Joe Howes 🇳🇿🇨🇦
@joehowes.bsky.social
Senior Engineer at Wētā FX in Miramar. Drummer, filmmaker, actor.
Wanna catch up on Stranger Things in the funnest way possible before the Season 5 premiere (featuring excellent work by @wetafxofficial.bsky.social!!)??
youtu.be/h_zCDqj7fKw?...
youtu.be/h_zCDqj7fKw?...
Stranger Things: The History of Eleven | Horror History
YouTube video by CZsWorld
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November 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Wanna catch up on Stranger Things in the funnest way possible before the Season 5 premiere (featuring excellent work by @wetafxofficial.bsky.social!!)??
youtu.be/h_zCDqj7fKw?...
youtu.be/h_zCDqj7fKw?...
Kia ora @kiwipycon.nz,
A co-worker sent me a screenshot of a talk for Saturday that is right up my alley, but I'm not seeing it on the schedule anymore? Was this removed from the schedule? Cheers!!
A co-worker sent me a screenshot of a talk for Saturday that is right up my alley, but I'm not seeing it on the schedule anymore? Was this removed from the schedule? Cheers!!
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Kia ora @kiwipycon.nz,
A co-worker sent me a screenshot of a talk for Saturday that is right up my alley, but I'm not seeing it on the schedule anymore? Was this removed from the schedule? Cheers!!
A co-worker sent me a screenshot of a talk for Saturday that is right up my alley, but I'm not seeing it on the schedule anymore? Was this removed from the schedule? Cheers!!
Anyone within slapping distance who doesn’t slap him is a traitor to humanity.
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Anyone within slapping distance who doesn’t slap him is a traitor to humanity.
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Who cares what Gates thinks? The man is utterly disconnected from the needs of average people. Time to kick billionaires with their saviour complexes to the curb.
October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Who cares what Gates thinks? The man is utterly disconnected from the needs of average people. Time to kick billionaires with their saviour complexes to the curb.
This goddamn wind blew my bike to work so hard that I time-travelled and fell in love with an 18th century Scottish Laird. #wellington
October 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This goddamn wind blew my bike to work so hard that I time-travelled and fell in love with an 18th century Scottish Laird. #wellington
We’re always looking out for ghost stories this time of year.
I won’t spoil it, but I think Soderbergh’s Presence is underrated.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2824...
I won’t spoil it, but I think Soderbergh’s Presence is underrated.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2824...
Presence (2024) ⭐ 6.1 | Drama, Horror, Thriller
1h 24m | R
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October 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
We’re always looking out for ghost stories this time of year.
I won’t spoil it, but I think Soderbergh’s Presence is underrated.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2824...
I won’t spoil it, but I think Soderbergh’s Presence is underrated.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2824...
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hey Halloweenies.. a little #Horror short
one of my first films and forays with this team that has endured for over a decade now.
one of my first films and forays with this team that has endured for over a decade now.
FLICKER - 48hours entry 2014 - HD DSLR short horror film
YouTube video by H2Ow - homegrown horror
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October 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
hey Halloweenies.. a little #Horror short
one of my first films and forays with this team that has endured for over a decade now.
one of my first films and forays with this team that has endured for over a decade now.
Woke up in the middle of the night and, like an idiot, thought "I'll check my phone, surely nothing earth shattering or exciting will have happened."
"Anika Nilles has joined RUSH"
ARGGRHAGHAGHHRUGHRUGHHUGHEHGEHGHGEHAGHI!!!
"Anika Nilles has joined RUSH"
ARGGRHAGHAGHHRUGHRUGHHUGHEHGEHGHGEHAGHI!!!
October 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Woke up in the middle of the night and, like an idiot, thought "I'll check my phone, surely nothing earth shattering or exciting will have happened."
"Anika Nilles has joined RUSH"
ARGGRHAGHAGHHRUGHRUGHHUGHEHGEHGHGEHAGHI!!!
"Anika Nilles has joined RUSH"
ARGGRHAGHAGHHRUGHRUGHHUGHEHGEHGHGEHAGHI!!!
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Router on/off switches should be a hero design element: Visible, accessible, and pleasing to interact with.
Designers who force me to freak my router's hiney for a power button are designing for the way the world should be, not the way it actually is.
Designers who force me to freak my router's hiney for a power button are designing for the way the world should be, not the way it actually is.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Router on/off switches should be a hero design element: Visible, accessible, and pleasing to interact with.
Designers who force me to freak my router's hiney for a power button are designing for the way the world should be, not the way it actually is.
Designers who force me to freak my router's hiney for a power button are designing for the way the world should be, not the way it actually is.
Social Media is never interested in my disinterest in AI art.
I see an AI banana dancing at Radio City and say “Not Interested” and the platform is always “ok you hate bananas and Radio City Music Hall, gotcha”.
I see an AI banana dancing at Radio City and say “Not Interested” and the platform is always “ok you hate bananas and Radio City Music Hall, gotcha”.
September 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Social Media is never interested in my disinterest in AI art.
I see an AI banana dancing at Radio City and say “Not Interested” and the platform is always “ok you hate bananas and Radio City Music Hall, gotcha”.
I see an AI banana dancing at Radio City and say “Not Interested” and the platform is always “ok you hate bananas and Radio City Music Hall, gotcha”.
Check out Steven Saunders amazing work on Tested!!
I can't wait to play this machine. You can plant thumpers, place hooks, and RIDE THE DAMN WORM??? So cool!!!
youtu.be/MvbJdx-KSy8?...
I can't wait to play this machine. You can plant thumpers, place hooks, and RIDE THE DAMN WORM??? So cool!!!
youtu.be/MvbJdx-KSy8?...
Secrets of the Dune Pinball Machine!
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
youtu.be
September 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Check out Steven Saunders amazing work on Tested!!
I can't wait to play this machine. You can plant thumpers, place hooks, and RIDE THE DAMN WORM??? So cool!!!
youtu.be/MvbJdx-KSy8?...
I can't wait to play this machine. You can plant thumpers, place hooks, and RIDE THE DAMN WORM??? So cool!!!
youtu.be/MvbJdx-KSy8?...
Christoph Waltz punching down at below-the-liners follows the tradition of above-the-liners who treat crew like serfs. Once you've been physically assaulted by one of them, those insults are just another day at the office.
"When their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you"
"When their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you"
September 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Christoph Waltz punching down at below-the-liners follows the tradition of above-the-liners who treat crew like serfs. Once you've been physically assaulted by one of them, those insults are just another day at the office.
"When their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you"
"When their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you"
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Anti-rascism. An intolerance of intolerance. Blocking rather than engaging, muting their reach and insulating them to their own bubbles. An absolute refusal to bend the knee to just even a little bit of fascism. And doing so with a tone that does not in the slightest allow them comfort in their hate
What “characteristics” is he talking about?
September 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Anti-rascism. An intolerance of intolerance. Blocking rather than engaging, muting their reach and insulating them to their own bubbles. An absolute refusal to bend the knee to just even a little bit of fascism. And doing so with a tone that does not in the slightest allow them comfort in their hate
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We just laughed our way through the Terror-Fi presentation Toxic Avenger and I can't recommend it enough!! SUCH A GREAT TIME. Definitely see it with a crowd!! toxicavenger.com
The Toxic Avenger Movie Website
The official movie website - information and tickets for Macon Blair's The Toxic Avenger with Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, and Elijah Wood.
toxicavenger.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We just laughed our way through the Terror-Fi presentation Toxic Avenger and I can't recommend it enough!! SUCH A GREAT TIME. Definitely see it with a crowd!! toxicavenger.com
US President to Canada: "We'll invade your country, make you the '51st State', (but you'll be a territory, not a state), kill your services and way of life, impose tariffs, exclude you from commerce, and turn our citizens against you."
American Media: "Canadians are big mad about the tariffs."
American Media: "Canadians are big mad about the tariffs."
August 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
US President to Canada: "We'll invade your country, make you the '51st State', (but you'll be a territory, not a state), kill your services and way of life, impose tariffs, exclude you from commerce, and turn our citizens against you."
American Media: "Canadians are big mad about the tariffs."
American Media: "Canadians are big mad about the tariffs."
Watching the new Devo doco on Netflix last night taught me that an alarming number of Americans actually supported the National Guard massacre of students at Kent State. Nauseating.
August 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Watching the new Devo doco on Netflix last night taught me that an alarming number of Americans actually supported the National Guard massacre of students at Kent State. Nauseating.
The film industry is a rough place to work right now. It's been an awful week and a brutal couple of years.
Tonight I get to watch Alien: Earth with friends from the animatronics crew, and holy shit things like this remind me of the magic. I can't wait to fanboy all over them.
Tonight I get to watch Alien: Earth with friends from the animatronics crew, and holy shit things like this remind me of the magic. I can't wait to fanboy all over them.
August 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
The film industry is a rough place to work right now. It's been an awful week and a brutal couple of years.
Tonight I get to watch Alien: Earth with friends from the animatronics crew, and holy shit things like this remind me of the magic. I can't wait to fanboy all over them.
Tonight I get to watch Alien: Earth with friends from the animatronics crew, and holy shit things like this remind me of the magic. I can't wait to fanboy all over them.
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This here Queens of the Stone Age concert from the Paris catacombs is incredible. Would love to see a live show with this ensemble. Highly recommend: qotsa.vhx.tv/packages/ali...
Alive in the Catacombs - Alive in the Catacombs + Alive in Paris and Before - Queens of the Stone Age
Orders made by June 7th will receive exclusive access to behind the scenes footage in addition to full streaming and download access.
Filmed and recorded in July 2024, Queens of the Stone Age: Alive ...
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August 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
This here Queens of the Stone Age concert from the Paris catacombs is incredible. Would love to see a live show with this ensemble. Highly recommend: qotsa.vhx.tv/packages/ali...
Currently LIVING for this shot of Midnight Oil lead singer (and former Australian Minister for the Environment) Peter Garret staring down bloviating, loser PM Tony Abbot in parliament. Badass.
July 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Currently LIVING for this shot of Midnight Oil lead singer (and former Australian Minister for the Environment) Peter Garret staring down bloviating, loser PM Tony Abbot in parliament. Badass.
If I have this right, kindness is both punk AND metal now?
If kindness gets goth there'll be no stopping it!!!
If kindness gets goth there'll be no stopping it!!!
July 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
If I have this right, kindness is both punk AND metal now?
If kindness gets goth there'll be no stopping it!!!
If kindness gets goth there'll be no stopping it!!!
The rich don't want a return to some 1950's "Golden Age". They've built a return to feudalism. They believe the wealthy are a different, better species. They want kings and nobility, with the rest of us toiling. Our disposable little mouths shut.
It wrecks me to say this, but they're gonna succeed.
It wrecks me to say this, but they're gonna succeed.
July 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The rich don't want a return to some 1950's "Golden Age". They've built a return to feudalism. They believe the wealthy are a different, better species. They want kings and nobility, with the rest of us toiling. Our disposable little mouths shut.
It wrecks me to say this, but they're gonna succeed.
It wrecks me to say this, but they're gonna succeed.
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Gaza: More than 30 people killed 'as Israeli troops open fire towards Palestinians waiting for aid'
Gaza: More than 30 people killed 'as Israeli troops open fire towards Palestinians waiting for aid'
More than 30 people have been killed after Israeli troops opened fire towards crowds of Palestinians waiting for aid, according to witnesses and hospital officials.
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July 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Gaza: More than 30 people killed 'as Israeli troops open fire towards Palestinians waiting for aid'