Latest Posts by milkfloes - Page 2

Trespassing

“Chickenstone” Swimmingpool for Chickens by Tommy Smits

take his ass to margaritaville

🚬 ashtrays pngs!!

Overheard in a Garden, Oliver Herford

i still got time to grow yall i could still get taller fr

first (real) oil painting attempt. didn’t go as badly as I thought it would.

Julius Adam, Sleeping Cat, 1893, oil on canvas

Lenbachhaus

Facebook deleted this almost immediately. It's almost like the ultrawealthy don't want us knowing or talking about what's at stake.

An old loft in a decayed barn. [5312x2988]

Cuno Amiet (Swiss, Swiss, 1868-1961), Baumgarten - Garten auf der Oschwand, 1925. Oil on canvas, 72.6 x 58.8 cm.

aggie beasts

the rain is coming down in sheets outside, im making hot chocolate, feeling good abt myself and passing well today, life is good right now

peace and love I hope everyone’s doing alright

Who are you when you're not performing?

Jareth clearly understood the importance of the “conversation pit.”

For those following the SAG and WGA strikes there’s new shit a-brewing, this time targeting background actors (aka extras).

Some may know that one of the issues SAG is fighting is that studios want to take virtual scans of background actors and use them in perpetuity (meaning forever) without any additional compensation to those background actors. So you would just see a bunch of AI generated humans in future movies based off of a background actor that worked one day.

This is already shitty because working as an extra for 3 days on a union set (if you receive a union voucher each day) is one of the main ways to qualify for SAG eligibility. This means that a lot of actors working background do not yet have union protection and likely do not have an agent or manager to protect them. Disney has already allegedly told background actors to do this on the set of Wanda Vision: https://www.avclub.com/wandavision-background-actors-say-disney-scanned-them-1850709900

The A.V. Club

WandaVision background actors say Disney scanned them, didn't say why

The argument over digital replacements of background actors and extras is a major sticking point in the SAG-AFTRA strike

Here’s where it's worse.

There is one main company that supplies background actors for major union and non union productions. Central Casting. They love to brag about their very long influence in the industry - in old movies dating back to the 40s you can hear jokes about hiring extras from Central Casting.

Central Casting has been including an electronic document for all actors in their database to sign as part of onboarding. Signing it gives Central Casting the right to use your images, your videos, and YOUR LIKENESS in perpetuity, forever. They would OWN your likeness. Instead of it being a studio supplying the AI background actors, it would be Central Casting instead.

Receiving any work from Central Casting in the future is conditional upon signing it. No signature = no extra work = no extra income for union actors trying to make health insurance minimums, no union extra work for pre-SAG members.

Instagram

Alexis Winter|Casting Director on Instagram: "Sounds like, maybe it’s time for all these background actors to give a call to Central Casting

312 likes, 15 comments - aw_casting on August 27, 2023: "Sounds like, maybe it’s time for all these background actors to give a call to Cent

SAG already reached out to Central Casting to tell them to stop. Central Casting refused.

Edit to say: this is not new. It’s part of actors onboarding and is called the Photo, Image, and Video Release. It’s phrased to sound like you are just giving them permission to use your image and video for CC’s website and promotional purposes. But the actual language is much broader. It's only recently being brought up as a point for discussion because some casting directors (who are generally supportive of the strike) started pointing it out.

Central Casting is owned by Entertainment Partners which is also a giant software conglomerate and owns a lot of the software used to organize background casting and pay actors. https://www.ep.com/company/about-us/

Nude  -  Gustav Klimt  c.1903

Austrian 1862-1918

Melanie Daniel - Sister and Brother Coyotes, 2023

*pacing around in circles like a dog* it’s fine it’s fine it’s sssoooooo fine i’m normal

A detailed woodcut showing veins of essexite and camptonite rock from Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft Bd.60 (1908).

Full text here.

home by the sea.. .

why does no one talk about how big kazakhstan is. that mf is huge

Hans Silvester, Man reading a Book around Shika Deer in Nara Park, Japan, 1960s

forgot I had this photo… I kind of love it so thought I’d share

painting earth monsters while listening to the velvet underground is an underrated experience

An old silo transformed by Harry Thaler into a design studio, Merano, 2019