Randy Dottin

Filmmaker, educator, activist

[Randy Dottin @idottin]

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[MEAD The 4K💿 Master (Tom Connors) @ThomasConnorsJr]

The Rod Temperton demo for "Rock With You" for #MichaelJackson's Off The Wall album

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 27-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Laura Coates @thelauracoates]

Today 6 Justices all but threw out the Voting Rights Act of 1965...

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

For a party that "doesn't see color," Republicans sure are obsessed with eliminating Black representation in Congress. Gutting the Voting Rights Act is one of the most shameless and disgusting assaults on democracy in our time.

[𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐘𓄋🦾 @poisonhoneybee_]

LEMONADE THE FULL FILM.🍋

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys.

It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal.

Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise.

Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million.

And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion.

Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia.

The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

[Matt Lisle @CoachLisle]

Attn: Coaches

“If you disappear on a guy when he makes a mistake, I’m not so sure that’s a genuine relationship you built”

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

"So how are you going to coach your team?"

Culture Wins.
Leadership Matters.

Steve Kerr Coaching Gold 👇

https://t.co/jMAMbOaSdU

[Hello Beautiful @HelloBeautiful]

Wunmi Mosaku reacts to Ryan Coogler winning Best Original Screenplay at the #BAFTA Film Awards, and touches on Coogler's kindness as a director.

[Kevin DeShazo @KevinDeShazo]

Championship culture may look different in every team but the foundation is always the same:

Clear vision
Consistent communication
Role clarity
Clear expectations
Commitment - to the vision, the standard, and each other

Simple but not easy

[Growth Labs @growthhub_]

5 signs God is pulling you out of your comfort zone:

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

President Obama appreciation tweet.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🤣😂

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

Peerless.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Jack White on Trump’s racist post about the Obamas: “How is it possible we've given this evil man so much power?… Arrest this man. Impeach this man. 25th amendment this man. Indict this man. Jail this man. This longtime friend of pedophile Epstein...”

[Booker G. Washington @BookerGWash]

A Black history moment at the Academy Awards.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Dawn Staley shares a coaching and parenting truth that most people get wrong.

"I'm very different than your parents because your parents don't want you to fail, and they don't want you to be uncomfortable."

You can't steal the struggle for others.

"They do everything in their power to make sure you don't feel the pain that they felt growing up. And it's probably the biggest mistake because they're gonna fail."

Love isn't protecting someone from struggle - it's preparing them for it.

"I tell them, 'I love you enough to allow you to fail.' I do."

"I love you enough to allow you to hurt. I love you enough for you to have a bad game or bad month or even a bad season."

You can't grow without failures, mistakes, and setbacks. That's where true growth happens.

"And that's not just basketball, that's just anything. You're gonna have bad days that you're gonna have to just fight."

The greatest gift you can give someone isn't comfort. It's the ability to handle discomfort.

Optimize for resilience, not comfort. That's what prepares them for anything.

(🎥Interview with Jemele Hill )