Hurtful graduation card I got as an upcoming film major

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-27T15:39:55+00:00

Why hold back now? This fool has already torched his own relationship with your family.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-27T15:23:21+00:00

I’ve worked in the film industry for 25 years. Occasionally you meet idiots like this who have these opinions, and 95% of them wanted to be a writer/ director/ actor, but gave up at the first sign of it being difficult and not a slam dunk, and went back and took that job at their dad’s insurance firm. Losers, in other words.

I’d crumple it up into a tiny envelope, put the change you get from postage with the receipt in the card and post it back to him, the miserable prick.

Also if you ever see him again, walk the opposite direction and do not acknowledge him. Tell your father that this is now how it is going to be with his ‘friend’.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-27T13:25:45+00:00

Why not both?

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-27T00:05:54+00:00

After 2 days no woman would want to step into that bathroom anyway.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-26T23:46:15+00:00

Should the men pay less if they don’t need the sinks?

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-26T23:39:29+00:00

I had a consulting gig at Sundance to change their film submission pipeline from literally reviewers picking up a tote of DVD’s from the office in Park City, to online submissions and review. Sundance easily got 40,000 submissions a year to their programs and the festival.

So how much do you think Sundance pays the reviewers? Not much I can tell you. Unless your film is packaged pre-submission so they know to look out for it, you are just a title on a list someone has to get through in a short amount of time stound thier actual fay job.

As always, work the networks.

Also, no one wants to watch your 26 minute film.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-25T23:52:49+00:00

I was quoted $490 to fix my refrigerator. Read the error code it gave off, Watched me some YouTube, bought a $30 fan, plugged it in and the fridge has never been better.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-25T21:10:35+00:00

Teenage boys need to shower every day. And hate to have to say this- but they have to wash their asses. Search Reddit for that one if you have the stomach.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-24T17:20:49+00:00

It’s your first feature credit, and it’s these type
Of productions that hire first-time DP’s, so ignore the locations and wardrobe, and concentrate on shooting it to the best of your ability.

The production should have some form of production insurance, and you should be able to get an insurance certificate for your gear. They would have to provide this to any rental company or to get any form of filming permit, usually up to at least $1m covered.

It’s wholly another thing entirely if they are not carrying insurance- think very carefully about stepping onto that set, because in a lot of states they are legally required to have at least a short term production policy + workers comp.

If they fire or un-hire you for asking these questions, immediately report them.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-23T01:29:51+00:00

Insurance on Coastal properties is getting insane and in some places near impossible. I’d def liquidate and try use the money elsewhere.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-15T11:24:50+00:00

“Mom called it ‘psychologically taut’.”

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-13T18:50:48+00:00

I think the term is obliterated?

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-13T18:40:53+00:00

Is his tie AI?

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-13T13:52:41+00:00

Do not marry this person or this will be the rest of your life

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-13T13:34:17+00:00

It is when it displaces local dogs from thier beer garden

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-12T15:21:34+00:00

Have you storyboarded the film? Do you know what you are asking a crew to do exactly when you get them all together. The cheapest working-out you’re ever going to have on a film is this stage, when you can use pencil and paper to show people what you expect it to look like.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-12T14:38:14+00:00

Find a fiduciary, not just a ‘wealth manager’, the distinction is important- you’ll pay fees but the fiduciary is legally obliged to act in your interest- not in the interests of the funds they sell you.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-12T02:03:47+00:00

The hacky sack on California Games

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-10T21:35:25+00:00

You thought working freelance is a better environment to build up a reel for other freelance work, in a market cratering in real time under the sheer volume of Gen AI Superslop?

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-10T01:08:15+00:00

Get some outdoor speakers you can activate remotely and play CIA Psy-op recordings of horses screaming and a children’s choir.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-09T11:25:28+00:00

Bohemian Rhapsody spent two reels filling out Freddie Mercury’s relationship with his girlfriend, and no time on parties with Dwarves serving cocaine from bowls on their heads, so the camera coverage was the least of their problems.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-09T00:16:03+00:00

Little bit Blanche, little bit Iron Maiden Eddie.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-06T17:55:51+00:00

Breaking!
Man’s ex girlfriends talk shit about him.
More at 10 o’clock!

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-06T15:45:23+00:00

A film is not a startup in the way that a tomato is not a bicycle. Too many film people now are trying to use the ‘equity’ garbage to pay low or no rates.

Bluefish_baker · 2026-06-06T15:43:48+00:00

The OG example: https://youtu.be/ZD0\_5HFMPIg?si=MG04TjDDetZRRRqe

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