Robin Fenlon

📬[email protected] 🎥 Director, photographer, Englishman, traveler, BMX. Home is Los Angeles 🌅🌊 JAW Productions

[Robin Fenlon @robinfenlon]

@FirePhotoGirl @tknep3 @RMGNews It’s such an incredible place. I shot there a few years back!

[Caffy @caffyhank]

Fuckin crying 😂😂😂

[Robin Fenlon @robinfenlon]

@PupscanLA @elianamoreno @pollardaviation So cool!! Congratulations!

[Robin Fenlon @robinfenlon]

Deceased whale on the beach in Torrance this morning…

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Allow me to introduce you to the most ridiculous yet amazing thing you will see this week.

[Neutralious @Neutralious]

One of the coolest videos from the meteor yesterday in Portugal

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

If you liked our making of story of MAD MAX, please share the opening post 😃

https://t.co/VuP6mGkUUt

[Hugo Guerra @HugoCGuerra]

Let's not forget that the filmmakers of Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One keep saying 'We filmed all for real!'. Just look below at the Oscar's VFX reel. Full CGI shots in Rome, full CGI shots in the airport, so much CG, VFX, it's just mindblowing 🤯. This film could have been presented as the perfect merging of practical and digital. They could have given credit to the VFX teams but no... it had to be presented as this 'bullshit' 'all real' nonsense. What a wasted opportunity! The amazing VFX teams working on this film deserved better!

[Akan thee Doll, Esq. 💜🇳🇬⚖️ @AkanButNoJeezyy]

Those kids are going to be talking about this their entire lives.

Thank you Mrs. Bell 🥹

[Robin Fenlon @robinfenlon]

@vashikoo @TMobile DP is Bradley Stonesifer 🙏

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For sale!

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@joserosado Insta

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Moonrise from Redondo Beach, CA tonight.

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The setup vs The shot…

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@RwlSociety

[charlota @0xCharlota]

15yo me:
I just wanna design cool stuff with my friends.

25yo me: I need a seat at the table & be a strategic designer, drive ROI, manage stakeholders, empathy exercise, double diamond, brainstorm HMWs, UI≠UX!!!

30yo me:
I just wanna design cool stuff with my friends.

[Erik Kuna 🚀 @erikkuna]

Alright Internet, need some help? During the Starship/Super Heavy launch I was able to capture this photo below, I need help to find this photo to the wall of that Rockstar of Spaceflight. This kid had such enthusiasm and passion the minute that thing broke from the dust! Unfortunately, I was about 300 feet from the group taking this photo and couldn't get to them in time to ask for contact information before then disappeared into the huge crowd. Maybe someone knows someone who was at the launch who knows someone who recognizes someone, would be a cool. Never know...

Photo: me for @SuperclusterHQ - purchase prints or downloads from the launch here: https://t.co/sCsOgQj6PW

[Vids that will make you love earth @VidsOfHeaven]

The end of a rainbow

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

IT ONLY TAKES A SECOND TO SHARE: The LAPD is asking for the public's help in finding 7-year-old Derek Clay, who was reported missing around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
https://t.co/HzP4qjfQpv

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In Jaws, you don’t see the shark until 1 hour and 21 minutes into the movie.

That wasn’t the plan.

According to the script, the mechanical shark, “Bruce,” was supposed to get way more screen time. But Bruce was built for and tested in a North Hollywood freshwater tank.

Oops:

Jaws was to be the first major motion picture shot in the Atlantic Ocean. The first time the mechanical shark got into the ocean, the electrical substructure was destroyed by the salt water.

So director Steven Spielberg had to film the movie without his main character.

This, Spielberg said,

“torqued up the suspension of the movie…Rather than seeing the shark in every scene, I played a lot of the fear from the people in the water, from seeing their legs kicking, from the point of view of the camera moving along the surface of the water. That’s what turned the movie into more of an exercise in suspense than just a horror film.”

“So if you had the shark when you wanted it,” Spielberg was asked, “you probably would have had a different movie?”

“I probably would have made a movie that wouldn’t have been as successful,” Spielberg said. “I think the film would have made half the money had the shark worked.”

Jaws had a record-setting $7 million opening weekend and grossed $100 million in its first 59 days, passing “The Godfather” as the highest-grossing film in history.

Takeaway 1:

The iconic POV scenes in Jaws were forced out of necessity.

Innovations are often forced by limitations. Tony Hawk, for example, is credited with being the first skateboarder to ollie into his aerials.

"It wasn’t like I was trying to create movement," he said. Hawk was too small and skinny "to get the inertia to get in the air like other skaters."

Because of his limitations, Hawk changed skateboarding forever...

Takeaway 2:

In Jaws, you don’t see the shark until 1 hour and 21 minutes into the movie.

“This goes to show,” @_coleschafer writes, "that anticipation is scarier than confrontation."

The Stoic philosopher Seneca famously wrote, "We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

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"If you break the human struggle down to one word," Jerry Seinfeld says, "it's CONFRONT. And so, I approach everything that way."

Confront the reality that the shark is broken. Confront the problem you're putting off. Confront the hardest task on your to-do list. Confront the workout. Confront the blank page.

Anticipation is scarier than confrontation.

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