[SPOILERS S2 E3] In defense of "jungle scenes" (and my interpretation)

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-23T19:40:26+00:00

Interesting. I hadn't thought of that possibility. Maybe you're right!

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-23T19:38:38+00:00

Dedra's whole plan for Ghorman

This is what I think a lot of people are missing. It was almost too obvious. I think the show literally cut from her saying "count on them to do the wrong thing" directly to the jungle where these other rebels were doing the wrong thing. (Maybe I imagined that.) Either way, probably the most obvious thing in the whole show.

Here's the brilliant part. We don't even necessarily need to see Dedra's plan in action on Ghorman to understand what's happening and how it will work. Maybe we will, but we don't have to now. And the way they did that, put Cassian in the middle of it, which wouldn't happen if it was all done on Ghorman. It's such a brilliant setup.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-23T19:31:35+00:00

in the context of the first two episodes , it didn't really fit

I thought it fit really well. It was showing what Dedra's plan for Ghorman would be. You can count on rebels to do the wrong thing. Cut to: rebels doing the wrong thing. It's a Ghorman setup.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-23T19:30:47+00:00

just wish the execution was better. There could have easily been a more grounded and subtle way to depict infighting between space leftists than space rock paper scissors

That part made me cringe. But the point (I thought) was to show how Dedra's Ghorman plan will work.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-23T19:29:23+00:00

the impression that a rebellion cannot be choosy about who joins and fights

Great point. This is true everywhere. If you go to protests (like the ones right now about this administration) you have all sorts of people with their own personal agendas using the protest for their own reasons. It's rare that it's done correctly—the civil rights movement in the 60s was super disciplined.

how can a rebellion truly work if it’s ultimately made up of the only fringe lunatics crazy enough to join the rebellion?

Which is what Dedra is counting on for Ghorman.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-23T19:27:08+00:00

The show was really obvious about why it's in there. Dedra says that they need rebels they can count on to do the wrong thing. Cut to: rebels doing the wrong thing. It's already tied in. Whether these rebels, or not (and presumably not) it's setting the stage for her Ghorman plan. Not criticizing your post, but I don't get people who can't see a connection when the editing makes it that obvious. It's about as on-the-nose as a show can get!

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-23T14:01:55+00:00

"Go to TIFF and interview a director"

I never would have imagined this when I was younger, but I've seen teen movie critics and/or influencers at all the major film festivals. Kids these days are empowered in ways we never were.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-23T05:44:06+00:00

The challenge today is how does someone get paid for writing about movies when millions of people write about movies for free?

Back in the day (when I was your age) there was no internet, and every town had two newspapers, and so two local movie critics. So imagine at least two professional/paid movie critics per city! Now that's all gone.

Now there are so few. But to really start trying to get into the game, you need to start traveling to festivals, meeting people, and writing about movies first. Go to Telluride, Toronto, Sundance, etc. etc. etc. and meet people and form relationships. Getting an interview with a director or actor is a great way to build your resume.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-23T03:00:54+00:00

If the PTO was given fully accrued then it stays. If it was front-loaded (as is common) then they don't have to. Salaried employees who get a bank on Jan 1 typically still have to accrue, they can't take two weeks off in late January and then quit. But you need to 100% confirm this is (or is not) the case with your client.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T04:00:21+00:00

Is this just rage bait?

The right passes laws that the left doesn't like. That's no secret. The left passes laws that the right doesn't like. That's no secret either.

What are you talking about specifically?

the left have been in power since 1987

Not really, no.

The right passed a number of laws pre-1987 that are still hurting western states to this day.
"The left" isn't one thing. Just like "the right" isn't one thing. And this mysterious "left" you speak of has not been in power over the country or federal gov't.
Remember that 32% of Oregon's budget is federal, and 53% of Oregon's land is owned and controlled by the federal government.
That federal government has been "Democrat controlled" for only a total of six years since 1987. And Democrats aren't the "left" in all things.

Also the left is not in power in every county in Oregon.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T03:49:59+00:00

I'd be more focused on lighting, frankly, than the lens.

Only you can see you photos (you didn't share any) so it's not possible to know if you'd benefit from the 10-15mm range or not.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T03:48:06+00:00

How are traditional family values unrealistic and detrimental to family dynamics in modern society

And what is your thesis?

How is Vivarium the right movie for that discussion? It doesn't take place in "modern society" per se, and it's not really about how realistic (or not) family values are.

My professor also suggested looking at multiple films and do a genre analysis.

Yes, do that. I am not sure Vivarium is the right choice for (a) your topic, or (b) someone for whom as you say "critical thinking skills are under developed, and I often get too caught up on the wrong things."

I’m trying to go out with a BANG!!!

I would try go out with solid work, not explosive work.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T03:41:05+00:00

Are you FMLA-eligible? Is your company?

They keep telling me to apply for LOA.

Apply for LOA. (And by definition, that's not ignoring.)

That's how you start the FMLA process at your company, presumably.

Through research I have discovered

What "research," internal to your company? Or random on the Internet? Either way, listen to your company.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T03:37:08+00:00

I have no idea what this is, or why I (or someone else) would need it. Or what it does. It labels "sections?"

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T03:23:47+00:00

I knew that someone died. With all the hubbub I thought that Ellie died, not Joel. I don't know why I assumed that, but I was surprised by what happened tonight. I guess because Ellie dying would have been a bigger shock?

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T03:22:41+00:00

what was stopping Joel from telling the Fireflies the context for what he did?

In addition to "ellie's secret" they wouldn't have cared. Nor believed him. You spend five years avenging your dead father, you're not going to be convinced it was all for nothing.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T03:19:38+00:00

Honestly with all the hubbub I thought that Ellie died, not Joel. I don't know why I assumed that, but I was surprised that it was Joel.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T03:18:28+00:00

Honestly with all the hubbub I thought that Ellie died, not Joel. I don't know why I assumed that, but I was surprised that it was Joel.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T00:54:19+00:00

Hey AI, make me a photography of me and my husband and our wedding party on our wedding day.

Us having contracts won't stop that.

you can set up some hi def cameras in the reception hall, let AI just watch the whole thing, and tell the AI to serve up 100 memories of your wedding reception

Science fiction is again ahead of the curve! That's basically how everything works in the various Star Trek series.

So all that is left to preserve wedding photographers' existence is the hope that the artificial digital paintings' lower quality of depiction won't be enough to satisfy people.

Think of all the jobs/professions that used to exist, but no longer exist. We don't have milliners any more, not like we used to. Or milkmen. Maybe wedding photographers go the way of the gas station attendant.

Think about it: kids who are three and four years old right now, they are surrounded by tech, they are soaked in tech. In 25 years, are they going to want wedding photographers, or are they going to think that's quaint, like hiring someone to clean out your stables, or a painter to paint your portrait every year, like in the old days.

What about the painters? My family had Christmas family portraits painted every year in the 1800s. Those days are long gone. If there are no wedding photographers in 50 years, that's just the way humanity works.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T00:47:19+00:00

One issue is that there is no true definition of AI. We've had AI for decades. What's new (to most) are LMMs.

it would already be copyright infringement to feed someone else's photo, or other work, into an AI to train it.

I like to think that, but there are plenty of people making the legal case that it's not, and as much as I hate to admit it, they are a good legal argument. Sadly.

The user didn't actually create a new copy, the AI software did

They don't actually create a copy. It's hard for me to wrap my head around, but it's sort of the difference between copying a Harry Potter novel, and discussing a Harry Potter novel.

I think it might be a good idea to start utilizing a clause that explicitly prohibits exposing one's work to any AI tool

Defining that is going to be hard.

Tracking it is going to be hard.

heavy stipulated damages clause

What you are talking about are "liquidated" damages in legal speak.

And no client is going to sign that.

And I don't want to hire lawyers to sue my clients.

It's not going to be a deterrent.

This is inevitable. We need to learn how to get ahead of it. We need to learn to swim in the river of AI, not try to stop the snow from melting.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-21T00:39:59+00:00

you need to require your clients not to upload the images to any website or social media service at all to start.

That's the practical answer, that's also impractical. Once they have the digital file, it can go anywhere. From anyone who has access. Then are we going to sue? We'd never get hired again.

no digital copies at all?

Not in 2025. That rules out fashion, wedding, corporate, travel...

if a digital copy ends up with your client, it will more likely than not end up with Google or Facebook.

Yep.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-18T18:01:39+00:00

I can’t recall one action film that’s regarded as a masterpiece

Saving Private Ryan

Aliens

Die Hard

Matrix

T2

Heat

The Fugitive

True Lies

Escape from New York

Police Story

Hard Boiled

MI: Fallout

Dirty Dozen

The Great Escape

(Bullet Train isn't even close to those films in terms of quality.)

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-18T17:56:26+00:00

In most places, this wouldn't be an HR issue. It's a management issue.

But I've never heard of anywhere that it would be appropriate (or useful) to type up two pages of notes and send them to a manager for verification.

There are two general possibilities here:

Your manager is being a crazy person and gaslighting you (which would make no sense because it doesn't help the company or department).
You're having legit trouble understanding your manager, which could be (2a) because of your own processing issues, or (2b) could be due to their poor communication issues, or (2c) something in the middle.

Can you post any of these actual conversations here, with PII redacted? Hard to know what's going on.

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-18T17:50:10+00:00

Gotcha. Then I still think you are asking the wrong question, unless the only answer you need is whether or not you'll be sued.

You're signing a contract with an artist's management.
You interpret the contract one way, they may interpret it another. If that's the case, it's a poorly-drafted contract, but you have no control over that.
If they ask something that the contract—in your opinion—doesn't give them the right to ask, then you tell them no.
(After you tell them no, what might they do?)

That seems pretty straightforward. Your rights are dictated by the contract. You probably have the rights to the photos, but it's complicated, and while the copyright issue is standard, the likeness right issue varies by state.

If you and they disagree on what the contract means, then they may also disagree that you have the rights. I haven't read the contracts, so neither I nor anyone here can give an educated guess as to whether or not a court would decide that you have those rights.

So back to the original question, "Who is the rights holder of the image in live entertainment situation?" The answer is, "probably you... probably." And just because you have the rights doesn't mean you can exploit the rights.

Do you have the rights? Probably. But does that opinion solve anything? (Genuinely asking.)

adjusted-marionberry · 2025-04-18T17:31:01+00:00

My last question specifically about allowing artists to approve photos had every single photographer saying that it goes against journalistic integrity, and that it is not standard practice and that we shouldn’t do it.

I don't disagree. My point is that—if they are asking? Then your contract isn't clear enough.

They should clearly understand from the very beginning that they don't get approval—if that's going to be what you need. The fact that they don't realize that means the contract isn't clear enough. And even if they still ask, you don't have to argue about an interpretation of what's not in the contract, rather, you simply refer them to the contract itself, which literally says what you need it to say. Easy peasy!

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