Naiem Bouier
@naiembouier.bsky.social
✍🏾 - Interior Chinatown (Hulu), Netflix
🎓 - Morehouse, AFI, Groundlings, Second City LA, UCB LA
👩🏾💼👨💼 - Color Creative, Paradigm.
👨🏾🏫 - CCS Detroit
Writer. Director. Professor. Urban Planning Enthusiast.
🎓 - Morehouse, AFI, Groundlings, Second City LA, UCB LA
👩🏾💼👨💼 - Color Creative, Paradigm.
👨🏾🏫 - CCS Detroit
Writer. Director. Professor. Urban Planning Enthusiast.
We've hit a point where most things lack any sort of real importance, and that's rather heartbreaking.
January 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We've hit a point where most things lack any sort of real importance, and that's rather heartbreaking.
Even in so-called traditional labor fields, people are asking themselves if anything they do is useful. Especially when the rest of the greater world is held together by rubber bands.
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Even in so-called traditional labor fields, people are asking themselves if anything they do is useful. Especially when the rest of the greater world is held together by rubber bands.
We've educated an army of engineers and architects to make the same Contemporary Mid-Rise Building to be sold by a fleet of real estate agents, making all of them into condos with mixed used space on the ground floor for some artisanal coffee spot.
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We've educated an army of engineers and architects to make the same Contemporary Mid-Rise Building to be sold by a fleet of real estate agents, making all of them into condos with mixed used space on the ground floor for some artisanal coffee spot.
We're truly entertaining ourselves to death. People travel and do the same things they'd do at home, going to resorts to eat chicken tenders and take shots.
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We're truly entertaining ourselves to death. People travel and do the same things they'd do at home, going to resorts to eat chicken tenders and take shots.
The same thing has happened with our larger world. There's a lack of exploration, we've exchanged originality with commercial viability. Safety is rewarded over curiosity.
And this isn't exclusive to artistic expression.
And this isn't exclusive to artistic expression.
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The same thing has happened with our larger world. There's a lack of exploration, we've exchanged originality with commercial viability. Safety is rewarded over curiosity.
And this isn't exclusive to artistic expression.
And this isn't exclusive to artistic expression.
This in turn is causing audiences to disconnect. When everything is commodified and mass produced, there's no need to engage with it beyond its existence. You don't think about the last time you've seen a McDonald's, you just know there will be one somewhere.
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This in turn is causing audiences to disconnect. When everything is commodified and mass produced, there's no need to engage with it beyond its existence. You don't think about the last time you've seen a McDonald's, you just know there will be one somewhere.
There are more books than we'll ever read, more movies and TV series than we'll ever be able to watch, more music than ever, all being fed to us by the algorithm without any of the serendipity.
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
There are more books than we'll ever read, more movies and TV series than we'll ever be able to watch, more music than ever, all being fed to us by the algorithm without any of the serendipity.
Even when things are "experimental," they lack a sense of poetics and spiritual value; not in the religious dogma sense, but in the human spirit sense... which is often connected to the religious sense of spirituality not mutually exclusive to it.
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Even when things are "experimental," they lack a sense of poetics and spiritual value; not in the religious dogma sense, but in the human spirit sense... which is often connected to the religious sense of spirituality not mutually exclusive to it.
We don't make things or choices to stand out anymore, this is apparent in the awards season nominations and in the regurgitation of political stances on both sides of the aisle.
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We don't make things or choices to stand out anymore, this is apparent in the awards season nominations and in the regurgitation of political stances on both sides of the aisle.
You can currently see this the clearest in mainstream art and politics. It's all just a regurgitation of what preceded it and often in service of the attention economy.
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
You can currently see this the clearest in mainstream art and politics. It's all just a regurgitation of what preceded it and often in service of the attention economy.
We're producing nothing new, and certainly nothing useful. We're no longer interested in creating anything good, just a series of samples and remixes that sample and remix the previous samples and remixes.
January 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We're producing nothing new, and certainly nothing useful. We're no longer interested in creating anything good, just a series of samples and remixes that sample and remix the previous samples and remixes.
Thank you. Glad to be home, challenges and all.
January 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Thank you. Glad to be home, challenges and all.
Also, being here is humbling because you get to see what people are actually watching. And let me be the first to tell you, LA is deeply out of touch from this. We, I’m including myself here, live inside of an echo chamber. This applies to TV and film.
December 29, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Also, being here is humbling because you get to see what people are actually watching. And let me be the first to tell you, LA is deeply out of touch from this. We, I’m including myself here, live inside of an echo chamber. This applies to TV and film.
I’m actually happier in Detroit, and I have more peace here. But I’m also distant from the work that I want to do in ways.
December 29, 2024 at 4:27 AM
I’m actually happier in Detroit, and I have more peace here. But I’m also distant from the work that I want to do in ways.
The challenge that I’m facing now, however, is how do I balance being here and also gaining more opportunities in the Hollywood machine. Because while I’m piecing together things here, the checks in LA are undoubtedly more lucrative.
December 29, 2024 at 4:27 AM
The challenge that I’m facing now, however, is how do I balance being here and also gaining more opportunities in the Hollywood machine. Because while I’m piecing together things here, the checks in LA are undoubtedly more lucrative.
I’m thinking more about why I started this journey in the first place, and trying to figure out how to make things here. I don’t have answers yet, but I feel like I’d forgotten how rich this city is with stories by being in the machine that is Hollywood.
December 29, 2024 at 4:27 AM
I’m thinking more about why I started this journey in the first place, and trying to figure out how to make things here. I don’t have answers yet, but I feel like I’d forgotten how rich this city is with stories by being in the machine that is Hollywood.
Being in Detroit has actually made me want to write more and has stirred up some dormant creative activity. I’m revisiting old stories with new perspectives and skills I picked up from working in the industry.
December 29, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Being in Detroit has actually made me want to write more and has stirred up some dormant creative activity. I’m revisiting old stories with new perspectives and skills I picked up from working in the industry.
In the last 5 years alone, I can name at least 4-5 artists that I knew personally on some level who unalived themselves. I don’t know if LA was the sole reason for that for any of them, but I also wonder how much it factored into their headspace.
December 29, 2024 at 4:27 AM
In the last 5 years alone, I can name at least 4-5 artists that I knew personally on some level who unalived themselves. I don’t know if LA was the sole reason for that for any of them, but I also wonder how much it factored into their headspace.