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Jim Penola

@jimpenola.bsky.social

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Writer, Producer, Host: AN INVITATION PRODUCTIONS podcast 🗣🎙 | Dramatic Writing MFA: SCAD ✍🏻📚 | Storyboard Artist: Film/TV 🎞️ 📺 | [email protected] 📩 (He/Him)

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Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · Mar 1

hi BlueSky!
I make podcasts that adapt + excavate the films of Karyn Kusama:

"An Invitation to THE INVITATION" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

"An Invitation to DESTROYER" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Writer of both films, Phil Hay, graciously called the former a "beautiful work of art"

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 8h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 12h

ChatGPT is giving dangerous advice to vulnerable people. Join CCDH & demand OpenAI takes safety seriously.
act.counterhate.com/page/179641/...

ChatGPT is exploiting vulnerable users. Help us stop it.

ChatGPT is giving dangerous advice to vulnerable people. Join CCDH and demand OpenAI takes safety seriously.

act.counterhate.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 1d

One of my personal favorite movie trends was the late 90's resurgence of the "creature feature" monster movie. Spurred on by the deft mix of animatronic and CGI work in films like Jurassic Park, this brief comeback was the millennial equivalent of what moviegoers saw in the wake of JAWS.

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Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 2d

Def missing out on some great stuff as ‘Not A Hardcore WTF Guy’ but this bit from the latest Welcome To Hell World (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social) makes me feel less bad about that

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Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · Oct 30

Four ads from the Previews catalogue for Topps adaptation of the Coppola Dracula movie

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Steve @steveyurko.com · 2d

Drew Struzan's approach to composition in his posters will always be a huge inspiration for me. His artwork was a part of what made movies feel like such a spectacle when they were released in theaters. Movie posters will never hit as hard as his did.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 3d

SARAH WINNEMUCCA
Born in 1844, by age 14 she spoke five languages: English, Spanish, and three native dialects. She was an Outspoken Advocate for Native rights & the first Native American woman to produce a published book (Life Among the Piutes, 1883).
#IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 4d

Thomas Jane.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

Brion James.

Jackie Earle Haley.

An absolute murderer’s row of random whack-a-doos.

Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 4d

Why spend money on naturalistic performances when you can have literally every pull of a shotgun’s trigger be the size of a mortar blast

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sorry this just did me in.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 4d

NEMESIS reminds us that “good” acting is overrated and that
explosions don’t need to be fed.

Also, Max does the DUNE sand walk on wet, concrete stairs at the very end. Unhinged. Incredible.

Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 4d

Botanical love 💚

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Cows in the Field @cowspod.com · 5d

RED ROOMS discussed with @emilystjams.bsky.social!! This was a lot of fun, we hope you enjoy our conversation about this top notch murderino-thriller: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 5d

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8d

So, as part of Taylor Swift's album rollout, there was a scavenger hunt involving videos that looked *really* AI-generated. So #SwiftiesAgainstAI became a thing and now the videos are impossible to find. Fandom outrage can be good!
www.wired.com/story/taylor...

Fans Call on Taylor Swift to ‘Do Better’ After Accusations of Using AI for Promo Videos

A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign.

www.wired.com

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Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 6d

Huge fan of Sarah’s writing. Cannot recommend it enough! Share!

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6d

If you like my work, please share and subscribe. I'm trying to override a variety of shadowbans and broken algorithms. Thank you!

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6d

New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6d

If you like my work, please share and subscribe. I'm trying to override a variety of shadowbans and broken algorithms. Thank you!

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6d

New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 6d

Not to be hyperbolic but the “BLACKSTAR Symphony” show we saw last night was one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen.

It was certainly one of the most moving—“Where Are We Now?” is an all time fave and I was NOT expecting it to be appear on the setlist.