James Kerwin

I'm fascinated by Shakespeare Apocrypha. (In 2002, I directed "2nd Maiden's Tragedy," believed at the time to be Shakespeare's lost "Cardenio.") For years, the play "Edward III" has been attributed to Shakespeare… and new data suggests the attribution is accurate. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

I wish I could express the feelings surrounding this loss. I will at some point. For now, all I can say is… be at peace, my friend. Or rather "My man!" Love you, good sir. Say "hi" to Diana for all of us.

For years, Microsoft provided charities with M365 (Office, etc.). Then they decided to stop being generous… and last month they deleted nonprofits' data. (My nonprofit wasn't affected; we didn't use OneDrive.) Question tho: Why did Microsoft end the program? Do they need charities' money so badly? 🧐

"There are no scales"! Wow. Poor thing though… died trying to escape a flood while still breathing. 😢 Hopefully we can learn a lot about them from this one's sacrifice!

Oh well. So goes 2026. You hung in the race way longer than anyone expected this year — so good on ya lads! May the road rise to meet ya next year (if there IS a 2027 season…).

Wow @microsoft.com. Thank you, so very much, for your new September 2026 Windows 11 update. You know — the one which rendered me completely unable to boot into Windows. You guys rock. (In other news, macOS 27 installed beautifully.)

I mean… 9.25! I'm more than happy to be slightly bested by "The Inner Light" and "In the Pale Moonlight"… Just sayin' 😉

Good-bye, Star Trek (60th) Day! Here's to another 60!

So, I guess it's September 8th now. Like, the 60th of something. Happy anniversary. 😉

Exactly 20 years ago, we began principal photography on the first feature I directed, "Yesterday Was a Lie," for eOne (and later IndiePix). As I go into production on my newest film, I can't help but reminisce about those times long past with tremendous gratitude. "Where do you start?"… indeed. 🥲

Spending nearly a week at #STLV, I think I legit went into baseball withdrawal. Nice to be home.

#STLV2026 shenanigans with @trekgeeks.com @larrynemecek.bsky.social @robertjsawyer.com @johnchampion.bsky.social @roddenberrypod.bsky.social @michelespecht.bsky.social @kaseyshafsky.bsky.social @matthewcimone.bsky.social

I guess it's schedule-posting day! #STLV @johnchampion.bsky.social @larrynemecek.bsky.social @robertjsawyer.com

Location scout day (or, as the Brits say, "recce")!

"Third places."

In and out! (But we were standing-room-only, so yay!) #SDCC #SDCC2026

Starting Friday with the @roddenberrypod.bsky.social panel, Designing The Future: 60 Years of Star Trek Visual Evolution. Featuring @hollyamos22.bsky.social @johnchampion.bsky.social and @jameskerwin.com. #sdcc

Got a Panasonic UB420 (and 48Gbps cables). I've been watching movies AND listening to CDs on it. While I appreciate the convenience of playing AACs and M4Vs from my server, there's no comparison to physical media. Bonus points: I'll still have my stuff after the sudden but inevitable EM pulse. 😅

I love you @playstartrekonline.com… but getting a "leaver penalty" for leaving a TFO when you're the ONLY player remaining in the TFO (because the other two quit)? Tell me this is gonna be fixed. Please? Help me @thomasthecat.bsky.social… you're my only hope! 🥹

Insert mandatory joke about please not heckling me this year, etc. etc. @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social #SDCC2026

"As streaming became dominant, a shelf full of stuff started to look like a relic of a clumsier time. When titles started disappearing from digital collections, however, those dusty stacks reemerged as both a critical contingency plan and material proof that the media business was changing."

Long before Avid, FCP7, Premiere… this is how I learned to make movies as a young'un: VCR-to-VCR, facilitated by "ancient" tech called the "Videonics DirectED Plus." @popsci.com recently rediscovered this quaint treasure… but to a few of us—we happy few—this was what set us upon our career paths.

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so were they just lying about having written the kier starmer christmas special?

If Supergirl’s skin is bulletproof what was Kiri-kin-tha's First Law of Metaphysics?

Perfection.

A very happy birthday to the gentleman who was, when I was deciding what I wanted to do with my life, very much "my" Doctor… @oldsixie.bsky.social

It deserves ALL the love!

This is both incredibly touching, incredibly poignant, and also kinda sad. In 1000 years, perhaps we will all be remembered as Onfim is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim

One of the most traumatizing lines in sci-fi fandom: “Vila weighs 73 kilos.” RIP Michael Keating. You made it into orbit.

The Foundational Questions Institute has released new data regarding wavefunction collapse that sounds intriguingly similar to Roger Penrose's arguments re: objective reduction (Sir Roger is one of the Nobel Prize-winning members of the FQxI)! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

*97th 😊

Gas has now gone up to 32¢ per gallon in Rancho Bernardo?! Outrageous!!!

Was that factored into the calculations!? 🖖 #Artemis #StarTrek

It's dead, Jim. Back in the day, I used to love these things… Over time I owned at least two, maybe three of them? I remember the time when these bad boys were the gold standard — and kinda the only real game in town — when it came to cutting and finishing a theatrical feature.

If you see this, post a robot

Cantor's Paradise, indeed www.nonlocality.film

Amazing night… starting w/ incredible new doc BEAM ME UP SULU… followed by after-party-ing at SCUM AND VILLAINY. But the perfect nightcap was watching the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg, leaving a brilliant fiery trail across the starry sky. A fitting ending to a "Trek" evening, indeed!

Amazing. But… this hasn't got s--t on Doctor Who. The 1988 DW story "Remembrance of the Daleks" — set in November 1963 — includes a scene in which the first ever (1963) episode of DW begins to play on a TV. So the DW TV series exists within its own universe. 🤯

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As per the norm this time of year… please no heckling, et cetera et cetera… 😉 @gallifreyone.bsky.social @larrynemecek.bsky.social

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Is time really a "line"…? www.nonlocality.film

Filmmakers of the world…

When I was very small and went to school in fall ’81, I had an assignment to draw my favorite memory from the past summer. I drew (a very simple, long-lost version of) this image. My teacher came over and said “Is that Indiana Jones?!” She proceeded to tell me how cool that was, and gave me an A. 👍🏼

Computer…