sivan

Ok i have to get out of brooklyn

Ad for a congressional candidate in NJ. Not a word of English.

When I was working on Sideways (which was adapted from a book), I asked the director, Alexander if the book were any good. "No it sucks. You don't adapt great books. You adapt shitty books that have an interesting premise, or a kernel of something that you can exploit and improve. Good books don't make good movies. You have to build a screenplay from the ground up. And nobody is gonna be mad at me for changing the details of a Rex Pickett novel. But God help you if you try to change 2 words in the Lord of the Rings." Brilliant dude.

One of the things that struck me about embedding with Talarico is how much of a content operation it is—time built into sked to shoot and record at every stop. A campaign built for attention economy.

When rural care is pushed to the edge, families face life-and-death consequences. Amy, a homecare worker in Alaska, describes the hours-long trip she and her neighbors could face just to receive care if their local hospital shuts down under Medicaid cuts. ▶️ Watch Amy’s story.