Ah fun! My latest and greatest short the director is also coming from the stunt world and debuting as director, y’all are a fun crowd ;) I definitely wouldn’t mind doing more action stuff. I love working with the French but it’s all slow drama 🤣

Yeah, Europe, I’m based in the Netherlands but I’m French and most of my short film stuff happens there and my paid stuff here. Probably gonna try hitting UK productions as well since I know they shoot in the continent a lot and like to have EU citizens for that.

What about you?

Trying to! Right now I’m still just busy with working corporate stuff/real estate to earn my living and working on short films and a little bit of studio work on the side (DoP). This year is the year I update all my stuff and give it a good push though, starting to have enough experience, the tricky thing is I live in a country with a small-ish industry and I also don’t speak the language at native level to work in the local TV, but I can drive/fly to other nearby countries where I do and we might move there eventually as well.

Yes, they do, but in their mind Paris IS France, so yeah.

IMO degrees are overrated for all but people like doctors etc. Learning on the job always worked fine for me and at one point I was managing a division of over 40 people. These days I went back to my more “passion” career as freelance and couldn’t be happier. I plan on finishing my days as a woodworker (because we all know I ain’t getting retirement).

It’s not, and the same rules apply to those.

I work in the field, in Europe, and can confirm this is about right. There are also situations where you start needing permits to film, either because it’s private property or even public property if you start having to put down a lot of equipment and crew.

Holy shit it’s true.

Same, trying to ride that line between becoming a brain dead AI-zombie and a luddite…

Just yesterday someone I work with had a t-shirt with a small, centered inscription just below the neckline. I didn’t catch myself in time and asked if the shirt was inside out, because it really looked like the logo/information you’d see inside under the neck on the back.

We’re not the ones that fucked around so even if it gets even worse for newer generations I’d say we still qualify the most for what’s described in the post.

They just keep charging missed appointment fees and that’s now the main business, they haven’t fixed a doorbell since 1985.

The side of the road thing is just the right amount of petty lmao.

We watched that new cartoon yesterday (swapped) with my kid and there’s a scene exactly like this.

There’s always weed in the weed box.

Yeah I don’t see how much chance you’d have with trying to share all your future knowledge, you might get really lucky and meet some scholar that takes you under his wings but chances are much higher of getting burned at the stake/beaten to death.

You might have a slightly better chance just trying to fit in acting dumb and using your knowledge to get ahead, but of course for that we have to conveniently ignore that you’d get utterly fucked by the new-to-you bacteria and infections and probably will die from some paper cut.

I think it went on sale and sold out immediately so back to “pre-order” and indeed also the CC2 is there. And good point about the reliability, but then I guess I need to get a filament dryer separately.

Yeah I’m not gonna lie the way they designed this cooled me off the Elegoo a bit, if just because it looks a bit silly haha. But it’s still great, my step dad has the CC1 and all his prints are great. I’m more interested in making practical parts (for filmmaking) so really I don’t care that much about multi colour but I’m more interested in multi-material (for example so supports can be a different, cheaper filament) and QoL like auto-spool change, and I would still want a multi-colour here and there to make stuff for my kid.

It’s time I look at the whole current landscape again and see if it’s time to plunge ;p

Just as an update, Elegoo did finally release their multi material solution (canvas). I was ready to get my first printer a few months back but decided to wait for this and also to see what the reviews would be like for the Snapmaker U1 with its multiple heads that can do multi-material with much less waste.

All this stuff isn’t so fresh in my head anymore and I need to look into all this again but just wanted to point out Elegoo did release the solution now.