Todd Vaziri

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years. Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX youtu.be/ERKEsIzTFas?...

easily one of my favorite “Futurama” jokes

Filmmaking takes all kinds of disciplines. J. Todd was a real talent.

I wonder how many people are out there legitimately (non-griftingly) saying "You Can See Everything" (2026) would have looked 'better' if they had shot it on film

this is how the piece opens like what

exhausted AMA

I saw The Film

Happy 1st anniversary to the comeback of the Bored Ape Yacht Club as a metaverse !

it was so fun hearing Spielberg with @seanfennessey.bsky.social talking about Hal lip-reading Floyd and Bowman and then watch this scene a week later

huh that’s weird

whenever you have an opportunity to see “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977) on a big screen — GO

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

remember when Nathan Fielder totally stepped on Emma Stone's foot accidentally on live tv while promoting "The Curse"? youtu.be/MldMVC82-Po?...

no i don't know if this is accurate James Bond actors + female costars and their ages

cool country we’ve got here

this is correct

RIP Tom Skerritt, a reliable and enduring actor who you probably remember from...everything, basically. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

why can't James Bond be a teenager in the new movie

observed in Culver City: a beautiful mural honoring Pappas, the patron saint of meatball sandwiches

Watching "The Night of the Hunter" (1955) with a first-timer.

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

huh, so "paid protesters" every accusation is a confession

THEY SHOULD CALL NORTH DAKOTA NORTH AMERICA AND SOUTH DAKOTA SOUTH AMERICA AND WEST VIRGINIA WEST AMERICA I BET THIS SHIT HITS SO HARD IF YOU'RE STUPID

I finally saw "The Devil Wears Prada 2" (2026) and it's hilarious that thousands of posts, articles and videos warned us this "dark, muddy" film would herald the END OF CINEMATOGRAPHY. It looked… fine! What a waste of outrage.

If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt

Center Framing is Not New fxrant.blogspot.com/2024/10/cent...

I wrote about one of my favorite shots from David Fincher's "Seven", which turned into an essay about telephoto lenses and getting a myth about the movie debunked. http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2024/10/this-shot-from-seven-is-not-visual.html

VFX’ers *want* to build and shoot miniatures, frequently they are the right tool for the job. Unfortunately production schedules have gotten so short that there is absolutely not enough time to do so. Plus certain filmmakers cannot commit to shot design, which is required for miniature work.

remember that "BIDEN IS SENILE" was a stop the presses, every day story and they just let this shit go like its normal

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

attn: Chicago www.thelogantheatre.com/content/Horr...

When democracy is restored in America, we also have to break up the media monopolies owned by regime allies.

The Trump regime wants to make it illegal to criticize them or vote them out of office.

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huh that’s weird