intuition

"I had a great realization just now, but then I totally forgot what it was..." - Mr. Atwater

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William Schaeffer

Life and Art

"Life is short. Art is long." - Salvatore Martirano

Freedom

"Discipline is freedom" - Mr. Atwater

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William Schaeffer

No LOVE in VFX

From 1986 - 2008 I worked elbow-to-elbow with over one thousand people in 2-D VFX work. We worked ten hours a day, six days a week most of the time. We spent most of our waking hours working together. Today, almost none of those people are a friend in any way whatsoever. I have no idea where they are and they have no interest in my life. I thought we were friends at the time, but obviously I was wrong. Too bad. There is no LOVE in America.  There is no LOVE in the VFX industry.

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William Schaeffer

prescription for peace

stop watching broadcast television.
stop listening to the radio.
stop reading magazines.
start taking walks.
start talking to your neighbors.


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William Schaeffer

Stereo D

I recently saw a Linkedin post from company "Stereo D" promoting mental health day.  This is my response:


"HAHAHA. When I worked for Stereo D it was the most oppressive work schedule I ever had. In 2013 we worked over seventy two hours a week for five months. We worked a minimum of twelve hours a day for six days a week for five months. We worked on six movies in that time and once I got laid off, they never called me back. I never got a shot rejected, I never missed a day of work, and they never called me back. We worked from 9 AM to 10:30 PM, six days a week for five months straight. HOW ON EARTH DOES THAT CORPORATE BEHAVIOR PROMOTE MENTAL HEALTH??"

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William Schaeffer

Political instability in the Mid East

Lawrence of Arabia and the British politicians constructed the modern Nation states in the mid East in 1927. They purposely made the nation states divide the major population groups to make the entire area politically unstable. This was done intentionally because oil was discovered the year before in 1926. Research your history. There will NEVER be peace in the Middle East and THIS WAS INTENTIONALLY DONE to make the oil easier to remove.

And remember: ALL of the middle East once belonged to Turkey just one hundred years ago. The entire territory was part of the Ottoman Empire for over six hundred years. The present nation state of Turkey is the political remnant of The Ottoman Empire after the defeat in World War One.


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William Schaeffer

Peoples is just peoples

Peoples is just peoples
There is no master race
There are no chosen people
Nobody is better than anyone else
Peoples is just peoples


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William Schaeffer

Flower

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William Schaeffer

Be a Good Employee

Spend your entire waking life playing a role and pretending to be someone other than who you are. This is good for productivity and increases your job security. Unfortunately you find yourself living an inauthentic life. Nobody knows who you are and you have no real friends. Nobody cares about your problems. Nobody cares if you are dead or alive, because they do not even know who you are. You are totally alone and isolated in a world of fake friends and pretend relationships. When you get in trouble, there is nobody to help and everyone you are associated with is surprised that they never knew you. Keep pretending to be a good employee and you will live an empty, friendless life of despair in a fake society we call America


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William Schaeffer