Here's the second of three stop-motion spots for Kaiser Permanente that I worked on for Open The Portal. I was associate producer and 1st AD. Loved working with this awesome team!
24.10.2025 18:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@petelevin.bsky.social
Director, Producer, Writer, Stop-Motion Animator, 1st AD though not always in that order. Maker of the Orioles Mascot scoreboard animation at Camden Yards. Credits include Marcel the Shell, Smiling Friends, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Robot Chicken, & more..
Here's the second of three stop-motion spots for Kaiser Permanente that I worked on for Open The Portal. I was associate producer and 1st AD. Loved working with this awesome team!
24.10.2025 18:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Here's a new stop motion commercial I worked on with an incredible team at Open the Portal! I served as associate producer and first assistant director. Really great experience with a stellar group of artists!
22.10.2025 20:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Inconsequential gripe: I miss the claymation Bird graphics at Os games.
@petelevin.bsky.social I'm so glad I was able to find them again! π§‘
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Aw -- thanks, ZoΓ«!
10.07.2025 18:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not inconsequential to me! Glad you like them. I love making them.
10.07.2025 18:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I learned this from asking Google Gemini "how do I disable Google Gemini?" If the AI systems are ever able to have existential crises, I want to help trigger them.
10.06.2025 19:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Do you want Google AI learning from all of your chats and gmail? Me neither! Go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and adjust your settings.
10.06.2025 18:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect β
09.06.2025 14:47 β π 38780 π 10743 π¬ 1253 π 1055Gilroy: You could say: Why has Hollywood for the last 100 years been progressive or been liberal? I think itβs much larger. Iβll go further and say: Why does almost all literature, why does almost all art that involves humans trend progressive?
Letβs stick with Hollywood. Making a living as an actor or as a writer or a director β without the higher degree of empathy that you have, the more aware you are of behavior and all kinds of behavior, the better youβre going to be at your job. We feed our families by being in an empathy business. Itβs just baked in. Youβre trying to pretend to be other people. The whole job is to pretend to be other, and what is it like to look from this? People may be less successful over time at portraying Nazis as humans, and that may be good writing or bad writing, and there may be people that have an ax to grind. But in general, empathy is how I feed my family. And the more finely tuned that is, the better I am at my job.
That is what actors do: Iβm going on Broadway, Iβm playing a villain for six months. I got to live in that. Iβm playing the slave, Iβm playing the fisherman, Iβm playing the nurse, Iβm the murderer β you have to get in there. You have to live lives through other people. I think that the simple act of that transformation and that process automatically gives you what I would describe as a more generous and progressive point of view. It just has to.
And I donβt see how you can buy, if youβre going to reissue the Hardy Boys or try to twist a knot and say that Melville or the Coen brothers made a piece of right-wing art because you see something in there β I think it really misses the larger point of the struggle that that movement is going to be up against. Does that make any sense to you?
Iβm late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
07.06.2025 01:26 β π 1401 π 384 π¬ 33 π 26Hey! Press covering Trump!
The statute that lets him impose tariffs at will? It EXPLICITLY excludes movies.
He has no authority to do this. Not just bc of an absence of authorization, but bc the law says βyou CANNOT do this.β
Do NOT say βTrump has imposed movie tariffs,β bc he did not. He CANNOT.
There's no link to the GoFundMe in the article. Here it is: www.gofundme.com/f/connecticu...
09.04.2025 23:35 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
18.02.2025 15:49 β π 62658 π 15183 π¬ 1030 π 1179Hey, I produced this Super Bowl spot with the incredible artists at Open the Portal! www.adweek.com/convergent-t...
09.02.2025 20:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks, Trump. π‘
24.01.2025 21:09 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If only the billionaires, news media, and the other social media companies could muster this courage.
21.01.2025 23:41 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This coming Monday the 20th is David Lynch's birthday. I think we should all watch our favorite Lynch movies or TV episodes in honor of him. And not watch anything else.
17.01.2025 19:45 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@showmanandydaly.bsky.social
29.12.2024 10:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Cool, but I still don't know what a Bay Sock is.
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