Jon Schiefer
brandxjon.bsky.social
Jon Schiefer
@brandxjon.bsky.social
270 followers 270 following 1.1K posts
I made a movie: TheHackerMovie.com I wrote a novel: DeathRowBookClub.com I made a show: TheDifferenceEngines.com
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
For years I've been trying to track down one of my favorite albums, a mix of folk, electronic, and minimalism. Google/ChatGPT were useless.

But, I just found them! Let me know if you know of them, or more about them. They're SO good, WAY beyond genre:
www.discogs.com/release/1041...
Meeker - Deep Pools of Light
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2004 CD release of "Deep Pools of Light" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com
As I prepare to work with a publisher, #writers have warned that editors work in Word, which I hate, because nothing does "Track Changes" like that.

My lawyer just sent me the contract for Libertas collaborators and, Pages now opens Word .docx files and can track changes.
That strange moment where the brilliant Akiva Goldsman and I feel almost exactly the same,

"I don’t want to find ourselves in a place where we are less creative because the standards of creativity have lowered to what it is the machine can do."

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
The Writer Who Killed the Dog — and Lived to Tell the Tale
Akiva Goldsman, the Oscar-winning scribe behind ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ ‘I Am Legend’ and now ‘Strange New Worlds,’ looks back on his storied 30 years in the business.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Wow! That's for that education. I knew there was a reason I just couldn't see.
I support this opinion.
It looks beautiful and graceful, but doesn't seem to be making much forward progress.
So, when you're eating with chopsticks, make sure to NOT pass out. Or this could happen!

I showed two neighbors and they were VERY concerned.

Just kidding. It's more practical FX prep for Libertas.
#indiefilmmaking
That's great advice.

But my first reaction always feels like. "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."

Excuse me while I recover...
I remember when I had a scratch on my face and told everyone I scraped a blemish off my face with the green side of the sponge and no one believed me.

Then, I said Memi and I got in a fight and people's doubts were mollified. So...
#indiefilm
I'm officially in preproduction for Libertas. That means teaching myself bruise makeup.

Here's my first test.

I checked it with my neighbors, telling them my wife kicked me. They believed it.

Then I confessed.
I'm watching "Mr Scorsese" on Apple TV+, the section about "Taxi Driver" and I keep coming back to my essay Make The Red Flags about "Joker", which, IMO, is a remake of Taxi Driver where the people Bickle/Joker kills aren't detested.

pipelineartists.com/make-the-red...
Make the Red Flags
Damaged people are always going to twist any message to confirm whatever they already believe. But we have to recognize that those are twisted narratives.
pipelineartists.com
I guess so. So much for my conspiracies about the algorithm is blocking me. Thanks for the worldview correction.
This post had 0 views, which strikes me as strange, so I'm reposting it.
I don't yet have a practical FX makedup connnection in Orange County, but Libertas has some FX needs.

So I'm studying how to do it myself. Yeah, #Indiefilmmaking!

Which involves YouTube and the local Halloween store or Amazon:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4Y...
How to Make Fake Cuts with Scar Wax, Liquid Latex & Silicone | Halloween SFX Makeup Tutorial 🎃
YouTube video by theartge
www.youtube.com
I don't yet have a practical FX makedup connnection in Orange County, but Libertas has some FX needs.

So I'm studying how to do it myself. Yeah, #Indiefilmmaking!

Which involves YouTube and the local Halloween store or Amazon:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4Y...
How to Make Fake Cuts with Scar Wax, Liquid Latex & Silicone | Halloween SFX Makeup Tutorial 🎃
YouTube video by theartge
www.youtube.com
I love all of this. Thank you for sharing it!
I don't know about the rest of it, but Maury Povich Boot Camp sounds pretty interesting. I'd watch that show.
I really want to buy
Radiohead's Kid A
&
Marvin Gaye's What's Going On

But, all my extra money goes towards making Libertas. Here's what that looks like for props:
From what I hear, it was actually to keep the same crew on for the 2nd half of Cast Away... weird motive, but great results!
I don't agree with your review of Zemecjis, but what is intriguing to me is that this movie was made during the break for Tom Hanks to lose weight for castaway.
The fact that Zemeckis made this incredible movie in such a situation always blows my mind.
Queued up. Thanks for the rec!
They're all so good and are amazing people that I will definitely be working with all 4 of the actresses I've interviewed today and yesterday, but for Libertas, I have to choose 1. And it's a tough choice! It's more about shades of amazing.
I had the first audition with a potential lead actress for Libertas. She's amazing. I can go home. And there's still 3 more (narrowed down from 107 submissions).

As each collaborator signs on, I feel potential energy accelerating what this short could be.
I thought it might be my anti-fascist social posts... but in reviewing my website, I think it's this:
DeathRowBookClub.com
Death Row Book Club — TheBXi.com
DeathRowBookClub.com