Steven Bailey

It feels a lot like this.

Digimon the Movie was released 25 years ago today and changed my understanding of epic storytelling forever.

Campfire stories to cave drawings to paintings to theatre to cinema to content farming to personalized ads to AI slop. I feel like we definitely peaked at cinema….

So this is happening at Foothills Performing Arts in Lenoir, NC!

Show dates: October 30-31-Nov 1-2, Nov 7-8-9, Nov 13-14-15

I’m closing down my photography Instagram page. If it seems like I’m closing down a lot of things, it’s because I’m streamlining. Big things on the horizon!

Ever notice in The Return of the King, when Aragorn sees the beacons of Minas Tirith lit and goes to tell Theoden, that he has a really weird run? His arms and legs are borderline rag doll physics.

I’m going to be removing my old TikTok videos from the Wayfaring Tulip Media account and moving them to a new archive account called Steven’s Workshop Archive. The channel will also host remasters of all my old videos from 1998 to 2015.

Friendly reminder that Trix is no longer for millennials.

When you write an absolute banger joke and nobody laughs 😑

Nikon D7500 or Nikon D850?

Finished filming this past weekend. Can’t wait to share it with everyone! #atenserumination

I am going to start a YouTube channel that houses remastered videos of all my old works from 1998 to 2017. It will also include behind the scenes videos, commentaries, deleted scenes, and vlogs on abandoned and lost work from me in that time as well! It’s going to be awesome!

“Faster productivity workflow and growth” just means “We will burn the planet down for money” to me.

I wish Hamlet would shut-up for like five minutes.

How many privacy policy changes does Samsung need in a week?

It’s a classic!

I wondered that too, but no all Gypsy and Mannie do are basic magic tricks. I think I found the offending part though:

According to Disney+, A Bug’s Life contains tobacco depictions. I’ve seen this movie a thousand times, and I don’t remember the part where Flik blows off some steam by lighting up and telling Tuck and Roll, “How ‘bout that Marlboro, am I right, boyz?!”

Hot take: I don’t want to see Steve and Nancy get back together again. I think it would show growth if they moved on from each other. I also think Nancy and Jonathan should part ways too for the same reason. #strangerthings

Yeah, well actually…

For real! It gets even worse when it uses ai voice over, like they’re too lazy to put any effort into their effortless video

Another meme that should go away: the whole “maturing is realizing what this scene meant” bit, then showing a scene with an incredibly obvious point that no child would ever misinterpret. Nobody wants to tend to your content farm!

I rank Jurassic Park movies from best to worst:
1 - Jurassic Park
2 - Jurassic World Rebirth
3 - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
4 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
5 - Jurassic World
6 - Jurassic World: Dominion
7 - Jurassic Park III
*I enjoy all of them :D, even JP3

Can’t afford to go to Splash Mountain this year? No worries! Just come to my place of work and use our bathroom sinks!

Been working on a new short film…. #atenserumination

All this to say, after many years of prioritizing ads and companies over creators, YouTube’s move to demonetize AI videos and only pay for original content is a rare step in the right direction from them. I’m hopeful this trend continues and truly original films flourish on the site once again!

In 2006, YouTube was a great way to show your movies, but it quickly became driven by content farming and ads, with people begging for likes and clicks. They discuss other media rather than make their own. Now AI generated clips swamp the site. Original films were drowned in a sea of unending noise.

A Jurassic Park game in the style of The Last of Us. Pretty please?

A Castlevania game in the style of Horizon: Zero Dawn. Pretty please?