Jake
@jake.sooscreek.productions
📌PNW Filmmaker, storyteller, photographer, and doofus. Notoriously earnest cornball. Two decades in tech, but I’d rather talk anything cameras, especially cinematography. they/them
https://www.instagram.com/onetimeatjakes/
Soos Creek Productions
https://www.instagram.com/onetimeatjakes/
Soos Creek Productions
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In the last ~5-6 years we’ve seen DPs shift from insisting skin always be lit at 55-65 IRE to now regularly lighting as low as 35 IRE
Combination of factors that all kind of suck: streaming platforms don’t handle light gradients well, TV defaults are what everything is shot for, and lighting budget
Combination of factors that all kind of suck: streaming platforms don’t handle light gradients well, TV defaults are what everything is shot for, and lighting budget
watching the second season of andor
it's really good, beautifully done except
everything is so gd dark
i can't see anyone's faces? is it old person eyes or is it actually underlit
it's really good, beautifully done except
everything is so gd dark
i can't see anyone's faces? is it old person eyes or is it actually underlit
a close up of a man 's face with star wars andor written on the bottom right
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with star wars andor written on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In the last ~5-6 years we’ve seen DPs shift from insisting skin always be lit at 55-65 IRE to now regularly lighting as low as 35 IRE
Combination of factors that all kind of suck: streaming platforms don’t handle light gradients well, TV defaults are what everything is shot for, and lighting budget
Combination of factors that all kind of suck: streaming platforms don’t handle light gradients well, TV defaults are what everything is shot for, and lighting budget
“ICE tear gasses Pope” is a headline @evan.sooscreek.productions and I have been joking about but it keeps getting closer and closer to a real headline
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
“ICE tear gasses Pope” is a headline @evan.sooscreek.productions and I have been joking about but it keeps getting closer and closer to a real headline
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Related, if you want to make a documentary about your studio/project, I'm always looking for documentary projects!
I’ll sweeten it a bit, even: PNW game devs, if you have a talk you think would be good for GDC and want to make a video of that talk and put it online instead, I’ll do free audio, video, and lighting for them up to a day of production for the first three people who hit me up
As GDC talk applications have opened, I want to politely remind you that GDC remains one of the most inaccessible, unfairly expensive, and dangerous for-profit game industry events out there - and that offering your labour for free to it just adds value that pressures people into going needlessly.
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Related, if you want to make a documentary about your studio/project, I'm always looking for documentary projects!
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Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
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We are actually supercollaborators with tons of empathy. That's probably the main trait of the human nature.
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We are actually supercollaborators with tons of empathy. That's probably the main trait of the human nature.
Pops say: just be humble and save
But you gotta get some money to put money away
music.youtube.com/watch?v=h_B4...
But you gotta get some money to put money away
music.youtube.com/watch?v=h_B4...
GIMMIE GRACE
YouTube video by Travis Thompson - Topic
music.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Pops say: just be humble and save
But you gotta get some money to put money away
music.youtube.com/watch?v=h_B4...
But you gotta get some money to put money away
music.youtube.com/watch?v=h_B4...
“Maybe it’s a creative one if you aren’t creative” is perfect
#Dispatch devs have no interest in using AI for game development 🎮
"AI feels like a production solution, not a creative one. Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative"
"Whatever we're building, it has to connect. It's got to be made by people. It's got to connect to people"
(via GIBiz)
"AI feels like a production solution, not a creative one. Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative"
"Whatever we're building, it has to connect. It's got to be made by people. It's got to connect to people"
(via GIBiz)
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
“Maybe it’s a creative one if you aren’t creative” is perfect
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I've said this before, will say it again:
The CEO of this place got her career started in the technofascist crypto space, so the idea that she was some leftist progressive stalwart has always been a bunch of horseshit.
She is literally -one- of them and always has been.
The CEO of this place got her career started in the technofascist crypto space, so the idea that she was some leftist progressive stalwart has always been a bunch of horseshit.
She is literally -one- of them and always has been.
![In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California.[1] She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, Washington, where she soldered bitcoin mining equipment.[1] In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.[1][5][6] In 2019, she founded the event planning website Happening, Inc.[1][5][6]
In August 2021, Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform and public benefit company.[7][8][9] Bluesky had been conceived as a new initiative by Twitter's original owners in 2019, but evolved to become a competitor to Twitter following the 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.[5][6][10][11]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5rzlkhiq65ar3vhavqxf6roa/bafkreiffho55ffml5uqmj4wtdqbc3pdptc4ilkd4n3xgwml2xmyeqntnvq@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I've said this before, will say it again:
The CEO of this place got her career started in the technofascist crypto space, so the idea that she was some leftist progressive stalwart has always been a bunch of horseshit.
She is literally -one- of them and always has been.
The CEO of this place got her career started in the technofascist crypto space, so the idea that she was some leftist progressive stalwart has always been a bunch of horseshit.
She is literally -one- of them and always has been.
Related, if you want to make a documentary about your studio/project, I'm always looking for documentary projects!
I’ll sweeten it a bit, even: PNW game devs, if you have a talk you think would be good for GDC and want to make a video of that talk and put it online instead, I’ll do free audio, video, and lighting for them up to a day of production for the first three people who hit me up
As GDC talk applications have opened, I want to politely remind you that GDC remains one of the most inaccessible, unfairly expensive, and dangerous for-profit game industry events out there - and that offering your labour for free to it just adds value that pressures people into going needlessly.
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Related, if you want to make a documentary about your studio/project, I'm always looking for documentary projects!
Reposted by Jake
I’ll sweeten it a bit, even: PNW game devs, if you have a talk you think would be good for GDC and want to make a video of that talk and put it online instead, I’ll do free audio, video, and lighting for them up to a day of production for the first three people who hit me up
As GDC talk applications have opened, I want to politely remind you that GDC remains one of the most inaccessible, unfairly expensive, and dangerous for-profit game industry events out there - and that offering your labour for free to it just adds value that pressures people into going needlessly.
July 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’ll sweeten it a bit, even: PNW game devs, if you have a talk you think would be good for GDC and want to make a video of that talk and put it online instead, I’ll do free audio, video, and lighting for them up to a day of production for the first three people who hit me up
I genuinely can't imagine choosing to watch The Game Awards without getting paid to do it
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I genuinely can't imagine choosing to watch The Game Awards without getting paid to do it
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If I have to choose between "big corp bad" and "support the things my friends make and work on" it's not a particularly difficult choice really
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If I have to choose between "big corp bad" and "support the things my friends make and work on" it's not a particularly difficult choice really
Does reinstalling Overwatch constitute self harm?
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Does reinstalling Overwatch constitute self harm?
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website: *pop up autoplay snuff film with compressed crunched audio blasting you in the face immediately upon opening*
also website: "hey.. just so youre aware, there may be some *bare midriff* in this next photo so we hid it entirely for you. no you cant see it."
also website: "hey.. just so youre aware, there may be some *bare midriff* in this next photo so we hid it entirely for you. no you cant see it."
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
website: *pop up autoplay snuff film with compressed crunched audio blasting you in the face immediately upon opening*
also website: "hey.. just so youre aware, there may be some *bare midriff* in this next photo so we hid it entirely for you. no you cant see it."
also website: "hey.. just so youre aware, there may be some *bare midriff* in this next photo so we hid it entirely for you. no you cant see it."
Alt text almost makes it sound like his new wife is John Waters 😂
Instead of the Nuzzi shit, let's focus on the fact that apparently Johnny Knoxville got married this past weekend, the wedding was officiated by John Waters, and a dog was involved
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Alt text almost makes it sound like his new wife is John Waters 😂
“He thinks he has to carry everyone but it’s everyone carrying him because he keeps falling” okay first of all how dare you 💀
Oops posted a surprise Superman Movies with Mikey on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHF3...
Superman 2025 is a a Caffeinated Masterpiece
YouTube video by FilmJoy
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“He thinks he has to carry everyone but it’s everyone carrying him because he keeps falling” okay first of all how dare you 💀
New @mikeyface.bsky.social video day!
Superman 2025 is a a Caffeinated Masterpiece
YouTube video by FilmJoy
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
New @mikeyface.bsky.social video day!
"Deep focus, long shot compositions like these] invite the audience to scan the frame for meaning in a way that was more analogous to the way we perceive affairs outside the movie theater” - Noël Carrol
Perfect quote for this video. Highly recommend watching this if you enjoy cinema
Perfect quote for this video. Highly recommend watching this if you enjoy cinema
this is fantastic, a thorough and compellingly argued theory of modern cinematic sludge
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"Deep focus, long shot compositions like these] invite the audience to scan the frame for meaning in a way that was more analogous to the way we perceive affairs outside the movie theater” - Noël Carrol
Perfect quote for this video. Highly recommend watching this if you enjoy cinema
Perfect quote for this video. Highly recommend watching this if you enjoy cinema
In the last ~5-6 years we’ve seen DPs shift from insisting skin always be lit at 55-65 IRE to now regularly lighting as low as 35 IRE
Combination of factors that all kind of suck: streaming platforms don’t handle light gradients well, TV defaults are what everything is shot for, and lighting budget
Combination of factors that all kind of suck: streaming platforms don’t handle light gradients well, TV defaults are what everything is shot for, and lighting budget
watching the second season of andor
it's really good, beautifully done except
everything is so gd dark
i can't see anyone's faces? is it old person eyes or is it actually underlit
it's really good, beautifully done except
everything is so gd dark
i can't see anyone's faces? is it old person eyes or is it actually underlit
a close up of a man 's face with star wars andor written on the bottom right
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with star wars andor written on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In the last ~5-6 years we’ve seen DPs shift from insisting skin always be lit at 55-65 IRE to now regularly lighting as low as 35 IRE
Combination of factors that all kind of suck: streaming platforms don’t handle light gradients well, TV defaults are what everything is shot for, and lighting budget
Combination of factors that all kind of suck: streaming platforms don’t handle light gradients well, TV defaults are what everything is shot for, and lighting budget
List 3 things you think you’re known for and your followers will tell you if you’re right or wrong. 😬
1. Being the camera wizard
2. Tech industry veteran exasperation
3. Look at all these cool ass birds
1. Being the camera wizard
2. Tech industry veteran exasperation
3. Look at all these cool ass birds
List 3 things you think you’re known for and your followers will tell you if you’re right or wrong. 😬
1. Talks about politics
2. Post-divorce life
3. Yap about media and culture
1. Talks about politics
2. Post-divorce life
3. Yap about media and culture
List 3 things you think you’re known for and your followers will tell you if you’re right or wrong. 😬
1. Talks about politics
2. Has a black cat
3. Comedian
1. Talks about politics
2. Has a black cat
3. Comedian
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
List 3 things you think you’re known for and your followers will tell you if you’re right or wrong. 😬
1. Being the camera wizard
2. Tech industry veteran exasperation
3. Look at all these cool ass birds
1. Being the camera wizard
2. Tech industry veteran exasperation
3. Look at all these cool ass birds
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Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Tempted, actually extremely qualified. But then I’d have to actually interact with the staff regularly and I just can’t see how that’s worth it
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Tempted, actually extremely qualified. But then I’d have to actually interact with the staff regularly and I just can’t see how that’s worth it
Making the episodes longer and longer isn’t actually a fix, either! The released run times for Stranger Things season 5 are absurd, and I enjoy that show. Almost every episode this season is a feature length runtime, that’s actually harmful to the way audiences follow series and track information
I am becoming quite sick of 8 episode seasons from major shows. It condenses plotlines and makes unnecessary cuts to stories. Even 2 more episodes would be preferable with 10 episodes stretched out across a longer release schedule.
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Making the episodes longer and longer isn’t actually a fix, either! The released run times for Stranger Things season 5 are absurd, and I enjoy that show. Almost every episode this season is a feature length runtime, that’s actually harmful to the way audiences follow series and track information
Aidan’s right. I’m gonna keep saying it: cringe is just a word cowards use
Fearless earnestness is the next cultural phase.
The new Lumines has absolutely killer art direction precisely because it has zero fear of being perceived as corny. It will just throw every idea it has at you and maybe not all will land but at some point you WILL cry about how all humans are connected while matching broccoli and tomatoes onscreen
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Aidan’s right. I’m gonna keep saying it: cringe is just a word cowards use
When I talk about how it’s weird and gross that people will just openly speculate about the deaths of prominent people, this is what I mean
I see a lot of people speculating about how Alice died and I am asking you to...please not do that. If her family wants to share information about that on their own time, they will, but the speculation and sometimes outright conspiracy theories are actually really upsetting for them to see.
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
When I talk about how it’s weird and gross that people will just openly speculate about the deaths of prominent people, this is what I mean