Ed David

Maybe the dopamine hits of social media are to blame?
Is there a point anymore for a young twenty-year-old Herzog circa 2021 to beg, scrape, and steal to make a film?  When you can just make a tik-tok?  Get a million followers.  Move on?
Maybe social media takes away precious free-time that you need to concentrate to come up with, as David Lynch says, "catching the big fish?" 
Or maybe the social anxiety of life pre-Covid - the mental-health insanity of it all - left little time to be happy and creative?
Or maybe with the movie theatres all about to die and the rise of netflix and movies being "content" as Scorsese calls it - maybe that has sapped everything that forces someone to work so hard to make their own feature.
For me I was born in 1981, and movies were the only thing I knew up even past college in 2003 when I could have started a filmmaking career. Netflix was just a mail-order DVD service. There was no social media yet, except maybe Friendster.
Now nearly twenty years later - what do young people who want to say things do?  Do they have that precious time to be creative?
Especially now when in 2021 young people graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt vs the 1970s when young people had barely any debt and could have a decent life and buy a home with little money and had room to wander and explore?

Maybe the dopamine hits of social media are to blame?
Is there a point anymore for a young twenty-year-old Herzog circa 2021 to beg, scrape, and steal to make a film?  When you can just make a tik-tok?  Get a million followers.  Move on?
Maybe social media takes away precious free-time that you need to concentrate to come up with, as David Lynch says, "catching the big fish?" 
Or maybe the social anxiety of life pre-Covid - the mental-health insanity of it all - left little time to be happy and creative?
Or maybe with the movie theatres all about to die and the rise of netflix and movies being "content" as Scorsese calls it - maybe that has sapped everything that forces someone to work so hard to make their own feature.
For me I was born in 1981, and movies were the only thing I knew up even past college in 2003 when I could have started a filmmaking career. Netflix was just a mail-order DVD service. There was no social media yet, except maybe Friendster.
Now nearly twenty years later - what do young people who want to say things do?  Do they have that precious time to be creative?
Especially now when in 2021 young people graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt vs the 1970s when young people had barely any debt and could have a decent life and buy a home with little money and had room to wander and explore?

Maybe the dopamine hits of social media are to blame?
Is there a point anymore for a young twenty-year-old Herzog circa 2021 to beg, scrape, and steal to make a film?  When you can just make a tik-tok?  Get a million followers.  Move on?
Maybe social media takes away precious free-time that you need to concentrate to come up with, as David Lynch says, "catching the big fish?" 
Or maybe the social anxiety of life pre-Covid - the mental-health insanity of it all - left little time to be happy and creative?
Or maybe with the movie theatres all about to die and the rise of netflix and movies being "content" as Scorsese calls it - maybe that has sapped everything that forces someone to work so hard to make their own feature.
For me I was born in 1981, and movies were the only thing I knew up even past college in 2003 when I could have started a filmmaking career. Netflix was just a mail-order DVD service. There was no social media yet, except maybe Friendster.
Now nearly twenty years later - what do young people who want to say things do?  Do they have that precious time to be creative?
Especially now when in 2021 young people graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt vs the 1970s when young people had barely any debt and could have a decent life and buy a home with little money and had room to wander and explore?

Maybe the dopamine hits of social media are to blame?
Is there a point anymore for a young twenty-year-old Herzog circa 2021 to beg, scrape, and steal to make a film?  When you can just make a tik-tok?  Get a million followers.  Move on?
Maybe social media takes away precious free-time that you need to concentrate to come up with, as David Lynch says, "catching the big fish?" 
Or maybe the social anxiety of life pre-Covid - the mental-health insanity of it all - left little time to be happy and creative?
Or maybe with the movie theatres all about to die and the rise of netflix and movies being "content" as Scorsese calls it - maybe that has sapped everything that forces someone to work so hard to make their own feature.
For me I was born in 1981, and movies were the only thing I knew up even past college in 2003 when I could have started a filmmaking career. Netflix was just a mail-order DVD service. There was no social media yet, except maybe Friendster.
Now nearly twenty years later - what do young people who want to say things do?  Do they have that precious time to be creative?
Especially now when in 2021 young people graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt vs the 1970s when young people had barely any debt and could have a decent life and buy a home with little money and had room to wander and explore?

Maybe the dopamine hits of social media are to blame?
Is there a point anymore for a young twenty-year-old Herzog circa 2021 to beg, scrape, and steal to make a film?  When you can just make a tik-tok?  Get a million followers.  Move on?
Maybe social media takes away precious free-time that you need to concentrate to come up with, as David Lynch says, "catching the big fish?" 
Or maybe the social anxiety of life pre-Covid - the mental-health insanity of it all - left little time to be happy and creative?
Or maybe with the movie theatres all about to die and the rise of netflix and movies being "content" as Scorsese calls it - maybe that has sapped everything that forces someone to work so hard to make their own feature.
For me I was born in 1981, and movies were the only thing I knew up even past college in 2003 when I could have started a filmmaking career. Netflix was just a mail-order DVD service. There was no social media yet, except maybe Friendster.
Now nearly twenty years later - what do young people who want to say things do?  Do they have that precious time to be creative?
Especially now when in 2021 young people graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt vs the 1970s when young people had barely any debt and could have a decent life and buy a home with little money and had room to wander and explore?

Maybe the dopamine hits of social media are to blame?
Is there a point anymore for a young twenty-year-old Herzog circa 2021 to beg, scrape, and steal to make a film?  When you can just make a tik-tok?  Get a million followers.  Move on?
Maybe social media takes away precious free-time that you need to concentrate to come up with, as David Lynch says, "catching the big fish?" 
Or maybe the social anxiety of life pre-Covid - the mental-health insanity of it all - left little time to be happy and creative?
Or maybe with the movie theatres all about to die and the rise of netflix and movies being "content" as Scorsese calls it - maybe that has sapped everything that forces someone to work so hard to make their own feature.
For me I was born in 1981, and movies were the only thing I knew up even past college in 2003 when I could have started a filmmaking career. Netflix was just a mail-order DVD service. There was no social media yet, except maybe Friendster.
Now nearly twenty years later - what do young people who want to say things do?  Do they have that precious time to be creative?
Especially now when in 2021 young people graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt vs the 1970s when young people had barely any debt and could have a decent life and buy a home with little money and had room to wander and explore?

Maybe the dopamine hits of social media are to blame?
Is there a point anymore for a young twenty-year-old Herzog circa 2021 to beg, scrape, and steal to make a film?  When you can just make a tik-tok?  Get a million followers.  Move on?
Maybe social media takes away precious free-time that you need to concentrate to come up with, as David Lynch says, "catching the big fish?" 
Or maybe the social anxiety of life pre-Covid - the mental-health insanity of it all - left little time to be happy and creative?
Or maybe with the movie theatres all about to die and the rise of netflix and movies being "content" as Scorsese calls it - maybe that has sapped everything that forces someone to work so hard to make their own feature.
For me I was born in 1981, and movies were the only thing I knew up even past college in 2003 when I could have started a filmmaking career. Netflix was just a mail-order DVD service. There was no social media yet, except maybe Friendster.
Now nearly twenty years later - what do young people who want to say things do?  Do they have that precious time to be creative?
Especially now when in 2021 young people graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt vs the 1970s when young people had barely any debt and could have a decent life and buy a home with little money and had room to wander and explore?

Maybe the dopamine hits of social media are to blame?
Is there a point anymore for a young twenty-year-old Herzog circa 2021 to beg, scrape, and steal to make a film?  When you can just make a tik-tok?  Get a million followers.  Move on?
Maybe social media takes away precious free-time that you need to concentrate to come up with, as David Lynch says, "catching the big fish?" 
Or maybe the social anxiety of life pre-Covid - the mental-health insanity of it all - left little time to be happy and creative?
Or maybe with the movie theatres all about to die and the rise of netflix and movies being "content" as Scorsese calls it - maybe that has sapped everything that forces someone to work so hard to make their own feature.
For me I was born in 1981, and movies were the only thing I knew up even past college in 2003 when I could have started a filmmaking career. Netflix was just a mail-order DVD service. There was no social media yet, except maybe Friendster.
Now nearly twenty years later - what do young people who want to say things do?  Do they have that precious time to be creative?
Especially now when in 2021 young people graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt vs the 1970s when young people had barely any debt and could have a decent life and buy a home with little money and had room to wander and explore?

One of the ugliest aspects of this pandemic has been the reminder of the sense of entitlement so many people have. It was always there but it's really been hitting us over the head every day since the pandemic began. Selfishness has been deemed "freedom" and any attempt to reel in such selfishness has been labeled "tyranny." It's to the point where people compare, without even the smallest bit of irony, that it's equal to slavery. 
Mind you they make these statements on their phones and computers, with minimal restrictions on what they can say (depending on the platform), while living in their nice homes, driving their nice cars, eating in restaurants, and enjoying most of the other wonderful perks that comes with modern technology and society. 
You know who don't have any of that? Actual slaves. And they exist today, not as these privileged people complaining, but as human beings forced to live in squalor, void of any rights, and forced to work for nothing. The minor inconveniences you've had to live with this last year is still better than anything those people have ever experienced. So yeah, people's insistence on comparing the efforts to combat COVID-19 to slavery is not only dumb but insulting to those that have experienced genuine slavery or whose ancestors were slaves. All of that should go without saying and yet here we are. Embarrassing. 

Holy user!!  I’m starting to think this is like the plot from “Oldboy” and you’ll reveal you are my elementary school friend from 4th grade...and out to kill me!

Hi everyone!
As pointed out earlier, I am rolling out an Ed David Speaking Engagement Tour.  I will be mostly talking about myself and how many likes I have on this forum, but I will also address the following subjects:
1.  Canon R5 Overheating:  Or is It Existentially Challenging Us to stop shooting millions of photos and video?
   In this discussion I will discuss the philosophy of the new Canon camera to try to limit the amount of shots one does, harken back to the film days: where each shot count!  Or in terms of 8k video - to make sure you are not just rolling and rolling and rolling.  To pretend like its 16mm film.  To rehearse performances
2.  How online forums amplify and ruin conversations
  You love your Aunt?  With facebook, not anymore.  And multiple that by a thousand when dealing with people on any online forum.  How the stroke of a button and hitting "send" can cause incredible pain and anxiety on the other end.  But who cares?  You don't have to be in the room with said person to see them upset!
3.  How the Covid Apocolypse and the Great Depression 2.0 makes us happier, better filmmakers
    We will chat about the end of the world.  Whether its the Pandemic, or Fascism or the Great Depression- or all the above, that really makes us depressed - with massive unemployment.  And how that affects us as filmmakers.  Being happy and productive!
4.  how to make money as a filmmaker without shooting butt paste commercials
   One word: you cant!  How can you afford rent, you fool?  Sell out now and sell out fast.  Sell sell sell sell sell.  Market market market.  And if you dont shoot commercials, do your own youtube channel and do the bidding of sponsors!  Or give up and start a podcast. 
4.  Just f*cking kidding - it will all be about me.
I am a giant showboat.  Come with me as we look at profile pics of me.  We talk about my best posts.  We trash my many, many enemies.  
 
Please respond to this to boost my ego and trash me so I can feel that rush of public humiliation - the meanest, most horrible response gets a free ticket!
 

Okay, so User, I am here to apologize to you. I think I have figured out why you don't like me.  Let me know.
  @Neumann Films, your post in the Bloom thread really inspired me.  How you have changed from who you were seven years ago when you had to win every argument.
Five years ago, during the allegations of domestic violence against Philip Bloom, I dug myself pretty deeply in the sand.  I was becomming increasingly an activist, primarily on this forum, but also on others, to believe his ex-girlfriend and ex-financee over him.  To not take the middle road.  Cause to me there is no middle road.
When I started to argue the case of Ellie Wiesal: "Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere." 
I started to run into a great amount of opposition.  And I was there, my real name.  My website.  I was exposed.  It's a weird feeling.  Especially when most of the opposition to me was from people who were using anonymous names.  
So I was there, and feeling vunerable, and the need like Neumann Films (real name, I am sorry I don't know) - to keep fighting for my point.
Literally fighting.
And I did things (that I have now I think discovered from seeing some of the comments about me from the time) - did things that were not cool - like posting a DM onto the forum without the approval of the person who did it.  And ironically enought, it was a DM from neumann films where he said I accused him of being one of the three biggest defenders of Bloom on the side.
It was a weird thing for me - being exposed and arguing online against a lot of anonymous people.    It wasn't good.  And I am sure I have hurt a ton of feelings.
And this is probably why @user has such anamosity for me here.
And that is why, @user, I was looking at your profile.  Because I was about to DM you to talk about all this.  But I decided not to.  Now I think I should have.

This post says it all.
how you really don’t know anyone as well as you think you do.

If that’s how you read the progression of the thread, that’s fine then.
I thought it was pretty interesting how it went from me being satirical quickly changed course by an anonymous user named user into a deepdive of hatred into posts and into a analysis of google caches images of me including an anonymous threat of sodomizing my wife - and my lack of memory from the five year old thread and attacks on my character, a 5 year span ties into the analysis of how we feel loyalty to a Public persona that was cultivated to generate income from sponsorships and lectures. And of course, to the nature of how we all change and evolve with new knowledge of the me too movement and how we come to grips with that. 
then user getting bodyslammed.
plus the same five year old argument that we don’t know both sides well and me still arguing for the elie weasel quote unsuccessfully with me realizing hey wait a second, i am talking with anonymous people who may come from vastly different cultures and countries than me, and have different perspectives on treating women and their accusations.  Including originally from ebhamhim who turned out to be an egyptian dental student who stole about a thousand dollars from some users on here and pretended to be a wise old man.
thats entertainment!

What about concentrating on the women for a moment.
To imply you don't believe them is to throw shade at them - that they must be some kind of psychopath liars, out to destroy their ex-boyfriend... This certainly wasn't my view of Sara or Sarah.
Especially the second Sarah when she was working as Bloom's personal assistant / girlfriend, seemed like a consummate, stable, professional to me.

This post says it all.
how you really don’t know anyone as well as you think you do.

This post says it all.
how you really don’t know anyone as well as you think you do.

Dude you're embarrassing yourself. 

I have common sense and common sense dictates that it's highly unlikely that two of his exes conspired to make up lies about him. It's much more probable that they are telling the truth, given they gained nothing but scorn and further abuse by speaking out. Their names were dragged through the mud, his supporters vilified them, and they were harassed and gaslit into oblivion. 
I've worked in professional wrestling for 22 years. In those 22 years people I've considered friends have turned out to be awful human beings. I used to speak daily with a guy named Chuck Williams. When I was in the hospital for 3 1/2 months he checked in on me constantly, and went out of his way to raise my spirits. I knew this man for years and traveled with him. Then 2 years ago he murdered his wife and then killed himself as their 10 year old twins slept in the next room. 
https://www.dailylocal.com/news/abused-for-decades-woman-who-was-murdered-by-her-husband-was-in-process-of-obtaining/article_2a435a8a-6a05-5a0a-866b-ade7354d495f.html
You don't know Philip Bloom. You don't know how he is in private. All you know is the carefully crafted persona of someone that is trying to make money and business deals. Do research, read up on domestic violence and see that his pathetic, vile statement is straight out of the Abusers Playbook. 
I believe those women. And I'm sorry that they didn't receive the support they deserved all those years ago from this community. 

Hi everyone!
As pointed out earlier, I am rolling out an Ed David Speaking Engagement Tour.  I will be mostly talking about myself and how many likes I have on this forum, but I will also address the following subjects:
1.  Canon R5 Overheating:  Or is It Existentially Challenging Us to stop shooting millions of photos and video?
   In this discussion I will discuss the philosophy of the new Canon camera to try to limit the amount of shots one does, harken back to the film days: where each shot count!  Or in terms of 8k video - to make sure you are not just rolling and rolling and rolling.  To pretend like its 16mm film.  To rehearse performances
2.  How online forums amplify and ruin conversations
  You love your Aunt?  With facebook, not anymore.  And multiple that by a thousand when dealing with people on any online forum.  How the stroke of a button and hitting "send" can cause incredible pain and anxiety on the other end.  But who cares?  You don't have to be in the room with said person to see them upset!
3.  How the Covid Apocolypse and the Great Depression 2.0 makes us happier, better filmmakers
    We will chat about the end of the world.  Whether its the Pandemic, or Fascism or the Great Depression- or all the above, that really makes us depressed - with massive unemployment.  And how that affects us as filmmakers.  Being happy and productive!
4.  how to make money as a filmmaker without shooting butt paste commercials
   One word: you cant!  How can you afford rent, you fool?  Sell out now and sell out fast.  Sell sell sell sell sell.  Market market market.  And if you dont shoot commercials, do your own youtube channel and do the bidding of sponsors!  Or give up and start a podcast. 
4.  Just f*cking kidding - it will all be about me.
I am a giant showboat.  Come with me as we look at profile pics of me.  We talk about my best posts.  We trash my many, many enemies.  
 
Please respond to this to boost my ego and trash me so I can feel that rush of public humiliation - the meanest, most horrible response gets a free ticket!
 

Well damn, that link, User, thank you for that. 
Wow, an anonymous poster said he was going to sodomize my girlfriend.  That was pretty intense and maybe why I can't remember anything from that time - block that abuse out of my head.  No wonder why I probably acted the way I did - that's pretty intense and I wish that on no one who has their real name and identity exposed online. 
Interesting also at the time, pre #metoo - I also wanted to make sure to get Bloom's side of the story. 
Maybe it was before his side of the statement: https://pbloomstatement.com/?  Hopefully I didn't have that viewpoint after he wrote that hate-filled gaslighting of his ex'es.
But maybe I learned more about it all with #metoo and when it happened to me directly with my female friend being the victim of domestic violence, where, I learned, there really is only a "he-said, she-said" argument since the violence happens around no one else.
Anyway I think, User,   well I wish you well and hope you can find a way to deal with what seems like an intense inner anger that maybe you channel through anonymous posting.  
I am sure even though it feels good to anonymously "break bad" - at the end of the night, it probably doesn't feel that good.

Holy user!!  I’m starting to think this is like the plot from “Oldboy” and you’ll reveal you are my elementary school friend from 4th grade...and out to kill me!

As I stated 5 years ago, and I stated on the Bloom thread that reappeared, I am good friends with a victim of domestic abuse that sent her to the hospital and could have killed her and her son.
I also have other more personal connections to domestic abuse that I will not go into on a public forum but happy to discuss privately.
I have no connection to Bloom. The only time I interacted with him before the domestic abuse allegations was on a nofilmschool article about my experience using the sony fs7 when it first came out. He was very supportive of me in the comment section.
 I am a working professional dp who mostly works in commercials and documentaries. Social justice is my passion. I was involved with the occupy movement and the bernie sanders campaign as a DOP.

You're literally the only person that has a problem with it in that link? 
If you're going by people's reactions from 5 years ago... Society has moved forward and learned a lot during the last 5 years. I wouldn't count on people being so willing to dismiss the accusations now given what we've learned. Of course, there will always be those that think women willingly lie about being abused, because who doesn't like admitting their victimization and receiving the inevitable backlash that comes with telling your story about a public figure who has legions of supporters? 🤔

You're really holding something from 5 years ago against the dude? Because of Philip Bloom? 
I don't know fuck all about Ed David, but a basic Google search says he won an Emmy and was the DP for a Cannes winning film; why do you keep asking what Philip didn't do for him? Cause, idk man, the only awards Mr. Bloom has won are ones I've never heard of? Like, maybe dude really just doesn't like people accused by multiple women of domestic abuse and there is no other agenda? 
Either way, it's pretty shitty to accuse him of being "maniacal" or whatever other terms / words you wish to use to try and insinuate that he's mentally unwell, cause best case scenario you're attacking a dude dealing with mental health issues, which isn't a good look, and worse case you're trying to gaslight him and adding to the stigma surrounding mental health. 🤷🏻‍♂️