FILM WORMS
The underground film school for kids disguised as a playlist.
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A Very Special Episode - FILM WORMS (opens the original)
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Tonight, on a very special episode of Film Worms...Nobody gets caught smoking behind the gym. Nobody learns a difficult lesson about shoplifting.We are talking about AI.Most AI conversations now begin with “look what this can do” and, six minutes later, end with mass unemployment, robot overlords, or whether our children will have jobs.So naturally, I made a comedy… in AI… with actors… that’s somewhere in between.The Last Commercial
Like Acme - FILM WORMS (opens the original)
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“Like ACME?”My seven year old recently discovered that the world is full of things made by people who want something from you.Your money. Your attention. Ideally both, strip mined until there is nothing left but a user profile and crumbs– a warm little revenue stream with a pulse. We have been trying to explain this to him for years.Doritos did not evolve naturally in the foothills of Oaxaca. TikTok was not invented because humanity needed to watch a 22 year old open a blind box, whisk matcha an
Last Place - FILM WORMS (opens the original)
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“Whoa. That was fast.”I’d just mentioned to my kid that next week is the last week of summer vacation. He’s seven, and he muttered it to himself like a man doing the math on a bill in a foreign currency.We’ve been reading Calvin & Hobbes at bedtime, which is essentially propaganda for summer. A boy with no schedule and a tiger, torching entire months on nothing. My son has been running the same program. He’s drained this summer like a juice box,
Bob Ross - FILM WORMS (opens the original)
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“There’s a skater named Bob Ross.”A week of skate camp. Bruised knees, an elbow with no skin on it, his first 50/50 grind, and this. A counselor, nineteen at most, told my seven-year-old about a legendary shredder named Bob Ross, and did not stay to explain.I said nothing.Because there is, of course, no skater named Bob Ross. There is a soft-spoken man in a denim shirt who painted mountains on public television in the 80’s with hair like tumbleweed from God. AI has since put him on a vert ramp,
Happy Trails - FILM WORMS (opens the original)
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Each Monday our cleaning lady comes, right on time. She scrubs.She dusts.She sweeps.She shines.She leaves every blanketin ruler-straight lines.The counters all sparkle.The faucets all gleam.The loft looks the cleanestI’ve ever seen.Then storms homemy seven-year-old rat.And that, my friendis the end of all of that.I don’t need to ask,“Now where has he been?”he charges through leavinghis trail through the house.a whirlwind messby this a rat (or mouse.)A backpack.A skateboard.<br
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