Ryan Booth
@ryanbooth
Filmmaker. DGA Director. Commercials at division7 x SMUGGLER. debut feature, STAGES, in post. I’m always making something. One foot in front of the other.
when people talk about "hollywood" - this is what it actually means. world class craftspeople who bring decades worth of experience and talent to a singular set of images, sets, performances, and stories. most people never get to work with people at this caliber.
filmmaking is so cool.
heartbreaker of a festival rejection. didn't get the pass until the day before they announced competition films. we were in it till the very end. trying not to let it take the wind out of our sails, but, truly, it hurts. ok, back to finishing.
Directed a commercial with Noah Lyles back in the lead up to Tokyo. We got 30 minutes total time. Since he was in active training, he could only come out of the blocks 3 times because the explosiveness of the exit carried a very real potential of injury. Ok great, how to cover…
i occasionally think about how The Assassination of Jesse James and No Country for Old Men came out the same year and Deakins got nominated for BOTH films but split his own vote and lost. Legend.
the confidence that comes from taking action is the fuel for forward progress.
the stories that are trickling in of friends and friends of friends affected by the floods in central texas are truly heartbreaking. What an absolute tragedy that continues to compound...
just read the replies…
man, when did we get so fucking mean? we've been dumb for more than a minute, but this absolute scorched earth meanness feels like it'll be impossible to come back from without some catastrophic life education. i'm really sad for our country.
In George Orwell's 1984, all human art has been abolished but machines churn out automated novels and pop music. Big Brother keeps the population in check by preventing potentially dangerous creative expression. Boycott AI music. Support human artists.
apparently this band has only existed for 2 weeks and it’s all AI. how long until you see someone wearing their merch lol
man, when did we get so fucking mean? we've been dumb for more than a minute, but this absolute scorched earth meanness feels like it'll be impossible to come back from without some catastrophic life education. i'm really sad for our country.
Is everyone fucking nuts? Did we actually believe that after decades and decades of studying the brain and coming up with next to zilch, that a handful of rich, arrogant midwits in Silicon Valley would come to a full understanding of consciousness and deliver to us artificial…
BREAKING: Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well. Here's what Apple discovered: (hint: we're not as close to AGI as the hype suggests)