentence until you've written the bad sentence. Writing is rewriting."

"It's chipping away at the marble. Every time you decide not to, you're not practicing. So you're just going to be that much less practiced."

[Nick Chappell @NickChaps96]

On this day in 1988, Epcot's Maelstrom opened to guests at the recently opened Norway Pavilion. Visitors ride boats that are patterned after Viking ships and pass through various scenes with audio animatronic figures. 🇳🇴

[Kalshi Film @Kalshi_Film]

Every behind the scenes image from BLADE RUNNER (1982) is a reminder of what practical filmmaking can achieve.