Trust and friendship prove to be more valuable than wealth in the story of Damon and Pythias. Written by James Baldwin and read by Dennis Jerz.

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A snifter of brandy helps a supporting character deliver exposition & set up for a nice spit-take. #indiefilm

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Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life

In sync with the resurgence of labor activism nationwide, actors, dancers, stage managers, technicians and others have been questioning the nuts and bolts of their contracts — both the documents that detail their jobs and the wider assumptions about what they owe an audience. Can the theater, they ask, find a way to uphold them…

The Search, Part 1 (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 1) Sisko takes the Defiant on a mission to contact the Founders

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More delightful #steampunk control panels. These are computationally efficient bitmap rectangles, that emulate #neovictorian brass and glass geometry through #blender3d #cgi magic. #blender3dart #design #aesthetics

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I apologize for this one. R2-D2 stars in Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical CATS.

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Craiyon: The signing of the Declaration of Independence, starring Chewbacca.

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Slicing up a massively detailed trimsheet to simulate reflections and geometry for four variations of a #steampunk console keyboard. #blender3dart #blender3d #design #aesthetics

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Top: flat, monochrome rectangles. Middle: rectangles with a flat bitmapped texture of buttons and dials. Bottom: angles, smoothness, glow, and metallic reflections added by texture magic. #blender3d #steampunk control panel #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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Nichelle Nichols, ground-breaking Star Trek actor and NASA recruiter, 1932-2022

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I baked about 12 million vertices of steampunk control panel geometry into a flat plane with just 4 vertices. All these reflections are mathematically faked, saving memory and speeding up rendering. #blender3d #steampunk #blender3dart #design #aesthetics #optimizing #gameready

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Blank template details and a wider view of a 30cm x 30cm grid of brass and glass #neovictorian control panels, for a #steampunk #blender3d project. #aesthetics #design #relaxing #blender3dart

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More bits of my summer project – another delightful span of a #neovictorian #steampunk control panel. #practice #cgi #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetics

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Another delightful #blender3d #cgi #steampunk control panel. #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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On set. #indiefilm #historicaldrama #creativity #enjoylife

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