I'm going to start calling myself a McNabitch.
they don't really care about us, the medium doesn't matter, and the relativity of whiteness
¿What you heard?
I always counter the claim that AI filmmaking won’t survive because audiences care about who makes their movies by pointing out that 75 percent of a theater audience gathers its things as soon as the first credit comes on screen… unless they’re expecting a post-credit scene.
The problem is that filmmakers are abstracted from our art more than some other artists.
Everyone knows Shrek (2001), but who knows who made Shrek?
Audiences feel so connected to musicians and actors though that they make marriage-level commitments to these people, taking on their last names like Swifties or Beliebers or…
I expressed these thoughts while hanging out with a sound artist, a ceramicist, a muralist, and a printmaker earlier this week, and the sound artist graciously volunteered “I’m going to start calling myself a McNabitch.”
What you doin’?!
While I’m pitching for funding to shoot this thing live action, I’m also trying to figure out how to get an additional free trial month of Skillshare. I want to keep my Blender level up going for another animated episode of the Gullah Binyah: Aisha Been… project that I intend to create with LA Commons.
The goal is to build a franchise/ business/ brand with this Gullah Binyah stuff, and I’m realizing that, so long as the format and characters are consistent, nothing else — including the medium — matters.
The highest grossing film of summer 2025 was live action Lilo & Stitch.
‘Nuff said.
What you seen??
YAO (2018) is, very broadly, about a French-Senegalese person going back to Africa. With this premise, the film is perfectly set up to explore the relativity of whiteness, something I first learned about in Laos.
In the scene above, whiteness equates to foreignness, but a recent conversation with a racially-intelligent white friend revealed the relativity of whiteness as not just an othering force but as an agent of erasure.
Irish-Americans, he pointed out, had a distinct culture until they were accepted as white people.
P.S. Speaking of whiteness, the casting director for this harassment video did an excellent job.
Not harassment. White woman tears.