Jamie Hardt
@jamie.squad51.us
Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer. He/him. MPSE–CAS–IATSE
Posts here are my own, lots of spoofs and goofs.
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Links: https://squad51.us
Posts here are my own, lots of spoofs and goofs.
Avatar: A Кругозор face.
Banner: Delia Derbyshire working her tapes
Links: https://squad51.us
Sometime check out the panel Van Dyke did for NewTek where he talks about how he bought a Video Toaster and taught himself Lightwave 3D just so he could comp his own VFX shots for “Diagnosis Murder”
Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
ALT: a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
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December 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Sometime check out the panel Van Dyke did for NewTek where he talks about how he bought a Video Toaster and taught himself Lightwave 3D just so he could comp his own VFX shots for “Diagnosis Murder”
It’s a cheap answer but I did see “The Room” at the Sunset 5 when Tommy Wiseau was still four-walling it and personally introducing the film. I went with a friend and we had no idea what was going to happen, I remember noticing people in line with boxes of plastic spoons and being puzzled.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It’s a cheap answer but I did see “The Room” at the Sunset 5 when Tommy Wiseau was still four-walling it and personally introducing the film. I went with a friend and we had no idea what was going to happen, I remember noticing people in line with boxes of plastic spoons and being puzzled.
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I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
Important thing to keep in mind mind about Disney: it makes about 2/3rds of its earnings from hospitality, theme parks and its sports teams.
The entertainment business is profitable, it’s not a loss leader, but to an extent its function & that of the IP is to promote the “experiences” business.
The entertainment business is profitable, it’s not a loss leader, but to an extent its function & that of the IP is to promote the “experiences” business.
December 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Important thing to keep in mind mind about Disney: it makes about 2/3rds of its earnings from hospitality, theme parks and its sports teams.
The entertainment business is profitable, it’s not a loss leader, but to an extent its function & that of the IP is to promote the “experiences” business.
The entertainment business is profitable, it’s not a loss leader, but to an extent its function & that of the IP is to promote the “experiences” business.
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people just dont want this shit lol
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
people just dont want this shit lol
Fallon and Isaac Chotiner are sort of rotationally inverse in that one asks no hard questions and the other asks laser-guided questions but their eigenvalue is that both will humiliate a suitable subjects.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Fallon and Isaac Chotiner are sort of rotationally inverse in that one asks no hard questions and the other asks laser-guided questions but their eigenvalue is that both will humiliate a suitable subjects.
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EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
I can still thread a Century film projector. I walk by one that’s a static display at work (this is pretty much what all film projectors are now) and am very tempted to open the door and run the film through the gates.
I can still thread a Century film projector. I walk by one that’s a static display at work (this is pretty much what all film projectors are now) and am very tempted to open the door and run the film through the gates.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
I can still thread a Century film projector. I walk by one that’s a static display at work (this is pretty much what all film projectors are now) and am very tempted to open the door and run the film through the gates.
I can still thread a Century film projector. I walk by one that’s a static display at work (this is pretty much what all film projectors are now) and am very tempted to open the door and run the film through the gates.
The “problem” as such with these movies is the marketing spend per dollar negative cost is a lot higher and the distributor’s (and from there director/gross participant) upside is much more limited.
Sinners is a period piece horror film that cost about $95 million. it brought in $367 million worldwide. don't tell me people don't go to the movies anymore. they do. they're just tired of constant remakes.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The “problem” as such with these movies is the marketing spend per dollar negative cost is a lot higher and the distributor’s (and from there director/gross participant) upside is much more limited.
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ICYMI: ‘Men In Black’: New Installment In The Works From ‘Bad Boys For Life’ Writer Chris Bremner
‘Men In Black’: New Installment In The Works From ‘Bad Boys For Life’ Writer Chris Bremner
Here, once again, come the “Men In Black.” Deadline reports that Sony Pictures has a new installment for the alien-hunting franchise in mind, with “Bad Boys For Life” scribe Chris Bremner attached to pen the script. And with Bremner involved, one would surmise that means Will Smith is gearing up to return to the franchise, too.
READ MORE: Will Smith Explains Why He Passed On The Christopher Nolan Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Inception’: “I Didn’t Get It”
Let’s not get too ahead of things, though.
Continue reading ‘Men In Black’: New Installment In The Works From ‘Bad Boys For Life’ Writer Chris Bremner at The Playlist.
dlvr.it
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ICYMI: ‘Men In Black’: New Installment In The Works From ‘Bad Boys For Life’ Writer Chris Bremner
Warner Bros tried to get a sequel made—"Brazzaville", about Rick and Major Renault's adventures with the Free French Army—but fortune prevailed and they never got around to making it.
What exactly is in the Casablanca cinematic universe? Play it Again, Sam? Barb Wire?
How DARE they put Casablanca in the same paragraph with this stuff.
December 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Warner Bros tried to get a sequel made—"Brazzaville", about Rick and Major Renault's adventures with the Free French Army—but fortune prevailed and they never got around to making it.
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We learn more from bad art. In fact there is no bad art, merely art that tests boundaries we didn’t know were there.
December 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
We learn more from bad art. In fact there is no bad art, merely art that tests boundaries we didn’t know were there.
ISTR Paris Hilton trying to sell NFTs on Fallon was the definitive jump-the-shark moment for NFTs, if not web3 altogether.
Sam Altman is headed to late night. The OpenAI chief executive will make his 'Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' debut on Monday, Dec. 8.
OpenAI Chief Sam Altman to Sit With Fallon, Marking Late-Night TV Debut
Sam Altman is headed to late night. The OpenAI chief executive will make his 'Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' debut on Monday, Dec. 8.
dlvr.it
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
ISTR Paris Hilton trying to sell NFTs on Fallon was the definitive jump-the-shark moment for NFTs, if not web3 altogether.
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
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While movie theaters struggle, Chicago’s historic Music Box is adding a third screen ... and taking over another historic art house theater in Minneapolis
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While movie theaters struggle, Chicago’s historic Music Box is adding a third screen
The venue is adding a third 100-seat theater and expanding to Minneapolis as the new owner of the Heights Theater.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
While movie theaters struggle, Chicago’s historic Music Box is adding a third screen ... and taking over another historic art house theater in Minneapolis
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Steven Spielberg's "1941", apart from it's already impossibly stacked cast of principals, has cameos from John Landis, Dick Miller, Penny Marshall, and *Samuel Fuller*.
Defend a terrible film by picking something from it that saves it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Steven Spielberg's "1941", apart from it's already impossibly stacked cast of principals, has cameos from John Landis, Dick Miller, Penny Marshall, and *Samuel Fuller*.
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I asked the machine if you had joy 💀
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I asked the machine if you had joy 💀
Leslie Jordan AND an on-screen performance from Paul Feig
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Leslie Jordan AND an on-screen performance from Paul Feig
Novosibirsk.
What’s the Denver of Russia
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Novosibirsk.
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“everyone is twelve” theory has reached Senator Kelly
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“everyone is twelve” theory has reached Senator Kelly
I highly recommend David Worth's interview at the end of Shout Factory's edition of this MST3K episode; you really get a sense of what it was like to be an American director dragooned into shooting a movie in Italy in 1978. I emailed him after and we had a little correspondence, which was very nice.
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I highly recommend David Worth's interview at the end of Shout Factory's edition of this MST3K episode; you really get a sense of what it was like to be an American director dragooned into shooting a movie in Italy in 1978. I emailed him after and we had a little correspondence, which was very nice.
"Traffic? That's so over. Nobody wants traffic anymore—people seeing your stuff, that's just not where the play is now."
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
"Traffic? That's so over. Nobody wants traffic anymore—people seeing your stuff, that's just not where the play is now."