Josh Barkey

PRODUCED FILMS Josh Barkey's website of highly secret personal thoughts.

Curious... does it show up on Amazon, Google Play, or Apple TV+ in Australia?

Links here: www.joshbarkey.com/2020/12/film...

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Ha ha jk lol nothing matters.

Pink (2018) A tormented artist has just three days left under his house arrest sentence when a friend stashes a backpack full of stolen drugs in his home.

I just found out that my first produced feature, PINK, is on Tubi, where you can watch it for free.

Once upon a time I tried to seduce a revered novelist into agreeing to meet with me by sending him my films, and he watched 'em all and said this was his favorite. tubitv.com/movies/69252...

If you also capitalized the "i" and "e" in "Direct," the capitalized letters would spell "INDIE."

If you're dating, one way to tell if you have a future with someone is to invite them for a fancy dinner with your best china and bring out a silver cloche with only a bowl of cereal under it and the answer, of course, is that you don't have a future with them. Better luck next time!

Picture of Guillermo del Toro with a camera

"Answer through your work, the things you don't like in a piece of media. If you dislike the movies that are being made. Make your own.

Show the world what you think this medium should be."

- Guillermo del Toro

Lights. Camera. RADNESS—

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I was this morning years old.

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Randomly posted an old short story of mine to reddit about a grizzly bear eating a bunch of people in downtown Vancouver, and... crickets. Not super surprised: r/stories share.google/IxtS6H1k7A6f...

Any idea what the film industry standard is for how long you have to know someone before you're allowed to stop overusing exclamation marks in your emails? #screenwriting #WritingLife #scriptsky

Dear big shot Hollywood producer about to board a flight: if you go down today, do you want your last moments to have been spent watching some dumb in-flight movie with the hoi-polloi... or having an elite, super exclusive Josh Barkey Script Experience?

Just think about it.

I'm starting to suspect that Ai may in fact be the hill that I may in fact literally die on.

Eight years ago I wrote a screenplay about the US and China in an arms race to build a general ai to quickly kill all the other country's infrastructure and also it had armed, autonomous drone swarms. Not a great script, but I still think I deserve some sort of prize.

Yes. AI generated that as well.

Oh, yes. Written and illustrated by AI.

Please note that I "created" this book as a self-amusing joke, before I was aware that chatgpt is an environmental nightmare to be avoided like the death-plague that it is.

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I am so incredibly thrilled to report that the book I had chatgpt write on the dangers of chatgpt (four hours from conception to published book) has received its first review... and it's ONE STAR!!! www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47RR9TS

A towering achievement.

A decade ago I met with a bloviating, successful-ish producer. The other day, a director buddy randomly informed me that said producer'd just sent him a terrible script he'd "written" that then failed every Ai detector my buddy ran it through. #ThatTracks #AiSucks

If some rando makes you sign an NDA to read their screenplay, I can almost guarantee you it'll be a pile of hot garbage.

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

Didn't used to be a condition. Not sure on the first question. No rule against clicking the box that says you're the director, because why not?

Spaceship lookin' pretty phallic there. Just sayin'.

If you're not planning at least one screenplay that could get you blacklisted or even deported in the not too impossible dystopian near future... are you even really an artist?

One fun thing about having evangelical parents who don't care about "secular" music is your dad doesn't tell you till he's 80 years old that Neil Young was in his Sunday School class in middle school and they carved their names into the back of a church pew together.

a heist movie but instead of stealing anything i just sneak into wherever the large hadron collider is and bop it with a wrench until we end up in a timeline that isn’t so fucking stupid

Found my sign at the protest today. Introverts, unite!

Whenever I think, "Is this really who we are? Is that possible?" I just go to the comments section on basically anything and it's like... yup.

"You gotta be really curious and really interested in the outcome to deal with all this minutiae with enthusiasm."

- Kirk Baxter (Davind Fincher's Editor)

"Curiosity drives you to explore that dark cave despite your fears of going down there. Curiosity is leaping ahead of the comfortable place you’ve settled and dragging you into the unknown."

- David Brooks