pointnclick:

“we live in an uncaring universe.” sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess

unhingedpirates:

Dear friends, can you believe it’s been A WHOLE FUCKING MONTH??!!!

HOW ARE WE FEELING?

metamorphesque:

— This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

[text ID: I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.]

heteroerotic:

graynard:

hey bro hit this *passes you a caterpillar in a leaf*

*gives it a little kiss and passes it to the next person*

mimisempai:

Reminder again…

a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark:

madfishmonger:

politicalprof:

Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:

“Boss made a dollar
Granddad made a dime
But that was a poem
From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand
Gave pa a cent
But that penny paid the mortgage
Or at least it paid the rent

Now Boss makes a million
And gives us jack
Smugly blames the workers
For the labor that he lacks.”

And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.

mimisempai:

Who said I wasn’t stubborn?

pippin-pippout:

For those following the SAG and WGA strikes there’s new shit a-brewing, this time targeting background actors (aka extras).

Some may know that one of the issues SAG is fighting is that studios want to take virtual scans of background actors and use them in perpetuity (meaning forever) without any additional compensation to those background actors. So you would just see a bunch of AI generated humans in future movies based off of a background actor that worked one day.

This is already shitty because working as an extra for 3 days on a union set (if you receive a union voucher each day) is one of the main ways to qualify for SAG eligibility. This means that a lot of actors working background do not yet have union protection and likely do not have an agent or manager to protect them. Disney has already allegedly told background actors to do this on the set of Wanda Vision: https://www.avclub.com/wandavision-background-actors-say-disney-scanned-them-1850709900

WandaVision background actors say Disney scanned them, didn't say why

The argument over digital replacements of background actors and extras is a major sticking point in the SAG-AFTRA strike

The A.V. Club

Here’s where it’s worse.

There is one main company that supplies background actors for major union and non union productions. Central Casting. They love to brag about their very long influence in the industry - in old movies dating back to the 40s you can hear jokes about hiring extras from Central Casting.

Central Casting has been including an electronic document for all actors in their database to sign as part of onboarding. Signing it gives Central Casting the right to use your images, your videos, and YOUR LIKENESS in perpetuity, forever. They would OWN your likeness. Instead of it being a studio supplying the AI background actors, it would be Central Casting instead.

Receiving any work from Central Casting in the future is conditional upon signing it. No signature = no extra work = no extra income for union actors trying to make health insurance minimums, no union extra work for pre-SAG members.

Alexis Winter|Casting Director on Instagram: "Sounds like, maybe it’s time for all these background actors to give a call to Central Casting

312 likes, 15 comments - aw_casting on August 27, 2023: "Sounds like, maybe it’s time for all these background actors to give a call to Cent

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SAG already reached out to Central Casting to tell them to stop. Central Casting refused.

Edit to say: this is not new. It’s part of actors onboarding and is called the Photo, Image, and Video Release. It’s phrased to sound like you are just giving them permission to use your image and video for CC’s website and promotional purposes. But the actual language is much broader. It’s only recently being brought up as a point for discussion because some casting directors (who are generally supportive of the strike) started pointing it out.

Central Casting is owned by Entertainment Partners which is also a giant software conglomerate and owns a lot of the software used to organize background casting and pay actors. https://www.ep.com/company/about-us/

hellsite-testing-ground:

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renthony:

renthony:

I’ve been pointedly refusing to use the term “content creators” to refer to artists anymore, because I want to make art for me and the people I care about, not the endless demands of the algorithm. I’m not trying to Produce Content, I want to make art.

So it is deeply, deeply irritating when I use the word “artist” in a post and it gets endlessly reblogged with people asking “but what about writers? but what about actors? but what about musicians? but what about [x]?”

All types of art are included in the term “artist,” god damn it. “Artist” does not just mean “someone who draws pictures.”

I don’t know why so many people keep taking this post as “yeah, we should come up with a better word for content creators!”

THAT WORD ALREADY EXISTS.

THE WORD IS “ARTIST,” Y'ALL.

THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS DAMN POST.

The word “artist” is all-encompassing! By! Definition! We don’t need to keep reinventing the fucking wheel!

Do you make art? Any kind of art? Drawings, paintings, comics, novels, songs, dances, photographs, performances, anything creative?

THAT’S ART, BABE. YOU ARE AN ARTIST.

RESIST CAPITALIST COMMODIFICATION OF ART AND CLAIM THE DAMN TITLE.