Low key I always assumed it was some white collar culture/preference that made it this way but
Usually if one production house/studio has a specific team they like, they just keep getting those same guys
I was Samsung's principle high rigger for CES for years but Samsung never *employed* me
A lot of this shit has been true of Hollywood labor for decades
I have a friend who rigged on the raimi spiderman movies who still gets checks from Sony
This situation isn't uniquely difficult to protect
Theres just currently less protections
Food for thought from an entertainment rigger
They keep hiring me and I keep getting benefits through the union, as long as I pay into my dues and hit a minimum investment quarterly to pay into medical, I keep full benefits even while unemployed
One of the many reasons a lot of industries pivot toward contractor/gig work is because there are less worker protections
One thing I'd like to remind everyone, to that
I'm a gig worker protected by a union
I get benefits and worker protections.
We figured this one out already
I THINK one of the things we're really seeing is a continent, maybe industry-wide shift away from full-time employees and towards gig/codev work.
And that transition looks like layoffs across the board even from studios that just had big successes.
We can force worker protections that make employees subject to continuing residual profit from their work
To enforce that certain kind of work has to be union represented
And that not being "hired back" after a layoff counts as being fired and can lead to penalties for the company
A lot of this shit has been true of Hollywood labor for decades
I have a friend who rigged on the raimi spiderman movies who still gets checks from Sony
This situation isn't uniquely difficult to protect
Theres just currently less protections
Food for thought from an entertainment rigger
so this past week i did one of the most conspicuously fucked up gigs i've ever done
i was handed a disaster and me and my small, put upon team worked miracles and made the show happen
I got called by production and formally thanked for my leadership
and was nicknamed
sigh
"Captain Save-A-Show"
i am enjoying how effective these posts of mine i do after movies are at getting people to actually leave the house and go watch stuff lol
also glad, apparently, i can inform people a new laika movie is out
Yo
Just got out of a wildwood screening. An early one at my cool AMC
That was Laikas best movie
Full stop.
That is the best movie I've seen this year. In a year with the first good resident evil movie.
Go see it. In a theater. In imax.
5/5 movie. S++
"Téléchat" now has an official YouTube channel (Season 1 already available) + new short episodes soon on Instagram.
A children's television show aired in France in 1983, created by Roland Topor & Henri Xhonneux ("Marquis").
It was weird, I loved it when I was a kid.
www.catsuka.com/news/2026-09...
stoat mask + tail for furpoc stock! :3 this dude has a little accidental bald strip on his lip marking, so he'll have a discounted price lol :P
#therianmask#furry#therian#fursuit#fursuitmaker
So I broke two fingers right
I have this friend in rigging who is an Argentinian acrobat who started rigging because the money is good
He has the aura of katz from courage the cowardly dog. I turned around today, saw him by surprise
He raised his hand and went
"Gimme three :)c"
So I broke two fingers right
I have this friend in rigging who is an Argentinian acrobat who started rigging because the money is good
He has the aura of katz from courage the cowardly dog. I turned around today, saw him by surprise
He raised his hand and went
"Gimme three :)c"
This was the first time I've seen him since I got injured
He was ready to on-sight me with that one.
This is a guy who called my name while I was walking across the floor of an arena
And I look around
Look around
Look around again
He appears out of nowhere rappeling from the catwalk above
Went on twitter because of a link for like 40 seconds and what I saw was a VR chat comedy video some piece of shit cornball content farm furry made about the hilariously bad Spanish of Chicanos
40 seconds for it to show me something that meaningfully pissed me off
God DAMN
It is so scientifically designed to piss specifically me off
You'd need to assemble a team of my closest friends and a couple of old bad exes together into a Manhattan project style research effort to come up with it if you did it on purpose
Obsession hits because instead of manifesting a creepy spooky monster design that can be rendered toothless and fun by parody
The filmmakers of obsession made a movie that basically depicts the feeling of being trapped in a room with your bipolar mom when she's having another meltdown
you can't shoot that feeling. You also don't want to shoot your mom- your mom is not a monster you can dispose of. Either because you love a person with a problem or you take what was done to you with you the rest of your life
we've all been in rooms that felt like scenes from obsession.
It is the first time that I can remember where I went to a movie
And was legitimately fully actually amazed at what I was seeing.
There's a battle scene in it that legitimately, not kidding not hyperbole
Measures up to helms deep and saving private Ryan's d-day
Go see that movie.
Yo
Just got out of a wildwood screening. An early one at my cool AMC
That was Laikas best movie
Full stop.
That is the best movie I've seen this year. In a year with the first good resident evil movie.
Go see it. In a theater. In imax.
5/5 movie. S++
Yo
Just got out of a wildwood screening. An early one at my cool AMC
That was Laikas best movie
Full stop.
That is the best movie I've seen this year. In a year with the first good resident evil movie.
Go see it. In a theater. In imax.
5/5 movie. S++
When you veer right to, I dunno, get extra room on a left turn I guess
Do you also throw punches by winding up your first like a jack in the box
Do you prepare to run by leaning way back in one direction with your knee and elbow raised before jetting off in a sprint leaving a dust cloud
You realize it makes me think you've lost your mind and you're about to suddenly veer into my lane right
Like it looks like you're going from your turn lane into mine and kill both of us
Yeah
No feeling short of being tortured and mutilated by a cartel for a video can come anywhere close
To waking up super early with not enough sleep and taking a shower in a really cold bathroom
There's something special about the atmosphere in a car when you're driving yourself to the ER with a grievous injury and the song that comes on the Bluetooth is the real folk blues
i live a pretty nutty life right
like through my posts and talking and telling stories a lot of you who have followed me for a while know i lead a pretty eventful life
the last two weeks have been one of the nuttiest on record. holy shit
putting out a fire, breaking my hand, being near an active shooting, getting electroctured while standing on a metal beam as an electric current goes through it, a bathroom i was pissing in at work got hit by a forklift, like,
The fact that one of the most ferocious deadly carnivorous predators on the face of this earth in terms of successful hunts looks like this, is irrefutable proof that nature has a sense of humor 💜