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josiemayeday.bsky.social
Josie Maye Hurtley
@josiemayeday.bsky.social
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production designer, carpenter, & props artisan. i also write and direct sometimes. slc.
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the instant i saw this i knew it was AI generated and i’m trying so hard and failing to identify *what* about it stands out so much, it just so clearly is
(cc: @timesnewboman.com)
an AI-generated flyer that reads “First time director film festival info panel, september 11, 1:00 PM, above a film slate
August 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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here’s one for ya
deal, date, meeting, location, function, prune, raisin, time, trap
April 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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hey y’all!! my most recent gig ended like a month before I expected and things have been a bit tight, so i thought i’d try my hand at some commissions. You can send me a reference of an everyday object and I’ll turn it into a spaceship! (These are an Xbox controller and some air ducts!)
A poster titled “Josie’s Junkers” showing drawings of spaceships with different levels of polish. $10 - Line art $15 - Simple Render $20 - Fancy(ish) Render
February 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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@miamoore.bsky.social is this you??
photo of a pair of digital ads in a subway car showing a pretty white woman with curly brown hair
February 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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image of a xenomorph from Alien. its head is quite phallic
January 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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this is truly mind blowing. We’re on day FOUR of the 30-day crowdfunding campaign for ANASTASIS and we’re nearly a thousand dollars PAST our goal. I genuinely don’t have words, y’all are incredible.

learn more here: seedandspark.com/fund/anastas...

#filmsky #scriptsky
a screenshot of the crowdfunding page for Anastasis showing the amount raised is at 125% of the goal, $4,397 of $3500, with 26 days left.
January 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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the ANASTASIS Crowdfunding campaign goes live TOMORROW at 3:00 Muountain Time!!

seedandspark.com/fund/anastas...
January 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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okay big updates y’all!

i’ve been working over the last year on ANASTASIS, a sci-fi short film that draws on techniques from things like Alien and the Mandalorian to tell an intimate story about a young trans woman and her dad. Big things are coming, so now you can sign up for email notifications!
a still showing a young trans woman crouched down while an older man stands behind her. they’re on a spaceship. In the lower third are the words “Mayeday Productions presents Anastasis” the woman and her father sit in the cockpit of the ship. a red light shines on the father. the pair hug.
January 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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quick container concept for Anastasis! loved the idea of our hero ship being a relatively tiny freight craft, only able to haul a half-size version of containers that mega freighters haul by the thousands. #scifi #conceptart
a pair of drawings. the first shows a stack of octagonal shipping containers with the label “octobox” on the side. theres a set of interlocking half-octogon containers being stacked together, with the label “octobox lite.” the second drawing shows a grey spaceship with a truck-like front section carrying an Octobox Lite.
December 14, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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i beg to differ
a mirror selfie of josie, a white brunette woman, wearing a costume based on Ellen Ripley from Alien Another photo of Josie as Ripley from Alien.
December 13, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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the best writing i’ve ever writ
Cayden and I are typically both incredibly easygoing people, and didn't want to bombard your team with calls or emails, because we assumed you had your shit together. Our apologies for that mistake; you can rest assured it will never happen again. Josie Maye Hurtley
December 7, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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for #firstpagefriday here’s the first page of Life Support, the first full short i wrote, about a year ago. This never wound up going beyond a first draft but there’s a lot of ideas i really love and definitely want to revisit.

#scriptsky #filmsky
EXT. SPACE from vastness, broken up by the tiny pinpricks of light Shining from distant stars. A small crast slowly drifts into view, small in the frame. A pair of solar panels extend from its body like frail wings, powerless to steady the slow off-axis rotation of the ship. The word "HYPERION" is printed on its side in block letters. The craft is devoid of any signs of life, until its slow rotation reveals a porthole aglow with warm light. INT. A SPACESHIP The ship is cramped, lit primarily by warm emergency lights, and the bright, cool light of a greenhouse cabinet. There's small galley, and two jump seats that face the small porthole, through which the stars can be seen slowly tumbling. A pair of rack-style bunk hangs above a control console. In the aft of the ship hangs a single EVA suit, with an empty space for another just beside it. Every available surface is covered in plants. ROSE, a young trans woman, lies curled in the bunk, eyes open, yet distant. The console below her begins beeping. She sighs, but remains otherwise motionless for a moment, before finally climbing slowly down to the deck. She presses a flashing button, and the beeping stops. She looks exhausted. Empty. Slowly, she opens up the greenhouse door and begins to remove some of the plants inside, replacing them with others from around the craft. When the greenhouse is once again full, she uses a watering can to water all of the plants, inside and outside the greenhouse. She seems almost methodical in her sluggishness. Rose sets the watering can down and turns on the faucet. She stubble on her face. sound is horrible; like a knife on sandpaper. She slowly shaves her face smooth, and as she runs her hand over it again, there is no sound. With her hair tied up in a towel, Rose quietly makes tea at the galley, awash in the light of the greenhouse. Her eyes are distant. An alarm sounds, and a warning pops up on the console. She frowns. DAVE, the ship's onboard AI, addresses Rose.
December 6, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Post a VHS cover that scared you as a kid.

technically a DVD cover but i used to see this at the local video store all the time and it literally gave me nightmares
a photo showing the DVD case for a movie called “one missed call”. the cover features the face of a woman talking on a flip phone. in place of her eyes are to screaming mouths. in red text are the words “what will it sound like when you die?”
December 2, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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some fun little character/game concepts
a sharpie sketch of a character made from a male-female power adapter. her eyes are a socket, and her legs are a plug. various sketches of the plug character. in one their arms are crossed. in one pair, they connect their head or legs individually. on the right, a large sketch of the plug character. more sketches of the character. one is simple and quick. in another, she looks quizzically down at something. a sketch visualizes a somersault, where she plugs her feet into her head and spins like sonic. on the left is scrawled the words “A game about connection.” on the right is “male to female adapter”. the words “jumpy jumpers” appear around the page, sometimes paired with the tag “a game about connections.” in the middle of the page, a more feminine version of the plug character crosses her cable like arms
December 1, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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midnight xeno
a rough sharpie sketch of a Xenomorph from alien in a crawling position.
December 1, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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you're legally obligated to reskeet if you think trans women are beautiful

trust me i checked
a mirror selfie of Josie, a white woman with brown hair, pulled into a bun. she wears a loose black turtleneck, a gold necklace, and tan calf-high heeled boots over dark blue jeans. she has a carabiner on her left hip. she’s beautiful.
November 30, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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decked out my resume for it and everything 😎
image of a resume. It’s styled to look like it’s printed on old, yellowing paper in blue ink, accented by Chinese characters in red. The resume reads as follows: JOSIE MAYE HURTLEY PRODUCTION DESIGNER. SCENIC CARPENTER. PROPS ARTISAN. BUILDING BETTER WORLDS. A craftswoman with a diverse and honed set of skills, JOSIE MAYE HURTLEY brings a deep understanding of environmental storytelling to every project she works on, and her well-rounded skillset gives her a unique ability to see projects through from ideation to implementation. Below the heading “Production History” are listed a few years’ worth of production credits across stage and film—too many for the alt text character limit.
November 23, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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Post you from a different era
a selfie of Josie, a white woman, in 2021. She’s sitting in a car, wearing a ginger wig, a denim jacket, a green crop top, and light blue jeans.
November 21, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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Some renderings from a spec design I did for West Side Story earlier this year! I set it above and in the 91st St Subway Station, a west-side station that was closed in 1959 as part of a platform lengthening project for the two adjacent stations. Did these in a mix of Vectorworks and Photoshop.
a rendering of a dimly lit stage dressed to look like a subway station. a close up of the 91st St sign behind a chain link fence. with “out of service” stenciled over it in red. A daylit version of the set, which is now dressed to look like a dress shop on a city street. fire escapes flank the stage. An evening rendering of the street-level set. String lights hang from basketball hoops. Shite silhouettes give the impression of a group of people on the stage.
November 20, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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iOS has this natively built into the Photos app! that’s what this button does.
a close in of the iOS text recognition button; 3 lines inside a rounded square image showing the text in a screenshot being auto-highlighted, with a button for “copy all” in the lower left. The screenshot reads “This story lives rent free in my head: Lord of the Rings star Sean Astin once asked Lesnie [LotR cinematographer] 'where is the light coming from?' when they were shooting in what should have been a darkened tower. Lesnie replied, "Same place as the music."” Below are two images; a photo of Lesnie, a mustachioed white man, accepting an oscar; and a still from Lord of the Rings showing a heavily backlit orc in the rain.
November 20, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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needed somewhere to put my estrogen patches and accidentally made one of my favorite art pieces i’ve ever done
picture of an old first aid kit hanging next to a mirror. The kit reads “Lifesaving Kit”. inside of the lifesaving kit sit a bunch of Estradiol patches.
November 19, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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Age yourself with your first computer.
an old photo of a giant TV cabinet. Inside the TV cabinet sits a sony CRT monitor next to a pc tower (i think it’s a dell but i’m not positive) with the side panel removed, revealing red and yellow wires inside. A keyboard sits in a drawer below the shelf the monitor is on, and the mouse sits precariously next to the monitor, with literally no space to move.
November 18, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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tb to me making a character that was basically a swashbuckling pedro pascal bc i wanted to “explore more of my masculine side”

this is what i looked like at the time.

eggiest shit i ever did.
photo of a white “man.” he has short brown hair, bushy eyebrows, and a trimmed beard. very manly. definitely not a woman, why would you say that?
November 18, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with
a photo of Josie, a brunette white woman. She’s wearing a paint-covered, bright orange button down, rolled up above her elbows, and similarly paint-covered brown work pants. She’s leaning up against a wall. Her reflection is mirrored in a piece of plexiglass to the left of frame. she looks badass.
November 18, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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celebrating @tessaviolet3.bsky.social ‘s arrival with this no-skip album
a screenshot of my home screen playing My God by Tessa Violet. the background image is me on set with the lead actress of “Anastasis,” my upcoming short film
November 18, 2024 at 5:33 PM