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i take da pickture #fujifilm #xt30iii

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𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩, 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨! ✨✨✨

Thank you to everyone that came out to our first Bachata social night at @courageanyone this week! What a fun evening it was! It was truly a privilege to teach you all your first steps in this genre! 🕺💃

Make sure you save the date! We're doing another Swing dance night on July 29th and then on August 5th, we are hosting a West Coast Swing night with special guest instructor, @galiyeva_experience 💕💕💕

See y'all on the dance floor! 🔥
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#bachatanight #socialdance #bayarea #downtownsanjose #danceparty

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Cheers to the greatest 4 years I’ve ever lived🍻

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Behind the Scenes from our second shoot day

📸 @superrralive

#bitchgetup #indiefilm #oakland #bayarea

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🫂♣️🦉

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it’s been a week and I already miss VN and being able to speak my first language even tho I’m dookie at it and having three coffees daily and having meals for $2 and riding on the back of Haley’s moto and being drunk on the street until 5 am and sitting on stools and watching the sunrise on the city and seeing fine shit and also loving on my polycule (and also that time when we were jetskiing in Malaysia for some reason)

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Hard to explain what making LOOP has meant to me. It’s a project that doesn’t make sense on paper: 26 pages of script, inevitably 26+ minutes of runtime, a costly genre, a short film without the clearest of paths forward.

That not making sense...might be one of my favorite things about it.

About 18 months ago, I was trying to put together my second feature documentary. A verbal commitment for financing fell through, and the project slowly dissolved. The process of marketing, promoting, and selling The 50 taught me that building a career often feels anchored in anticipating the needs of the market...reverse engineering the artist. That second feature doc came from a process of reverse-engineering. Over a year later, I feel like I was being told something.

I’m not sure if this is relatable to other artists, but there are times when I’ve felt the external world’s thumb press down on every micro decision I make, forcing me to become a master of justifying a creative existence that feels, vapid. I don’t like that feeling. It wasn't like the external world was asking anything from me but that pressing through comparison, envy, and even admiration left its mark and still does.

So back to LOOP. No doubt, it was conceived in some ways under that thumb. But more than anything, it’s been created as an act of creative expansion. A desperate desire to grow at the cost of not making sense.

It’s a piece of art saying something about the technofeudalism we’re spiraling toward and the loss of self that comes with it. It comes from a deep desire to create something beautiful with a group of wildly talented, full-hearted people who want to be challenged, too.

Making LOOP has meant everything.

I guess it wasn’t too hard to explain.

Thank you to every single person who has been part of this journey: the team, the donors, friends with encouraging words, and friends with constructive feedback. I'm beyond grateful for all of you.

Beautiful photos by @ericksaladbar with a cameo photo by @camerasquadmatt

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From Feb and some from March! Was on a hot streak of going up to San Francisco or Oakland for about 5 weeks straight sometimes a few times in one week, lot of good shows and great strolls! broke it this weekend haha. Great times with great characters! #theynotlikeus

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“are you ready for your lessons in graduating with a bachelors of science in computer science from ucsb?”

alan turing gulped.
ada lovelace nodded.
grace hopper shuddered.
steve jobs blinked nervously.

“yes kaiwen”, they said in unison.

the graduation of kailie wenner

another unemployed cs major

me in the library helping detective fierce acquire evidence

ALL THAT CRYING WE DID AT YOUR GRADUATION FOR YOU TO DO DOOR DASH 🤬

i’m done with this BS 🤣🤣🤣🤣 get it? get it…? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

i loved ucsb so much that i’m staying for five more years! thrilled to announce i will be pursuing a phd in computer science starting this fall.

and a special thank you to taco bell 140 n fairview ave goleta ca 93117

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Congratulations to all of our wonderful and amazing SENIORS!!! 💙💛🐉

We’re so excited to see all of the epic things you guys are going to do and will miss you dearly🥹Thank you all so much for your never-ending dedication, creativity, and friendship!

With lots of love from your DeKA family! 💌

Seniors:
@anikawalia
@joeybuzzella
@islysland
@joe_freiberg
@peyton_kennedy
@thevideosorcerer
@trey_dejoy
@tally.gally
@rainy_fine
@logandiaz.1
@spcekrft
@spx__
@abigail_jue
@lai.may
@indiexflowers
@_bellaleonard_
@geromeisindahouse
@alenamauhs
@julia.nielsen
@ahseyl
@irieaburto
@hairwayt0steven
@theluisscrapbook
@oliverrichards38
@dave_mar.cus
@brooke.westphal

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✦ MEET OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTORS ✦

@indiexflowers: Indira is a 4th year Film and Media Studies Major and is excited to be working as the Assistant Director for Take The Water Prisoner. She cannot wait to help bring this awesome script off
the page!

@ahseyl: Ash is a Sociology major who loves being on set and is excited to be
working as 2nd AD.

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Help us bring our film to life by donating to our Indiegogo campaign! If you’re unable to contribute, a share would mean the world to us. Link in bio! 🖤

#takethewaterprisoner #ttwp #shortfilm #surrealism

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